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Most of us forgot our photobooks long ago, or keep them tucked away in dressers or desks to be periodically perused or updated. Elsa Dorfman chose to publish hers and the result is her first book. Elsa's Housebook, A Woman's Photojournal. The project was developed while Dorfman was a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute. The Housebook is an album of portraits, in prose and photographs, of Dorfman's friends and family, a community of people whose comings and goings within her house establish the "seasons and rhythms" of her life...
Clearly, the aim here is oblique; the all-star cast is being used to reflect some sort of distortion upon itself. Something should happen when Ingrid Bergman parodies her idealistic, spiritual Elsa of thirty years ago. Nothing does; it's played for laughs. Maybe when you have such an assemblage of fine actors and actresses, you assume they can take care of themselves. Lumet seems to have concentrated on keeping the dialogue sparse, and the characterization quick and neat. The result is like a museum restoration with a very serious curator but subject matter laughably warped out of shape...
...Kenya. The world could well have been spared yet another rendering of the Born Free legend, but it must be admitted that NBC'S new series (Monday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) at least avoids the queasier questions raised by Mrs. Adamson's elaborate efforts at surrogate motherhood. Elsa, the Adamsons' lioness, has turned into a kind of feline Lassie, roaming the remoter reaches of the green hills of Kenya, where she can weekly rescue or be rescued by the guest stars. As the Adamsons, Diana Muldaur and Gary Collins provide the discreet exposition linking Elsa's exploits...
Born. To Anthony Perkins, 41, laconic star of Psycho, Friendly Persuasion, and co-author of The Last of Sheila, and Berinthia ("Berry") Berenson, 25, a freelance photographer and granddaughter of Paris Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Osgood Robert...
...Died. Elsa Schiaparelli, 83, formidable couturière who dominated the high-fashion world of the 1930s with her art deco-and surrealism-inspired collections; following a stroke; in Paris. Born in Rome, "Schiap" became a French citizen in 1927 and began her career in Paris by designing sweaters featuring bold peasant motifs. From her salon beside the Ritz, she scored many fashion firsts, among them tailored evening jackets, the use of synthetic fabrics and the color, shocking pink. Schiaparelli closed her couture house-where her designs had been sold for as much as $5,000-in 1954, and later...