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...spectators start lining up a few minutes before dawn outside the Newport, R.I., Superior Court. Only about 80 can hope to get seats for the proceedings, which begin three hours later, but the whole nation is being offered nightly peeks inside the paneled courtroom. Television cameras are recording the trial, and excerpts have been shown on network news programs. Viewers have not been disappointed: in its opening weeks, "the case of the sleeping beauty" has lived up to its billing as an Agatha Christie drama in real life...
...high-society saga with all the elements of mystery: a beautiful woman in a coma, an aristocratic second husband, suspicious stepchildren and a fabulous fortune. This is no storybook yarn but a true-life tale that has scandalized the gentry. The final chapter began to unfold last week in Newport, R.I., where jury selection was nearly completed in the trial of Claus von Bülow, 55. He is accused of attempting to murder his heiress wife Martha with injections of insulin, precipitating the coma in which she has languished for more than a year. She is not expected...
...much of their life revolved around Clarendon Court, the ten-acre estate on Newport's Millionaires' Row that they acquired in 1970. The 20-room mansion was somewhat small by Newport standards, and the Von Billows were not birthright members of the "summer colony," but it was not long before they were pillars of local society. They entertained on a lavish scale. Says one frequent guest: "You go to John Doe's house for an informal visit and expect a gin and tonic. At Sunny's house, you got imported champagne." The party celebrating Alexander...
...rakehell father (Rod Taylor) roars home from an all-night frolic, and his haughty wife (Claudette Nevins) confronts him in full dominatrix regalia: breeches, riding crop and withering stare. If only the film had been subjected to some of the same discipline. The camera glides discreetly through Newport drawing rooms and Georgetown dining rooms-always the visitor on a guided tour, never the Knowledgeable Source with some dirt to dish. Jaclyn Smith is a stunner and a competent actress; as J.F.K., James Franciscus brings crinkled eyes and a Boston accent that he engages seemingly at whim. But the movie never...
...strange ache, as if to extract some meaning from it that has been irrecoverably lost. In 1902 the genteel architect-writer Joy Wheeler Dowd wrote sweetly: "Every man or woman hopes one day to realize his or her particular dream of home." It did not have to be a Newport "cottage" or the Baths of Diocletian. It was a small internal grandeur that counted, the sense of refuge and privacy, the Marxist s "bourgeois individualism" tricked out with antimacassars and, in the fullness of time, an island in the kitchen. Americans may have overdone some of that a little...