Word: edith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Edith Bouvier Beale, 81, aunt of Jacqueline Onassis who lived as a recluse in a refuse-strewn, 28-room Long Island mansion with her unmarried daughter Edith, 59, and an army of cats; in Southampton, N.Y. Mother and daughter were nearly evicted in 1972 when neighbors complained. Later they were subjects of a documentary film, Grey Gardens, which some critics felt held them up to ridicule. "Big Edie," however, enjoyed making the film. Said she: "Nobody else wanted to take my picture...
...scandal of London in the 1920s was the young poet Edith Sitwell. She paraded around town dressed in exotic costumes and wearing gigantic sapphires on her fingers. She wrote "positively outrageous poetry" and she went around discovering poets, like Dylan Thomas who were even more scandalous than herself. According to director Peter Sellars '80 Facade," An Entertainment' the sparkling musical parodies which William Walton wrote for Sitwell' poetry has "no plot, no characters." Then why did Sellars decide to stage this extravagant new production of poetry puppetry, mime and dance and why did the Loeb (whoever is actually running...
Director Bryan Forbes (The Wrong Box) holds such worthies as the late Edith Evans, Kenneth More and Hordern in reserve for a comic turn or two, but their ministrations are futile. Forbes recklessly appends another act to the Cinderella saga in which the commoner is forbidden to marry the Prince. She is carried by coach from the kingdom, set up in a palace where she can do what she does best - mope. The Prince knuckles under to the pressures of his station, slouches toward the altar to take another bride. Fairy Godmothers are not large on unhappy endings, however...
...five-hour taped interview, a source spilled out a tale of corruption and brutality involving County Sheriff Keith V. Long, 57, whose gruff manner and thick downstate drawl seem right out of In the Heat of the Night. Trouble was, Reporter Charlene Hettinger, 39, and a colleague, Edith Brady, 22, kept running into brick walls as they tried to check the story out. The local townsfolk and officials were afraid to talk. Recalls Hettinger: "We were buffaloed...
Suzanne Nelson, Currier House secretary said yesterday that so far no Currier House residents have expressed an interest in moving. Edith Phillips, North House secretary, said that 12 North House students submitted their names to move...