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...poetry, but the movie beneath it has the solid ring of truth. The good wishes of summer may be summarized as a desire to feel, and express more intensely, love in its several varieties. The bad dreams of winter are the products of life's thoughtless intrusions on Rita Waiden (Joanne Woodward...
...RITA ATKINS...
...Fort Peck, Mont., in 1936, where WPA workers are whooping it up at a local saloon -to a recent moment when Dick Cavett made fun of TV talk shows by interviewing Louis, his own poodle. The book embraces one Depression, five wars, five Presidents, and that picture of Rita Hayworth in a black-bodiced, white satin nightgown. Fiorello La Guardia appears, blowing smoke rings with bemused insouciance. So does Nikita Khrushchev, shaking his fist in the face of the U.N., and a dowager named Betty Henderson, hoisting a varicose-veined calf onto a table to celebrate the opening...
Married. Kris Kristofferson, 36, country music composer (Me & Bobby McGee, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down), singer, movie actor (Cisco Pike, Blume in Love) and former Rhodes scholar; and Rita Coolidge, 28, smoky-voiced blues singer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Malibu, Calif...
Scene: Hyannis Port, early spring, 1968, a few months before Bobby Kennedy's assassination. Bobby was leading in the presidential polls. Jacqueline Kennedy was "more excited than I had seen her for years," Joseph Kennedy's nurse, Rita Dallas, writes in her new book The Kennedy Case. "Won't it be wonderful when we get back in the White House...