The president's step-daughter, actress Sofia Castro, sparked criticism when she declined to comment on the crisis when asked by an entertainment reporter at a red carpet event on Saturday.
But have 48 years ever before separated the same actress stepping up to the theatrical plate with a single role?
A walking tour tracing the steps of the actress, including film locations, former residences and favorite nightspots.
Hate to criticise a national treasure and all that, but for this theatregoer there is no greater sin than an actor or actress stepping out of character during a performance.
The actress stepped down from her role with Oxfam a month ago, when the international relief organisation wrote to her criticising her decision to sign a contract with the maker of carbonated drink machines.
I'm thinking of the Kneehigh Theater Company's "Brief Encounter" (currently on Broadway at Studio 54, with projection design by Jon Driscoll) in which a live actress steps (literally) through a louvered screen that is showing, in effect, the movie of her life.
But when the projector was running, nothing came out of it but old ideas, the spider, God's lamb, all that dull old stuff…." Again, when the film breaks after the actress steps on the glass that is the moment when the filmmaking tension has become too great to bear, so that Bergman the artist breaks and must start again.
(As Emma left the stage and the next actress stepped up, I thought of the scene in the movie "Klute" in which Jane Fonda's character, Bree Daniels, goes to a casting call for a beauty commercial. The clients comment on the women as they walk past, asking to see their hands and faces and talking about them as though they weren't quite human).
In addition to being a hectically tangled murder mystery, the film turns out to be a musical, as, one by one, the actresses step forward to sing, in mostly fragile, unpolished voices, lyrics of love and longing that leave them a bit breathless and flustered.
(The "Blue Jasmine" actress stepped down from the post last year, but Upton remains the head of the company).
