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    Same Old Song

    Jul 03, 2019 5 minutes
    BY CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD

    ’M A SINGER,” SUSAN SAYS TO STEVIE, SHORTLY AFTER THEY meet-cute in Ken Loach’s 1991 labor comedy, . Stevie, an ex-thief played by a fresh-faced Robert Carlyle in his breakthrough role, has found Susan’s handbag on the construction site where he works, and gone round to her house to return it. It’s not love at first sight, exactly—more like a hopeful bet. Susan, played with sweet sympathy by a daffy, rabbit-eyed Emer McCourt, explains, after much halting self-deprecation, that she has a gig coming up at a pub. The glass beads in her hair tinkle musically against her earrings, live accompaniment to her habit of pushing back her bangs. Everything about Susan is nervy and New Age. She drinks green tea (“caffeine makes me nervous”), consults an astrological book, and does the I Ching daily. When Stevie explains his dream—he wants

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