Blue Moon (2000)

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An unusual turn in a courtesan’s life. Earth-shattering, as in La Dame aux camélias by Dumas fils or Verdi’s version of it in La Traviata. In those long-ago days, that sad, poignant story was known to me only in its Hollywood version, Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor in George Cukor’s Camille. Woman of pleasure finally meets the man of her dreams; his father is furious at his son’s pursuit of an immoral woman; even the heart of the angry patriarch is melted by the beauty and integrity of Camille, ...who is dying of tuberculosis. A melodramatic, quasi-sentimental story perhaps, the classical rendition of the story of the prostitute with a heart of gold. Yet, in my experience, real life has a way of imitating even the most outrageous clichés.
My Robert Taylor was a man with the preposterous name of Bill Bohozuk. A year older than me, he lived with his sister on shabby Picton Street East where the houses were crushed together. He worked the open hearth at one of the steel mills, the Dominion Foundries, and rowed with the Leander Boat Club.
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