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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... wonder , as she won- dered herself , if a woman who was really happy with him would be so addicted to romantic movies . Perhaps he thought it was a phase she would get over . And it might be . I go at movies the way I go at food . Only ...
... wonder , as she won- dered herself , if a woman who was really happy with him would be so addicted to romantic movies . Perhaps he thought it was a phase she would get over . And it might be . I go at movies the way I go at food . Only ...
Page 142
... wonder ? Is it any wonder that I get depressed ? ― Ottawa has done this to me . Ottawa has sucked the juices from my brain and the marrow from my bones . But I can't say so or Lew's eyes will light up and he'll exclaim : Montreal . Cuba ...
... wonder ? Is it any wonder that I get depressed ? ― Ottawa has done this to me . Ottawa has sucked the juices from my brain and the marrow from my bones . But I can't say so or Lew's eyes will light up and he'll exclaim : Montreal . Cuba ...
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... wonder he never brought anybody home . No wonder he was quieter than he used to be . Dinah was right about that , if wrong about the reasons . In the afternoon , when Kenny got home from school , she asked him if things were any better ...
... wonder he never brought anybody home . No wonder he was quieter than he used to be . Dinah was right about that , if wrong about the reasons . In the afternoon , when Kenny got home from school , she asked him if things were any better ...
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