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...recent afternoon in Manhattan, the Elite modeling agency gathered a group of journalists for a panel discussion on the psychology of modeling. Present were four models, the agency's maternal-seeming president and two psychotherapists who work with the professionally beautiful to help them overcome their unique problems. Exceedingly attractive women, the audience learned, lead complicated emotional lives. Many fret that the world will never look beyond the height of their cheekbones; they are worried that they will never be perceived as intelligent. "I was ashamed to become a model," admitted Jenny, a waifish Brit. "My parents are physicists...
...Manhattan dinner party three weeks ago, Barry Diller was constantly asked what he was going to do next. The flinty mogul, whose QVC cable network had lost an expensive bid to buy Paramount Communications, would say only, "I'm onto something." Late in the evening, he stood at the door chatting with Don Hewitt, executive producer of CBS's 60 Minutes, and Hewitt's wife, TV newswoman Marilyn Berger. "Barry," Berger said nonchalantly, "you really should come around the show more often." Diller, twinkling and almost winking, replied, "Oh, I'll be around...
Sitting in a midtown Manhattan restaurant, long past lunchtime, Horne looks $ exquisitely beautiful under a big straw hat, without a line to mar her fine- boned face. She speaks of the album's inspiration in a voice whose honeyed drawl seems to have all the Old South in it. "I met Billy Strayhorn in 1942," she says, "in Los Angeles at an Ellington show called Jump for Joy. I was MGM's token black starlet, getting no parts, and a divorced mother of two. Billy was homosexual, but I fell in love. He was the thoughtful side of Ellington...
Kindertransport by Diane Samuels; Directed by Abigail Morris; Manhattan Theater Club, New York City...
Sixteen hours of anger, sorrow and laughter filled eight microcassettes, each smaller than a bar of motel soap. Humphreys transcribed them, suggested a . few cuts and additions, and sent nearly 300 pages north to Manhattan, where her agent, Harriet Wasserman, read the manuscript in a few hours and sold it in a matter of days. "What language! What imagery!" says Wasserman, who certainly should know. She also represents Saul Bellow...