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Died. Elia Kazan, 94, director of pioneering stage productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman and the movies On the Waterfront and East of Eden; in New York City. Kazan's films earned a total of 21 Academy Awards, including for best director for Gentleman's Agreement and On the Waterfront. In 1947, Kazan co-founded the Actors Studio, which spawned several generations of famous stage and screen stars. He also gave Marlon Brando, James Dean and Warren Beatty their first major roles. Kazan made numerous industry enemies by cooperating with the House Un-American Activities...
Puritan: A pious gentleman, who believed in letting all people do as he liked...
Puritan: A pious gentleman, who believed in letting all people do as he liked...
...incredibly polite to foreign visitors so Shrestha's superiors told him to respect the do not disturb sign on the door of Charles Sobhraj's room at Kathmandu's smartest hotel. The inspector's men waited in the lobby for two days for Sobhraj to surrender like a gentleman. Instead, the half-Vietnamese, half-Indian French citizen slipped out the back with his Canadian girlfriend Marie LeClerc. They'd already crossed the border into India by the time the police finally broke into their abandoned suite...
Members of his boxing teams at Harvard called Rawson a “gentleman for the ages,” according to his daughter, Zita A. Legere...