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   From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 6:17:49 PM UTC-7, cri...@windstream.net   
   wrote:   
   > So why was the young George made up like a   
   > girl, long curly locks, skirt, and all? Anything goes   
   > nowadays, but in 1942 that must have been quite   
   > shocking to audiences, and I fail to see a good reason for   
   > it. It's true that George was a 'mama's boy' in the sense   
   > of being overly devoted to his mother in later life, but   
   > as a child he was a rich-kid spoiled brat, for which   
   > being made up like a girl seemed pointless.   
   >   
   > Not that it matters much, though. The main problem   
   > with the movie was the very end, not the beginning.   
   > As an Orson Welles virtuoso showpiece, the movie   
   > was quite impressive, and all the way to George's   
   > final, somber 'comeuppance', it was not unconvincing,   
   > with the high point being Eugene's letter to Isabel, and   
   > the choice she made. But the very last scene, in the   
   > hospital, came across as an unconvincing feel-good   
   > artificial resolution. I wonder if the Tarkington book   
   > ended the same way.   
      
   I think it did.   
      
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