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Legally Blonde
Film Review July 13, 2001
by Kimberley Jones
Description: Clueless and Dick gave the dumb-blonde tradition (think Sandra Dee) new life in the Nineties, showing some sharp social and political comedy gleaming out at the roots. Legally Blonde isn't... 
by Kimberley Jones
"...Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Coolidge, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Victor Garber and Holland Taylor. Clueless and Dick gave the dumb-blonde tradition (think Sandra Dee) new life in the Nineties, showing some sharp social and political comedy gleaming out at the roots..."
After a Fashion
Columns August 10, 2007
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Description: Our social butterfly, your Style Avatar, keeps it indoors and parks it in front of the tube for a bit
"...A Summer Place has always held a special place among the Kweenie Klassix -- first off, that Constance Ford plays one deeply disturbed dame. And Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue? Forget about it..."
Beyond the Sea
Film Review December 31, 2004
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: More "Splish" than "Splash," this biopic about the life of pop crooner Bobby Darin is practically a one-man Kevin Spacey show. 
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...That’s because the film’s narrative structure – a flashback structure in which the artist revisits key moments of his life as re-created in the fictional screen biography within the film – is unnecessarily convoluted and unwisely selective. Beyond the Sea focuses only on the dramatic highlights of Darin’s life: the rheumatic fever that haunted his childhood and left him with a weakened heart that finally gave out on him at the ripe old age of 37 (an age decades beyond any that he was medically expected to reach), the resulting drive instilled in him by his star-struck mother (Blethyn) to become bigger than Sinatra and do it before his failing ticker finally tocked, Darin’s tumultuous courtship and marriage to that era’s reigning pop princess Sandra Dee (stunningly captured by Bosworth), the family skeletons that tumble from the closet and complicate the skeins of Darin’s lineage, and his Sixties shift first to acting (he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award) and later to singer-songwriter protest music which fell, mostly, on deaf ears..."
The Films Are Alive ...
Screens Story September 17, 2004
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Dispatches from the Toronto International Film Festival: No. 3
"...The ever-talented Kevin Spacey not only stars as Darin, but also directs the movie, which is an ode to old-time show-biz. Darin was one of the last of the true nightclub entertainers, who scored big with such popular hits as "Splish Splash" and "Mack the Knife." Married to another teen idol, Sandra Dee (charmingly captured by Kate Bosworth), Darin died in his late 30s, and his work may be unfamiliar to current generations..."
Pages as Presents
Books Story December 7, 2001
by Clay Smith
"...There's the GBM who calls himself an African-American Peter Pan and looks like he's about to fly back to Never-Never Land and the Jerry Seinfeld looking for his Elaine onstage at The Improv in L.A. The 49-year-old woman who advertises herself as a Sandra Dee lookalike is photographed, appropriately enough, at a drive-in..."
Video Reviews
Screens Review June 15, 2001
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Description: Delmer Daves' A Summer Place is a juicy potboiler, oozing with angst over both young love and adultery.
"...D: Delmer Daves (1959); with Sandra Dee, Troy Donahue, Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Constance Ford, Arthur Kennedy...."
Imitation of Life
Film Review June 22, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: In this second Hollywood remake of the Fannie Hurst sob story, Lana Turner and Juanita Moore each play husbandless women in New York raising daughters on their own. One woman...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Douglas Sirk. Starring: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Susan Kohner, Sandra Dee and Juanita Moore..."
Douglas Sirk Film Series Schedule
Screens Story May 12, 2000
"...with Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, John Gavin...."
Chances Are
December 25, 1998
by Spike Gillespie
"...In 1982, when Sandra Dee Martinez bought the club she would turn into Chances, she had no idea it would lead to local fame for her and national recognition for her business. Certainly, she couldn't foresee how bar ownership would lead her to become one of Austin's most active and appreciated volunteers..."
Sugar and Spice
Screens Column October 16, 1998
by Margaret Moser
"...Although I never "got" Debbie Reynolds(10/21, 7pm, 11pm), I will make a confession. I am -- inexplicably -- a secret fan of the "Tammy" movies, both Reynolds' and the Sandra Dee ones..."
TV Eye
Screens Column August 1, 1997
by Margaret Moser
"...This week's recommended B&W film is
a real weeper: Imitation of Life (8/3, 1:15pm, AMC), starring Lana Turner,
Juanita Moore, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Robert Alda, and Troy Donohue.
That is, if you can get over how ghastly the plot is. This potboiler was very
controversial in its day, for it's now-dated plot about the interracial friendship between
two widows and their daughters, but it's presented on such a grandiose and corny
scale it's hard to take seriously..."
Looking for Mr. Mom
Screens Column June 13, 1997
by Margaret Moser
"...Other than The Dunwich Horror (6/19, 8:30am), an execrable adaptation of the H.P.Lovecraft classic good for little more than seeing Sandra Dee in her post-Gidget phase (cf. the Personal Best caveat), that wraps up my Max For Me service for the week, which is good because the next two entries paired would require more than a little explanation: The Dolly Sisters (6/20, 5:30am) and The Craft (6/20, 7pm)..."
Exhibitionism
Arts Review April 25, 1997
"...This Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey creation follows a simple storyline, one that many of us have seen played out by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John: the Sandra Dee-esque Sandy falls in love with rebel-without-a-clue Danny, only to have her hopes repeatedly dashed by Danny's unwillingness to lose face. But our familiarity with the material only makes the evening more exciting; guest director Scott Thompson's frenetic staging and strong visuals are dynamic in their own right..."
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