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Article: `TO GILLIAN' IS FULL OF TEAR-JERK POTENTIAL.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 25, 1996
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Byline: JANET MASLIN New York Times
``To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday'' begins with the sight of a couple, David Lewis (Peter Gallagher) and his wife, Gillian (Michelle Pfeiffer), frolicking in the surf. They wear matching khakis and white shirts, looking handsome and misleadingly happy, since Gillian is actually dead.
Two years earlier, celebrating her 35th birthday and wearing the same white and khaki combination, Gillian fell off the mast of the family sailboat while David was at the helm. This sequence, also seen early in the film, makes for one very sad Gap ad indeed.
As is indicated by David's habit of communing with Gillian's ...