Word: wife
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand-held camera intrudes rudely into a Brooklyn bedroom. There, a pregnant young wife is but a few days away from the birth of her first child; she giggles as her husband presses a parfait glass to her abdomen in hopes of hearing his baby. The wife is Debbie North, a commercial artist and the sole support of her husband Bruce, a painter of unbought paintings. The people are real, and so is the rest of the cinéma-vérité film that follows their practice sessions at a natural-birth clinic and their visits...
...panic. Hijackers, although unwelcome, can be congenial. One of the three men who took over Pan American's San Juan-bound Flight 281 in November, identified only as Jose, passed out .32-cal. bullets as souvenirs and chatted amicably with passengers-including Joseph Hunoval and his wife, a honeymoon couple from New Jersey. "He said he was very sorry to inconvenience us," reported Mrs. Hunoval. "Cubans really are very friendly people...
...second of Playwright Eugene O'Neill's three wives; of an intestinal obstruction; in Point Pleasant, N.J. Her marriage to the iconoclastic author lasted eleven years before ending in divorce because, as she wrote in her memoir, Part of a Long Story, O'Neill wanted a "wife, mistress, mother and valet." Their life was like a battle scene played in a refrigerator: she cared little for the theater and enjoyed parties; he was a recluse whose only outlets were quiet drinking and dramatic writing...
Birds in Peru is about as self-indulgent as a movie can get. French Novelist Remain Gary wrote the script and directed the film, with his actress wife Jean Seberg-they are now separated-in the lead. This was his first effort at moviemaking, and it was a terrible mistake. In Birds in Peru, he seems to be sketching out a private fantasy, like the breakfast-table bore who insists on recounting his dreams...
...Dublin, is with a poor working-class girl named Breda. For that, he and Beefy are both booted from college. An engagement to wealthy Miss Fitzdare ends in a tragic riding accident. And, trapped into an ugly, upper-class London marriage, he is further betrayed by his scheming wife. Always Balthazar is seduced and somehow left abandoned. Always he retreats a little further into the elegant prison of his refined sensibilities...