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DIED. GARSON KANIN, 86, playwright and director whose Born Yesterday (1946 on stage, 1950 in film) is considered a comedy classic; in New York. With his wife, the actress Ruth Gordon, Kanin wrote the scripts for several of the more celebrated movie pairings of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, including Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952). He also claimed some credit for his brother Michael's screenplay for Woman of the Year...
...Ford was brought to Harvard as a Heffernan visiting fellow of the IOP, and delivered the Albert H. Gordon '23 endowed lecture...
...Previous Gordon speeches have been given by James A. Baker III, George H. W. Bush and Robert J. Dole, among others...
...Around the industry last week, one sensed that many judged 47 years of relentless contumely more than sufficient punishment for Kazan's ancient apostasy. It is not at all clear how many supporters are rallying to a campaign led by two formerly blacklisted screenwriters, Abraham Polonsky and Bernard Gordon, urging the audience at the Oscar ceremony to "sit on their hands" when Kazan accepts his award unless he recants his sins. This curious plan represents something of a tactical retreat for Polonsky, who only weeks ago was "hoping someone shoots [Kazan]" because "it would no doubt be a thrill...
...Gordon's latest work--a fine, well-acted film, by the way--is based on the memoir Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam Jr., a former engineer at NASA who grew up in a small West Virginia coal town in the late '50s hoping to pursue a career in rocketry. This was against the wishes of his father, who in the movie says things like, "Quit wastin' time worryin' about Wernher von Braun," and "By golly, you'd find out [about life in the mines] soon enough...