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Outwardly, the play's material is the journey—shipboard romance, Colombo, the inevitable concert, Aden, Toulon, forlorn partings at the end of the voyage. This is one interest; the major one is Mr. Lane’s study of his people, particularly of his negro, Teddy Deacon.
Soon after boarding, Diane meets Johnnie Smith in the ship's bar and rejects his flirtations. Johnny asks his smooth-talking best friend Mike Bradley for help but is double-crossed when Mike treats him like a drunk who is annoying Diane. Mike charms her and a shipboard romance blossoms. Still true to Richard, Diane makes no commitments to Mike.
"Ship" and its derivatives in this context have since come to be in widespread usage. "Shipping" refers to the phenomenon; a "ship" is the concept of a fictional couple; to "ship" a couple means to have an affinity for it in one way or another; a "shipper" or a "fangirl/boy" is somebody significantly involved with such an affinity; and a "shipping war" is when two ships contradict each other ...
The cruise industry was very different in 1970, catering to an estimated 500,000 passengers. Three decades later that had jumped to five million thanks, say industry experts, in large part to a ...
In much simpler surroundings, the third class passengers also engage in music, dancing, winning, and whirlwind romances. Meanwhile, Beesley and Goodwin toy with the possibility of embarking on an illicit affair in an empty cabin but decide not to. Goodwin comments that shipboard romances, like shipboard friendships, are meant to end with the ...
Tay Garnett's direction is clever. He keeps the story on the move with its levity and dashes of far-fetched romance." [12] Leonard Maltin gives the film 3 1/2 out of 4 stars, high praise for a "tender shipboard romance of fugitive Powell and fatally ill Francis, splendidly acted, with good support by MacMahon and McHugh". [9]
The clinical assistant broke down during the two-part reunion special — and called out the Average Expectations author, 42, for moving on so quickly after their breakup. “We spent two and a ...
Fitting the booming ‘Boys Love’ genre, the series is a screen adaptation of a hit Chinese-language web novel “Stand-In Ship” written by Shui Qiancheng. The underlying novel has garnered ...