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What propelled her? As much as anything, she thought, a tough childhood. Like so many female movie stars, she was the product of a broken home. She made it through high school by serving as a slavey in a private school, enduring broom-handle beatings from the headmaster's wife. Dancing was her escape - first emotionally, then literally, when she became a Shubert chorus girl...
...PRESIDENCY Memories of Uncle Lyndon Working from a lode of salvaged notes and firsthand memoranda, Evelyn Lincoln assembled a 1965 memoir, My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, that gave readers a faithful slavey's-eye view of the boss she loved and served as personal secretary. Her second installment, Kennedy & Johnson, about to be published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, wastes little love on J.F.K.'s succes sor. Her book's opening description of L.B.J., in Florida at their first meeting after the 1960 election, speaks of him as "Heavy. Heavy footsteps. Heavy body. Heavy, slow-moving...
...APPLE TREE spoofs Adam and Eve and other celebrated romances, including the requited love of a slavey for Hollywood stardom. Despite the saucily mocking presence of Barbara Harris, the evening consists of flabby satire, cartoon comedy and plop...
Plop No. 3 feebly splashes a slavey with the sequins of movie stardom in some hollow mockery of the fame-and-success myth. Cinderella should...
...pretends to be a cockney slavey only to get this beguiling if hokey mystery-comedy off to a start. As Mrs. Carlye Hardwicke, an American, she owns the stately London town house, though she seems to have mislaid Mr. Hardwicke. Jack Lemmon, her tenant, is a U.S. State Department official named Bill Gridley, up from the sand lots of Saudi Arabia to the diplomatic big league of the American embassy in London. The neighbors, and Scotland Yard, have their own ideas about Mr. Hardwicke. "She killed him,"say they...