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Duskin's only rule is that students and teachers must keep him "impressed." One result is ding-dong trade in the attic library, where lights often burn all night. Says one teacher of the Duskin system: "With a cat like that staring down, you know you can talk. It clears the throat...
Married. Jason Robards Jr., 39, Broadway luminary of Toys in the Attic and The Disenchanted; and Cinemactress Lauren (The Big Sleep, Key Largo) Bacall, 36, widow of Humphrey Bogart; he for the third time, she for the second; in Ensenada, Mexico, after being balked by legal obstacles (among them: lack of Bogie's death certificate) on a seven-week hotel-hop of London, Paris, Vienna and Las Vegas...
...sooner was he out again than he started producing more cartoons for another magazine. In 1846, at the age of 38, he married a young seamstress and settled down in an apartment on the Quai d'Anjou. There, in a bare attic studio, using crayons until they were so worn that he could no longer hold them, and whistling the latest music-hall tunes, Daumier turned out lithographs of arrogant aristocrats, greedy landlords, sour-faced men and nagging wives, sinister lawyers and pompous judges. In one scene, a judge says to a half-starved prisoner: "So you were hungry...
...Apartment; they are releasing By Love Possessed this month, West Side Story in the fall; they have cast and scheduled a folio of properties that includes a film version of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, Two for the Seesaw, Irma la Douce, Toys in the Attic, James Michener's Hawaii, and John O'Hara's A Rage to Live. And they have multiple picture deals with dozens of high-density stars such as Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Jason Robards Jr. and Yul Brynner. "I call them the myriad Mirisches," says Lemmon...
...about a desperately lonely girl, brilliantly performed by Joan Plowright; and Period of Adjustment, a comedy in which Tennessee Williams turns marital counselor in an unprecedentedly optimistic work that displays more deftness than depth. Among last season's worthiest survivors: Lillian Hellman's corrosive Toys in the Attic; Paddy Chayefsky's sensitive, mystic and comic The Tenth Man; and The Miracle Worker, the superbly acted story of young Helen Keller and her teacher...