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...somewhat unrealistically, saved from an overdose by her ex-husband, but it is a contrived redemption. Too many sob stories, too much booze, and too many trite lines about guilt and the meaning of life at the wrong time make the novel seem more like a sappy tear-jerker than a poignant analysis of a tormented woman. Unfortunately, the portrait of Susan is less vivid. While the majority of the novel is devoted to supposed introspection on Susan's part, most of the lines provide little insight into Susan herself. How Susan's problems with men, for example, relate...
Henley still lives in West Hollywood, in a rented house unrefurnished by success, with Actor Stephen Tobolowsky, who played a dog sweeper in Firecracker and a turkey jerker in Jamey Foster. Last year she herself appeared as a bag lady in a radical farce at Los Angeles' Odyssey Theater: "It keeps my childlike spirit alive to go out and do something really strange." When her schedule permits, she attends boxing matches at the Olympic Auditorium, goes to Dodger games or listens to jazz at the Parisian Room. And she still goes home to Jackson, though "it's different...
Then came the '70s, the tear-jerker sympathy decade for films, and everybody had cancer or leukemia or was eaten by a shark. Don't you feel sorry for Me? was the question they asked. The whole family would go to these movies and on the way back Mom and Dad would say we are lucky to have healthy bodies and a hibachi. (Unlike in the 60's, it was o.k. to live in the suburbs again...
PROSTITUTION, HEROIN, imprisonment, rape, unhappy love affairs: the elements of Billie Holiday's life sound like a soap-opera maker's dream and any serious film based on it would have to be handled carefully so as not to result in a tear-jerker. However, while the Berry Gordy production avoids melodrama and the extravaganza often used in filming the life of a legend, some inconsistencies exist that are so extreme as to be incongruous...
Love Story, Paramount's blockbuster lackluster tear-jerker. Harvard Square. 2:15, 5:55, 9:35. With Plaza Suite, 4 and 7:40. Until March...