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Actor Tony Goldwyn (most commonly known as the bad guy in Ghost) makes his directorial debut with this film. The story centers around Perl (Diane Lane), the film's symbol of change and uncertainty. Pearl's family spends every summer at a bungalow colony in the Catskills. Her husband, Marty (Liev Schreiber), is forced to spend most of his time away from the family at work. As always, the absence of the husband conveniently opens the door for the infidelity of the wife, a pattern that plays out to perfection when Pearl becomes involved with an enigmatic blouse-seller named...
...movie, written by Pamela Gray and directed by Tony Goldwyn, stretches plausibility to the snapping point. (In Woodstock, an impromptu city of 300,000 people that weekend, what are the odds you'd spot your mom with the blouse man? And, at the time of the moon landing, wasn't everyone talking about another little event that happened that weekend--Chappaquiddick?) It also lays on the Kantrowitzes' ethnicity too heavily; they are like chicken soup that's all schmaltz...
...enjoyed the profile of the "Lion of Hollywood," Louis B. Mayer, who helped found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. For those of us growing up in the mid-1930s in the New York metropolitan area, Hollywood films were not only cheap entertainment but lessons as well. We safely watched suitable family entertainment, and on Saturday afternoons had a four-hour treat. For 25[cents] we could watch two great movies plus a cartoon and an exciting weekly chapter of a serial. What a great escape! JOAN S. MARKOWITZ Larchmont...
...Quayle would have loved Louis B. Mayer, a man for whom the words family values had real meaning. Motherhood, the Stars and Stripes and God were equal parts of a lifelong strategy that would establish Metro Goldwyn Mayer as the industry's dominant film factory, from the silent era through the talkies revolution. While the other early moguls were simply trying to make the best movies they could, young Mayer was an ideologue intent on using the power of the new medium to exert what he considered the proper moral influence on the American public...
...major step up for Mayer was entertainment tycoon Marcus Loew's reaching out to him as commanding officer of a new company merging Metro and Goldwyn, with Mayer soon adding his big M to the mix. He raised the contract system to a state of the art, using it to rule over a stable of stars who were legally bound to the company for years. In L.B.'s studio, with frail, dedicated lieutenant Irving Thalberg at his side, L.B. worked hard to project himself as a father figure to his extended family of stars, directors and producers...