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...which leaves the question of what Rowling has done differently. Unlike some buff and brawny superheroes, Harry has the look of a nerd but the heart of a hero. He is small but fast: the wand is mightier than the sword. "He's kind of like me," says Alex Heggen, 12, of Des Moines, who, like so many kids, sees some of himself in Harry and hopes to find more of Harry in himself. "He's just brave sometimes ... I've got black hair, I wear glasses, we're about the same height ... Wearing glasses and having braces--getting picked...
Mister Roberts, by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan, opens on February 18 at the Alvin Theatre in New York City with Henry Fonda in the lead role. The play later won the Tony Award for Best Play in the second annual ceremony. Fonda also wins a Tony for his lead performance...
Taps for John Horne Burns (The Gallery), burned out and dead at 36. A volley for Tom Heggen (Mister Roberts), a suicide at 30. Honorable discharges for Irwin Shaw, James Jones, John Hersey and James Michener. Of that generation of promising World War II novelists, only two have combined the talent, versatility, nerve, style and combative instincts to make it in the great big American way that joins the oakleaf cluster of durable celebrity to money. Obviously one is Norman Mailer. The other, not usually thought of as having been a young war novelist, is Gore Vidal...
...careers of most men up to 1941 are prologues to the war itself. For Fonda, the war is a prologue to his work. He climbs out of Navy blues and into Navy blues. An old friend from stock-company days, Joshua Logan, has collaborated with Thomas Heggen on an adaptation of Mr. Roberts. Leland Hayward is the play's producer. "It was like being in love," recalls Fonda. "You had this good feeling in the guts practically all the time...
...Roberts (Warner) should be one of the biggest moneymakers of the year. It combines a sure-fire story, the honest-Injun appeal of Henry Fonda, and a bagful of tried and true comedy situations. Based on the long-run Broadway hit by Joshua Logan and the late Thomas Heggen, the film gains much from the CinemaScope opportunity to catch the horizon sweeps of the broad Pacific, the majestic overwater parade of a task force, and the sky-filling explosions of ocean dawns and sunsets...