Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...based Rich and Famous on the Van Druen play, Old Acquaintance, also the title of the 1940s melodrama based on it which started Bette Davis and Miriam Hopks. In its newest incarnation, Ayres supposedly follows the two women, here, Bisset and Candace Bergen as her best friend, Merry Noel Blake, from their college days in '59 up through 1981. It traces their literary careers and sexual histories up to apparent collective midlife decisions to reject men as anything other than sexual toys and to reject their own work. Ayres clutters the original melodrama at side issues like the effect...
...Burns, Blake and the Recovery of the Lyric--Leopoid Damrosch; Boylston Auditorium...
...excel. Furthermore, they have always been willing to take risks with students who had relatively low entrance scores, picking applicants on the basis of leadership qualities. Says Dr. Charles Johnson, a dean at Meharry Medical College in Nashville: "We look at whether they want to help people." Adds Elias Blake, president of Clark College: "We're important to this republic. The mission of these colleges has been to make up for the education gap that the broader society has tended to leave unfilled...
...movies going on here. In one of them, a sober and artistically respectable novelist named Liz Hamilton (Jacqueline Bisset) fights several decades of writer's block to emerge, finally, as an archetype of contemporary feminist dissatisfactions. In the other film, her best friend and worst rival, Merry Noel Blake (Candice Bergen), is a sort of magnolia-dipped Judith Krantz. She writes money-making trash and leads a life to match her art. She does not end up any happier than her pal, but she certainly has more...
...Patricia Blake...