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Post by CrazyForKate on Dec 19, 2010 16:42:32 GMT -5
So, apparently Kanin's "A Thousand Summers" is based on Spence and Kate (25-year love affair, etc). Has anyone actually read this? I've heard mixed reviews. ...and I kind of just bought it for a penny off Amazon. Seems that no one has read it, me included, so when you read it let us know if it's good, please... ...it's not. I really like Garson Kanin's work, but this one was a total misfire. They meet, and three seconds later are in TRU LUV and spouting Twilightesque romantic paragraphs. It's poorly plotted with sappy narration and unconvincing characters (they NEVER fight, and are pretty much Mary-Sues). As for a resemblance to KH and ST? Not much, except for a couple of offhand lines that sound familiar, and maybe a physical characteristic or two (he has gray eyes, that kind of thing). They have a twenty-five year love affair, but the goals and entire situation are different. I categorize this work as an all-caps FAIL. Stick to the screenplays, Gar.
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Post by Serena on Dec 24, 2010 16:46:16 GMT -5
You saved me some money, CrazyForKate ;D
I guess he couldn't nail it every time.
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Post by CrazyForKate on Dec 26, 2010 20:20:07 GMT -5
I love this excerpt from "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. (The premise is that America has turned into a fundamentalist theocracy where women have no rights.) "Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katharine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word undone. These women could be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice."
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