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Closer to home, America's own version of regnancy?the goddesses of film and tube?has produced a plethora of pregnancies. Currently expecting: Jill Clayburgh, 37; Sissy Spacek, 32; Mimi Kennedy, 33; Blair Brown, 32; Donna Summer, 33. Another group of ripening screen beauties have only recently had their first babies. Among them: Ursula Andress, 45; Faye Dunaway, 41; Jane Seymour...
...mindful of Stratas' electric stage presence and lithe figure, chose her for his filmed version of Richard Strauss's decadently erotic opera Salome. And her capacity, both vocally and dramatically, to range from angelic purity to raw urgency made her a superb choice to sing Mimi opposite Tenor José Carreras' Rodolfo in Franco Zeffirelli's spectacularly realistic new production of La Bohème at the Met-perhaps the most lavish setting ever created for Puccini's tale. (The production, which PBS is televising nationally this Wednesday on Live from the Met, surpasses...
Dominating the action-in a way that most Mimis never quite manage-is the 5-ft., 100-odd-lb. figure of Teresa Stratas. Instead of the usual wisp of pathetic winsomeness, Stratas makes of Mimi a complete woman, one with physical and emotional desires and the will to achieve them. Impulsively planting a kiss on Rodolfo's cheek near the end of Act I, calmly singing at the center of the maelstrom of Act II, reaching out to her lover amid the snowdrifts of Act III or expiring serenely in Act IV, Stratas holds the attention with both...
...Mimi and her debutante friends should be locked in a time capsule and sent to a distant planet. Let the whole universe know why there was a budget deficit...
...gyrating to the White Animals. By state law, the booze has to stop flowing at 2. It does, and Fitch calls it a night. But the White Animals continue, and so do the revelers. At 4 a.m., the remaining stalwarts head off to various homes for a nightcap. For Mimi, it has been a "very quick fairy tale." She has even less time to savor it. At 11:30, there will be a luncheon in her honor...