Word: marilyns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veteran of Viet Nam trying to sort out the dubious good from the known evil of the war. Rona (Kaiulani Lee) is the bruised child of Selma, Ala., and Woodstock, and Carla (Shirley Knight) is an ex-go-go dancer who wanted to go at least as far as Marilyn Monroe. In an altogether sterling cast, the performance of Miss Knight should receive a star of spun gold. Perhaps the most unusual "Kennedy" child of all is the man who wrote the play, 38-year-old Robert Patrick. Born to a Texas dirt-farming family, he emigrated to Greenwich Village...
...David Gockley, 32, the Houston Grand Opera has a general director who will take a chance on the unfamiliar and still pack the house. In Marilyn Home, singing the pants role of Rinaldo for the first time, the company has a guest performer who not only can go easily from velvety mezzo caresses to sparkling high soprano fioriture, but also has the sheer power and poise to make the music conform to her character's needs. Home sings as though she has never had a finer, more rewarding role. That comes close to being the case. Mezzos have...
...knew as well as they did what good PR people could do with TV--I had seen TV lend piety to Richard Nixon and purity to Marilyn Chambers (the 99 and 44/100 pure Ivory Snow Girl who wound up Behind the Green Door). I have a feeling that the whole thing derived from that fateful eighth grade day of reckoning when my friends found out that all their favorite Westerns, the ones they had patterned their lives after, had been made--far from west Texas where they belonged--but in Spain...
...devotee speaks only of "Camelot" and Dallas; a veteran tries to make sense of his Vietnam experiences; a young activist traces her life through riots and causes; a homosexual actor laments the "the good old days" of the Village underground; a starlet-turned-prostitute recounts her fourteen years mourning Marilyn Monroe's suicide. The play continues in a series of monologues: paralyzed by depression and doubt, the characters are unable to speak to, or even acknowledge each other...
...Marilyn Forman, 40, is a housewife in Melville, Long Is land. When she found herself screaming at her two children and wondering, "Why can't I control myself?" she signed...