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...Alexandra intends to get to the top, by any and every method that she believes won't compromise her sexual, academic or human integrity. For two years before she came to Harvard, she acted in two soaps, "One Life to Live" and "All My Children." While she has been here, she has continued to keep one foot in show biz, singing in night clubs in addition to acting in Harvard theater and the occasional film. "I don't know how it's going to happen, so I'm preparing for all the possibilities," she says. Last week, she auditioned successfully...
...that easy living two lives, one as a professional actress and another as a student majoring in Harvard's Government Department, she says. That schizophrenic existence has been exaggerated in the last few weeks during the ABC filming, when Alexandra has been "meeting professionals at work and coming back here and being a student...
Nevertheless, Alexandra says her life as a student remains important to her. She comes from a very "Harvard" family, and grew up in Newton; all her life, she says her parents and younger sister expected her to go to Harvard and on to some professional career--lawyer, most likely. While that is still possible (Alexandra says she is very interested in legal aspects of government), it appears increasingly less likely that she will be able to give up her career in show...
...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...