All About All About Eve.All About All About Eve * By Sam Staggs * St. Martin's St. Martin's or St. Martins may refer to:
All About All About Eve is exactly that--author Sam Staggs has cobbled cob·ble 1 n. 1. A cobblestone. 2. Geology A rock fragment between 64 and 256 millimeters in diameter, especially one that has been naturally rounded. 3. cobbles See cob coal. tr. together every known fact about Joseph Mankiewicz's peerlessly witty 1950 drama. The story of two-faced Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter For the fictional soap opera character, see . Anne Baxter (May 7 1923 – December 12 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Early life Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana to Kenneth Stuart Baxter and Catherine Wright;[1] ), who kick-starts her own acting career by worming her way into the inner circle of aging star Margot Channing (Bette Davis), proves to be, at age 50, as rich in trivia as Gone With the Wind. The book errs on the side of too much detail. (Do we really need the life story of every bit player?) But Staggs scores a real coup in tracking down Martina Lawrence, the real-life inspiration for the treacherous Eve. Now living in Venice, Lawrence says she's far more benign than the movie Eve--just what Eve herself would say! Staggs also plumbs the film's homosexual subtext sub·text n. 1. The implicit meaning or theme of a literary text. 2. The underlying personality of a dramatic character as implied or indicated by a script or text and interpreted by an actor in performance. . He suggests that there's more than banter going on between Eve and Margot--and that real-life bisexual George Sanders's character, ruthless theater critic Addison DeWitt ("that venomous venomous secreting poison; poisonous. fishwife," someone calls him), is a closet case looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a lavender marriage with latent lesbian Eve. (Did Mankiewicz intend Eve to have lesbian tendencies? "Absolutely," he told a reporter in 1980.) If it all sounds too far-fetched, rent the movie again and wear your pink glasses. Subtext or not, you can never see too much of the great Bette Davis as she whirls on the camera and spits, "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!" |
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