She Treads Softly: Doris Day movie night

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Doris Day movie night

Do Not Disturb 1965
Cast: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley, Sergio Fantoni Director: Ralph Levy

The Thrill of It All! 1963
Cast: Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, Edward Andrews Director: Norman Jewison

I love Doris Day movies.

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John Updike's six rules for reviewing:

1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

2. Give him enough direct quotation--at least one extended passage--of the book's prose so the review's reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste.

3. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis.

4. Go easy on plot summary, and do not give away the ending.

5. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author's oeuvre or elsewhere. Try to understand the failure. Sure it's his and not yours?

To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser.....Review the book, not the reputation.... Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys in reading, and all our discriminations should curve toward that end.