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...needs shaking up. And Joy Gresham (Debra Winger) is just the woman to do it. She's an American, something of a poet, something of an imposition. But she's also someone any writer is bound to cherish, a knowledgeable fan. They meet for tea; she and her eight-year-old son (she's in the midst of a messy divorce) return for Christmas; and eventually they settle in London. Bemusement soon gives way to concern. Lewis marries her so she can stay in England, but true love does not happen until she falls ill with cancer. A period...
Shadowlands is, in essence, a true story, though screenwriter William Nicholson, adapting his own play, admits that given Lewis' reticence, he has had to imagine much of what went on in the relationship with Gresham. And reticent is the word for Richard Attenborough's film version. But that's a virtue, not a defect, when your setting is English academia (no one has more persuasively captured its manners) and your subject is mortality. There is something very moving in the understated way that these people confront it, something very sweetly believable in their courtship and in the brief bliss they...
Nicole L. Gresham '96, who also said she likes to watch Child's programs, offered a practical reason for not trying out Child's recipes. "In the last show I watched, she was making lentils, and you can't make lentils in your dorm room," she said...
...Christmas gift for my father," Gresham said. "My father always wanted me to go to her grocery store when I was little. I'm more of a cake-mixer...
...declining years, Moore had become a querulous termagant. Gresham was an assertive "battle-axe" (Lewis' term) whose brassiness embarrassed his donnish cronies. Lewis' hagiolaters seem almost as uncomfortable with these relationships as he was. Yet both women were central to his life's pilgrimage: Moore as nurturer, Gresham as stimulus to erotic feelings long suppressed. Sainthood, Wilson suggests, is all in the beholder's eye. If Lewis deserved the honor, his love for these two unlikely consorts was a reason...