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...Haven they spell presumptuous A-T-T-I-C-U-S, for the Atticus bookstore-cafe. A good place for highbrow wimps who are willing to pay $4 for a slice of dry cheesecake, just to be seen there. For anyone else, this place has "avoid" stamped all over it. We were told the Atticus was fashioned after a cafe on Newbury St. in our own Boston. We don't know, we've never been there...
...Atticus Finch in the 1963 movie To Kill a Mockingbird, Gregory Peck captured well the kindly, yet determined sensibilities of a rural Southern lawyer. The actor has moved north to Gettysburg, Pa., for his next role, in The Blue and the Gray, an eight-hour CBS TV mini-series to be aired next March. Queuing up in a distinguished line that includes Walter Huston, Henry Fonda, Raymond Massey and Hal Holbrook, Peck, 65, is taking up stovepipe and chin whiskers to portray Abraham Lincoln. "I'm in seven scenes," says Greg, "but I only get to speak in five...
...Remember Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird? Atticus risked his life to try to save Tom Robinson, which ultimately, he failed to do. Jewison loved that movie, so he made a sequel...
Gregory Peck's Atticus is an especially hard act to follow, but Jewison found a superb successor in the person of Al Pacino. Pacino, who plays Arthur Kirkland, the film's do-good hero, first made the big time as Michael in The Godfather. He made it again as the run down hero of Serpico thee years ago, but there's been a drought since. Now comes Arthur Kirkland, who works perfectly for Pacino because he's a blend of Michael Corleone and Serpico. Like Corleone, Kirkland wants to do everything himself; like Serpico, he's a man fighting society...
...even after a look at the corrupt side of America's courts, Jewison still believes there's room for Arthur Kirklands out there somewhere. With a wry grin sitting in his 10th-floor suite, he attested "Arthur Kirkland is somehow true to himself. Justice is done." And Atticus Finch lives...