Garbo LaughsThis is a quixotic tale about movie love. Harriet Browning is so saturated with old movies, seen repeatedly and swallowed whole, that she no longer fits into this world. Equally addicted are her three companions-of-the-screen: a son who loves Frank Sinatra, a daughter with Bette Davis eyes, and an earthy sidekick named after Dinah Shore. Breaking in upon this quiet backwater come two refugees from Hollywood, the jaded widow of a famous screenwriter and her movie-expert stepson. They are Harsh Reality. With them come blackouts, arguments, accidents, illness, and sudden death. But what chance does real life stand when we can watch movies instead? In this brilliant, sad-eyed comedy of secondhand desire, movies and movie lovers come first. |
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... window ( a warm spell between cold snaps ) . He was applying blue paint to the white window frame against a backdrop of brown clap- board and blue sky when his ladder dropped . And so did he . A foot , before he caught himself . She ...
... window ( a warm spell between cold snaps ) . He was applying blue paint to the white window frame against a backdrop of brown clap- board and blue sky when his ladder dropped . And so did he . A foot , before he caught himself . She ...
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... window and " Bull's- eye ! " he cries with gusto . Across the glass , covering most of the west - facing window , is a wide smear of snotty yellow goop . " Did they mean it for me ? " she asks in a stricken voice . " Yes ! They found ...
... window and " Bull's- eye ! " he cries with gusto . Across the glass , covering most of the west - facing window , is a wide smear of snotty yellow goop . " Did they mean it for me ? " she asks in a stricken voice . " Yes ! They found ...
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... window with a wet rag to scrub off most of the congealed egg , the temperature just above freezing and the sky an even grey . When he was fin- ished , the window looked like a child's dirty face scrubbed with a mother's spit ...
... window with a wet rag to scrub off most of the congealed egg , the temperature just above freezing and the sky an even grey . When he was fin- ished , the window looked like a child's dirty face scrubbed with a mother's spit ...
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