Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theatrical career began with dancing lessons when Alexandra was four. Those dancing lessons continued until she was 16, when she switched over to singing and acting. "I don't think I wanted to be a professional dancer anyway," she says now, adding, "I was always going to use it for Broadway." She has performed every summer since junior high school--with the Boston Ballet, with the Canadian National Ballet, the Canadian National Center for the Performing Arts, on and studying at the London Royal summer at 20, appearing in "Jaws II," which folded, and taking lessons at the London Royal...
...come to Harvard--where, as Alexandra admits freely, the performing arts don't get the respect they do at many other schools? "If I have to be in college," she explains, "this is the only place in the world I'd go. I was weaned on Harvard football. I think it's the best for me and I'm a perfectionist...
...Clearly, Alexandra is willing to invest much time and effort on her apparent calling. Last Monday, she went down to the Boston set for a costume fitting, and found that what she thought was a holiday was no such thing; because the filming was behind schedule, they had decided to go ahead. On her way home that evening, a three-car collision gave her a concussion, dislocated her shoulder and put her in Stillman for two days. On Saturday, she was back on the set despite the rain, with long sleeves covering her ace bandage...
...schizophrenia does take its toll in some ways, she says. Alexandra doesn't always feel either of her two worlds; "I'm very conscious that I don't fit into any group: I have a lot of friends, but not in any one area," she says. And occasionally she finds Harvard life very frustrating. "I have to hold myself back here," she says, "I want to get going with my career." But Alexandra considers herself an actress, above all, and prides herself on being able to play various roles with genuine feeling. She describes herself as "moody": sometimes, she says...
...less probable characters Alexandra has played--or rather, taken on whole-heartedly--is the role of the first female manager of the Harvard football team. But she says she's "not at all into women's lib. I like a little chauvinism," she says. "Opened doors, flowers--I like a man to be a man." Women, she says, can go as far as any male by using brains and energy, and the feminist movement denies many of the qualities she believes are essential to well, femininity...