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...without him? No, was the unanimous opinion of the 400 show-biz folk who crowded into a Manhattan restaurant last week to thank Lindsay for his support of their profession during his eight-year administration. Among the grateful: Monique Van Vooren, Joan Fontaine, Christopher Plummer, Stephen Sondheim, Paul Lynde, Rita Moreno and Composer Richard Rodgers. Paying waggish tribute to Lindsay's consistency, Peter Boyle said: "He's been a very good mayor for our business. When he came in, I was an unemployed actor. Now I'm still an unemployed actor...
...RITA B. VIATOR New Iberia...
...Rita's ophthalmologist husband (Martin Balsam) is stolid and bumbling, and she can rarely bear even his lightest touches. A son has drifted into homosexuality, a daughter tolerates Rita impatiently. Rita's relationship with her mother (etched in dry point with just the slightest drop of acid by Sylvia Sidney) has become a series of long, grumbly quarrels. Rita, in short, cannot connect properly or rewardingly with anyone she cares about...
...banal problem perhaps. But it is also the stuff out of which millions of people create that awkwardly named but painful thing known as the mid-life crisis. For Rita it crests and breaks when her mother dies suddenly. Unmelodramatically but touchingly, Rita starts to come apart. This is not a subject that crops up much in movies aimed at today's youth-dominated market. Indeed, the central virtue of Summer Wishes may be that it is willing to dramatize such a human issue. But its carefully observed and delicately felt manner of doing so is also worthy...
...film concludes satisfyingly but not resoundingly, its people merely having lived a little more and learned a little more-mostly about the need to accept themselves and those who are close to them. If she had her life to live over, Rita says at one point, "I'd still miss all the things I missed and I'd still do all the things I hated." Maybe so. But at the end one feels that, given a second chance, she might manage with more grace and with less pain for others. Meanwhile, her example is worth pondering-and seeing...