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BROTHER CARL has to do with a young Swedish woman named Karen who is suffering from an acute case of bourgeois angst and so decides to separate for a time from her lawyer husband and retarded child. She goes with a friend Lena to the island home of Lena's ex-husband Martin who spends his time caring for a once brilliant dancer named Carl now deeply scarred by his former devotion...
...wasn't her usual gig, but Lena Home, 55, got turned on to Sesame Street by her grandchildren. There she was, reassuring Kermit the frog and singing Kermit's favorite song, It's Not That Easy Being Green, which is all about having green skin. "It's a highly personal song to me," she explained. "It is the same for me as it is for Kermit...
...store. He lost the latter job, he says, when the store manager gave him the flimsy excuse that "he did not think I was enjoying the job. I felt that whether or not I enjoyed it was beside the point, but I got fired." Older workers are especially discouraged. Lena Moore, a 53-year-old secretary in Macon, Ga., who lost her last job after being hospitalized for hepatitis, asks: "Will you tell me why when you get over 30 and apply for a job, they circle your age in red and you never hear from them again? By golly...
...drug addiction has become so chic," said Comic Alan King. Then a celebrity-sprinkled crowd of 1,500, some in costumes of the '40s, applauded a constellation of stars who were the '40s: Ruby Keeler, Myrna Lay, Jane Withers, Patsy Kelly, Joan Bennett, Claudette Colbert, Arlene Francis, Lena Home. "Didn't they all look great?" asked ex-Hoofer Dan Dailey. "Mind you, there was a lot of mileage up there...
...himself off by merely going through the ritual of describing his first contacts with blacks, his textbook injustices to them and his first realization that blacks could be as intelligent as white folks. All that is here (and vividly set down)-but so are the sexual fantasies (Lena Horne, a black whore) and the methods used to profit off of racism (e.g., falsely playing up an affection for blacks to a bigoted farmer so that the farmer would kill his daughter's plans to trap the unwilling King in marriage). King also accounts for the embarrassing liberal gestures with which...