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...Suppose," said Hunt, "my principal doesn't think it wise to entrust so sensitive a matter to them...
This is a tale of two houses and four sisters. The time is the early 1920s, and the place is Midwestern America. The houses, with their gables and gingerbread curlicues, are hopscotch close. In their backyards unfolds a human comedy that is warm, antic, wise and utterly endearing...
...cheap. Of course, we didn't want to be sentimental, we wanted to be upbeat and to get across an image kind of thing: people calling for fun; people calling for no reason at all -not just family talking to family but friends talking to friends. So, strategy-wise, we started with a kind of two-faced objective: the casual thing and the people-calling-outside-the-family thing. And right up front we were thinking also maybe a musical thing...
...Mary Ann Lum, the Canton-born owners of Dish of Salt, came back with chopsticks flying. For $1,200 they placed an ad adjacent to Sheraton's "Restaurants" column in the Times last week, claiming that they had been subjected to "a most malicious attack." Terming her critique "wise-guy," "sadistic," "prejudiced" and "misleading," the owners threatened: "We intend to hold you accountable for your cruelty, your malevolence and your viciousness." The Lums also claimed that Sheraton had only visited their restaurant once, not several times, as she had reported, and called her verdict "venal." Both assertions were ordered...
These insane characters have what Enoch calls "wise blood." It is a feeling inside about the right way to live, about the right way to be crazy and religious in a crazy and religious world. At 73, Huston may not be crazy or religious but his blood is still the right type; he has chosen an eccentric, powerful work with which to launch his welcome comeback as a director...