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The Index-Journal, Greenwood. 8.C.. May 1990 25 Another tarnished golden girl writes book about experiences 'I'd read Brooke Hayward's book, and Lauren Bacall's book, and Liv Ullmann's book, and I had heard that everybody has one wonderful story and it's the story of their own J- Susan Strasberg As for herself. Miss Strasberg said she was presently working on a nova! set in the world of snow business, looking for the kind of film roles that Jane Fonda and Jill Clayburgh do, and thinking about doing a Broadway play her first in 17 years. "I actually think and feel I'm at a better point in my life than I have ever been," she said with a smile.

"You know, there are a lot of people out there who are falling apart." love with Burton, whom she had met when they starred on Broadway together in "Time Remembered" in 1957, that after they broke up, she once considered jumping off London's Waterloo Bridge. Miss Strasberg's 38-year-old brother, John, who threw himself out of a Hollywood window a month after his mother's death, is now in Spain, teaching acting for the Spanish government, she said. "He's in terrific shape," she added. afraid might sue. "When I told Christopher I was writing a book," she said, "he told me, 'Oh, God, finally you're going to get I told him, 'If there's been any villain in the story.

It's Miss Strasberg also wrote frankly of love affairs with Richard Burton, "the grand passion" of her life, and with Warren Beatty; and of platonic relationships with Cary Grant and James Dean and Aly Khan. She said she was so much in murmur for the rest of her life." The tiny, S-foot-l-inch actress said that some people have criticized her for writing such a candid book while her daughter is still young and impressionable. "Listen, I would just as soon have ber know a lot of those things and be prepared," she said. "I wouldn want to hide the fact that I took drugs from her. Besides, she's ultraconser-vative.

I'm straight now, I take maybe half an aspirin a day, but I think she thinks I'm wildly eccentric." She said that her former husband was the only person mentioned in the book who she was taperback sale was in the vicin-ty of $300,000. i "I wrote it for a lot of reasons," she said during an interview. "Some were altruistic and some were selfish. I was not doing the kind of things I wanted to do in my life. And then I started to edge up to 40, and like most people started re-1 examining my life.

It became totally untenable to me that af-, ter acting for 25 years I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and -Anne Frank there I was, sit-' ting in Hollywood, Just waiting for somebody to want me." She said she started thinking about going back to art, her childhood career choice, "but -then I realized I'd almost be starting from And so she thought about writing. "I'd read Brooke Hayward's book, and Lauren Bacall's book, and Liv Ullmann's book," she said, "and I had heard that everybody has drugs, even though there was no medical evidence linking the drugs to the birth defects. Today, after five operations, "Jenn's speech is fine, and she could jog six miles if she wanted to," Miss Strasberg said. "But she will have a residual heart cocaine "and assorted uppers and downers." When their daughter, Jennifer, now 14 and a student at a Long Island boarding school, was born with damage to her heart and palate, Miss Strasberg blamed herself for taking Mute IPS ODffiSf By JUDY KLEME8RUD t. ISM N.Y.

Time New Service 1 NEW YORK On the surface, Susan Strasberg was one of those young women who seemingly had everything: brains, beauty, talent, celebrated parents, glamorous friends, her name in; lights on Broadway at the age of 17 as the star of "The Diary of Anne Frank." She was a golden girl, this daughter of Lee and Paula Strasberg, the "Method" acting teachers, obviously destined to become one of America's great actresses. In fact, her father once told her, "Through you, I feel I touch the world." But all was not as it seemed, and 15 years later. Miss Strasberg found her career on the skids; her marriage to the actor Christopher Jones torn apart; her brother in the hospital after he had flung himself through a window; and her baby daughter ill with four holes in her heart and a cleft palate, which may have been the result of Miss Strasberg's experiences with drugs. Rather than wallow in her misfortunes, Miss Strasberg, now 41 years old, has done what taany other tarnished golden girls have done: written a book. Hers, perhaps more candid and tragic than most, is called "Bittersweet." Putnam gave her a $100,000 advance for it, and the other's Day Sale.

one wonderful story and it the story of their own life." And so, shortly before her 40th birthday, in 1978, she propped herself in her bed with her white dog. Snow, by her side, and began writing on a yellow legal pad. She wrote frankly about ber violent, self-destructive marriage to Christopher Jones, during which she gave up her career, she said, "as an escape hatch from pressures I couldn't deal with." These pressures included the use of such drugs as marijuana, peyote, mescaline, Smallpox declared disease of the past tuberculosis which kill some 5 million children a year and leave an equal number disabled can be controlled through immunization but will not replace smallpox as targets of an eradication program. They also don't expect to eradicate the four other killer diseases ranked with small pox: cholera, plague, yellow fever and typhus: "Unfortunately we are not in a position to eradicate these diseases" because it would require more sophisticated systems, said Dr. Ralph Henderson, director of the WHO Expanded Program on Immunization.

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