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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... writes to Pauline Kael . " " You know Pauline Kael ? " " No , " Harriet admitted sadly . " But you write to her . Does she write back ? " " Oh , I don't mail the letters . " " Why not ? " " They're stupid . The first letter I wrote to ...
... writes to Pauline Kael . " " You know Pauline Kael ? " " No , " Harriet admitted sadly . " But you write to her . Does she write back ? " " Oh , I don't mail the letters . " " Why not ? " " They're stupid . The first letter I wrote to ...
Page 149
... write less than they know and novelists write more , he told Harriet when he learned she was a writer . A journalist will know the premier has a mistress kept in a hotel at government expense while his battered wife regularly visits the ...
... write less than they know and novelists write more , he told Harriet when he learned she was a writer . A journalist will know the premier has a mistress kept in a hotel at government expense while his battered wife regularly visits the ...
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... write a novel if you think it's so easy . " " I'm too old . So are you . Lionel used to say if you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty , you never will . " " But he's not read any more , is he ? " ob- served Dinah in that ...
... write a novel if you think it's so easy . " " I'm too old . So are you . Lionel used to say if you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty , you never will . " " But he's not read any more , is he ? " ob- served Dinah in that ...
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