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All Is Vanity: Directed by Nick Marck. With Rob Morrow, Barry Corbin, Janine Turner, John Cullum. Maggie purports Joel to be her boyfriend to gain her father's approval; Holling comes to a very personal decision.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Nick Marck
- 1991-04-22
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Invigorated by temperatures of "aught seven" degrees in Cicely, Alaska, Holling opts for circumcision to be "more in style" for his girlfriend, Shelly. Joel plays Maggie's intended in a "web of deceit" to fool her visiting father. Townsfolk watch over the body of an unknown man who is found dead in Joel's waiting room.
After Holling impresses Shelly by throwing a man out of the bar, the two of them go up to bed. Afterwards, Shelly comments about other men, and makes an offhand comment about Holling's penis apparently being unlike the other men. Holling, uncomfortable at the comment, immediately goes in to see Joel Fleischman at the Doctor's office, asking to be c...
Maggie (quoting Shakespeare's Sonnet 116): "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his he...
"Honky Tonk Angels" by Kitty Wells"Bonsoir Dame (Goodnight my Lady Love)" by Bud and Travis"Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" by Rosemary Clooney"Angie" from film Wild is the WindFrank O'Connell smokes and drinks scotch.Frank saw Maurice in a parade in Detroitin 1965.Maggie's mother is a "lace-curtain Bostonian".At five, Maggie was runner-up in the Little Miss Great Lakes contest where she sang "Love is Blue".PalePinkManicure. All Is Vanity. I love this episode so much. So many little things that just crack me up. When Maurice is checking the pockets of #9, he just casually lays his sandwich on the guy’s chest. It cracks me up every time. I love the way Joel gets Holling out of the circumcision that Holling really doesn’t want.
In an attempt to gain his approval, Maggie has been sending letters home describing Joel, a successful doctor, as her boyfriend. Although she convinces Joel to play along, she hates the fact that he has glimpsed this part of her personal life, especially when Joel seems to enjoy the charade.
"Northern Exposure" All Is Vanity (TV Episode 1991) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
"Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas" means "Vanity of vanities, everything is vanity". Holling is 63 years old. His age is mentioned by Joel when he advises against his being circumcised.
Northern Exposure -S2 -E3 Mark as watched Rate Forums Holling decides to be circumcised to please Shelly, Chris and Maurice organize the town to keep watch over an anonymous man whom died in Dr. Fleischman's office, and Maggie persuades Joel to pose as her boyfriend to please her father.
