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...respectful, exulting: "Grandpa's spirit's in my marrow." But she prefers people to realize that it is Margaux, not Ernest, who is the big name today. She is even getting over her fear of competition. When Joan came to New York recently to promote the movie Rosebud, for which she had helped write the original novel, Margaux talked up Muffet's forthcoming cookbook, Picnic Gourmet, to the press...
...ROSEBUD...
Just before young Margaret goes aboard to begin a Mediterranean cruise, her mother comments that Rosebud is an odd name for a yacht. Yes, the girl replies, it has something to do with some film. It has something to do with Citizen Kane, of course. After Margaret's annunciation of such cultural obliviousness, it is difficult to work up too much alarm when she and her four equally dim-witted friends are kidnaped by Arab terrorists who start trading their lives, one by one, for compliance with ever-increasing demands...
...classic Peanuts, Lucy tells Linus about Rosebud as he starts to watch Citizen Kane. Any true whodunit can be ruined that way--it's a foolproof test. The most facile of the genre proceed according to a formula, and if you're good enough--as my mother is with Perry Massons--you can guess the victim, and then, the murderer, nine times...
...Errol Wetson, 33, who is "the best." She adds: "I guess it's inevitable that I will get into movies." Perhaps a western, in which "everyone will be women-even the Indians." Margaux's elder sister Joan, 24, is more traditional. Co-author of the 1974 thriller Rosebud, a trendy caper of international kidnaping that has already been made into a movie, she is now working on a gourmet picnic cookbook. But Margaux's fame may soon surpass Joan's. "I'm into singing now," says Margaux. What kind? A nightclub repertory of "rich, happy...