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God rest you, please, Mrs. Robinson

Anne Bancroft is dead, and the movies are all the less for it. Most remember her as Ms. Robinson from The Graduate but the role of hers I hold dear is from Garbo Talks. If you've never seen it, check it out.

This entry was posted by jb, on June 8, 2005. You can leave your response.  

  1. Anonymous | 9:02 PM |  

    http://www.cjrdaily.org/archives/001579.asp

    Then Anne Bancroft dies. ... But you're going to do right by her. You have to. Sure, you can't write an obituary -- they won't even let you be in charge of movie listings, for crying out loud, even though you could do it twice as well as that pothead they hired last year -- but you do get to come up with a headline for that Anne Brancroft obit that came over the AP wire. And that's no small matter, you think to yourself.

    You take a breath. What were the lyrics to that song again?

    ... There's that part where Simon and Garfunkel croon, "Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson." Why not just that? Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson. It's so simple, but it says everything.

    ... You're just about to shut the computer down when you stumble onto a headline from the Belfast Telegraph. As it dawns on you what it says, you feel something in the back of your head snap.

    "The Oscar-winning actress who hated being called 'Mrs Robinson' dies aged 73."

  2. Kniwt | 9:03 PM |  

    Oh, I didn't mean to be anonymous on you in that-there excerpt from CJR.

  3. cfs | 2:12 PM |  

    I will always know her as Helen Hanff, the plucky author who stole my and Mr. Doel's heart on 84 Charing Cross Road.

    sigh

  4. Jason | 7:29 AM |  

    I'm not above cliché.

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