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Cubby's success won him respect in Hollywood--in 1982 at the Oscars, he received the Irving Thalberg award--and every studio wishes it had such a lucrative franchise. But the family is deemed a niche player. Cubby did make more than 20 non-007 films, but only one was a hit: 1968's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, also based on an Ian Fleming work. The family has a stage version of Chitty playing in London. But Bond is the core of the business; they'll continue, says Wilson, "as long as people want the product...
...years after his first book, "Flood!," appeared and won an American Book Award, Drooker has released a kind of follow-up, "Blood Song" (Harcourt, Inc.; 300 pp.; $20). (A new edition of "Flood!" is being concurrently released by Dark Horse Comics.) Both "Flood!" and "Blood Song" continue Masereel's idea of a silent journey. But where "Flood!" took place exclusively in the dehumanizing world of a biblically punished New York, "Blood Song," moves from a pastoral to a modern metropolis, exploring the role of the individual in nature and society...
...definitely a bright, high-energy character but one with a dark side,” Schemmer says. “Balancing the two has been interesting.” The emcee is also the most recognizable character to anyone familiar with the show. Joel Grey won the Tony Award for his performance on Broadway in 1966, he won the Oscar for the film version in 1972, and he even reprised his role in a 1987 revival...
University President Lawrence H. Summers corresponded with senior faculty members of the English department shortly before the department decided Tuesday to cancel a scheduled lecture by Tom Paulin, an award-winning Irish poet who has expressed anti-Israeli views...
Jarcho discovered the poem “The Highwayman” through her grandmother, who had won an award as a girl in Puerto Rico for reciting the text. Deciding that it would work well as a theater piece, Jarcho set to work. “I don’t consider the play to be a version of the story. It’s much more a response than an attempt to render it,” the playwright explains. The poem focuses on Bess, a beautiful girl who tries to save the life of her beloved highwayman...