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...DIES" ESSAY, WINS PRIZE. 1935: COED ON REVIEWING STAND FOR MOSCOW MAY DAY PARADE. 1936: FRANCES FARMER, A MOVIE STAR AT 21. 1937: HOLLYWOOD BLOND WINS ACCLAIM IN BROADWAY'S GOLDEN BOY. 1938: STAR CAMPAIGNS FOR SPANISH LEFTISTS. 1939: FARMER WALKS OUT ON ROLE IN HEMINGWAY PLAY. 1942: FRANCES FARMER "DEPORTED" FROM MEXICO. 1943: ACTRESS ARRESTED, PLACED IN INSANE ASYLUM. 1945: FRANCES FARMER DISAPPEARS AGAIN, IS FOUND. 1950: EX-STAR RELEASED AFTER YEARS IN VIOLENT WARD. 1958: FRANCES FARMER, THIS IS YOUR LIFE! 1970: FRANCES FARMER, ACTRESS, DEAD OF CANCER...
...they see it, to let the general public in on the fact that women athletes can be just as nastily competitive and talk just as dirty in shower and sauna as their male counterparts. As for the movie's centering on a pair of pentathletes, Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway) and Tory Skinner (Patrice Donnelly), who have not just a sweetly ambiguous lesbian encounter but a fullscale, move-in, move-out relationship-well, there goes what's left of the old image. Even if Chris finally leaves for a man, it is too late, the harm has been done...
...damage-control squad will doubtless be joined by groups with well-honed sexual biases to apply to the problem. Some image-conscious gays may blanch at the sight of Older Woman Donnelly making a pass at a minor, which is what Hemingway is at the beginning of their four-year affair, and they are not going to care for Writer-Director Towne's deromanticized view of the romance either. Neither are determined heterosexuals, who like to turn situations like this into tragedy-everyone tortured by irresistible forces, guilts and a society that misunderstands and condemns. Towne seems to shrug...
...performances are of a piece, which is something of a surprise since the cast blends amateurs and professionals in the leading roles. Perhaps the simplest thing to say about them is that they all meet somewhere in the middle, at an agreeable semipro level. Hemingway has retained the sweet artlessness of her Manhattan days, while Donnelly, a sometime Olympic hurdler, makes something pleasantly older-sisterish of her role. Kenny Moore, the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED writer (and former Olympic marathon competitor), has a goofy grace as the man who sets Hemingway on the straight path, while Scott Glenn, the memorable heavy...
...Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961 edited by Carlos Baker. Through four decades, Papa ranges forth on subjects that include the state of his art and the condition of his reputation, marriages and bowels...