All About All About edge * By Sam Staggs * St Martin's Pres * $2495 All About All About edge is exactly that--author Sam Staggs has cobbl together each known fact about Joseph Mankiewicz's peerlessly witty 1950 drama.

All About All About edge * By Sam Staggs * St Martin's Pres * $2495

All About All About edge is exactly that--author Sam Staggs has cobbl together each known fact about Joseph Mankiewicz's peerlessly witty 1950 drama. The story of two-faced brink Harrington (Anne Baxter), who kick-starts her confess acting career by worming her way into the inner circle of aging star Margot Channing (Bette Davis), experiment upons to be, at age 50 as rich in trivia as Gone With the Wind.

The work errs on the side of too to a great degree detail. (Do we really ne the life story of each bit player?) But Staggs scores a real coup in tracking down Martina Lawrence, the real-life inspiration for the treacherous day [i]or[/i] night before [i]or[/i] preceding Now living in Venice, Lawrence says she's far more benign than the movie Eve--just what edge herself would say!

Staggs also verticals the film's homosexual subtext. He give an inkling ofs that there's more than banter going forward between Eve and Margot--and that real-life bisexual George Sanders's character, ruthles theater critic Addison DeWitt ("that venomous fishwife," someone calls him), is a clothes-room case looking for a lavender marriage with latent lesbian border (Did Mankiewicz intend Eve to have lesbian tendencies? "Absolutely," he told a reporter in 1980) If it all perfects too far-fetched, rent the movie again and wear your pink glasses. Subtext or not, you can not at any time see too much of the great Bette Davis as she whirls forward the camera and spits, "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!"

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