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Catch-22. Irving had built a Catch-22 into his arrangements with the publishers: they could not meet Hughes, he said, because Hughes might bolt if there were the slightest publicity. Meantime, Irving produced nine documents purportedly from Hughes, including a nine-page letter in longhand to McGraw-Hill. Eventually McGraw-Hill hired a respected New York firm of handwriting analysts, Osborn Associates, to check the Hughes handwriting against samples of his writing dating back to 1936. Said Osborn: "The evidence that all of the writing submitted was done by the one individual is, in our opinion, irresistible, unanswerable...
...They put bolt locks on the fire escape that don't work," Peet added. "If they're locked properly, you can't get out, and if they're unlocked, anyone can come in. Crocker said that he had never seen the kind of fire doors that can be locked from the outside and pushed open from the inside...
Near also said that the door locks on the apartment could be opened with a plastic credit card, and that the fire doors could be broken down despite the bolt locks...
...play centers on the fierce duel of wiles and wills between Elizabeth I (Eileen Atkins) and Mary Stuart (Claire Bloom). The two never meet, yet each haunts the mind of the other. Robert Bolt writes a number of what might be called "blackboard scenes" to fill in the history, and he manages these cleverly and without pedantry...
...fascinated by the drama of choice and its costs. In Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More had to choose between his conscience and his King. The queenly star-crossed haters of Vivat! must choose between their hearts and their crowns. Mary counts the world well lost for love and loses her head. Elizabeth enfrosts her sexual urges to make her throne secure. The bitterness and the poignance are that Mary sees in Elizabeth the empire she might have commanded, and Elizabeth sees in Mary the personal fulfillment she might have gained...