Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rounds with Jose Torres. It was rather--I whisper it--three rounds, and I was considerably tired at the end, although in no danger because Torres is a fine friend and took great care of me. In fact, I might have been in more trouble going two with my sister...
Married. Infanta Maria del Pilar, 30, eldest child of Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, exiled Pretender to the Spanish throne, and sister of Juan Carlos, to whom Franco may one day give the royal nod; and Luis Gómez-Acebo, 32, handsome grandson of a Spanish marquis; in a fittingly royal wedding to which her father invited "any Spaniard who happens to be in Portugal" (some 3,000 responded); in Lisbon...
...unhappy in its own way." Not so, says Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane, a British play about a family which at curtain's fall is happy, or at least content, in its own very peculiar way. The plot, as summed up in the play's advertising, is this: "Sister wants to sleep with Mr. Sloane; Brother wants to sleep with Mr. Sloane; Mr. Sloane kicks Dada to death." Hardly the kind of situation which makes for happiness, in the natural order of things. But black comedy is Nature spelled backwards, and in this black comedy, happiness is indulging Sister...
Today, befitting her new-found maturity, she stays close to her $70,000 Beverly Hills home, "enjoying my aloneness." Now 26 - or 41 years older than her stepmother, Mia Farrow-she often accompanies her sister Tina, 18, to the family haunts, most notably Hollywood's Villa Capri and Martoni restaurants, each of which has a "Sinatra family table." Two months ago, she formed her own independent film company, Boots Enterprises, and this fall plans to co-star in The Flower Children with Co-Producer Sal Mineo. She is also writing a book about her father. Title: A Very Gentle...
...business as usual in the hard-labor camp by the hearth. The setting is not the Anhwei of The Good Earth but a village in Pennsylvania. The young heroine drags from crisis to crisis: her mother's long slow death from cancer, brother's bastard child, sister's orphaned infants, her own hopelessly retarded baby. Men appear in the story only long enough to leave trouble at the door...