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RECOVERING. Ahn Ji Sook, 7, and Lee Kil Woo, 4, the South Korean children brought to the U.S. by President and Mrs. Reagan after their November Far East tour; from surgery to repair heart defects; in Roslyn, N.Y. The two were moved out of intensive care last week and should be healthy enough to return home before Christmas...
...Nancy thought one expression of America's friendship would be to help our two little Korean friends, Kil Woo Lee and Jt Sook Ahn, come over to the States," the president said...
Thanksgiving Visitor, set in backwoods Alabama, elaborates on Capote's glowing relationship with his only boyhood friend, an old spinster cousin named Miss Sook. She had no education and had never traveled beyond the county borders. She was "a poet of a kind but deeply suppressed. She might have been an Emily Dickinson in another culture." In the simple TV tale, she coddles young "Buddy" (as Capote is called) and tries to shield him from his dour and insensitive relatives in the parentless household. The casting, supervised by the author, is impeccable. Geraldine Page, who won an Emmy award...
...when Thanksgiving Visitor was being shot last December in Alabama, he was on hand. Joining him for a "beautiful" reunion were a dozen of his relatives. Miss Sook died in 1938, but two other members of the household were there. They had seen Christmas Memory on TV, and it was not what they had expected. But neither was Truman. The shy, companionless and seemingly unpromising boy whom they remembered was now, at 44, dressed in a Cardin cape-and-cap ensemble, and with him, in a pony-skin suit, was Princess Lee Radziwill...
Flower Drum Song (Universal-International), a $4,000,000, 133-minute film version of the Broadway musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, offers the U.S. moviegoer roughly the same sensation he would get if he sat down with a single pair of chopsticks before a tun of Sook Muy Dahn Faah Tong...