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Broadway lore has numerous burbly stories of brave understudies suddenly being called in to take over, at which point a famous agent or director notices them and sends them on to stardom. This inspiring scenario put the first spotlight on Shirley MacLaine, who won a Hollywood contract after subbing for Carol Haney in Pajama Game. But even the understudies find it difficult to believe that such things actually happen. "Those who think that being an understudy will lead to opportunities are wrong," says British Actor Daniel Gerroll, who covers for Edward Herrmann in Plenty. When a star leaves a play...
Jackie is aided in her pursuit of stardom by her enterprising 14-year-old cousin Angus, played by Ross O'Donovan, an impish devil with Charlie Chaplin looks and an impeccable comic sense. Never to be found without his copy of Sexual Symbolism, at one point he accuses his grandmother of penis envy; his devotion to his cousin hints at the charmingly incestuous. So much for youthful innocence...
...been ruled out, since one could not be chosen without offending others. McPherson, 53, who in the 1960s held posts in the Department of State and served as special counsel to President Johnson, was an obscure but credible figure. What does the Texas-born lawyer make of his stardom? Shrugged he: "A friend told me that older citizens need their own sex symbols...
...feathers, sway in gentle syncopation as they mouth the words to their new hit record. They have the rough, "found" beauty of stenos or inner-city cheerleaders, and they run through their number with artless urgency, as if they realize that this is their one fluky shot at stardom. They sing of the idealized male, who needs both adoration and protection: the angel baby, the rebel, the leader of the pack, the playboy, the soldier boy, the fine fine boy, the boy I'm gonna marry-he's sure the boy I love...
Remember Deep Throat, the shadowy Nixon Administration figure who gave Washington Post Reporter Bob Woodward explosive information about the Watergate scandals at hush-hush, dead-of-night meetings in D.C. garages? Ever since Deep Throat achieved stardom in the book and movie All the President's Men, his identity has been one of Washington's most popular guessing games. Now in a new book, Lost Honor (Harper & Row), to be published in mid-November, John Dean, the former White House counsel who provided the first public details of the Watergate coverup, claims to have solved the puzzle. Deep...