Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patty Hearst has been snatched again. In Network, a thriller-with-a-message by Director Sidney Lumet, a young heiress named Mary Ann Gifford is kidnaped by an outfit called the Ecumenical Liberation Army, joins them in a bank robbery, then helps them try to sell a film of the heist to a big TV network, to be shown on its Mao Tse-tung Hour. During the negotiations, which lead to the crackup of a venerable anchorman, played by Peter Finch, Mary Ann cries out, "It's not the money that's important, it's the principle...
Sexy Guy. It appears that there may have been yet another woman in F.D.R.'s life and libido. Not just any woman, but Dorothy Scruff, coquettish, aging (73) heiress to the Kuhn, Loeb investment-banking fortune and longtime publisher, editor-in-chief and sole owner of the New York Post. In an authorized biography, Men, Money and Magic: The Story of Dorothy Schiff (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; $9.95), to be published in October, Author Jeffrey Potter quotes Dolly Schiff as admitting to a "relationship" with Roosevelt from 1936 to 1943-when she was in her thirties...
...stock manipulators. And then, in what is probably the most searing blow for the bureau, Ungar attacks the organization for failing to thwart increasing domestic terrorism. He describes an intelligence organization that is curiously incapable of penetrating the radical underground, that needs 19 months to track down a kidnapped heiress in California...
This play briefly opens a window on one woman's life and then permanently locks the door. The heiress, Catherine Sloper (Jane Alexander), is an awkward, self-denigrating, plain-featured girl who falls ardently in love with a handsome fortune hunter named Morris Townsend (David Selby). He knows how to simulate passion since money is his love...
...much depends on the dramatic switch ending concocted for the play that The Heiress seems to owe more to O. Henry than to Henry James. As a revival it must compete, too, with the memory of earlier incarnations, the 1947 play with Basil Rathbone and an oft-replayed movie starring Ralph Richardson as the coruscating father. The torment inflicted upon the daughter by the father can still stir old-fashioned pity, even in the age of women's lib, and the claustrophobic gentility of this 1850s New York home adds a note of melodrama...