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...flop film (Jinxed) and a nervous breakdown. She rebounded into a saner life, with a doting husband and an adored daughter, and the movie stardom that had previously eluded her. But her past three films ! have fallen this side of blockbuster. Scenes from a Mall swallowed her and Woody Allen whole; Hocus Pocus was a moderately popular summer farce; she turned down the original Sister Act script to make the epic musical For the Boys, which sank expensively, though it featured superb Bette renditions of Stuff Like That There and Every Road Leads Back to You. Perhaps she was hurt...
...what bothered the Biospherians most was their bad press. After the first wave of glowing articles, reporters zeroed in, sometimes unfairly, on the project's New Age roots (its "guru" was John Allen, an eccentric engineer who used to go by the name Johnny Dolphin), its commercialism (it was financed by Texas billionaire Edward Bass in part to develop marketable ecotechnology) and its scientific flaws (an advisory panel issued a report criticizing the project's scientific methods and later resigned). Ironically, some of the same researchers who ridiculed Biosphere 2 are now making the pilgrimage to Arizona...
...graduate of the Delphic, A. Clinton Allen '67said he strongly supports the Fly's decision andhas previously urged Delphic members to admitwomen to the club. "The clubs are part of thefabric of the University and since the Universityis co-ed, the clubs should...
Though some graduates are reluctant to seetheir clubs change from the way they were whenthey were undergraduates, Allen, who voiced hisopinion in response to a request for money duringa Delphic fundraising event, said that having twodaughters at Harvard had changed his opinion...
...Hara's life--the move to New York, the succession of affairs, the eventual job as curator at the Museum of Modern Art--was equally filled with the motion and sounds of colorful personalities, including Jackson Pollack, Larry Rivers, LeRoi Jones, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler and Allen Ginsberg. These sections of the biography are almost impossibly juicy, filled with gossipy anecdotes and discussions of trends in all the artistic genres with which O'Hara became involved...