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Even though Huston nearly died several times last year, no one connected with the film is calling it a valedictory. "I spent every moment of my childhood thinking he was going to drop dead any minute," says his daughter Anjelica Huston, 35, who plays the heroine, Gretta Conroy. "He's been brought to his knees in the past four years, but he won't lie down. This project is certainly close to his heart, but not because of any imminent decay...
...offers a special challenge. Lights, camera, no action. "The movie doesn't have a single automobile chase," notes the director dryly. "No gun duels. The biggest piece of action is trying to pass the port." On a snowy Dublin evening during the Christmas season, Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta attend his maiden aunts' annual dinner dance. He is a smug, possessive "stout tallish young man," who is preparing some after-dinner remarks with allusions to Browning and classical antiquity that, he fears, will sail over the heads of his unsophisticated audience...
Hartmania. The name of the mane is the Gretta Wig, but it makes the wearer look like Mary Hartman. Just now arriving in department stores, the Louise Lasser look-alike locks come from Alvah Hair Creations in 20 shades (no grays) and are made of Elura, a modacrylic fiber that can be shampooed or cream-rinsed. Price: around...
...station of the underground within Russia. For six months after World War II, "Father George" traveled through the U.S.S.R. with Red army credentials, studying resistance to the Communist regime and especially the secret confederacy of Christians. What he found makes an exciting book, written in collaboration with magazine-writer Gretta Palmer and published this week as God's Underground (Appleton-Century-Crofts...
...masthead in 12-point type as "Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould, Editors." They are far better known to the public than most of the editing confraternity, because of such journalistic didos as cozy "interviews" with notables like Eleanor Roosevelt and Harold Stassen, which were actually written by Gretta Palmer and J. C. Furnas, respectively...