Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been much consistency in the surging course of Artist Rivera's life. He was born 62 years ago in the mountain town of Guanajuato, and was involved almost at once in the kind of controversy that has surrounded him ever since. His mother was an ardent Catholic, his father a revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Acting with characteristic dispatch, little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swears that his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his piping diatribes against the Church...
...very center of the picture is Detective Jim McLeod (excellently played by Ralph Bellamy). Because he had a sadistic father, he has become relentlessly uncharitable as well as rigidly just toward all evildoers. His only real tenderness is for his wife (Meg Mundy); and suddenly, in the midst of hounding an abortionist, he discovers that his wife went to the man before she was married. The psychological tangle that results is too much for both McLeod and Playwright Kingsley; the solution, like the whole setup, is far more lurid than convincing...
Next day a priest of the diocese, wiry, plain-spoken Father Utaka Itagura, began instructions. From 4 in the morning to nearly midnight each day, his eager postulants came in groups of 60. "Most of them thought they could become Catholics in a hurry," he laughed. By August, he hopes, some of them may be ready for baptism, but he is making no promises...
Last week one of Saga's five Buddhist priests watched the black-cassocked figure of his new friend, Father Itagura, descending the ancient steps of the Buddhist temple after a chatty afternoon visit. Though he may soon be without a flock, he was not bitter. "You see," he observed with true Buddhist detachment, "whether God says a thing or Buddha says it, it's still the same message. I only wish, and wish very strongly, that everyone may kneel with a beautiful heart before the altar...
...Hollywood's own, Warner Brothers came off with much the best of it. Its Treasure of the Sierra Madre brought three awards to one family: two to John Huston, for his direction and screen play, and one to his father, Walter Huston, for the best male supporting performance, as Treasure's garrulous old roustabout prospector. Jane Wyman, the deaf-mute of Warner's Johnny Belinda, was named the year's best actress. Claire Trevor got an Oscar for the best supporting performance by an actress, in the Huston-directed Key Largo. Bustling Warner Producer Jerry Wald...