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...according to one friend. Liza became one of the theater gypsies, the singers and dancers who play in Broadway choruses and wait for the big break. Her morning would often start at night and her night in the morning, a reverse cycle that she still follows. For all her waif-like air, she drew on a vast reserve of energy, a fierce instinct to keep moving no matter what happened. "Liza's got a desperate thing," says Mia Farrow, another childhood friend. "She reaches just as far and as deep as she can. There's a lot of depth...
Tommy is more likable than he sounds. He is a Chaplinesque waif who collects other waifs: an English sheep dog named Arnold that seems to be on tranquilizers; an old ham actor who may or may not have toured with Eugene O'Neill's father in The Count of Monte Cristo; a grave-eyed, peach-complexioned girl (Kathleen Dabney) who is wrestling with a cello case full of shoplifted goodies when Tommy meets her in a Bloomingdale's ladies' room. The play is episodic, rather like an urban picaresque novel. Some of the encounters and adventures...
Kosinski, 37, has lived through-and now makes use of-some of the strongest direct experience that this century has had to offer. Like the six-year-old boy in The Painted Bird, he was separated from his Jewish parents during World War II and survived as a waif in the Polish countryside. Like Chance, he suffered a physical injury that left him mute for five years. After the war he was reunited with his parents and placed in a school for the handicapped...
...outing in honor of the day. Louise (Brenda Vaccaro) is an earthy exactress with a tongue like a wood file. Marian (Marian Seldes) is a gawky swan of a woman who can deliver lines with the edgily lethal politesse of a Boston blueblood. Estelle (Jennifer Salt) is the quintessential waif, an orphan who married an orphan. The three drink, and discuss sex in a way that shows they have nothing to learn from Dr. Reuben...
Died. Cid Ricketts Sumner, 80, Mississippi-born author of the endearing Tammy series of books about a Southern bayou waif, and mother-in-law of Author John H. Cutler (Cardinal Cushing of Boston, Honey Fitz) whose 16-year-old son was arraigned in juvenile court as a suspect in her bludgeon murder; at her Duxbury, Mass., home...