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...GOLDEN POND rewinds me of Sugar Daddies. Actually, it makes me think of all sorts of gooey candy like taffy or Bubble Yum or Star Bursts. But most of all, it makes me thing of Sugar Daddies--those generous-sized oblong lollipops that bend into curious little cow licks after they've been in your mouth for a white. I remember a commercial for Sugar Daddies that used to be on TV. In showed a vat powering--and it seemed like it would poor eternally--the thick golden brown syrup that eventually hardened into the lollipops. On Golden Pond...
Which is not to say that the bird doesn't fly in its own strange way Admittedly, the plot could give you case to nausea a lot like the kind you would get from consuming an entire box of rock candy. But On Golden Pond survives because of two actors who once again prove that they can develop acceptable. If not quite plausible characters ex nihilo. It is a shame that actors like Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda should get saddled with parts like these. That they carry it off and breathe a little life into what might other wise...
...CORN has to be crap On Gold Pond is reminiscent of another film that is certainly not discardable--Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. Both movies have the same wild American optimism that everything can be overcome, that no problem is too much for well-meaning people. It's Wonderful Life was much more carefully crafted. Its direction was far better than Mark Rydell's in On Golden Pond; Capra's film avoids the dippy touches like shots of water lillies set to flute music and the cozy nature symbolism that pervade the Pond. Still, both films...
...Golden Pond does not achieve what It's a Wonderful Life does. It oozes a bit too much. But thanks to some fine acting by Fonda and Hepburn it is not a completely intolerable blast of air from the land of Make-Believe...
...yard-by-50-meter expanse of swimming lanes, the diving well is an unobtrusive nook in Blodgett Pool. If not for the platform tower stretching nearly eight meters above the floor, a first-time visitor to Blodgett might miss the well altogether. But in this deep pond, the Harvard divers, men's and women's, the best divers in the East, fly through the air with the greatest of ease, practicing perfect tucks and knife-like entries...