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...that she not only took down everything Welles said, but argues his cause in all his old battles. Most of the star's botched or abandoned projects turn out to be someone else's fault or at worst a series of misunderstandings. Even the breakup of his marriage to Rita Hayworth is blamed on her insecurity. Throughout, Welles remains an unappreciated genius, large of heart and kind to small animals...
...This role was played for a time by Director Peter Bogdanovich, who was also collaborating on a book, titled This Is Orson Welles, until Welles canceled the book. It is all a bit like that marvelous scene at the end of The Lady from Shanghai, in which Welles had Rita Hayworth and Everett Sloane firing away at each other's reflections in a fun-house hall of mirrors...
...Sister Rita Hofbauer of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in Silver Spring, Md., said that Malone's statement was "stronger than a lot we've been hearing," but doubted the role of women in the church would be a serious concern at the synod, since it is not a significant issue outside the West. Malone's document complained about poor communication between Rome and religious orders. It did not refer specifically, however, to the unsettled dispute between the Vatican and 24 U.S. sisters who last year signed a pro- choice newspaper advertisement on abortion. The Vatican has threatened...
...other cities, individuals, many of them wounded by violence, have tried to make a difference. Rita Smith is a Harlem legend. Her son David was shot in 1979, an act that moved her to mobilize her neighborhood to protest the violence that was undoing it. She and her neighbors lobbied for increased police protection of their area, set up neighborhood-watch groups and a special crime hot line...
...Prevention of Cruelty to Children)." Suspicious of the ad, the Times checked and found that no such deaths had been reported in Penzance and that Princess Margaret of Hesse, 72, who happened to be visiting Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral, was actually childless. Scotland Yard traced the ad to Rita Coleman, a local magistrate, who said a mysterious "Countess Maggie," whom she had never met, had contacted her at a charity she worked with and asked her to place the death notice of her three children...