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...know Mia and Andre are going to give this baby the right kind of love and devotion. That's the whole point, isn't it?" said the prospective grandmother, Actress Maureen O'Sullivan. It had better be-because the prospective father, Composer-Conductor Andre Previn, will not even discuss the possibility of marrying Mia Farrow, who is expecting his baby in the spring. Andre, in fact, is still married to his second wife Dory. But the Previns have separated, and he has bought a little farmhouse in Surrey, England, where he and Mia hope to settle down...
Loretta's daughter, Maureen, also has trouble with men, particularly her stepfather, who nearly beats her to death. The battering reduces the girl to a state of psychic numbness. When her will reasserts itself, she plots to seduce and marry a man "gaunt with normality," who already has a wife and three children. If she can't have a life transformed by love, at least she can have a house and family in the suburbs...
Joyce Carol Gates' pains, it turns out, were quite personal. As a teacher at the University of Detroit from 1962 to 1967, she first met the "Maureen Wendell" of the novel. She had been a student whom Miss Gates was forced to flunk for an inability to express herself. A few years later "Maureen" wrote Miss Gates an eloquent, obsessional letter about her sense of personal destiny...
Teacher and former student became acquainted, and "Maureen" confided the story of the "Wendells." "Their lives pressed upon mine eerily," says Miss Gates, "so that I began to dream about them instead of about myself, dreaming and redreaming their lives. Because their world was so remote from me, it entered me with tremendous power, and in a sense the novel wrote itself...
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE, by Leonard Gershe, is a love story of a blind boy and the girl next door. Keir Dullea, Blythe Danner and Maureen O'Sullivan star. Falmouth, Mass...