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Joan Wickersham

A Labor Day picnic worth checking out

By Joan Wickersham
September 7, 2009

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"Picnic," the 1955 movie starring William Holden and Kim Novak, somehow manages to offer both the laughable excesses of a bad movie and the subtle, moving emotion of a good one. It’s also, as far as I know, the only Labor Day movie ever made. (Full article: 724 words)

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