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...Army turned him down because of asthma and high blood pressure, but he arranged to join the British army and fought in Italy and Africa. He eventually got transferred to the American OSS and was stationed in England, where he courted his future wife Patricia ("Tish") Hankey. The OSS promptly parachuted him into occupied France to help the Resistance. After the war, he left a job with a New York City publishing house to join Joe in Washington...
Shortly before his death, Alsop was visited by TIME'S Art White, who reported: "His wife Tish sat near him, jumping up now and then to check that the antibiotic was flowing properly into Stew's arm. We talked about his book. Why did he write it? 'For money mostly. But if you're told you're going to die in a year and a half at the most, you want to leave something of yourself behind.' We talked about his brother Joe, who had given him some 40 transfusions of platelets...
...scripted by Timothy Leary. It unabashedly bills itself as a "social comedy of today's world." As the audience absorbs that modest claim, the film opens on Tad (Scott Glenn), mustachioed and lank-haired, wailing with a guitar in his dingy L.A. beach pad. His chick Tish (Barbara Hershey) is off to check out an uptight middle-class couple whose triplex in Brentwood is without child. Seems Mrs. Triplex has had a hysterectomy, and Tish is to audition for a possible rent-a-womb job with Mr. Triplex. There is heavy bread in the offing if she actually reproduces...
Stepmotherhood. Groom and Miss Hershey set an intelligent tone for the ensuing nine months with the initial love scene that aims neither for low laughs nor clinical cynicism. Instead, Tish and Jay treat each other with a conspiratorial tenderness that deepens throughout her pregnancy. Suzanne, meanwhile, keeps a reasonably tight check on her jealous impulses and awaits, with as much dignity as possible, the qualified glories of stepmotherhood...
...Baby Maker's saving grace is that Bridges never resorts to cheap, boudoir-farce gimcracks where fundamental relationships are concerned. Jay does not run off with Tish, nor is Tish transformed into a Supermother who demands the baby at birth. However outlandish the situation's premise, it proceeds and climaxes with such natural logic that the film becomes unconventional Hollywood. The trio's art oddly imitates life and elevates The Baby Maker from garish absurdity to touching humanity...