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DIED. SANDRA DEE, 62, perky Hollywood teen idol who caused squeals in teenage bedrooms everywhere when she married pop singer Bobby Darin; of complications from kidney disease; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. She played the innocent tomboy surfer in the 1959 film Gidget, a signature role that led to a string of similar parts. But she showed a more serious side in films such as Imitation of Life and A Summer Place. She gradually disappeared from Hollywood, battling anorexia and drinking problems, after her turbulent marriage to Darin ended...
Immediately after, Northern Michigan’s Darin Olver lifted the puck over Grumet-Morris, but Harvard’s Dan Murphy countered with a quick snapshot across Tarkki’s body...
Immediately after, Northern Michigan's Darin Olver lifted the puck over Grumet-Morris, but Harvard's Dan Murphy countered with a quick snapshot across Tarkki's body...
Perhaps the purpose of all this is to show that entertaining can often leave one feeling devoid of anything genuine. This would be believable if the line that led Darin back to stardom and satisfaction were not Sandra saying, “People hear what they see.” Even at the very end of the movie, when Darin, gravely ill but still performing, must go backstage between songs to gulp oxygen from a tank, the message seems to be that image is everything...
Fans of both Spacey and Darin should, and almost certainly will, see this film, if for no other reason than that it shows a different side of both of them—Darin as a conflicted man plagued by his past and uncertain about his future and Spacey as a confident and brash entertainer born to be a star. For what it’s worth, each brings something out in the other...