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...Congregation for today's service of the journey, "a casual, contemporary, Christian church," fills the Promenade, a theater on upper Broadway in New York City. The Sunday-morning faithful--a few hundred strong--have come to hear the Journey's laid-back pastor, Nelson Searcy, give them the word. The word made film. Searcy, 32, who in jeans and a goatee looks like a way less Mephistophelian Charlie Sheen, is about to deliver the last of the church's eight-part God on Film series. The topic? "Catwoman: Discovering My True Identity...
...Though Kirkland went Hollywood, Hollywood didn?t go him. Somehow, this fine-featured fellow with the light voice, wavy blond hair and earnest manner didn?t strike sparks with the camera. Within three years he was back on Broadway in 1933, as a member of the radical Group Theatre...
...film adaptation the following year. He appeared in Odets? ?Till the Day I Die? and in the title role of ?Case of Clyde Griffiths,? an adaptation of ?An American Tragedy? staged by Lee Strasberg. After leaving the Group, Kirkland directed a few plays and wrote one Broadway flop. His most piquant credit was as the second lead in a revival of ?Outward Bound.? The director: Otto Preminger...
...charm, an energetic poise that could make any impromptu sentence as persuasive as a speech from a Philip Barry comedy. At the time of her marriage to Kirkland, she was parading it on stage, ?appearing in summer stock in New England,? the Sun obit observes, ?as well as pre-Broadway engagements of more ambitious plays.? The Missing in Action Website, which highlights female pioneers in TV production, reports that Phyllis ?showed her maverick nature by traveling war-torn Europe in a USO tour of Noel Coward?s ?Blithe Spirit.?? So the co-starring of a stage veteran and a pretty...
...chat show, ?Author Meets the Critics,? for New York TV station WOR. The following year, she hooked up with Arlene Francis for the daily hour-long show, ?Home.? Arlene was already a TV celebrity as a panelist on ?What?s My Line.? But she had been on Broadway since 1936, when she appeared in the original production of Clare Boothe Luce?s ?The Women?; and in 1945 she starred briefly in the comedy ?The French Touch? - sets designed by George Jenkins...