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...only trouble, reports the actress, "is that I haven't been approached by the people making the movie." This unflattering state of affairs came about when newspapers in Britain and the U.S. simultaneously asked readers who would be their favorite choice to refill the role made famous by Vivien Leigh. Seymour won both polls hands down, and rumors began to fly. "People have been asking me about this for months," she complains. Instead of standing on tiptoe, Seymour has kept herself quite busy, thank you, by globe-trotting from Japan, where she played host to a PBS documentary...
...aside, it must be noted that Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii bears absolutely no resemblance to Sartre's dark existential classic about overcrowding. What we really have here is a better-than-average sex farce about a geology teacher (Tom Hughes) who brings home a Harlequin romance hack named Vivien Bliss (Lynda Cohen) for a weekend tryst...
Along with most commentators, Ackroyd agrees that Eliot's long, unhappy marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood crucially affected his life and career. Their union combined high-strung nerves and physical complaints that seem to have made sexual relations either impossible or undesirable; the sterility in The Waste Land may owe less to the decline of the West than to domestic problems of the Eliots. But Ackroyd suggests that in many ways Vivien was a good wife, supporting her husband in his dark moods and offering solicited judgments on his manuscripts. Eliot's method of divorcing her shimmers with...
...Throughout 1935 Vivien continued her lonely pursuit of her husband. It seems to have been her settled conviction that she had only to see and to speak to him, and he would agree to return to her. And, in November, she found him. She had discovered that he was to deliver an address at a Sunday Times book exhibition, and she arrived there ... This was the confrontation Eliot most feared. Vivien went up to him and said, 'Oh, Tom'; he seized her hand and said 'How do you do' in a loud voice. The dog recognized...
...Casablanca, Dr. Zhivago, or Gone with the Wind, every classic war picture must feature a love story. Who can forget, for example, the unforgettable moments when Humphrey Bogart passionately sweeps Ingrid Bergman off her feet, or when, after Tara has suffered a crushing defeat. Clark Gable tells Vivien Leigh, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." Although each of these films purports primarily to explore the circumstances surrounding its respective war and depict a bygone era, we all secretly know that the political and social statements are secondary to the more central and compelling story of boy meets...