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I Am A Camera-The Book, Cabaret, Breakfast at Tiffany's?

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Saw the tape this afternoon. Originally I'd planned just to watch a few minutes to compare it to Cabaret. I watched it to the end. Halliwell calls it a "flat and flabby treatment" of Isherwood's work.
I liked Julie Harris as Sally and Shelly Winters as the rich, Jewish girl. Laurence Harvey was a little stiff in the role of "Chris" Isherwood, but not bad. Maybe he was supposed to be "repressed". I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, that Isherwood was gay. The rich guy, Clive was not well done. Still,overall, I liked it.
Has anyone compared this one to the book, and is it really "flat and flabby"?
Oh, yes, definite comparison here with "Breakfast at Tiffany's" the movie. Sally=Holly, etc. What do you think? Did Capote "adapt" a bit from Isherwood?

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Tiffany......... you mean there was a MOVIE? Victor Khomenko 18:36:15 06/18/00 (1)
I had seen it several times, but don't ask me about the story line - I would not remember. To me it has not been, and shall never be a movie. I feel like I am staring at the Sun and see nothing else but the Sun.
It is simply two hours of watching the second most beautiful lady to ever grace this Earth (the first one being my wife).
It is seldom that the personality is THIS much greater than all the suroudings. The only two movies that come to my mind that I can watch ANY time, as many times as possible, are the "Tiffany" and the "My Fair Lady". I have done my share already.
So I can't draw any comparisson, sorry. I don't think one would be possible. Audrey was not, strictly speaking, an actress - not a "good" one in a usual meaning of that word, anyway. To compare hers to some fine acting by some fine acressess is perhaps misleading. Her presence was not about acting, but about her, well, presence. Many even great acressess are replaceable. She is not.
- Re: Tiffany......... you mean there was a MOVIE? edta 19:05:06 06/18/00 (0)
  Yes, a fine movie. A fine soundtrack as well.
  Audrey was truly one of the unforgetables of 20th cen. film. That glow, that charm, that soul, are irresistable. Like you, I love her in My Fair Lady and her other films. She was an intelligent, caring woman who suffered much and devoted her life to helping others. She was more than an actress for sure.

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