Word: orphans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a wonderful movie fighting to get out of this $50 million musical. Unfortunately for Producer Ray Stark, the movie is Camille, that transcendent Garbo weepie, which Daddy Warbucks takes his button-eyed orphan to see at a Radio City Music Hall advance screening. (Quite a bit in advance: Annie is set in 1933; Camille was released in 1937.) In an adroit 4½-minute condensation, the tragic story of Marguerite and Armand unfolds, brief and mesmerizingly beautiful. The clip also possesses an innocence, a sweetness of spirit, that this 1982 blockbuster never even tries to capture...
...first anvil hint is dropped in the opening scene: in a dormitory of Miss Hannigan's Dickensian orphanage, the eldest of six orphans jumps from bed to bed-and one galumphing foot lands splat! on the forehead of a younger girl. It's no wonder that when Annie (Aileen Quinn) gets the chance to live with Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney), she promptly forgets her orphan camaraderie. But then the entire movie is a series of plot strands twisted, then discarded...
...multiply your prayers, I shall not listen Your hands are covered with blood wash, make your selves clean Take your wrongdoing out of my sight Cease to do evil Learn to do good, search for justice help the oppressed, be just to the orphan, plead for the widow." Isaiah...
...wide-eyed young woman. Alone, she drifts through the airport. Her name is Irena. She is an orphan, a virgin. She turns her head and surveys her surroundings with intent eyes. Their darkness rivals that of her short black hair. Her mouth is wide and seems to have a perpetual pout. She is pretty...
...brothers learned anything in their first two years of power, it was, to use John Kennedy's borrowed phrase, that "victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan." Often he had pondered his humiliation at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961. Some day, he used to muse, he would write the story of the last White House meeting before that debacle, when Kennedy had gone around the table and extracted an opinion from each of his advisers. None foresaw disaster, he said...