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...seeming like a cheap trick to avoid the obvious question—why is a man in his forties never known for his attractiveness playing a twenty-something heartthrob? After a reporter asks Darin whether he isn’t too old to play himself as a younger man, Darin??s brother in law responds by asking, “How can you be too old to play yourself...
...word, it is reality. Fantasy sequences abound in Beyond the Sea: a smiling Darin foregrounds dancing in the streets; a trip to Darin??s mother’s funeral after which he takes off his mourning suit, puts on a bow tie and exits out of the back of the church onto a stage; the child actor’s watch slows down as Darin faces the physical consequences of a childhood illness...
...hard to see, through all the spectacle and some melodramatic dialogue what the true conflict in Darin??s life actually is. All we really know is that he fights with his wife, actress Sandra Dee, that he struggles with his health and that he gets booed off the stage after trying to sing an antiwar song at a nightclub. He eventually finds peace, apparently, although it is hard to tell where that comes from...
Brener performed “Something Like That” by Tim McGraw—for which he put on a country outift—and Bobby Darin??s “Mack the Knife...
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