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July 14, 2006

All right then, run, lady, and you keep on running. Buy yourself a bus ticket and disappear. Change your name, dye your hair, get lost - and then maybe, just maybe, you're gonna be safe from me.

Oh my!

Our Cirque de Cinema pick of the week is "Long Hot Summer" starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Wells, Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury.

Shot on location in Louisiana this film is based on three of William Faulkner's stories. When drifter Ben Quick (Newman) wanders into Frenchmen's Bend he becomes entangled with the wealthiest family in town, in particular the spinster daughter Clara (Woodward). With the encouragment of her father ( Welles) he begins trying to court her with some very steamy results.

This was the first on screen pairing of Newman and Woodward and their electricity fairly leaps off the screen at you. In fact, when production was over, they married.

So since it is so Louisiana like in the weather department, pour yourself a glass of sweet tea and settle yourself in for a great story.

As an aside, the Desketeers think that Paul never looked better. Such a hottie!

Happy Weekend!

Posted by JenniferD at July 14, 2006 10:14 AM