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...interest in politics. His stepfather was active in local Republican affairs, and in 1948 Ford plunged in. He challenged the local incumbent Representative, Bertel Jonkman, in the G.O.P. primary and won, and then went on to win the general election, thanks in part to the support of Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Ford's experiences in the war had turned him away from Midwestern Republican isolationism, which Vandenberg opposed as well. Three weeks before after the election, Ford, in a quiet ceremony, married Betty Warren, an attractive divorc?e...
...Mommy?” by Maurice Sendak, Arthur Yorinks, Matthew Reinhart...
Amanda suffers from acute culture shock before Graham (a smoldering and sensitive Jude Law) takes her frolicking in the English countryside. Iris does water aerobics with an old Hollywood screenwriter, Arthur Abbott (veteran actor Eli Wallach, “Mystic River”), whose creaky wisdom leads her to Miles (Jack Black, playing against type), a cultured score-composer who pens her a melody using “only the good notes...
...president, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, who played in its orchestra.MAKING WAVESThe centerpiece of the 50th anniversary events is HRG&SP’s production of “H.M.S. Pinafore.” The fourth collaboration between librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, “H.M.S. Pinafore,” which opened on May 25, 1878, was their first runaway success and remains one of the most popular of their comic operas to this day. HRG&SP Treasurer Charlie I. Miller ’08, who is directing “H.M.S. Pinafore...
...glory behind the keyboard than behind the camera. That makes this three-disc, 15-episode sampler of TV's long-running western, focusing on the work of the series' best-known directors, all the more fascinating and revealing. The set collects episodes and commentary from movie directors including Arthur Hiller (Love Story) and Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) as well as actor-directors like Dennis Weaver and William Conrad. In his commentary, Weaver explains why Gunsmoke used more long and midrange shots than TV does now. "We didn't have zoom lenses," he says, laughing. "You had to move...