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A puff of sentimentality is exhaled at the end of the book: Inman is reunited with Ada, only to be shot down at the last minute.
Because, at the risk of sentimentality, it's the News Quiz participants that make it fun for me.
from generation to generation" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). A few, like Pearl K. Bell in the Wall Street Journal , find "a surfeit of sweetly obedient docility" in the novel and say parts are "perilously at the edge of sentimentality."
But risking holiday sentimentality (with the ready-made excuse that it's just the chestnut stuffing talking), I'd like to mention some things I'm thankful for, like Tim Carvell's two (!) responses involving pushing people or poultry out of airplanes; Jennifer Miller's two (!) bits of self-revelation about her dark and ferocious inner life and apartment; Larry Amaros' determination that the Olsen twins wander parched and frightened, not merely in the Serengeti but during the dry season.
Few films have ever offered so inspired a blend of sentimentality, Grand Guignol horror, and sophisticated camp, or such deliriously inventive laboratory bric-a-brac.