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...more than my husband, owned me." Another steamy Hollywood confession? Indeed, and also another titillating chapter in the ever expanding Kennedy legend. This time the protagonist is not Lady-Killer Jack, but Joseph Sr., family patriarch. In her soon-to-be-published autobiography, Swanson on Swanson, former Movie Queen Gloria Swanson, 81, describes a 1927-29 liaison with the elder Kennedy, a business partner in many of her films. The affair destroyed her marriage to the Marquis de la Falaise, she reports, and nearly ended Kennedy's to Rose. The impending scandal, writes Swanson, led Boston's late...
...remarkable," says editor Jones, perhaps somewhat hopefully); a healthy chunk of presumably new American work (including a moving tribute to Cesare Pavese by David Wojahn and a backhanded one to the Irish poet Patrick Kavanaugh by the redoubtable Louis Simpson), and welcome translations of works by the Spanish poet Gloria Fuertes and the Hungarian poet Miklos Radnoti (who was executed in 1944 and some of whose works, including several represented here, were found on his body when it was exhumed two years later--a posthumous work if ever there...
...appearance of NBC's persistently popular Real People, an hour of sometimes amusing interviews in the heartland. A recent show followed A. J. Weberman, a "celebrity garbageologist" who among other feats has retrieved memos from Richard Nixon's trash can and empty Valium bottles from Gloria Vanderbilt's. ("The best thing I ever found," he says, "was Jackie Kennedy's pantyhose.") While Real People, which gets more than a third of the audience in its Wednesday prime-time slot, spawned a series of other "entertainment news" shows like NBC's Speak Up America, it also...
...which Gloria (Gena Rowlands) responds, "Hey." Hey, indeed...
...Gloria fails in almost every way, and it is for lack of trying. Maybe Cassavetes is just trying to make a lot of money; but when you get to the point where venality is the benefit of the doubt, you are on very shaky artistic ground indeed. There are those people who love to see children on the screen, and they will love Gloria--they will see John Adames and leave the theater saying, "Oh, he's so cute." He's not so cute. Often, he is grotesque...