Friday, October 8, 2010

Liz Smith Says: Pony Up To "Secretariat"

Also from our Gossip Girl, recollections of Gloria Steinem and fierce women’s lib

Liz Smith | 10/05/2010 12:00 am

Liz Smith

"IF IT’S a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on," said Alfred Hitchcock.

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WE GO to movies these days and we wait for the car crash, the leap from a speeding train just in time, the eruption of the volcano or arrival of a tsunami, and in the dark, we wait for the bite of the vampire.

All of this and more breeds excitement, terror and thrills. But not really. We’re so jaded. We know the hero didn’t really make the leap, a stuntman did ? we know the train sequence was faked ? we know ...

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