Word: marcuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, Ann Marcus, a veteran soap writer, came up with a script that met all Lear's requirements. He then persuaded a reluctant Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's ex-wife and co-star in Bananas, to play Mary. "I was a little afraid of the material at first," says Lasser, whose lethargic portrayal of the permanently stunned Mary is a comic turn on its own. Before long, she fell in love with what she calls "the Frankenstein soap...
...central relationship in the play is a vaguely sexual one between the strong, cruel father. Marcus, and his even stronger, even crueler daughter, Regina--who twenty years later will have taken over his role as the major destructive force in the family. Perhaps Hellman was thinking of her own close relationship with her father--it's easy to get Freudian here--whom she knew to be unfaithful to her mother, a fact which may have repelled her and attracted her at the same time. But a more obvious parallel to the Regina-Marcus affair would be the relationship Hellman...
...very funny scene in which Oscar Hubbard (Peter Aylward) brings home his intended, the town whore Laurette (Melanie Jones), with whom he is "deeply and sincerely in love," as he declares repeatedly in a voice of hurt pride. Laureate makes a miserable attempt to impress the self-consciously cultured Marcus Hubbard (she tells him that her uncle taught her to love Mozart, but in answer to a question reveals that the instrument he played on was a little drum"), but her irrepressible earthiness finally leads her to puncture the melodrama directly. Indignant at the way Marcus is treating Oscar...
...continued my wanderings through a kaleidoscope of red, blue, green and black riding jackets. Exquisitely coiffured equines responded precisely to the gentle guidance of their riders' reins. Braided manes and brushed tails were only fitting for horses bearing names like Marcus Aurelius, Royal Core or Her Majesty's Arthur of Troy...
...game, which has just gone on sale at such stores as Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus and Garfinckel's, is appropriately known as Petropolis. Adapted from the Monopoly formula ("Only I made it more beautiful and up to date," De Rosnay says modestly), Petropolis involves oilfields, rigs and derricks rather than real estate, houses and hotels. The aim of the game is to pile up the most exclusive oil concessions and fattest profits on a board divided into sections named after the 27 most petroliferous nations...