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...receives a phone call. The speaker is a woman named Margaret, who informs him that his mother is dead. She is, it turns out, Leitch's elusive sister. The siblings meet, joyously ransack memories and make the most astonishing discovery of all: there is yet a younger sister, Linda Elizabeth. She has been adopted, but she is untraceable. It is for her that Family Secrets is written, in the hope that she too will answer the call of the blood and complete the outline of a long-damaged family tree...
...Even if Linda Elizabeth never responds, she is indirectly responsible for a powerfully evocative volume that gives dimension to the questions haunting every child deprived of his genealogy. It is part confession, part portrait of Britain, with its intimidating social strata, its cloaked poverty and strained respectability. And it is incontrovertible proof that Dickens, the great middle-class fantasist, the maker of grotesques and waifs and seekers, was a teller of more enduring truths than even he suspected...
They approached their three professors with the idea and received encouraging advice. The next summer two of the students began to flesh out the program with the support of a grant from the Medical School. By the end of that fall those two students, Larry Ronan and Linda Shipley, had succeeded in setting something up--they had found places for 10 students in clinics and health centers around Boston. During that school-year, they found $24,000 in funds, enough to cover living expenses for 10 first-year students for one summer. The Urban Health Project was born...
When Bentley's Courette and Linda Woods received free passes to open up the contest, however, it looked to be one of her worst...
...dual role in Second Serve was an extremely sensitive one, so studio executives were shown test footage of "a young man" they were told was being considered. Laughs Executive Producer Linda Yellen: "We kept them going and then revealed it was Vanessa." By all accounts, Vanessa Redgrave gives an uncanny performance as Richard Raskind, the New York ophthalmologist who underwent transsexual surgery, became Renee Richards and joined the women's pro tennis tour. "I hold a tremendous empathy for her," said Redgrave, "a woman trapped inside a man's body." The actress's work in the film, which airs...