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...Night on Broadway, and it was indeed that. Scores of celebrities, including TV Star Robin Williams, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Falsetto Tiny Tim and Actresses Claudette Colbert, Phyllis Newman, Lauren Bacall and Brooke Shields were on hand for a $24-a-seat variety show at the Shubert theater. Maureen Stapleton sang Gilbert and Sullivan's "The policeman's lot is not a happy one." Angela Lansbury borrowed a song from the musical Sweeney Todd, singing for the cops, No One Will Harm You. Those who paid $96-the price of one bulletproof vest-also got a ticket...
Ruth Carter Stapleton, on whether she will help Brother Jimmy's 1980 campaign: "I guess so, because we have a real close family. We weren't so close until Jimmy went into politics. Now Jimmy needs us every year for something...
...operatives until they renounce their new faith. Warning that "there is a conspiracy to turn [the U.S.] into a totalitarian state," he stated that he has personally deprogrammed 1,600 people, ranging in age from 13 to 81. In a forthcoming Playboy interview, Patrick includes First Sister Ruth Carter Stapleton, a neoPentecostal "memory healer," on his list of cult leaders who bear watching. Another witness, Author Flo Conway, stated that deprogramming should be "recognized as a new and valuable form of mental health therapy...
...than his brother Jimmy ("a lot of substance to Billy"). Indeed, not since the Kennedys have we had a President who has so involved his family in official duties, sending wife, sons, daughter, mother, sister, cousin off to represent him. Some of Billy's earlier rednecking. Sister Ruth Stapleton's evangelizing, and commercial grabs by others have caused mild to middle embarrassment. Billy may now be a real issue...
...almost too beautiful, as if constructed by someone just as neurotic as Page's interior decorator. The interiors are spare, still and natural, an appropriate setting for this family. But Allen forces the issue, almost to the point of being a farce: when the father's new girlfriend (Maureen Stapleton) crashes in on the scene in flaming red and glitter, the contrast becomes too obvious, almost ludicrous. The ocean rumbles too loud and too often, even if the isolation of the beaches is such an appropriate setting. And in the last shots--after the mother is dead and buried...