It's been 12 years since June M. Sullivan started painting the bay, backwater and boats of Tuckerton. The bittersweet afterglow of a love gone sour. The sting of betrayal that lingers after an argument.
Singers are probably the most pampered members of the show business community.
The first half is corny, and the second is a rousing and exciting reminder of how war movies rallied Americans to get behind the cause. If Bella Applegate, waitress, single woman, civic-minded citizen, doesn't exist, she should. She's the invention of Israeli-born Amos Kollek, who has spent his career making movies about waifish, youngish, malleable women who toughen up when pushed. Write an entire album of songs and dedicate it to her. That's precisely what Steve March Torme did.