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...suit, brought on behalf of Gordon's improbably named 15-year-old nephew Tara Gabriel Galaxy Gramaphone Getty, had been started by the teen-ager's father, J. Paul Getty Jr., 51, Gordon's older brother. The two siblings have seldom got along. Gordon's lawyers charged that oil company officials coerced J. Paul...
...Greg Lyss Julie SchragerJohn Coburn Quincy House: Southeast Yard:Tom Cronin Ben Broder Pam DoughmanFelicia Eckstein Ethan Cohon Buddy FletcherScott Falk Sarah Glimp Ki IngersolMichael Okwu Sesha Paratap Brian C. OffuttKirkland House: Warren Shlomchik Ray VasvariMark Eichorn Doug Winthrop Southwest Yard:Angela Ferry Paul BokotaAlison Harrington Maureen BroeMartin J.Herman Tara DealRebecca Rozen Mitchell Elkind Luke Fleckenstei
...real estate agent who has lost her spouse and her moral compass in a suburban landscape of manicured lawns and unfaithful husbands. She embraces promiscuity as a form of psychic masochism. Her new friend, Deborah Shapiro, is a wealthy divorcee with an enormous empty house that she calls "my Tara." Trained only "to walk down stairs with panache," she is no longer a Jewish American princess but a full-fledged dowager queen. With her raucous voice and laugh, Taylor brings this character to exuberant life. When she says, after Burnett saves her from a suicide attempt...
...tempo of rural Texas life. Mac teaches Sonny a few guitar chords; he sashays through a honkytonk dance with Rosa Lee; he gets dunked in the christening tub at the local Baptist church; he tries to make peace with his rebellious daughter (Ellen Barkin); he visits Dixie's Tara-size mansion to say an elegy over a dead marriage; he tosses a football around with Sonny. Attuned to the movie's rhythm, the viewer will see wounds heal, friendships ripen, a bond sealed between the film makers and the audience...
Virtually every blockbuster movie is a powerful fable of resilience. The audience finds vicarious strength watching Scarlett rebuild Tara, or Maria von Trapp spirit her brood out of Hitler's Austria, or Don Corleone take his cold-dish revenge. E.T. gives its viewers more, from less. Here is a fairy tale set in the most mundane of contemporary realities: a typical California suburb. The creature appears to his friend Elliott in a pizza-strewn back yard; he lives in a child's closet. As E.T. built his "phone home" device from old toys and household castaways, so Spielberg fashioned...