Word: eileen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then a reporter for the Akron Beacon-Journal, McKenney later became celebrated for My Sister Eileen, the Broadway comedy hit of the 1940 season...
MODELED CLOSELY on an English mini-series of the same title, Pennies from Heaven traces Arthur's adulterous romance with a baby-faced kindergarten teacher named Eileen Everson (Bernadette Peters), and follows the pair to their eventual downfall when Arthur becomes suspect in a murder. If it weren't for a surprisingly original gimmick, the movie might have just been another lowlife melodrama in the style of The Postman Always Rings Twice. But as the two lovers travel through the bleak Chicago landscape, they occasionally burst into mimicries of the kind of elaborate Busby Berkeley song-and-dance numbers Hollywood...
...Herbert Ross leads us relentlessly from one depression cliche to another--the deserted prairie highway, the Edward Hopper diner, the seedy hotel room complete with flashing neon sign outside the window and the El rumbling past--the song and dance numbers become an escape, not only for Arthur and Eileen, but for the audience as well. And there's a lot to escape in Pennies from Heaven. For Arthur and Eileen, sexual exploitation, grim poverty, murder and rape are only a few things to run away from. For the audience, there's always the unappetizing screenplay and Ross's self...
Richard Reynolds, the local representative from the Hines Co., could not be reached for comment. Eileen Lang, proprietor of The Big Picture, a store in the Mt. Auburn St. building, refused to comment yesterday...
...course, Cindy may be beyond the reach of U.S. courts. Mark Johns once vowed: "I will never let Cindy out of my sight. If they send her to Mexico, I'll take Eileen and go and move in right next door, I guarantee you." They just may have to do that...