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...Prince of Wales sent him venison, and an actress, Mrs. Kendal, was solicitously tender. At the point in the play where she reaches out to take Merrick's hideously gnarled right hand in hers, the emotionally charged impact equals the scene in The Miracle Worker where Helen Keller first comprehends the sign for water. Longing to sleep "like other people," Merrick, who could only achieve rest by lowering his huge head on his knees, lay down one night in 1890, broke his neck and died...
...Edward, who is portrayed in his maturity by Timothy West, learn the craft of statesmanship or take on any of the duties that normally fall to the Prince of Wales. Edward becomes a public wastrel, negligent of both his beautiful Danish wife (portrayed in her later years by Helen Ryan) and his role as future King. Only when the old Queen dies does he come into his own, vowing to wear the crown with dignity, which indeed he does. Like Crosbie, West gives a finely tuned and modulated performance, making altogether believable that most difficult of roles, the errant prince...
...rock press that Donna was more trouble than she was worth, once even canceled a chartered flight because her astrologer counseled against it. Says Donna: "Jeff Wald earned over $200,000 through me and never saw me perform. He was just running around Hawaii with his wife [Singer Helen Reddy] having a great time, thinking he was above being a manager." Tending to Donna's needs now are both a former publicist for Donna's record company, Casablanca, and the wife of the Casablanca president...
Even liberal whites like Helen Suzman, who received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1976, ask only for a limited franchise for blacks, based on criteria like property or education--in a country where blacks cannot own the land their houses stand on, and where the black schools are hardly worth attending. (I wonder whether Harvard would ever grant an honorary degree to Nelson Mandela, the great black South African who spoke out for freedom. It seems unlikely; Mandela could not come to receive the degree in person, anyway, because--like so many South Africans, black and white...
Dining hall staffer Helen C. Davidson yesterday recalled the last food fight at Kirkland House two years ago. "Turkey legs were the main course and the dining hall manager stopped it before it got going," she said...