Word: angel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Married. William Peter Blatty, 47, bestselling satanic fabulist (The Exorcist); and Tennis Star Linda Tuero, 24; he for the third time, she for the first; in Las Vegas. Asked what moved him to wed, Blatty replied: "An angel made...
...face, surrounded by his Praetorian Guard of chittering ingenues, is to realize that things do turn out well after all. The right level has been found. New York-not to speak of Rome, Lugano, Paris, Tehran and SkorpiÓs-needed a society portraitist. The empty angel of the '60s has effortlessly become the Boldini of the '70s. The alienation of the artist, of which one heard so much talk a few years ago, no longer exists for Warhol: his ideal society has crystallized round him and learned to love his entropy...
...supposed to go at 5 but I have a smart lawyer.") The plot itself is only quaintly wacky. A series of mishaps culminates in an assasination attempt on Napoleon's life, a tiresome case of mistaken identities is thrown in, and Boris finally trails off behind the Angel of Death in a flap-happy parody of The Seventh Seal. Where Allen shines is not in slapstick situations but in soliloquies and banter duets. He and Sonia (Diane Keaton), an intellectual Russian nymph, often find themselves grappling with...
...past 100 years, the women clearly have. In The Stir Outside the Café Royal (1898), demure Miss Van Snoop captures a notorious murderer and then weeps for 30 minutes. Observes the author: "She had earned the luxury of hysterics." Not so Jerry Wheeler, an ex-stripper who, in Angel Face (1937), is all hobnails, barbed wire and mean mouth. About one criminal, she says in her characteristic tone: "[He] had a face like one of those cobblestones they dug up off Eighth Avenue when they removed the trolley tracks." You've come a long way, baby...
...keeping the lid on their less savory memories, Shelley's intimates created a marzipan myth to be consumed in Victorian parlors. The poet, so the story went, was only nominally a seducer, de facto bigamist and flaming revolutionary. In reality he was, as Matthew Arnold wrote, "an ineffectual angel...