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...novel, written in epistolary form, concentrated more on the dark laughter of the rehab clinic. The movie, which drops the postcards but keeps the edge, is a show-biz mother-daughter film par excellence -- Terms of Endearment out of Gypsy. Suzanne has her poignant wrangles with movie types (nice turns by Dennis Quaid and Rob Reiner as producers, Gene Hackman and Simon Callow as directors), but Postcards is bound by family ties. MacLaine gives a wonderfully excessive rendition of the Sondheim song I'm Still Here: "First you're another sloe-eyed vamp,/ Then someone's mother, then...
...people." Michel, charged by the White House with the task of working out cooperative budget negotiations, seethed at this torching of bipartisan goodwill. Visitors to Michel's office say that when Gingrich pops up breathing fire and smoke on the TV screen, some staff members erupt in groans or laughter while the leader flushes and sometimes shakes his head in despair...
...haunts literally come crashing down upon his head. This scene is a flawless creation of sound and slapstick. Carefully choreographed characters clomp up stairs, slam doors, charge and claw the professor while screeching lines like, "You're not just trying to jolly along the fish, are you?" The laughter evinced in this scene alone would guarantee the work a place as a comic success...
...months of being snubbed, Nora is standing alone on her front porch on New Year's Eve in her black cocktail dress listening to the music from the neighborhood party, wondering where her life is going and whether she will ever be included in the circle of laughter. So masterly drawn is Nora that whenever her heart aches this way, so does ours...
...Lots of laughter, White smiles graciously, and then on to Genet. White helps out with some background information...