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...sure it'll change people's minds, butthey'll know it's an issue," Gillian Darlow '89said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Rally Against Anti-Abortion Question | 10/30/1986 | See Source »

There is only one mid-life crisis that really counts. It occurs when the doctor decides on a biopsy and permits you the privilege of contemplating your mortality while awaiting the test results. This is the situation in which Gillian Fairchild (Julie Andrews) finds herself on a Friday afternoon, with the lab scheduled to close for the weekend that now stretches endlessly before her. Her three children, all lost in the self-absorption of young adulthood, are arriving to attend the party she is throwing for her husband's 60th birthday. Under these circumstances she decides to keep the terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unsentimental Journey That's Life! | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

Lemmon, however, is not going to have only himself to thank for his umpteenth Oscar nomination. As the long-suffering Gillian, Andrews provides a sane contrast to the frazzle-dazzle of Lemmon's performance. There is more than mere discipline in her work. Her tart, get-on-with-it Englishness stiffens the spine of her characterization -- and makes the one moment when she gives in to her dread all the more poignant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unsentimental Journey That's Life! | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...success of That's Life! There is always a strong temptation in pictures of this ilk to provide the stars with thumping self-recognition scenes. But if the scales finally fall from Harvey's eyes, they do not clang loudly to the floor but slither there ambiguously. Although Gillian surely understands that she is a kind of human sponge, sopping up all her family's messy emotional spillovers, the script never gives her the sort of revolutionary speech that would make a feminist stand up and cheer. Such words would be out of character and would not make the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unsentimental Journey That's Life! | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...played a really good game," Co-Captain Gillian Caldwell said. "The final score doesn't indicate how closely the game was played...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue, | Title: Sportswrap | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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