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- Bobby Darin: It's OK, I'm not gonna hurt you. Watch. My momma used to tell me a story when I was a kid that in the Middle Ages, one of the knights in King Arthur's court, he laid down his sword between himself and Guinevere, and he promised that he would never cross over to the other side.
- Sandra Dee: Really?
- Bobby Darin: I am laying down this sword between us. That's my side of the bed, and that's yours, and I will never cross over. Ever. I don't care if we don't touch for a thousand nights. Only you can cross over to my side. Only you.
- Bobby Darin: [trying to date Sandra Dee] I want to send 18 yellow roses every day to Mary.
- Charlie Maffia: You wanna send roses to the mother?
- Bobby Darin: Charlie, you always make sure the mama dog likes you before you go near her puppy.
- Sandra Dee: I've never worked with somebody so unprofessional in my life. I mean, have you ever even acted before?
- Bobby Darin: Well, I'm learning but let me tell you something, blondie, you're not exactly Audrey Hepburn.
- Sandra Dee: Bobby, why do you sing the same songs every night? Isn't it boring?
- Bobby Darin: Well, honey, it's an act. What do you expect me to do, sing different songs every night?
- Sandra Dee: Why not? I don&#
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‘Beyond the Sea’ is truly Spacey
Kevin Spacey’s biography of Bobby Darin, “Beyond the Sea,” is an act of extraordinary chutzpah. He not only directed the film, co-produced it and rewrote the script. He dares to play Darin.
Spacey is 45. Darin died in 1973, when he was 37. For long stretches of the film, you have to take Spacey’s word for it that he is Darin. The strain shows especially when he’s playing Darin in his 20s, courting Sandra Dee on the set of their first movie together, “Come September.” The temptation is to ask: Who is this aging impostor?
At other times, Spacey’s genius for impersonation shines through. From certain angles, particularly when he’s on-stage, Spacey does indeed look like Darin. And he sounds very much like him. Spacey used his own voice to sing “Beyond the Sea” and “Dream Lover,” and he creates an uncanny mixture, a Spacey/Darin who sounds much like both men.
Spacey all but recruits the audience to suspend disbelief, especially in the opening scenes, when he makes an irresistible joke out of childhood memories of Bronx neighbors literally dancing in the streets. Of course it’s not real, he suggests, but isn’t it fun to remember it this way?
Although it omits Darin’s second wife and other inconvenient facts, the script does a reasonable job of h