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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...
...Summer of '42 (1971), the romance of a teenage boy and a lovely young war widow; The Other (1972), a spectral mood piece about nine-year-old twins involved in murder; and Same Time, Next Year (1978), with Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn as annual adulterers. As his career wore on, and Hollywood jettisoned sentiment and subtlety for sharks and light sabers, Mulligan's aura dimmed. He had outlived the mood he so delicately captured...
...shooting Harvard team. Harvard freshman forward Peter Boehm, starting his second game in a row as classmate Keith Wright sits out with illness, led the long-distance charge, making seven out of his nine three-point attempts on his way to 23 points, a game high and a new career mark for him. His hot hand did not see many minutes in the second half due to foul trouble—he ended up fouling out with four minutes left in the game—but the Crimson shot well enough without him. The team shot 78-percent from downtown...
...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...