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This is a tale of two ladies. One of them (Meryl Streep) is very, very good, and the other (Elizabeth Swados) is very nearly horrid. Her work, that is. For a woman who has acquired an exaggerated reputation as a composer, Swados displays an anemic talent for making anything remotely resembling good music. For someone who is 29, she is strangely fixated on the '60s. Her songs, both for Alice in Concert and her previous show Runaways, a short-lived paean to urchin street vandals, sound, at their very best, like numbers that the composers of Hair threw...
...Sullivans' city--David's, Walter's, James's, and Al Vellucci's. Bottle upon bottle, we'll uncork the Veuve Clicquot And raise our glasses in the air for everyone we know. For A. Simone Reagor, Eugene Genovese, Lyndon Larouche and Aglaia Senese, Ned Coll, Larry Bird, Meryl Streep and Abbie Hoffman, Ben Schatz, Richard Frye, Cyrus Vance and Stanley Hoffmann, Baruj Benacerraf, Muhammad Ali, Simon Schama and Selwyn Cudjoe, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ann Ramsay, Nathan Huggins and Pat Sorrento, Al Dershowitz and The Quincy House Two, Shirley Hufstedler and Pere Ubu, Charlie Beckwith, Walter Cronkite, Alex Bok and Alex Haig...
...voice like pure nicotine; Gary Busey, strong and lovable behind his goony, gummy smile; and Jodie Foster, poised for a swan dive into young womanhood. Look at Foster's face now-a fascinating mask of planes, points and dumpling cheeks-and you see her potential for turning into Meryl Streep or Angela Lansbury...
...dismissed Best Movie Kramer vs. Kramer as so much soap suds. Said he, spotting Barrett in the press crush: "Well, the soap opera won." Kramer swept five major prizes in the 52nd Academy Awards show. "I'm trying to hear the question over my heartbeat," cooed Meryl Streep, Best Supporting Actress as Ms. Kramer. Complimented on her Trigère gown, Streep, who is Mrs. Don Gummer in real life, blushingly swept a hand across her stomach and sighed: "It doesn't fit like it should since the baby." Sally Field was flushed with more than her victory...
...wonder London cinema buffs did double takes. Wasn't that the Kramer family from Manhattan, together again, ambling about the city on a combination business and pleasure trip? For Actors Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Justin Henry, of course, the business was the British premiere of their hit movie, Kramer vs. Kramer. On hand for the glittering opening at London's Odeon Theater was another well-known family, the Windsors. "Will the film make us cry?" asked Queen Elizabeth II, chatting with eight-year-old Justin, who nearly stole the show in his first acting assignment. Said...