Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessarily bad. Some memorable plays have been drawn from books, notably Life with Father and Diary of Anne Frank. And particularly in the musical field, adaptations have long been the rule, from Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow to Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady. As Critic Walter Kerr points out: "Adaptations, so long as they are good, still qualify as creative." And other defenders invariably argue that, after all, Shakespeare and Moliere were adapters too. The difference is that the masters took the bare frame of a plot and filled it with their own world; most modern adapters totally accept...
...President-elect would like to see you down in Palm Beach next week. Can you make it?" When Rooney allowed that he could indeed, Lyndon Johnson made his own plans to be there too. To muddy up the purpose of the trip, he brought along Oklahoma Senator Robert Kerr, Johnson's probable successor as chairman of the Senate Aeronautical & Space Sciences Committee. (Noted a Kennedy aide: "You can do a lot of things and say you talked about space...
...Palm Beach Towers. Next morning a comely Kennedy secretary drove him from the hotel, prattled through a guided tour of Joe Kennedy's cream-colored villa before depositing him in the library. There was a suitable moment's wait, then in strode Jack, followed shortly by Lyndon, Kerr and incoming Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. (Notably absent: future Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
Grant plays a British earl who has opened his stately home to public visitation at half a crown a head. "An Englishman's home," his wife (Deborah Kerr) observes cheerily, "is not only his castle...
...Sundowners. When not upstaged by dingoes, wombats, endless flocks of sheep and Peter Ustinov, Stars Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr are appropriately knockabout as a shiftless couple beating the Australian bush...