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...spot Mrs. Kennedy at its center. It was she who invoked Camelot as the symbol of her husband's Administration in the days after his death. In her grief, she summoned a worshipful journalist, Theodore White, and told him that her husband loved the musical Camelot, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, and would play the title song as he fell asleep at night. No one knows whether this is true--Lerner, a lifelong friend of Jack Kennedy's, doubted it--but White, in a touching piece for LIFE, duly conveyed to the country her vision of the Kennedy...
...week run at the Almeida at King's Cross. One is sumptuous and familiarly melodious, the other intimate and jarring. But both, really, tell the same story: a perfectionist with artistic temperament takes the challenge to turn a nobody into a socially attractive commodity. Like George Bernard Shaw and Lerner and Loewe before him, LaBute is updating the Greek myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor who brought a statue to life...
...role of Higgins is the driving force of the piece. Even the lyrics of his songs move the action along. That is why it has worked in spite of so many Elizas." Pryce should know. He is now playing Higgins in a sold-out run of the Lerner and Loewe musical at London's Royal National Theatre. The show will move to the West End July 21, and has garnered the kinds of notices that Harrison himself would have been pleased...
...remind us that the first thing we ought to do is make choices we can live with. We can use our guilty pangs to make changes, even small ones (less TV but more bedtime stories, no junk food or violent video gaming), that improve our kids' lives. Says Harriet Lerner, psychotherapist and author of the terrific book The Mother Dance: "Healthy guilt helps us get in touch with our core values, and it can inspire us to change our behavior...
...Lerner believes that guilt, after taking a brief holiday during the 1980s, has surged again as mothers re-evaluate the impact that working has on their families. Lerner counsels mothers to understand that guilt rises from expectations that are out of whack with reality. "And," she says, "guilt-stricken mothers should also realize that the truly guilty rarely feel that...