Darlene Dranda

Artfully-Designed Books That Make Sense of it All Darlene Dranda

In the summer of 1982, I moved into a farmhouse on the north shore of Long Island. It was five miles from the beach. Growing up in the heartland, I was nowhere near the beach until moving to New York City. Sabrina's father sends her to Paris to study cooking as a way to forget about her love interest which is basically driving him crazy. Sabrina's father is a chauffeur for the mega-rich family on Long Island. In the Sidney Pollack remake of Billie Wilder's 1954 film starring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden, Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear play the mega-rich brothers. Ford plays Linus Larrabee, a busy tycoon who has no room for love in his appointment book. Greg Kinnear is the playboy brother who is desired from a distance by Sabrina played by Julia Ormond. For many years, I studied the French language which didn't bring me any closer to true love in the way Sabrina ultimately finds it with the Wall Street tycoon. In the 1980's, however, I did meet and fall in love with a Wall Street lawyer who loved the beach, black-tie affairs, and taking me to New York City's finest restaurants. My story is similar representing an artfully-designed attempt to make sense of it all.