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...write a lot about all the starlets you had relationships with-Marilyn Monroe, Janet Leigh, Natalie Wood. Do you regret anything from hopping around so much?Absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. Some of us guys in the movies got married, stayed married for a little while, then got a divorce, then got married again. It was never any trouble, you just had to be sure you signed a pre-nuptial agreement. Then, if anything went wrong, your wardrobe wouldn't go with the woman. Each relationship was in itself glorious and interesting...
...goals in a game in over five years. Yesterday, in its game against Saint Louis at Jordan Field, the Crimson (6-5, 2-1 Ivy) not only tallied six goals, it also kept the Billikens (4-8, 0-1 Atlantic 10) scoreless. Sophomore midfielder Chloe Keating, sophomore forward Leigh McCoy, and senior forward Tami Jafar notched two goals apiece while co-captain Kylie Stone and freshman goaltender Ana Roda combined for a shutout in a dominant 6-0 win. “We’re really coming together nicely,” head coach Sue Caples said...
These critics have a point. Whether she's dealing with a depressed book store clerk or the fact that her bicycle is stolen while she visits his shop, the young woman remains indefatigably chipper. And that's just the beginning of Leigh's film. As it develops she brings her good cheer to all kinds of situations - an encounter with a homeless man, a bully in her classroom, a difficult relationship with her more bourgeois sister and her dismal husband. Poppy's peppiness sustains her in other, less dramatically pointed ways as well. Like a lot of single working women...
...Leigh is deft with this material. He does not linger long with it, yet his sketches of urban life have an unsentimental firmness and fineness about them. Still, for all his good nature and for all of Hawkins' energy, Happy-Go-Lucky did not play for me as a comedy. Its true subject seems to be anger. Call it deflected anger - a rage that is turned aside not solely by Poppy's relentless good cheer but by the fact that beneath her manner she is a sensible manager of relationships that are often on the verge of going...
These sequences, like those with the driving instructor, are typical of Mike Leigh at his best. He works in an improvisatory yet controlled, way with his actors to shape and sharpen his material, and when that technique works, as it so often does in this movie, the results are unique in the contemporary cinema - behavioral honesty and intensity raised to a flash point. If this be comedy, it is so only in the nominal sense that no one dies at the end of the picture...