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...famous for playing macho sidekicks in Westerns and action films, memorably as the laconic, deceptively easygoing knife thrower Britt in The Magnificent Seven, an army scout in Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee and a prisoner of war in the World War II drama The Great Escape. The wry actor gained star stature in the late 1960s as the lead in the James Bond spoofs Our Man Flint and In Like Flint. In 1998, coming back from a bout with rheumatoid arthritis that incapacitated him in the 1980s, Coburn won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Nick Nolte...
Professionally, prior to 1970, I'd been an actor, an off-Broadway director and a film journalist, and I had made one low-budget film, Targets--a propitious beginning to my career. In my personal life, I had been married since the age of 22 to Polly Platt, and we had two small daughters. My father, a painter of the post-Impressionist school whom I greatly admired, was an undemonstrative man who said very little. I didn't realize, at that young age, how much I hungered for his approval or how little I understood myself...
...Shaw vaults, taken for dead. The studio's reputation decayed too; it was thought to be the stuffy monolith whose primacy was usurped in the '70s by the upstart Golden Harvest. That was the company smart enough to sign Bruce Lee when Run Run Shaw offered the actor a lowball figure, and to find budding star quality in a runt named Jackie Chan...
...DIED. KAREL REISZ, 76, Czech-born film director who was a seminal figure in the renaissance of gritty British cinema in the 1960s; in London. Reisz is perhaps best known for directing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), which launched British actor Albert Finney's career, and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), an acclaimed adaptation of the John Fowles novel...
...There is nothing better for theater than cross-pollination,” said Joy B. Fairfield ’03, an HRDC member who directed Cabaret. “This [change] is very actor-centric...