Word: cassandras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prophetic as Cassandra...
...Brien said that in her analysis of the effects of Charles DeGaulle's postwar imperialistic plans on France's future Weil was "as prophetic as Cassandra...
Gore Vidal might be a "Laughing Cassandra" [March 1], but my God he does it with such wit-and plenty of class...
What is Sophia Loren, 41, doing in yet another B flick? Now the Fiamma Napoletana is making Cassandra Crossing, a sci-fi thriller produced by Husband Carlo Ponti and co-starring Richard Harris, 42. In the movie, about a train that is supposedly germ-infested and is being shuttled around Europe with 1,000 passengers on board, Loren and Harris play a love-hating couple. "This role is basically ironic . . . it pleases me because I believe it is within my nature," says Sophia. That is not necessarily intended to be a comment on her 19-year marriage to Carlo, however...
Intimates who know him off-tube insist that Vidal's public image as a Cassandra in drag is a mask protecting a sensitive, even self-sacrificial ally. Actress Claire Bloom recalls the time last year when he interrupted the writing of 1876 to accompany her on a twelve-day trip to Greece. Depressed by a broken marriage and a role in a play that folded out of New York, she found Vidal a consoling companion, showing her local sights she had not seen before. Later, he dedicated 1876 to her. "I know he likes to give the impression that...