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...Earth, the commanders refuse, symbolically showing the value of working together. This action is supposed to stand as a sign for the rest of the world to follow. But it remains frustratingly unclear in the movie why the Soviet commander capitulates to the head of the American expedition, Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider), without any explanation...
William Manchester ¶A Private View, Irene Mayer Selznick ¶-Whose Little Boy Are You? Heywood Hale Broun
...Heywood Hale Broun
Surviving in such an emotional climate was a challenge that Heywood Hale Broun was barely able to meet. It has taken the television commentator 50 years to recover, and even now he bears scars. Yet in this poignant memoir, Broun, 65, manages to salute two forthright eccentrics who "probably shouldn't have gotten married; probably should never have had a child; and probably shouldn't, after 17 years of marriage, have gotten divorced...
...Woodie slowly pieced himself together, his home disintegrated. Heywood Sr., a large, rumpled man of prodigious appetites, prided himself on looking like an unmade bed. It was a bed that welcomed many female visitors. The warring Brouns kept the marriage alive by retreating to separate houses. Woodie shuttled between them until he was forced to choose between parents. He opted to live with his father, a decision that merely added to his misery and guilt. A year after the divorce, in 1934, Ruth was dead. Broun Sr., a lifelong atheist, converted to Roman Catholicism shortly before his death...