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Frequently a bone-crushing, ego-bruising boss and companion, the late President Lyndon Johnson was at his most magnetic and charming with women. Over the years, followers of the Johnson career noted how he enjoyed flirting with, among others, the irrepressible Barbara Howar, Actress Merle Oberon, and White House Journalist Marianne Means. Questioned on the Today Show last week by Barbara Walters, his widow Lady Bird, 61, did not deny Lyndon had been a ladies' man. "Lyndon was a people lover," she said, "and that did not exclude half the people in the world -women. Oh, I think perhaps...
...identical beginnings: a car driven by an unmarried, middle-aged woman has broken down in a far-off romantic land. In both films, a man stops to help. In both, the woman soon falls in love with a much younger man. 40 Carats stars Liv Ullmann, Interval stars Merle Oberon. 40 Carats stars Greece, Interval stars Yucatan, but both follow the same road. Both women lead active, independent lives, and Oberon has a satisfying Francis-of-Assissi kinship with nature -- though the men who try to win her can't understand how this could make her happy. Both women...
INTERVAL is a kind of vanity production produced by and starring Merle Oberon, 62. She has had finer moments (Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Pimpernel). Miss Oberon is always being consulted on such questions as "How do you feel about love?" "Have you ever made love without love?" - and is in turn forever dispensing bits of Mary Worth wisdom like "We're all caught in the same interval between being born and dying." A feckless young artist (Robert Wolders) is unaccountably smitten by her, and they begin one of those romances that require them to wander around...
...Intermission did arrive and after it the Weber Overture to Oberon, a bit of mindless romanticism that was just good fun. Compared to Oberon, Ravel's Sheherazade was romanticism run amok. The Weber was a perfect companion piece to the concert's opener, Shivaree by this year's occupant of the Norton Poetry Chair, Leonard Bernstein. Sporting a brass choir that practically made the Sanders Theater stage sag with the weight, the massed percussion and brass charged through a work that begs to be labeled distilled West Side Story. Bernstein's music is accessible without sacrificing musical integrity, a combination...
...calling your attention to the item in the People section [Feb. 28], concerning a dinner invitation that my wife [Merle Oberon] and I supposedly extended to President and Mrs. Johnson...