Word: mistressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Victor is a 44-year-old antique dealer, newly escaped from a dull marriage and a dull office job. Elsa is 19 and his mistress. "A year ago, when Victor was still a tax accountant, he fished Elsa out of his typists' pool. She flapped and wriggled a little, and then lay still, legs gently parted." This plummy pair is to spend the weekend cataloguing marketable monstrosities at the mansion of Hamish, an elderly millionaire, and his beautiful, young, crippled wife Gemma...
...Marilu Tolo took a crash course in English in Los Angeles and( is now speaking it-with brio-in a Greek drama on the island of Corfu. Tolo is on the set of The Greek Tycoon, the saga of a shipping magnate (Anthony Quinn) who chucks his mezzo-soprano mistress (Tolo) in order to marry the widow of an assassinated U.S. President (Jacqueline Bisset). All fantasy, of course. Tolo (pronounced Taw-lo) described her part as that of "a famous opera singer, a tempestuous, explosive character" who is "not Maria Callas." If there is any resemblance, it is not audible...
Died. Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, 81, longtime mistress and later wife of Rumania's ex-King Carol; in Estoril, Portugal. Daughter of a Jewish pharmacist, Lupescu, a divorcee, met the already married Prince Carol in 1924 and became his highly publicized mistress. When Carol's father ordered her out of the country, Carol left too, renouncing the throne. He came back as King in 1930, and Magda soon joined him, reviled as the "Jewish Pompadour" in the increasingly anti-Semitic climate. Under pressure from the Nazis, the couple fled Rumania in 1940, moving first to Mexico and then...
Born Actress. But Ivy should have read Auchincloss on the natural superiority of women over 40. Elesina grows into the job as mistress of Broadlawns and proves more formidable than her Svengali. As a born actress, she instinctively understands that the world is more than a stage- it is an audience. Her repertoire enlarges. She tutors herself in art history and is both dutiful wife to the aging, impotent Irving and ardent lover of his son David. Elesina knows how to balance passion and Pragmatism: What was all of Broadlawns and its treasure compared to a lover like that...
...novel concerns the transformation of an innocent young French girl into a famous actress, mistress to the richest man in the world and would-be murderess. The story opens in Marseilles in 1939. Noelle Page's father sells her to the lascivious owner of a clothing store. Noelle escapes to Paris where, her first day there, she meets a dashing young American pilot named Larry Douglas. She falls in love with him and the two have an affair. There are the obligatory shots of the two young lovers romping in the park, gazing soulfully into each other's eyes...