It`s a strange new world we live in. When mothers sit daughters down for heart-to-heart talks, you just never know what`s going to come out. In the October Ladies Home Journal, Stefanie Powers says her mother told her, ”Why don`t you just find somebody that you could have a baby with?” Powers says:
”My mom did not mean for me to get married. She just meant for me to go out and find somebody I liked who was strong, healthy and a good specimen. Can`t you just see me walking up to some guy on the street and saying to him, `Excuse me, sir. Are you busy?` ” You think that`s what her mother had in mind?
In ”The Princess in the Mirror” (Chatto & Windus), author Suzanne Lowry explains how hard it is to play fair with those wild `n` wacky Windsors because you can`t quote them directly. She takes the word of one castle chronicler who says there is a ”Humpty-Dumpty logic of royal tours”: ”When Prince Charles shakes your hand, looks you straight in the eye and tells you something legal, decent, honest and even funny, you can`t report it. When you crouch behind a pillar eavesdropping . . . you can report it.”
Sara Davidson, who wrote a biography of Rock Hudson (”Rock Hudson: His Story,” William Morrow), says she was profoundly influenced by one of the actor`s movies, ”Pillow Talk”: ”I saw it as a morality play about a playboy and a virgin. And since that was the contest going on in my school–guys wanting to go to bed and girls wanting to get married–and since Doris Day stuck to her guns and got Rock, I thought what my mother was telling me was right. It took me two years at Berkeley to get over that. When I learned that men actually did marry women who weren`t virgins, I said, `Bye-bye, Rock and Doris.` ”
REPLAYS
”They are able who think they are able.” Virgil
”To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
”Half the people in America are faking it.” Robert Mitchum
