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...Yesterday, when I learned of her death, at 88, from pulmonary respiratory failure, I was sad to think that sweet voice had been stilled. Then I heard it, whispering reassurance in my ear, as she had to so many of her screen husbands, saying, "It'll be all right. You'll be all right...
...critique.) Mostly, her job was to talk sense into her men. Football star Peter Lawford, say, in Good News - she wanted him to hit the books so he'd be eligible to win the big game. Her only severe competition came not from the script but on the screen. Her sweetness might get upstaged by a flashier femme, as she was by Joan McCracken in Good News. Sometimes Allyson lost to a rival from deepest movie memory. In Little Women she played Jo Marsh, the role a much nervier young thing from Broadway, Katharine Hepburn, had taken...
...Disease, Cash’s performance is a patient, sensitive rejection of the steeliness so many have ascribed to him. He is a ghost, a specter in the American imagination of the stoic hero, a musical John Wayne. Yet like Wayne, whose heroism faded when his off-screen WWII draft-dodging became public, Cash’s immortality is a fiction—as he puts it, “a paperback novel, the kind the drugstores sell.” The main weakness of “American V,” though, is that Cash makes this point...
...Screen comedy is at its best when it pitches it tent close to the poverty line. Think Chaplin, who once said that all he needed to be funny was a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. Think Keaton, who once did a brilliant special-effects comedy, (Sherlock, Jr.) , where you were almost unaware of his very subtle camera tricks. Think Grant, Hepburn and their wayward leopard. For that matter, think Something About Mary, which pretty much took place in a cramped apartment. The minute the effects budget swells, it starts to crush the life out of comedy, which needs...
...c550 is a major improvement over Garmin's first warm-and-fuzzy navigator, the c330. Last year, I said that while I enjoyed the c330's extremely friendly interface, its screen was too hard to see in sunlight. Other c330 flaws included a windshield suction cup that just didn't suck enough, and a GPS chip that would lose reception when driving on an underpass. In the c550, all three of those mistakes have been rectified - the anti-glare screen is much easier to see under the hot summer sun, the suction mount holds fast to the windshield...