with her alone, but will do his
best to introduce her to poten-
tial suitors.
As penned and pictured by Per-
ry and rendered by Browning,
Naomi is a captivating charac-
ter, a ticking time-bomb whose
awareness of her appeal to the
opposite sex is offset by an inno-
cent naivety. When we first meet
her, she’s sitting on a brown-
stone stoop warbling a rendi-
tion of Russ Ballard’s ‘New York
Groove’, but her emotional pok-
er face makes it unclear if we’re
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witnessing the beginning or end
of her Big Apple arc.
Through no fault of her own,
Naomi’s trip to America is
doomed from the outset by the
insecurities of the tightly knit
group of locals she encounters. A
couple of weeks into her arrival
and Nick is drunkenly arriving on
her doorstep late at night, throw-
ing caution to the wind and po-
tentially out the window with his
marriage. It’s as uncomfortable a
scene as you could endure, our
sympathy for the pathetic and
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