Word: tenderer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house and proceeds to knight him her friend, the audience is thrown back on its own expectations-is she as simple as she seems? Is she not perhaps a younger version of the spinster/widow-in-heat that dominated the films of the fifties? The movie's conclusion-a beautifully paced, remarkably tender love sequence-resolves some of the confusions, and the film reverts back into the remembered memory on which it began...
...history of musicals. Jonathan Tunick has done a spectacular job of orchestration throughout, but "The Girlds Upstairs" tops everything. This song and "Too Many Mornings," a love duct sung by John McMartin and Dorothy Collins, are the best things on the record. Sondheim's lyrics are really magnificent, tender and clever at the same time, and the songs always belong to the characters who sing them. Time called him "Broadway's supreme lyricist" and it is beginning to seem like an obvious statement. But Sondheim is also Broadway's master composer, which fewer critics seem to realize, perhaps because...
Fitzgerald, as Latham painstakingly documents, was always fascinated by the film and the new industry it had created in America. Representatives of the movie world appear as characters in Tender is the Night (1934), many short stories, and of course at the center of The Last Tycoon, the Hollywood novel Fitzgerald was working on when he died. Latham mines all these works for relevant material-including some passages Edmund Wilson left out of the unfinished Tycoon manuscript he edited after Fitzgerald's death and an early unpublished draft of Tender . in which the novel's central figure was a movie...
...also has a predilection for Time-ese ("Zelda was teaching Scott lessons about tragedy which Aristotle had left out.") For someone unfamiliar with Fitzgerald's novels, the analysis here may be too sketchy; in any case, it is occasionally banal (The rape of Nicole by her father in Tender is seen as a symbol of capitalism...
...getting copies of his works themselves, large stacks of which can now be found in every bookstore. In the past year, Fitzgerald's Hollywood works, Tycoon and The Pat Hobby Stories, have been published in paperback for the first time. So read them, and then take another look at Tender is the Night , his best novel. And, for that matter, you could do a lot worse things with your time than reading the collected stories (among them "Crazy Sundays," from which Latham took his title) and rereading Gatsby and attempting The Beautiful and Damned , which no one ever looks...