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...19th century penny press and perfected in the frothy wake of the swinging '60s, now dominates British newsstands. The leading exponents of the "tits and bums" genre, as it is known on Fleet Street, are Publisher Rupert Murdoch's Sun (circ. 4 million) and the Daily Mirror (circ. 3.9 million). Each is fondled by twice as many customers a day as all four of Britain's major quality dailies combined. Total circulation for the Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times and Guardian is 2.1 million...
Nevertheless, some biographical data emerges. Father: writer and critic Gilbert Seldes '19. Knew she would be an actress from the age of six, staring at nightgowned reflection in mirror. Declined admission into Radcliffe College to study acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in late '40s. First role: an off-stage scream in a summer production at the then-legit Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, Mass. Began teaching drama at the Juilliard School, 1968. Has performed in film, on television, on radio (CBS Mystery Theatre), but mostly on Broadway. Currently stars in Ira Levin's Deathtrap. Has no idea what her next...
...conviction of a child who knows that Santa will come for Christmas. Her anticipation is boundless when she begins to read a new script--"even the mimeographed sheets smell good." The dark eyes dance; one suddenly sees the little six-year-old who danced in her nightgown before that mirror...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙American Caesar, William Manchester ∙In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙ Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ∙ Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The Gulag Archipelago III. Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen...
...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...