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...Army homosexual scandal. Director Franklin Schaffner further dissipates the film's climactic confrontation scene with Robertson's old Army buddy, letting TV Comic Shelley Berman play the role mostly for laughs. Appearances by Edie Adams, Negro Singer Mahalia Jackson, Commentators Howard K. Smith and John Henry Faulk, and Vidal himself (as a Senator) range from agreeable to irrelevant. Margaret Leighton, at loose ends in a truncated role as Fonda's wife, somehow suggests that she is running for the throne of England...
...Appeals are a prime source of delay and hold great promise for the loser's pocketbook. Only a few weeks ago, a New York appeals court lopped nearly $3,000,000 from the $3,500,000 libel verdict won in July 1962 by Radio-TV Entertainer John Henry Faulk. While he was waiting for the latest verdict, Faulk's legal costs grew to the point where Attorney Louis Nizer claims they already outrun the $550,000 of the award...
Nizer pointed out, however, that he does not hesitate to defend a client unjustly accused of unpopular causes. He recently represented radio and TV announcer John Henry Faulk in his successful suit against Aware...
...trial was a painful reminder of the era when Joe McCarthy was riding high, and suspicions, half-truths and innuendoes could ruin a man. As evidence of Faulk's "Communist" sympathies, for instance, Hartnett had cited the fact that Faulk had appeared "at a function" with Composer Earl Robinson, an often blacklisted leftist. That was all the pamphlet had said...
Nizer asked for a heavy award to Faulk "to let the world know that in America we won't tolerate these private vigilante groups." As the trial reached its climax last-week, it was momentarily confused by the death of Defendant Johnson, but the judge declared that Johnson's estate was still liable. The jury then awarded Faulk compensatory and punitive damages that set a new record for libel suits...