Word: cassius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have the old men in TIME, Oct. 20. Now let us have some old women. Begin with me. My mother was 94 when she died. My grandfather was 94. His name was Cassius Marcellus Clay* and was Minister to Russia under Abraham Lincoln. I am 87 and have just published a book called From My Journal...
That would be enough, but there's more. The sound-effects man was obsessed with reducing everything to tape--including the subtle squish of a knife in the belly. Edmund O'Brien and Brando confuse drama with intensity and emotion with shouting. And the producer staffed Cassius's band of conspirators with film lot extras noted chiefly for Grade B gangster movies and smoked alfalfa sagas--making it difficult to take their pentameters with the proper seriousness...
Nonetheless, it it a good movie. Good because Gielgud as Cassius turns in a tremendous performance, because Mason as Brutus beginning with the assasination--is excellent. On these two performances, a few good camera angles, and fine musical background, Julius Caesar's success and entertainment value depend...
...receive one of the 1957 Albert Lasker Awards of the American Public Health Association was a doctor who has handed out more money for more medical research than any other man in the world-a total far greater than all the Rockefeller grants in this field. The doctor: Cassius James Van Slyke, 56, who has never practiced for any patient other than Uncle...
...item was Shakespeare's dependable Julius Caesar, done for the third time in six years by CBS's Studio One. Quite a lot was wrong with this production: Brutus (Philip Bourneuf) was too short, Cassius (Shepperd Strudwick) too wholesome, Mark Antony (Alfred Ryder) too boyish. Yet for all its imbalance, it was entertaining. Producer Alex March, faced with the insuperable job of cramming the 2½-hour play into the allotted 54 minutes, used a single set, concentrated on closeups, and apparently aimed at the style of the recitative. Speeches were delivered with ringing clarity, and Shakespeare...