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Blackheath is a respectable but hardly fashionable London suburb, its casual greens bordered with militarily regular rows of staid brick homes. Mrs. Roy Hodges, the mistress of the house at 51 Harvey Road, seems as unexceptional as the setting. She does her own grocery shopping, spends a great deal of her time tending to her two-year-old son while her husband runs his small art gallery. She is 34, relaxed, intelligent and plain...
Forthright Mistress. Glenda Jackson will soon take on Elizabeth I again, this time opposite Vanessa Redgrave's Mary, in yet another reprise of the Mary, Queen of Scots legend. She may also agree to play Charlotte in a film about the Bronte sisters presently being written by Christopher Fry. Beyond all that, the demands of domesticity may eventually outweigh her professional ambition. "I've essentially accomplished what I set out to do, and I'll be ready to quit the day my son says, 'I don't want you to go out.' " In Hollywood...
...brilliant performance by Gian Maria Volonte as the tough Roman cop who slits the exquisite throat of his mistress to test his own power against the State's justice...
...date, Gilles is a sexy, glamorous journalist who is irretrievably light-fingered with other people's emotions and their trust. At 35, Gilles suddenly falls victim to a disease he had thought only struck his friends: a paralyzing "fear of life." An enviable job and a beautiful mistress seem like heavy burdens; each day is a "grim calvary." Desperate, he decides to spend some time with his sister in Limoges. Neither he nor the reader is much surprised to find that the most fascinating figure in local society, Nathalie Silvener, falls deeply in love with him. Her tenderness...
...genre, the breakthrough book was Victoria Holt's Mistress of Mellyn (1960), which sold a million copies. Though it was in itself a touchingly direct tribute to Rebecca, Mellyn has become the model for many of the new romances. The plot concerns Martha Leigh, a young gentlewoman in reduced circumstances, who comes to a vast mansion in Cornwall to care for the motherless daughter of enigmatic Connan Tre-Mellyn. Even before Martha falls reluctantly in love with Connan, she learns that his wife's death was both scandalous and mysterious, that he is surrounded by neighbors with ambiguous...