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Which Part of Beaches Makes the Author of Beaches Cry Hardest?
“I’m a sob sister.”
Before we pass the tissues, we’ll leave you with this conversation with author and playwright Iris Dart, who wrote one of the Great Legendary Cry-Inducing Stories with her 1985 novel, Beaches, adapted in the 1988 Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey film of the same name. And it seems to still have the same effect on its author, who commented on Bethy Squires’s “Exhaustive List of Ways TV and Movies Make Us Cry”(regarding entry No. [The actual quote: “The other side involves the ambivalent, ever-shifting relationship between Elphaba and Glinda, in which the adversarial women learn from each other and which recalls sobfests about female friendships like the movie Beaches.”]
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