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...Mexican citizen from Gilroy, California, where his parents are agricultural worders, Guizar came to Harvard after spending a year in Switzerland. He was born in central Mexico, and moved to Gilroy at eight because his parents were supporting an older brother in medical school and could not make enough money from their "two or three acre" farm to buy textbooks...
...That's the whole concept of immigrant labor, that the whole family works," Guizar said. He added that his father could have "followed the fruit," and worked year round, but instead stayed in Gilroy, working 12 hour days nine months of the year, so his children could attend school. Guizar's father never went to school, and his mother had only a fifth-grade education. "For us to gain the education they never had, that was very important to them," Guizar says...
...Subject Was Roses. Frank D. Gilroy wrote this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of a young man returning from the war to a not so joyous homecoming. Jack Albertson won a Tony award for his role as the father who shares a new rapport with his returned son, played by Martin Sheen. Patricia Neal is the wife and mother who realizes the tragic and painful truths brought to the surface by her son's arrival. An excellent drama with its highly honored cast intact. Channel...
MONDAY. The Subject was Roses. (1968) A real sleeper with a hell of a fine performance from one of my favorite actresses, Patricia Neal, who plays the mother in this poignant WWII drama from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Frank Gilroy. Jack Albertson won an Oscar for his supporting role as the father who welcomes his son home from the war, despite the mother's misgivings about the new-found independence of her son (Martin Sheen). Judy Collins sings "Albatross" and "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" for the sound track...
Doctor. By this time the street outside, Broadway, was turning into a battlefield. Police extinguished the street lamps, halted traffic and elevated trains running overhead. The four gunmen, reinforced by an arsenal of rifles, shotguns and pistols, fired freely at the moving shapes in the darkness. One patrolman, Stephen Gilroy, 29, leaned cautiously forward from behind a steel girder; an instant later he was shot in the head and fell dead...