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I tell you, if Kenneth hadn’t telephoned me, I’d probably still be asleep. “He did my hair specially last night, too, you know, because I had a date to go to Lincoln Center and I wanted to look well. He also did Mrs. Kennedy last night. He’s the chicest hairdresser in town. He was dining out, so he combed me in white tie and tails.” And what’s with this full-scale glamour bit? “If you really want to know, it’s because I need it,” sighed Edie. “It’s pure and simple. I need it for showbusiness and I need showbusiness for therapy and money. I had a great teacher in that department. Ernie was a great one for believing that if you’re a star you’ve got to dress the part even if you haven’t got it. And you’ve got to put on a big splash and look gay and prosperous even if you’re not. Well, honey, that’s one phase of this business I’ve learned well. If I’m now living the life of a movie star, I’ve got to look like one whenever I’m in public. And that means spending a lot of time on myself. Going to the hairdresser every single time I’m going to be seen. All this jazz is part of the job.” Part of the job, too, has been getting herself an agent and a manager and a public relations man and a lawyer and taking the tiger by the tail. She cut her second Decca album called, “Through These Swingin’ Doors.” Then she made a couple of TV Specs and won a couple of awards for them. She made a movie, “It’s A Mad, Mad, Etc., Etc. World.” She made a second movie in England. She’s got another baker’s dozen piled up waiting. She’s already turned down six Broadway shows (“Because I can’t afford to make so little money”) and will this year earn roughly in the neighborhood of $200, 000 which, even when you smooth it out by Hollywood standards, is a pretty classy neighborhood. Edie’s main problem is trying to be the man in the family. She finds the going rough. Her husband’s method of including his wife in things was to give her lengthy legal papers to sign. She’d sign them blindly and two years later discover she’d been named vice president of some corporation she didn’t even know existed. Ernie kept no files. No records. Yet he was the sole guardian of their financial empire. He gave her a checkbook which had no total. Edie never knew from nothin’. Today, suddenly, she’s not only the mother but also the father of three girls: Betty, Kippei (Kovacs’ daughters by his first marriage) and her own little Mia. Suddenly a whole family looks to her for all decisions. She’s the sole breadwinner. The responsibilities of several human lives rest on her shoulders. Nowadays as Edie goes, so goes a whole family. For her the really frightening worry isn’t in being bankrupt financially, but instead in being bankrupt emotionally. Everybody’s entitled to Edie “Let me put it this way,” she said softly, “I have to be many things to many people, particularly in my home whe: I’m a general mother superior and a few other things besides. Everybody makes demands on my time and everybody’s entitled to it. But there’s just not enough of me to go around. “When you’re used to being a part of somebody else with no responsibilities whatever and then to find you’re carrying the whole bundle, it’s hard. And down deep I have that constant worry that the rock is not really a rock. I have a feeling that one day I’m going to do a slow take, but if I fall apart so will the whole family. 1 mustn’t think negatively for two seconds. If I do, it’s like falling into quicksand. I find it’s very tough for me to be a man. I like being a girl. I like belonging to somebody. I like having that somebody take care of me.” That’s one of the reasons Edie never pushed her career after they were married. She admits that there is the probability she could have been a real big star before. This is something they fought about a great deal before their marriage. They’d have been Mr. & Mrs. a full three years earlier if Edie hadn’t been so careerminded and if this subject hadn’t caused