She was far from the real Hollywood; yet not so far, in her young, lonely death, from the great name she had most longed to be.
"These were the people to whom she was closest and most painfully distant," Julia Lambert thinks, "the people she most longed to have near, whose touch was unbearable to her".
There was a risk for Bechdel that her book would have failed to achieve one of its prime objectives: making herself visible to the one living person by whom she most longed to be seen.
The movie that he most longs to make is an adaptation of a grandly ridiculous H. P. Lovecraft novella, "At the Mountains of Madness," in which explorers, venturing into Antarctica, discover malevolent aliens in a frozen, ruined city.
Most countries long to bring in the best and the brightest.
Actually, most dancers long to act, and wish, in these corniness-resistant days, that they could do so more often.
Marin, and most men, long to be like Michael Corleone from "The Godfather" -- "the battered idealist, the ruined romantic".
"It doesn't take most people long to twig that [Merlin is] a psychopath," writes Knight of one protagonist.
Stymied, Tess sent in her second team — Whitney, her closest friend, a blonde with the kind of icy good looks that most men long to thaw.
