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...Hand. A Stone is an original play of the "Portrait of the Artist" genre, in which the ambition of the heroine to succeed as an artist is tied up inextricably with the ambition of the play to succeed as a work of art Playwright Gloria Parkinson '83, who came to Harvard to complete her education after years of writing directing and acting in British stage and radio has centered the play's action on the device of having two actresses play Mary--one at 19, one at 40. The character views her memories, fears and deferred dreams from both perspectives...
...starred in a docudrama called Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. In the offing are pseudo biographies of Singer Rosemary Clooney, starring Sondra Locke, and of Grace Kelly, played by Cheryl Ladd. Some of the subjects have been paid or are more or less happy with the results. Others emphatically are not. Gloria Vanderbilt was none too pleased with Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, a version of Barbara Goldsmith's book about the Vanderbilt custody trial shown on NBC last week. But what recourse do the famous have when their lives are tricked out in a scriptwriter's overly fervid imaginings...
...women usually picked to symbolize change and re-evaluation are those like Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, who have achieved a popular success that has turned them into celebrities. Steinem therefore becomes an articulate and snazzy figurehead, Fonda a role model whose movie trajectory (from bimbo to feminist beacon) mirrors very neatly the way in which women are supposed to see themselves. Watching and listening to them, though, is not as striking by half as tuning in on a single studio audience of the Phil Donahue Show. Fifteen years ago, these same women might have been sitting in the same...
Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, and other leaders vowed to concentrate women's new consciousness and resources (NOW has reported recent monthly political contributions of $1 million) on building legislative strength to win eventual passage of a resubmitted ERA. My. magazine Co-Founder Gloria Steinem has already drafted marching orders for the '80s (reproductive freedom, democratization of families, more respect for work done in the home and comparable pay for the work done outside...
...more hopeful book. The pace is quicker, the characters more firmly drawn, the sexual rites gentler. Greeley's turf remains Camelot West: the Chicago of lace-curtain Irish who have pushed their way to the top. Multimillionaire Mike Cronin, who beds women faster than Joe Kennedy could say "Gloria Swanson," has set the course for his two sons. Paul, the Notre Dame boy who goes off to win a Medal of Honor in the Korean War, is going to be President. Sean is bound for the priesthood, and will of course be a Cardinal. Paul's wife...