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Middle-aged actress June Buckridge (Reid) plays "Sister George", a lovable motor scooter-riding health care provider and local sage, on the long-running BBC Television soap opera, Applehurst. She has been with the show for years and is so identified with her character that she is nicknamed "George". In reality, June is outspoken, ribald, cigar-smoking and frequently inebriated, unlike her kindly on-screen persona. Although June has been popular with viewers in the past, several Applehurst characters have recently been killed off, causing June to worry that "Sister George" may be next. Her worry affects her already volatile relationship with her live-in lover, a younger, beautiful woman named Alice (York), whom June calls "Childie". Childlike Alice plays with dolls, writes poetry, and has a minor fashion industry job, but relies on June for most of her financial and emotional support. Domineering June is alternately affectionate and abusive towards Alice, and reacts jealously when Alice spends time with other men or women. Alice rebels by talking back to June and refusing to play along with a "contrition" game in which June makes her kneel and eat a cigar butt.

After an Applehurst colleague snarkily jokes about "Sister George" possibly dying on the show, June walks out on a script reading, gets drunk, and forces herself into a taxi alongside two young Catholic nuns, whom she sexually assaults, resulting in the taxi having an accident in a busy intersection. The nuns' Mother Superior and the Archbishop complain to the BBC, causing powerful network producer Mrs. Croft (Coral Browne) to visit June at home and lecture her about her behavior and her attitude at work. When June balks at apologizing for the incident, Mrs. Croft makes clear that her future at the network depends on her apologizing and changing her ways. Mrs. Croft further infuriates June by taking an interest in Alice, complimenting her cooking and encouraging her poetic aspirations. At the net script reading, June finds that her character has been temporarily written out of the script with an illness, seemingly as punishment for June, and raising the possibility that "Sister George" will not recover.

June's spirits improve when she receives the next script, showing that "Sister George" has recovered and returned to riding her motor scooter. She and Alice go to a party at a local lesbian bar, to which she jokingly invites Mrs. Croft. Halfway through the party, when June is already annoyed by Alice dancing with another woman, Mrs. Croft arrives to tell June in person that "Sister George" will be killed off by being hit by a delivery truck. When June storms off, Mrs. Croft invites Alice to meet with her privately to further discuss Alice's poetry. On June's last day of filming for Applehurst, Alice lies and says she cannot meet June for lunch because she is busy at work, when in reality she is meeting with Mrs. Croft. The upset June tries to sabotage her fellow actors' performances and drag out the filming as long as possible; she then visits Alice's work and discovers Alice's lie. June later makes a scene at her closing cast party, insulting the senior executive, pouring drinks over a rival actor, and finally exploding in front of the guests when Mrs. Croft offers her a new role as the voice of a talking cow on a children's cartoon show. She confronts Mrs. Croft and Alice, who leave the party together and return to Alice and June's apartment. Mrs. Croft persuades Alice to come and live with her in order to avoid June's wrath, and offers to help Alice to further her writing ambitions. Alice and Mrs. Croft end up having sex in the apartment, and June catches them in the act, leading to a final confrontation in which June reveals that Alice is actually 32 years old and the mother of a teenage daughter whom she abandoned. Alice leaves with Mrs. Croft, dropping her key in the mail slot to show she will not return. Left alone, June wanders on the deserted Applehurst set, destroying equipment and props and uttering "Mooo".


By 1974, the book was called "something of a standard reference" on drugs and the possible consequences of drug use by young people.[1]



Volume I[edit]

In the early 1860s, the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, live with their mother, whom they call Marmee, in a New England town (never named). Meg is the beautiful sister; Jo is the tomboy and writer; Beth is the musician; and Amy is the charming artist, with blond curls. Formerly well off, the family has been living in genteel poverty since the father lost his money. The elder sisters, Meg and Jo, both work outside the home to help support the family, although they are only in their mid-teens. Meg is governess of the children of a rich family, while Jo serves as companion to her Aunt March, a wealthy, cranky widow whose strength is failing. Beth stays home and helps with housework, and the youngest sister, Amy, attends school. Each sister faces her own particular challenge in growing up. Meg is envious of the nice clothes and other luxuries possessed by her wealthy friends and neighbors; Jo is outspoken, impulsive, quick to anger and sometimes ill-mannered; Beth is painfully shy; and Amy is vain, self-centered and prone to showing off.

As the story begins, the girls are facing Christmas without their father, who is away serving as a chaplain in the American Civil War, and with very little money for holiday presents or celebrations. The sisters end up enjoying their Christmas, as they exchange small presents with their mother, share their Christmas breakfast with a poor family, and then stage an amateur theatrical written by Jo. They are also sent a surprise Christmas feast by their nearest neighbor, the wealthy, elderly Mr. Laurence, whose orphaned grandson, Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, lives with him. Jo happens to meet the handsome Laurie at a New Year's Eve dance, and introduces him to the rest of her family. He visits the Marches often and becomes Jo's close friend. His grandfather is charmed by Beth, and gives her the piano formerly used by Laurie’s dead sister. Jo has ambitions to succeed as a writer and make more money to help her family. Her first efforts are destroyed by Amy in a fit of revenge after Jo refuses to let her tag along on an evening out with Laurie, but after Amy apologizes and then nearly dies by falling through thin ice while skating, the sisters make peace. Jo later writes more stories and is able to publish several for money. Meg goes on an extended visit to a wealthy friend's house, and at first enjoys the social activities, which include drinking, flirting, and dressing up in the latest (borrowed) fashions. But she becomes uncomfortable when Laurie and another man disapprove of her new look and behavior, and when she hears false gossip that her mother is planning to marry her off to Laurie because he is rich. She is glad to return home, where Marmee reassures her.

Mr. March contracts pneumonia in the war and is sent to a hospital near Washington, where Marmee travels to nurse him. While she is away, Beth contracts scarlet fever after tending to a poor family where three children died of it. Beth nearly dies herself, but recovers, although not fully. Amy, who has never been exposed to the disease, is sent to live with Aunt March, while Jo cares for the ailing Beth. The sisters are helped by the Laurences and Laurie's kindly but poor tutor, John Brooke. Brooke has fallen in love with Meg, who begins to develop feelings for him over time. Christmas arrives again, and is very different from the previous year: the girls' father returns home to much rejoicing, and all the sisters receive nice gifts. Brooke proposes to Meg, who initially turns him down, but changes her mind after Aunt March tells her she has a duty to marry a rich man for her family's sake and threatens to disinherit her if she marries Brooke. Meg's parents consent to the match on the condition that they wait three years to marry. Everyone is happy except Jo, who feels she is losing Meg as her best friend. Laurie consoles her.

Volume II[edit]

Three years have passed. Brooke has served in the Civil War (which has since ended), been wounded, returned home, found work as a bookkeeper, and obtained a small house for him and Meg to live in after their marriage. Brooke and Meg marry and have twins; Meg adjusts to married life, including learning to live on a tight budget when her friends have more spending money, and making sure she pays enough attention to her husband after the children are born.

Amy has grown into a graceful young woman and a talented (though not great) artist, and has developed excellent social skills, although some of her attempts at social climbing go awry. After Jo and Amy make a series of social calls during which Amy behaves graciously while Jo, who dislikes calls, makes gaffe after gaffe, Aunt March arranges for Amy to go on a tour of Europe with other relatives, to the chagrin of Jo, who had thought that Aunt March would send her to Europe instead. Jo learns that her own outspokenness and bad manners are to blame for Aunt March's choice of Amy, and accepts it.

Jo spends her time writing fiction for newspapers to earn money, and caring for Beth, who is still sickly. Laurie has gone off to college, but returns frequently with his college friends to visit the Marches. Over time, he seems to be developing romantic feelings for Jo, which bothers her because she likes him as a friend, but does not think they are suited to be husband and wife. Jo finally decides that she needs to put some distance between herself and Laurie, and with Marmee's approval, moves to New York City to work as a governess in a boardinghouse and write on the side. In New York, she makes money publishing sensational stories and befriends Professor Bhaer, a older expatriate German who is caring for his orphaned nephews and is very good with children, although he is very poor. Under Bhaer's influence, Jo stops writing trashy stories. After a few months she returns home, where Laurie, who has just graduated from college, proposes to her. She turns him down, breaking his heart, and he accuses her of being in love with Bhaer. His grandfather understands what happened and sends him to Europe to get over it. Jo devotes herself to Beth, who soon dies.

Laurie encounters Amy in Europe; after they receive news of Beth's death, they meet for consolation, become romantically involved, and eventually marry in Europe. On the day Laurie and Amy return home as man and wife, Professor Bhaer also shows up at the March home. After a short visit, Bhaer proposes to Jo, who accepts, although their marriage is deferred as Bhaer teaches at a college in the west. Aunt March dies, leaving her large home, Plumfield, to Jo. She and Bhaer marry, turning the house into a school for boys. They have two sons of their own, and Amy and Laurie have a daughter. In the fall, the extended March family all gather at Jo's home to celebrate Marmee's 60th birthday.



Marlene McCarty
Born1957 (1957)
NationalityAmerican
Known forInstallation art

Marlene McCarty (born 1957) is an American (TYPE OF) artist. She completed a DEGREE in FIELD at the SCHOOL in YEAR. DESCRIBE ART

Early life and education[edit]

Born in Manhattan in 1957,

Work[edit]

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Exhibitions[edit]

LIST OR DESCRIBE HERE

Collections[edit]

The Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles)are among the public collections holding work by McCarty.[2]

Art market[edit]

McCarty is represented by:


References[edit]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference chapman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Tony Oursler Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York.

External links[edit]

  • official website??

Characteristics[edit]

Dr. Kildare is generally portrayed as a sensitive and caring doctor who often looks beyond his patients' medical symptoms into their personal lives, either in order to properly diagnose and treat them, or to save them from some future tragedy such as a suicide attempt.

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