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Divorced. Alan Jay Lerner, 56, Broadway lyricist-laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot); By Karen Gundersen Lerner, 39, former Newsweek reporter who met him during a 1965 interview; after eight years of marriage, two years of separation, no children; in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Gundersen was Lerner's fifth wife...
...Exupéry's visionary fairy tale about a pilot, crash-landed in the Sahara, who confronts his own innocence in the form of a very young man of royalty from a distant planet. The score is by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe-their first collaboration since Camelot in 1960. The music misses the simple, rhapsodic melancholy Saint-Exupéry achieved in his prose, but it excels at capturing the pilot's wistfulness, the Little Prince's spirit and their joy in finding each other...
...often glimpsed gleaming invitingly in the ceaselessly shining sun. The car is a symbol of the footloose lifestyle Moze and Addie Pray (Christopher Connelly and Jodie Foster) have chosen as the best way for con man and girl to survive the Depression '30s. It is, apparently, a rolling Camelot. The pair have yet to encounter any bad weather, let alone any bad vibes on ABC the roads they (theoretically) share with the dispossessed multitudes inscribed on our consciousness by the fiction and photography of the period. Documentary verisimilitude is too much to ask of a sitcom, but surely there...
...decade later. During a 1963 trip to Morocco, while Lee and First Lady Jackie Kennedy were waiting with the King's harem to meet the monarch, Jackie boasted about her sister's lovely singing voice, then forced her to sing In an Old Dutch Garden. Ah, pre-Camelot revisited...
...President living out of a suitcase. It does mean hard talking at the Cabinet level, and a President who can deliver on his promises-get bills through Congress and lobby with the American people for what he believes. Europeans joke about our Presidents- Johnson the Texas sheriff, Kennedy of Camelot, Nixon the crisis manager. Now they feel they have an all-American boy. They do not know exactly what that means; but they seem eager and willing for a fresh start...