Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MeBAC goes so far as to say that the Arts Center, far from damaging other local theatres, will stimulate all drama trade in the area. But the prestige of state support, which MeBAC would give to the Cambridge Drama Festival, would surely hamper the fund-raising and actor-recruiting programs so vital to organizations like Group 20 in competition with the CDF. And financial records show that competition between two repertory theatres in the Boston area means a loss for both...
Actually, the main trouble with the picture is the lack of a controlling sense of style in the acting-a common fault in Hollywood's period pieces. Actor Boyer, for instance, falls somewhere between Paris and Hollywood, but wherever it is, it is not New Orleans. And he seems understandably embarrassed by many of his lines-"Death! Ha! Whan eet come, speet een eets eye." Actress Bloom intrudes a British note, and Actor Heston, as a sweet-talking, milk-sopping Old Hickory with a phony Tennessee accent, makes just about the silliest of the screen's counterfeits...
Titanic's voyage to disaster, with all the heroism and hysteria reported in Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller. Done in stark, documentary style, with skillful collaboration from Scriptwriter Eric Ambler and Actor Kenneth More...
Grand Old Actor. The essence of history is hindsight, and it is difficult to read Schlesinger's account of labor's rise, e.g., the bitter, bloody Teamsters strike in Minneapolis, without reflecting on the monstrous extremes of power which the downtrodden of yesterday have reached. A future historian, not so solid as Schlesinger on the do-gooding glamour of it all. may yet weigh the memorable reforms accomplished by the New Deal against its ominous drive toward the welfare state...
...President were also among the most acute. Said Hugh Johnson: "[He succeeded] not as a master of planning or knowledge, but as a master of dexterity." And Artist Peggy Bacon, in an ironic comment on his look, said: "Clever as hell but so innocent . . . a grand old actor...