Apropos:
-- I was watching a potboiler on my local PBS just last night-- "The Best
of Everything," 1959, score by Alfred Newman (of the Hollywood Newmans):
young career girl roommates in the corporate jungle.
It occurs to me that one of the things I miss desperately in the
contemporary world of entertainment is the full-blown potboiler. ;)
One of the roommates, Suzy Parker, is an actress who gets taken up and
dumped by Louis Jourdan as a caddish playwright. Only someone as
beautiful as Louis Jourdan could possibly dump someone as beautiful as
Suzy Parker, I suppose. ;)
Anyway, Suzy goes bonkers and goes through a kind of free-fall, reduced
to making hangup calls, rifling his garbage, and hiding on his fire
escape. One fateful evening, she is startled on the fire escape, and over
she goes-- cut to the pavement, one (empty) high-heeled pump, and very
softly, in the upper strings, that very final cadential phrase of "La
Boheme."
Well, I enjoyed it. ;)
Theresa Muir
theresamuir@juno.com
Don't say nothin' bad 'bout New York.
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