Peyton Place - Grace Metalious

Teenagers Do Not Want To Live Inside Test Tubes

Advantages: Classic film with superb performances by every actor
Disadvantages: Some may find it too dated

. Grace Metalious was the author, and while the critics constantly spit on the novel, the audience didn?t. Her book, ?The Tree and The Blossom,? became a runaway bestseller, and made her famous virtually overnight?though her hometown wasn?t too happy. The novel had a subplot about a teenage girl who gets raped by her own father, and she later murders him; it was based on a real-life 1947 case that happened in that very town. Soon, a fury had started and the town would eventually fire Grace?s husband, who was working as the principle of the town?s high school, and would spend many years afterward driving her out of town. Eventually, the title of the novel was changed to ?Peyton Place,? and amazingly, it would go on to be one of the top best selling books of all time. Seriously, this book became the ?Gone With The Wind ...

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Review of Peyton Place (DVD)

Gracefully Funny

Advantages: Fun acting, excellent timing, beautiful setting, lots of laughs
Disadvantages: No smell-o-vision!!!!! Too smooth an ending.

-wrote the screenplay for this film (with the story originator, Mark Crowdy) and also plays the part of Matthew, Grace's inept, but charmingly handsome Scottish gardener, who has been unsuccessfully growing pot in the garden of the Vicarage, of all places. His request for her able assistance in helping him revive his dying seedlings is what plants the seed for her scheme to instant solvency. I'm sure you can all guess what that is. Woven into this plot is Matthew's relationship with Nicky, aptly played by relatively unknown Valerie Edmond, who pulls off another strong/weak woman part. In addition, the local doctor, played by Martin Clunes is an excellent comic relief (probably best known in the US for his performance as Gary Strang in " Men Behaving Badly", and most recently in the part of William in 'William and Mary'. I understand he ...

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Review of Saving Grace (DVD)

Where Theres A Will There's A Grace

Advantages: Funny show.
Disadvantages: Very stereotypical.

Will & Grace is a Emmy award winning sitcom that aired between 1998-2006. The show takes place in New York City and focuses on Will Truman, a gay lawyer and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish girl who runs her own interior design firm. That show sounds boring, why is it so good I hear you ask. The casting directors hired two perfect actors to play Will & Grace. Eric McCormack who plays Will isn't too gay like someone else in the show, so it makes it seem plausible that Grace thought he was straight. Debra Messing who plays Grace is just so bubbly and eccentric that you can't help but love her. Most importantly though it's the chemistry between Will & Grace that pulls you in, I myself always thought that they'd get together in the end. The show doesn't just focus around these two characters though, two of the best ...

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