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Minding Other People’s Business: On Dawn Powell
Powell had bad luck, and she received less attention than her male colleagues, but throughout it all, she kept writing.
LAST YEAR, I bought Dawn Powell’s novel A Time to Be Born for less than two dollars from a used bookstore. I didn’t know much about Powell or her work, but I somehow knew her name. The opening paragraphs hooked me, as they captured the sense of World War II looming for Americans and set the scene at once broadly and intimately:
This was no time to cry over one broken heart. It was no time to worry about Vicky Haven or indeed any young lady crossed in love, for now the universe, nothing less, was your problem. You woke in the morning with the weight of doom on your head. You lay with eyes shut wondering why you dreaded the day; was it a debt, was it a lost love? — and then you remembered the nightmare. It was a dream, you said, nothing but a dream, and the covers were thrown aside, the dream was over, now for the day. Then, fully awake, you remembered that it was no dream. Paris was gone, London was under fire, the Atlantic was now a drop of water between the flame on one side and the waiting dynamite on the other […].
I finished the 300-plus-page novel — realistic, unsentimental, nonjudgmental, incis
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William Powellcomes out on top every time I sit down to make a list of favorite stars. I really can't analyze why, I just adore him. He's my idea of a true movie "star", so graceful. Debonair without being too fussy. His acting pretty much can't be beat, no matter the movie. He makes it look easy, informal, fun. With that clipped moustache, and his insouciant eyebrow, he just suits me, whatever mood I'm in. I feel like I am in on the biggest joke, but only he and I (and maybe Myrna) - know it.
Powell was class all the way, even when wearing an ice bag on his head. He's sardonic - the sadder-but-wiser man with a little poignancy underlying the wit. However, he has a great sense of fun. To me, he is very possibly the most comforting presence in all of the movies. He's lovely, my absolute favorite star ever.
Aside from his great comic sarcasm and incredible charm, my favorite thing about him is the way he drops his resonant voice low when saying something serious. Oh, he does that vocal trick when he's fooling too.... but there is something more to it when he gets his rare chance at "the big scene". He's not one to wear his heart on his sleeve, but there is usually one line in each of his films where he takes a moment to say something heartfelt and true - something no