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August 01 Isn't she great? <Isn't she great>(2000) is a biographical film about an American authoress called Jacqueline Susann. Although I never heard of this writer or read any of her books, I bet this is not a serious biography but more a fairytelling love story - kinda another Cinderella once being told.
I missed the start of this story by taking a shower. What I saw as the beginning was a middle-age fat man proposing, romanticly, to a middel-age fat woman in red. That was a comedy. Then the woman led the man to a hugh tree in Central Park and began to talk to the tree top (or the sun behind the tree top?). Is this woman a lunatic? But this man thought she was great and gently smiled.
The man was rich and indulged the woman in all manners. Their only child was an autistic which knocked the woman down. The man served meals to her bed till she was bored by herself. The woman had been an awful actress but what she wanted most was fame. Her husband then got her an idea - to be a writer, and well encouraged her to write whatever she liked. Thus, she wrote an unreadable, gossip-like, lady-shamed book, which cost her editor six weeks to rewrite it before publishing. But her book and herself were quite welcomed by the young editor's aunts. Isn't she great? He might think of it.
 <Valley of the dolls>, the over-the-top best seller of Susann
To sell the book, they drove all over the country and "bribed" the bookstore owners using all the means: pretending to know them well; keeping track of their birthdays, their kids, their pets and sending gifts; taking breakfast to their truck drivers......There was a TV ad with a housewife cooking and Susann said: "Only idiots cook; you should read." Her husband laughed aloud and said to others: isn't she great?!  Selling her book in a bookstore
The Cinderella woman got breast cancer. She went to the tree and asked for ten more years to enjoy the fame but she never said a word to the media. She can say to her fans: "once I sign, you can't return it." Her speech to the public was also brilliant: "If people keep telling you that you have no talent, let them look at Jacqueline Susann!" She can easily play jokes with her dearest husband:"I'm having sex with the editor!"......There's something great on her indeed!
 The real Jacqueline Susann and his husband
I guess the producers wanted to make an entertaining film without deviating too much from the fact. This made the film delightful yet full of contradictions. If you don't mind to watch a 55-year old woman played through, this can be an entertaining film for you. TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://janna05.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F2F6CA5D7A152A3!1419.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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