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More accurately, it seemed like a scene from Annie, with the failing British Steel Corporation as the orphan child, and the part of Oliver Warbucks played by Ian MacGregor, general partner of Manhattan's Lazard Freres & Co. MacGregor, 67, was hired after nearly a year's search by the British government, which owns British Steel, turned up no one in England to run the moribund firm. Forty names were considered, and two British executives turned down...
Characters here are, as an airport sign reads, "Passengers in Transit," moving through emotions alone, along intersecting orbits in mechanical mystery. When staid government official Christian Thrale meets orphan Grace Bell at the symphony, two strangers' historical curves come together and fall into relation...
...idea in Simon: five brilliant but loony scientists at the "Institute for Advanced Concepts" decide that the American public is ready to meet a full-fledged alien in its already alienated society. They search for a middle-aged male orphan whose memory they plan to deprogram, and then convince him that his mother was a spaceship who dropped him on earth from an advanced civilization where humans are made the way we make toasters. One Simon Mendelssohn becomes their victim, an untenured professor of psychology who is slightly off the deep end already...
Premise No. 2: An overly ambitious assistant professor of psychology (Alan Arkin) is afflicted with intellectual pretentiousness and a messianic complex. He is also an orphan, which means that it might be possible to convince him and everyone else that he was produced "like a toaster" on some other planet and brought to earth in a spaceship. The mad scientists put the hero in a water tank for days to take him back beyond the womb. They induce false but highly persuasive memories of his origins and, incidentally, provide Arkin with a tour de force mime sequence in which...
...different realm from The Saga of Jenny of Lady in the Dark with lyrics by Ira Gershwin ("Jenny made her mind up when she was three/ She, herself, was going to trim the Christmas tree./ Christmas Eve she lit the candles -tossed the taper away./ Little Jenny was an orphan on Christmas...