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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of "A Party with Comden and Green." By an amusing coincidence Comden and Green had chosen this description of their performance back in 1959, when they first put together a retrospective of their songs and show tunes for their own staging. The "Party" of 1959 won an Obie award; the "Party" of last weekend was one of the best given in town this year. Comden and Green are inevitably, immensely, festive...
...Austin and found Bill Broyles, an ex-Marine who was then an assistant to the Houston school superintendent. Like virtually everyone else Levy hired, Broyles was under 30 and almost innocent of journalistic experience. That was no handicap. After its first year, Texas Monthly won a National Magazine Award for specialized journalism, the first time the magazine industry's Oscar has gone to a newcomer...
...ever had been a member of the Screen Writers' Guild or of the Communist Party, Trumbo served ten months in prison and was blacklisted for 13 years by Hollywood. Under pseudonyms he wrote some 30 scripts, including The Brave One, which won "Robert Rich" an Academy Award in 1957. In 1960 Trumbo wrote Exodus under his own name, following it with such hits as Hawaii and Papillon...
Similarly, in July a Brooklyn jury hit Howard Johnson's Motor Lodges, Inc. with a $2.5 million damage award to Singer Connie Francis, who was raped at knife point in a company motel on Long Island. The six-man panel found that the motel had failed to put the singer in a "safe and secure room...
Died. William Redfield, 49, veteran TV, stage and screen actor whose estimated 2,000 performances included playing Harding in the Academy Award-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; of a respiratory ailment complicated by leukemia; in Manhattan. The son of a music arranger and a Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl, Redfield played ten roles on Broadway before he was 20. He later wrote about the theater -Letters From an Actor (1967)-and with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan helped found the Actors Studio...