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Hold on a second. You thought that your Harvard acceptance letter was also a ticket to unrestrained freedom? No parents or boarding school advisers for four years? Almost, but not quite. Just about every freshman dorm entryway has a proctor who acts, among other things, as a live-in mommy or daddy...
Last month he took two giant strides toward answering critics who say he refuses to grow up, artistically or personally. On June 5 he began directing The Color Purple, an adaptation of Alice Walker's stark, poetic novel about Southern blacks. Eight days later, his live-in love, Actress Amy Irving, presented him with 7-lb. 7 1/2- oz. Max Samuel Spielberg, whom the proud father describes as "my biggest and best production of the year...
Last summer, Rosegrant worked as a live-in counselor for teenagers at Roosevelt Towers, an East Cambridge low-income housing project. Although she says she lived in roach-infested quarters and worked 60 to 80 hour weeks. Rosegrant adds that much of the summer was spoat reading books with her six girls, taking them berry picking and on camping trips...
Although Roth deliberately focuses on male relationships, his incidental portrayal of women is suspicious. Cyd (Kathryn Harold), Blue's five-year live-in who abandons him for another painter; Candy (the late Carole Wayne), the voluptuous "submissive" S & M model for Blue's Fiorucci-style erotic paintings, and Liliane (Carole Laure), Eli's "ideal" woman, who works in a chic Los Angeles art gallery, are shown with such a distrustful distance that we never get far past their appearances. These characters are flat, like blank canvasses on which Blue and Eli project their own dreams and anxieties...
...subject of gripping fiction. And Gordon appears determined to make her novelistic task as difficult as possible. The temporary solution to Anne's child-care quandary is introduced in the person of Laura Post, a large, drab woman in her early 20s who is hired as a live-in helper chiefly because no one else becomes available. Anne does not realize that Laura is a religious fanatic who believes she has been touched by the Spirit and whose mission in life is to convince others that "human love was not important...