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...That Was Then, This Is Now has been optioned; Tex, starring Teen Idol Matt Dillon, has been released by Walt Disney Productions. The married Hinton, who owns a horse named Toyota, has no plans to write adult fiction. Says she: "I'd rather claim authorship of My Friend Flicka than Princess Daisy...
DIED. Mary O'Hara Alsop, 95, author of the 1941 novel My Friend Flicka, a poignant tale of a friendship between a boy and his horse that became a movie and a television series; of arteriosclerosis; in Chevy Chase, Md. A descendant of William Penn, Alsop published books under the pen name Mary O'Hara, including several that evoked the sweep and grandeur of America's Rocky Mountain states (Thunderhead, Green Grass of Wyoming), a region she came to love while living on a Wyoming ranch with her second husband, Helge Sture-Vasa...
Real Bitch. Still a devout Catholic. Flicka went to convent schools. At 18 she hired on as a nanny in Paris to learn French, later worked as a salesgirl at Tiffany. In those days, and even when she attended the Mannes College of Music, she was more interested in the theater than in opera. "Give me Broadway any day," she said after her first visit to the Met, and she still appreciates the artistry of Barbra Streisand, Billie Holiday and Peggy...
...Flicka has said that she will take off the season of 1978-79, a lucrative period at this stage in her career. She plans to spend more time with her husband of three years, Peter Elkus, a baritone who is just getting his own career going. She wants to have children and do more lieder singing, where, she says, "you paint everything with your voice...
...against those who like her just the way she is ("She really is an angel," says Sebastian Engleberg, her voice teacher for ten years), there are others who feel that Flicka's full potential has yet to be tapped. One of those is veteran Stage Director Frank Corsaro, who worked with her at the Houston première of The Seagull. Corsaro senses a certain turbulence, even aggressiveness inside Flicka. "I would love to see her play a real bitch," he says. The most immediate possibility is the neurotic, highly sexed Fennimore in Delius' Fennimore and Gerda, which...