Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KING AND COUNTRY. Pity and terror are evoked by Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) and by Actor Tom Courtenay as a baffled army deserter en route to his execution during World...
...Night, the Salute started with an overture by Ferde Grofé, 73, who composed it in seven days, along with background music for the whole show, despite a recent stroke that has paralyzed his right side (he had to write it with the left hand). Interspersed with Actor Hugh O'Brian's reading of the poem were songs by the Bitter End Singers, the Serendipity Singers, Anita Bryant, Mahalia Jackson and the Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill, who dressed in buckskins and boots to belt out Oklahoma! and Tumblin' Tumbleweed...
Died. Zachary Scott, 51, character actor, a mustachioed Texan who ambled around Hollywood wearing a pirate-style gold earring, was most often cast as the oil-slick villain of Hollywood cliffhangers (Ruthless, Whiplash), but proved equally proficient in the demanding Broadway role of the relentless defense attorney in Faulkner's 1959 Requiem for a Nun; of cancer; in Austin, Texas...
...praised Buckley and actor Ronald Reagan, front-runner for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in California, for "getting rid of the lunatic fringe and making conservatism more respectable." Although polls favor Reagan for the nomination. Nixon said, the race to oppose Governor Pat Brown is "still wide open." Brown defeated Nixon...
...actor, Germi creditably plays Andrea-a rough-handed father, a celebrated drinker and singer of songs at his favorite café, and a hell of an engineer. But at 50, Andrea's self-centered world begins to go off the track. His grown son is a layabout who seems more interested in petty rackets than honest work. His daughter (Sylva Koscina), already embittered at having been forced to marry the store clerk who seduced her, has a stillborn child. While Andrea is brooding about that misfortune his train runs down a suicide. Afterward, the engineer takes a few drinks...