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Died. Zachary Scott, 51, character actor, a mustachioed Texan who ambled around Hollywood wearing a pirate-style gold earring, was most often cast as the oil-slick villain of Hollywood cliffhangers (Ruthless, Whiplash), but proved equally proficient in the demanding Broadway role of the relentless defense attorney in Faulkner's 1959 Requiem for a Nun; of cancer; in Austin, Texas...
...LONG HOT SUMMER (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A dramatic series based on Faulkner's stories, with Edmond O'Brien...
...other way round, except for off-Broadway or little-theater groups, which remain intellectually O.K. In the creative arts, the merely popular practitioners are excluded from intellectual status-but so are most of the really great talents. Marquand was no intellectual, but neither was Hemingway, Faulkner or Wolfe. The critic, on the other hand, is almost automatically an intellectual, at least in his own view...
CAMERA 3 (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Dance drama based on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, performed by the Valerie Bettis dance group...
...dull. An American Tragedy ran to 385,000 words ("250,000 of them unnecessary," snorted Mencken). Nevertheless, Dreiser's dogged honesty and ruthless candor opened the way for all the social realists of the '30s (many drearier than Dreiser) and also, in a way, for Hemingway and Faulkner, who quickly eclipsed...