Word: sternbergen
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...premise for a mystery. But a premise is only a promise, and The Morning After fails to fulfill it. Jane Fonda is, to be sure, awfully good as Alex Sternbergen, a near-miss movie star now trying to drink her leftover life away. She has the style of such women, a mixture of tough talk and flighty vulnerability, down pat. The stranger who tries to help her is an ex-cop with a blue-collar manner. Underneath, however, he glows with the middle-class spirit of the New Man: he is wise, patient, a good lover and a better cook...
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