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...clever defense attorney turns Margaux's profession against her, forcing her to admit that she sometimes has used impure thoughts to get herself into the mood for a sexy photograph. The jury decides at once that this modern Jez ebel led this nice-looking lad on. Poor Anne Bancroft, as the prosecutor, rails angrily, but he gets off and a week later has at the kid sister - played by Margaux's real-life sibling Mariel, 14, who appears to have a modest natural gift for acting...
Pump People. The part had already been turned down by, among others, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Colleen Dewhurst and Geraldine Page, either because they considered the character, the steel-tempered nurse, offensive to women or because, on a more practical basis, the role was neither as large nor as strong as McMurphy's. Fletcher was not in a position to be choosy. At 41, she had appeared in only one previous film (a supporting part in Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us) and, indeed, had dropped out of acting almost entirely after making a bright start in television...
...subject is trying to deceive his questioners. Speaking with a slight Viennese accent, Orne said that he had actually tried to lead Patty into giving inaccurate answers to please him. Orne's considered opinion: "Miss Hearst simply did not lie." This flat statement evoked a strenuous objection from Bancroft and led Judge Carter to issue his caution to the jurors that they would have to make up their own minds on that basic issue...
...also spoke of her being "dissociated" from reality. The portly psychiatrist said Patty was the victim of a traumatic neurosis that is "fortunately not something we see in civilian life. In fact, the only time I've seen it is in [prisoner of war] returnees." Orne admitted to Bancroft that Patty might be deceiving him and others, but he added that after weighing all the possibilities, he felt "the weight of the data is unequivocally that she was not simulating...
...Bancroft Poor '78, spokesman for the Harvard-Radcliffe Farm Workers Support Committee, said that his group is still not certain of the best way to reach the H-R community, but that mass leafletting had yielded some positive results...