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...home is where the heart is, Actor Jimmy Stewart, 75, was in the right place last week when his boyhood town of Indiana, Pa. (pop. 16,000), threw a three-day birthday party in his honor. To celebrate the return of its leading man, Indiana poured on the Americana, with parades, air shows, harness races and ribbon cuttings. The high point of the festivities came when city elders unveiled a 9-ft. statue of its favorite son. Drawled the still gangly, 6-ft. 2½in. Stewart: "This is sort of where I made up my mind about things, about...
...high school curriculum. Pauline Kael once said, "If you're hoping for elegance, don't begin with William Goldman." As Adventures makes clear, he even has trouble writing complete sentences. Screenwriting is such a natural for him that he relates important episodes of his life in script format. Besides, boyhood entrenchment, wider audiences-not to mention the pay-keeps luring him out to Hollywood...
...crowd that razzed the old drunk in the park? Or you in the rear when they set fire to the cat? Child's play, possibly, but boy's play primarily; and the child becomes the man. If you have cast off most of the cruelty of boyhood, still some of the fascination with cruelty remains. The fascination is a form of cruelty itself, expressionless, primeval, a fisheye in the dark...
...rectory in Columbus, Miss. His forebears included a genealogical treeful of romantics, adventurers and notables: Poet Sidney Lanier (1842-81), some Tennessee Indian fighters, an early U.S. Senator, and, way back, a brother of St. Francis Xavier's. When Tennessee was seven, the sunlit backyards of his boyhood were exchanged for rows of St. Louis brick flats the color of "dried blood and mustard." The change was shattering for Williams, and he was to make of the South a mythic past, an expulsion from Eden...
...dinner parties any more. Truth to tell, the householder, who often worked late in the city, had grown a bit smug about being spared so long. He always walked fast and purposefully. He was in pretty good shape. And he liked to think that he had acquired from a boyhood in the country some special alertness, a sharper sense of how to avoid danger than his acquaintances...