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Before dinner, Reagan and I spoke mostly about Edgar Bergen. The famous ventriloquist had died, and Reagan had just returned from the funeral. His convivial spirit had been quietened by sorrow. His face was drawn; his thoughts were with his friend; there was a sad smudge of theatrical makeup on the cuff of his shirt, one of the stigmata of the politician in this age of television...
Anne Frank's final words in the play that bears her name seem to belie her fate. She died at 15 in the Bergen-Belsen death camp. Was she merely expressing the naive wishes of a child? What could such an adolescent comprehend of the world...
Considering the potential promise and relative obscurity of the play, this is a shame. Though it enjoyed a successful Broadway debut with Bette Davis--and a subsequently not-so-successful film adaptation featuring Candice Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset--both play and playwright are little known among contemporary theatregoers. Yet the crisp dialogue and comic sentimentality of the script make for what could be an entertaining evening of theatre...
...must be Bergen, am I right?...Sorry to bust in on you like this," she says, closing the folder and stepping past me into the dark foyer. "Elliot was supposed to tell you about me. "She smiles as if we've settled something. "Maybe if we have some coffee I can explain--that a pretty robe you've got." She picks up the day-old newspaper...
...every day that a raving beauty gets to play a ravening crow. So Actress-Photographer Candice Bergen, 37, hopped at the chance to portray the evil sorceress Morgan le Fay in a three-hour CBS epic due this fall called Arthur the King, based on the Round Table legend. "I was relieved not to play the phlegmatic princess," says Bergen. "I like taking things in my own hands." Or talons. Dressed in a darkly feathered cape and one of the alltime great fright wigs, Bergen as Morgan swoops and plots against her half-brother Arthur, played by Malcolm McDowell...