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Born. To Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 54, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for historical writing (The Age of Jackson in 1946, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House in 1966), once an aide to Kennedy and now an adviser to the McGovern campaign, and Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger, 36: their first child, a son; in Manhattan...
...vaudeville turns, imitating the Mitteleuropäischer doctor who first diagnosed the child's brain damage and a batty vicar who tries to help. Bates pushes for the comedy as he does for almost every other emotion, and the strain shows. Miss Suzman, who last appeared as Alexandra in Nicholas and Alexandra, is good when Sheila is tough and tart but bad when she is tender. When she recalls finding Joe playing with building blocks in a way that just for that one moment gave faint promise of normality, Miss Suzman recites the monologue as if it were...
...their grandmother Ada (Uta Hagen), a transplanted Russian who repeats adages like "God does not mean that we miss too much what he takes from us," and "As we came from the earth, so are we returned to it." Grandmother needs all her homely folk wisdom, for her daughter Alexandra (Diana Muldaur) has been driven mad-not by Granny's dialogue, as might be imagined, but by Mysterious Events. Alexandra sulks around the place in her all-violet wardrobe, and can be discovered from time to time near the closed-over well in the front yard, prostrate with grief...
There is nothing like an infusion of royalty to raise money for a good cause. Princess Alexandra of Kent, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, lent her aristocratic presence to a dinner dance at Manhattan's Americana Hotel, and the infusion was further strengthened by the presence of Film Star Cory Grant. The result was a happy stamping ground for some 1,200 of New York's upward mobility set and a gratifying take for Variety Clubs International, which aids handicapped and needy children...
This year's nominations were altogether perverse. Although legends of ballot-stuffing are legion, usually the good ladies and gentlemen of the Academy pick the films they feel are good for the industry image. How anyone could back an out-and-out stinker like Nicholas and Alexandra while there were greater moneymakers of far greater quality in the offing--Sunday. Bloody Sunday, McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Little Murders. Straw Dogs--is beyond the understanding of rational man. (Especially as Nick and Alex was produced independently...