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Liz Hamilton
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| Candice Bergen | ... |
Merry Noel Blake
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| David Selby | ... |
Douglas 'Doug' Blake
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Christopher 'Chris' Adams
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| Steven Hill | ... |
Jules Levi
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| Meg Ryan | ... |
Debby Blake, 18 Years
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| Matt Lattanzi | ... |
Jim, the Boy
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| Daniel Faraldo | ... |
Ginger Trinidad
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| Nicole Eggert | ... |
Debby Blake, 8 Years
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Joe Maross | ... |
Martin Fornam
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Kres Mersky | ... |
Judy Heller
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Cloyce Morrow | ... |
Martha Antilles
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| Cheryl Robinson | ... |
UCLA Voice
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| Allan Warnick | ... |
Desk Clerk
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Ann Risley | ... |
Max's Wife
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Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: "trash" fiction which becomes enormously successful. Their story begins in college and jumps ahead some years at a time to show their relationship with each other and those in their orbits as they grow and mature. Written by Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
George Cukor is and always will be one of my favorites. The unsung hero of his generation. Nobody mentions Cukor in the same breath as John Ford, Howard Hawks, William Wyler or Billy Wilder and yet, look at his filmography. From sparkling comedies "The Philadelphia Story" "Adam's Rib" "Holiday" Psycho melodramas "Gaslight" "A Double Life" a great semi western "Heller in Pink Tights" not to mention "My Fair Lady" or "Travels with my Aunt" He was at the service of his actors, he never put himself in front of the camera. I feel a certain tenderness watching "Rich and Famous" flashes of the old master still very much in evidence. Candice Bergen gives us for the first time in her career glimpses of the wonderful comedian she was about to become. Jacqueline Bisset is a throwback to the days of Greer Garson and Loretta Young and Hart Bochner steps in, teasing us, promising something spectacular that will eventually materialize in 1989 with "Apartment Zero", Meg Ryan, as Bergen's daughter is already Meg Ryan. As tired as the formula is, it remains a Cukor film and for what I gather one of Almodovar's favorite movies.