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Linda, the daughter of a vaudevillian who billed herself "Vera Love, Specialty Dancer" ("I'd be scared to ask her what 'specialty dancer' meant; it may have been something risque," Linda says), had grown up outside Glasgow and had never had a singing lesson or any overriding interest in the musical life. "I'm one of those idiots who will do what the man I'm involved with does," she says. "If Richard had been a bricklayer, I would have been a fantastic bricklayer." No question, she is a fantastic singer. Not trained, not technical...
...Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Middle-aged and pronounced cured, Norman has returned to town and wants to revamp his sagging hostelry. Directed by Richard Franklin, 34, who worked with Hitchcock as a student, Psycho II picks up the few surviving characters from the master's original. Vera Miles, 51, returns as Leigh's sister, "and Mom is definitely six feet under - in the beginning," says Perkins, ominously adhering to a studio order not to reveal the plot before the movie comes out next year. As for Norman, "In the old story he saw himself as a victim...
Long considered unstageworthy, they are now turning up in the theater as well. La Vera Costanza (True Constancy) was given its American premiere in 1967 in Cleveland; L'incontro Improvviso (The Unforeseen Encounter), an "abduction" opera set in Cairo, was performed in concert version by Pierre Boulez and the New York Philharmonic in 1973. Armida, an opera seria set during the Crusades, was produced in New Hampshire last summer with the action updated to the Viet Nam War. Just a fortnight ago another major work, Orlando Paladino, was staged in Philadelphia...
...Vera Laska Weston, Mass...
...sister in Salt Lake City, but he turned up instead in El Paso, Texas, then in Mexico City. By now the hunter was only one day behind the hunted. But then Majeski lost the trail and did not pick it up for another week, when Abbott was sighted in Vera Cruz...