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...awkward, overgrown country boy" in the late 1920s. Charlie Chaplin was stubborn, arbitrary, and once bet $100 that "talkies" would never last in Hollywood. Both were part of the galaxy that surrounded Actress Marion Davies during her 32-year reign as mistress to Newspaper Tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Davies' recollections, which were tape-recorded in 1951 but locked up until her death a decade later at 64, were only recently rediscovered and published as a memoir entitled The Times We Had. Hearst, who was 58 when he discovered Marion as a chorus girl of 16, was "the kindest, most...
...beginning was an obscure soft-core paperback original to which no one paid special heed. Then came the Patty Hearst kidnaping, and someone noticed that cheap fiction seemed to predict this sensational crime in detail, even including the plot twist that had the victim eventually embrace the captors' ideology. Parallels continue to turn up: recent reports indicate that Hearst surrendered to revolutionary sexuality even before succumbing to revolutionary politics-just as Abduction s heroine...
...hard-core sex was obviously the hard core of the film's structure. Cut the crud and all you have left is a lot of tedious - not to say infantile - intellectual foreplay. Abduction cannot be taken seriously enough to laugh at, and natural curiosity about links with the Hearst case should be sternly stifled...
...longtime friend of the family, I want to correct your statement about Miss Catherine Hearst, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Hearst. She is a wonderfully good and gentle person. She is not-as charged by TIME-retarded...
...graduate of Marymount College in Los Angeles with a business major, Miss Hearst presently holds a responsible position. She is well informed and well read, and is especially interested in politics and the press. She feels there is a crying need for a greater sense of responsibility in both areas...