Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Released from jail early in 1935, Chiang Ch'ing resumed her acting career, gaining some fame for her portrayal of Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House and then appearing in several popular films. In 1937, however, her career as an actress came to an end. At the time, Japan began its full-scale invasion of China. The Communists' Red Army had just completed its epic Long March from the Southeast to its new headquarters at Yenan in remote northern Shensi province...
...into the filmed version, so do all the flaws of the rest of his book. One major problem is the treatment of Kathleen, Stahr's lover. Pinter and Kazan apparently took their cues from a line in the novel in which Stahr refers to Kathleen as a "Beautiful Doll." Ingrid Boulting is precisely that--a porcelain figure, heavily made-up and beautiful to look at, but seemingly ready to break at a touch. There is no real sensuality in her, none of the flesh-and-blood passion Fitzgerald probably means to suggest when he has Kathleen describe herself...
...unhappy families are different, as Tolstoy said, and perhaps Anna Karenina would never have thought of dressing up in baby-doll pajamas. Perhaps Karenin would not have been inspired to chase her around the table. But Marabel did, and Charlie was. Epiphany. Love was reborn. Charlie became romantic. Marabel stopped nagging. Charlie was happy. Marabel was happy. The children were happy...
That pensive lady clutching the eerie-looking doll is Susan Blakely in Secrets, ABC's chilling movie scheduled to air Feb. 20. Model-turned-Actress Blakely, 27, plays Andrea, a psychologically disturbed young wife who turns into a nymphomaniac. She is also possessed by the notion that her dead mother is a wicked puppet queen. Her mother's crime? Teaching Andrea that everything she does must be aimed at attracting men. "What the mother teaches the child is almost like the normal belief system many women are taught," observes Blakely. "The plot is something women will connect...
Carter had consulted with Rosalynn on the clothing, books and toys that would go to Washington. He helped load the boxes and Amy's doll house aboard a rented truck that was driven north by one of Brother Billy's warehouse employees, with a Secret Service escort. Before the truck reached the Plains town line, an urgent radio message summoned it back: Amy's bicycle had somehow been forgotten and had to be picked...