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...obit headlines have it right. For all of Robert Mulligan's impressive credentials in his 40-year career as a director of television and movie dramas, his signature achievement was the 1962 film version of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The picture - which won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Gregory Peck, and earned Mulligan his only Oscar nomination - had an immediate and lasting impact. Back then it provided a Hollywood echo of the civil rights agitation that had roiled the South and seized the nation. But Peck's role as Atticus Finch...
...singer who has problems staying out of criminal or domestic trouble. And in Inside Daisy Clover (1966), Wood is a thornier soul: a '30s waif who becomes a movie star. (The young man in her grim life was played by Robert Redford, again at the beginning of a big career...
...side of the ice, and the senior took care of the rest. Vaillancourt brought the puck through the Big Green zone and slid it past Dartmouth netminder Carli Clemis, giving Harvard a 1-0 lead.With the tally, Vaillancourt became just the seventh player in Crimson history to record 200 career points.The Big Green got even before the first period was over. Junior defenseman Jen Brawn was called for hooking at 16:35, and Dartmouth’s Maggie Kennedy capitalized on the power-play opportunity.The second period brought more of the same back-and-forth play. The squads traded shots...
Piven, Jeremy •role of in Broadway's Speed-the-Plow is abandoned by due to high mercury levels of, prompting playwright David Mamet to speculate "that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer...
...anyone could talk about in 1998. And although there had been rumors of impeachment for months leading up to the vote, no one really thought it would happen. Clinton was acquitted in the Senate, served out his term in office and went on to a successful post-White House career as a humanitarian, public speaker and international wheeler-dealer. But covering up an extramarital affair and selling a U.S. Senate seat, as Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is accused of doing, are entirely different matters. When the Illinois State House of Representatives finishes its inquest and holds a formal vote, Blagojevich...