Word: patty
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Accordingly, Patti Davis, middle-aged rebel daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, has come to Manhattan's Doral Inn hotel to conduct a one-night-only seminar called Recovering from Dysfunctional Families. The class, which costs $39 to attend, is offered by the Learning Annex, a New York City adult- education center that provides urbanites with such courses as Start Your Own Cheese Business or Mini Goat Farm and Design Your Own Jewelry: Bead Stringing. Among the 70 seminar participants seated in the hotel's ballroom -- a drab hall in which one suspects no ball has ever been held...
...Desmond skulked around her overdecorated mansion like a female Phantom of the Opera, remote and unreachable. In Los Angeles, even as she rages like a deranged diva, she shows endearing glints of awareness of her own tawdry emotional blackmail. A single image encapsulates the difference. When London's Norma, Patti LuPone, got her seedy protege back, by a suicide attempt, she collapsed into his arms in maudlin gratitude. The Los Angeles incarnation, Glenn Close, ends the act by lifting her bandaged arms above his embracing form, her fingers curving like talons to take him in. The former evoked weakness...
Last week Herbert Hoover's son Allan died, Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis, 41, announced her engagement to a 27-year-old laborer, and George Bush's eldest son George W., 47, declared his candidacy for the Texas governorship. Here's what other children of recent Presidents...
...PATTI DAVIS VS. THE REAGANS: Meanwhile, on the Reagan home front, alliances have shifted as well. Patti, having called Mom a pill-popping child abuser and Dad cruelly distant, now tells Variety that they all get on just fine...
Even so, Lloyd Webber's creation is probably better than the ponderous London performance. Director Trevor Nunn excels at narrative clarity, which is present in the original, but not at nuancing characters, which is sorely needed with such miscast stars. As Norma, renowned for delicate beauty, Patti LuPone is too tempestuous, too earthy and too coarse of feature, especially her aardvark nose. As her lover, Kevin Anderson looks pudding-faced and pudgy, so long gone to seed that the supposedly vast age difference disappears -- until the finale, when LuPone inexplicably appears 20 years older than she was moments before. While...