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Much is known about Vicki Morgan's life, perhaps too much. For twelve years she was the lavishly kept mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale. The multimillionaire former head of Diners Club was part of Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet," and his widow Betsy is a close friend of Nancy Reagan's. Shortly before Bloomingdale died of cancer in 1982, Morgan, then 29, filed a $5 million palimony suit that publicized the lurid details of their affair...
...Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat froze a score of weekend strollers into pointillist immortality. Now they are posed on a Broadway stage, thawing into something like life. The matron on the right, with the bustle and the chained monkey? She is the artist's mistress, Dot (Bernadette Peters), pretty as a picture but not quite so still; she would rather be at the Follies. See the white bundle a man at the rear is holding? That is the infant daughter of Dot and the artist; she will grow up in America, and in Act II her grandson...
...where is Seurat (Mandy Patinkin)? Everywhere. Finishing a hat, making trees and boats appear with a wave of inspiration, forsaking his mistress and their child to remain faithful to the only dots that matter: those in his painting. "I am not hiding behind my canvas," he declares. "I am living in it." Only he could live there, where the emotional chaos of life can be made as ordered and harmonious as a green thought in a green shade...
...married, a prolific author of verve and renown. She was 19, single and unknown. When their affair ended ten years later, three people had been wounded beyond measure or retribution. But it was not for want of trying. In his day, H.G. Wells railed against his ungrateful mistress Rebecca West. She in turn portrayed herself as the suffering Other Woman, 15 forced to bring up their illegitimate son, Anthony West, on a restricted income. Now, at the age of 69, Anthony has weighed...
...Gurney's version, the precious papers are a lost chapter of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby manages to bed Daisy Buchanan. Irene Worth is Fitzgerald's former mistress who protects that cache, and Jeff Daniels is an English instructor who will do anything, including going to bed with Worth's homely granddaughter (Stockard Channing), to obtain...