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...family (she and her husband, a physician, have two small children), modern dance and reform politics. The oppressive political machine run by Mayor Frank L. Rizzo switched its support to Jackson after Governor Milton J. Shapp dropped out. Now such Udall backers as Hurtig and her running mate, Pamela Reid, 30, a college psychology teacher, are not even permitted to speak at ward meetings...
This proves to be no easy matter. For one thing, Rupert is constantly attended by a delectable nurse, Miss Deaton (Pamela Lewis), to whose charms he seems immune but to whose weird logic he succumbs. No suicide till the plumber comes to fix the hot water, she tells him. But he doesn't intend to scald himself to death, he argues. Non sequitur follows non sequitur. A trio of international jewel thieves arrives, but they also do quick-change sequences as Indian priests, complete with cobra and waxwork replicas of Captain Blood, Buffalo Bill and Marie Antoinette...
Cynthia Karslake (Pamela Lewis) and Vida Phillimore (Barbara Reid) are the gay divorcees. Cynthia has become engaged to the ex-Mr. Phillimore (Kelly Fitzpatrick), and Vida is on the prowl for the ex-Mr. Karslake (Steven Ryan). What ensues is a flirtatious game of verbal Ping Pong and musical beds. The Asolo company is at its stylish best in The New York Idea, but perhaps an extra bow should go to Pamela Lewis as a sportive Cressida of the drawing room and the racing paddock...
Your speculation that the soaps might be regarded as heirs to the 18th century picaresque romantic novel or to Defoe's Moll Flanders defies belief. Samuel Richardson-author of Pamela and Clarissa-has an ironclad patent on the myths and psychological devices of today's soaps...
...Pamela Payton-Wright's Laura is hauntingly evocative, a vision of a doe at bay. An actress who has done varied parts in the past several years, she is a pointilliste who composes every dot in a role into a harmonic whole. When she releases the driving passion she seems to possess, she may become an actress of immense power...