Word: orbach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...structure, they are discovering, much to their dismay, that they are not always sisters under the skin after all. In fact, many of them are acting suspiciously like . . . well . . . men. "Now women are encouraged to be as aggressive as men on the job," write Psychotherapists Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach, co- authors of the just published book Between Women: Love, Envy, and Competition in Women's Friendships (Viking...
Still, friendships between women -- what Simone de Beauvoir called that "warm and frivolous intimacy" -- are too often the casualties of success these days. Eichenbaum, 35, and Orbach, 41, are concerned that "in the world of every-woman-for-herself, the old support systems can be tragically undermined." That sometimes happens when women win promotions and find themselves supervising women who were once close friends. "I tend not to have relationships with women I supervise," says Kathy Schrier, 40, a union administrator in Manhattan. "Some women can't make that break, though, and it hurts them as managers...
...crime dramas this season have the smell of used goods. Among veteran performers starring in new series are William Conrad as a wily district attorney in Jake and the Fatman, Paul Sorvino as a police- department p.r. man who returns to the streets in The Oldest Rookie, Jerry Orbach as a private eye in The Law and Harry McGraw, and Dale Robertson as a crime-solving Texas billionaire in J.J. Starbuck. Only Robertson seems to be truly enjoying the work. NBC's Private Eye, created by Anthony Yerkovich (Miami Vice), is hipper but not much better. Star Michael Woods...
...cast, who knew that their director was ailing and hospitalized, had little idea of the severity of his sickness. The news that Champion was dead poleaxed them. Wanda Richert wept in Merrick's arms, and, after a moment of stunned silence. Jerry Orbach called backstage to the house manager, "Bring it in, bring...
...Orbach was talking about the curtain. For anyone unfamiliar with theater idiom, however, other nightmarish alternatives presented themselves. The moment was that terrible, that ghoulish and-it must be said-that calculated. Merrick's decision to reveal the director's death as a grotesque curtain speech resulted in the kind of attention and publicity that a more private notice-say, after the final curtain to cast, crew and friends, or at the scheduled opening-night party-would never have attracted...