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...play the game, they hate to give you anything when you're alive. This year Ruth Gordon deserved her Oscar for best supporting actress in Rosemary's Baby, but Mia Farrow, the lady she supported, was not even nominated. The reason: the Academicians dislike her barefoot hippie attitudes. Barbra Streisand's performance in Funny Girl was far less skillful than Vanessa Redgrave's in Isadora, but the Academy has never been able to separate performer from politics. A picket sign once symbolized the town's hostility to her leftist leanings: "A vote for Vanessa Redgrave...
...Your cover story on Mia Farrow and Dustin Hoffman [Feb. 7] was one of the most amusing articles I have read in a long time. I was laughing so hard I nearly choked to death on my English muffins and butterflies...
...period wallowing in the grotesque and in voyeuristic escapism, it follows that Mia Farrow would succeed as a flower-nibbling, pseudo-mystical boy-girl and that Hoffman would see a psychoanalyst five days a week, no doubt to discuss his anxieties about the impending 1040. The sight of Farrow and Dustin salting down the scratch, the former looking like a sand-kicked 97-lb. weakling in Rosemary's Baby and the latter as a watered-down Holden Caulfield in The Graduate, is enough to confirm to this aging mind that when eccentricity and grotesquerie become the prime movers...
...Sinatra's loss is our gain. I am so glad I am living during this Mia Farrow era. She not only has talent beyond words, but also beauty, intellect, enchantment and charm. Happiness...
More pain was to come. At 17 she visited her mother?then playing on Broadway in Never Too Late. "It was while I was-there that my father died. That was a very big blow." John Farrow's reputation as a roistering, reckless womanizer conflicted sharply with the strict, militant Catholicism he displayed at home. But Mia accepted what confounded his colleagues. "He was priest and lover, powerful and incompetent, strong and weak, a poet and a sailor. He was a very complicated man and I loved him very much." And her mother? "Well . . . like . . . my father was strict...