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Lauren Hutton plays Michelle Stafford, the horny wife of a U.S. Senator who drools over Julian, wants him so bad she shakes in his presence. She follows in the grand tradition of Ali MacGraw in Players, a beautiful older woman who can't read a line without revealing her flawed front teeth or her flawed acting. To be fair, no one in American Gigolo has a decent role because Schrader's script fails so miserably ("You could have forgotten me," whines Julian. "I'd rather die," whispers Michelle...
...Burke, California Congresswoman, lost a race for state attorney general; Andrew Pickens Miller, Virginia's attorney general, lost a race for Senator. Vermont Governor Thomas Salmon, who ably fought the land developers in his small state ("Vermont is not for sale"), lost a Senate race to Republican Robert Stafford and is now a lawyer in Bellows Falls (pop. 5,263) and a lobbyist in the state legislature. Wendell Anderson made the mistake of resigning his Minnesota governorship so that his successor could appoint him to a U.S. Senate seat. At the next election the voters disappointed him. Connecticut Senator...
Joey does get erased at the end of the show, as Vera dumps him and sweet, sincere Linda (convincingly played by Linda Stafford) can only feel sorry for him. Joey is forced to leave town, in part because of blackmailing gangster Ludlow Lowell (Joe Shrand). Shrand, by the way, stands out as one of the snappiest characters in the show, in his brown pinstripes and white tie. His use of "dems" and "dose" would have made Damon Runyon proud...
DIED. Jean Stafford, 63, caustic lady of letters whose tautly structured short stories won a 1970 Pulitzer Prize; of a heart attack; in White Plains, N.Y. Acclaimed for her first novel, Boston Adventure, at age 29, Stafford went on to publish two more novels, numerous short stories and many nonfiction works. The widow of Press Critic A.J. Liebling and a sharp wit in conversation and prose, Stafford said: "I write for myself and God and a few close friends...
Elise Paschen is delightfully unfaithful as Celimene, Alceste's amour. When she matches couched insults with the prudish Arsinoe, admirably portrayed by Felicity Stafford, The Misanthrope is both funny and a serious commentary on the double-edged talk of an insincere society...