Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There were lingering laughs in the tiny sidewalk crowd as the huge Forbes buses glided out of town. A couple of people who had once played in the Greenfield marching band debated what music the bus loudspeaker had been playing when the caravan arrived at the town square. They voted for the Colonel Bogey March...
...course it did, says Anna Jones, Cary's aunt and Delbert's sister. Delbert and Kay were after nothing more than a small-town stake in a Central Valley farm community, Delbert punching a clock as a mechanic, Kay grabbing whatever service jobs she could find. It wasn't easy or grand, but it was a life, and in an instant, it was gone...
...miles up the road, Glimmerglass Opera was presenting the world premiere of Central Park, a trio of one-act operas with librettos by three top playwrights: A.R. Gurney (Love Letters), Terrence McNally (Master Class) and Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles). It was quite a lineup for a one-stoplight town--but nothing out of the ordinary for a summer opera festival that is increasingly regarded as the best of its kind...
Maggie (Julia Roberts) runs a small-town hardware store. But she's more famous for leaving her bridegrooms at the altar. Ike (Richard Gere) is a newspaper columnist who writes a piece exaggerating her escapist exploits in terms sexist enough to get him fired. Are these people meant for each other or what...
...looking people on display in Runaway Bride, a movie that takes its good-natured time explaining Maggie's curious behavior and balancing it against Ike's less obvious failures (he has an intimacy problem, naturally). That time is for the most part cheerfully spent, however, as he arrives in town hoping to witness her bolt from the altar for a fourth time...