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...British government adopted a more aggressive security policy to break the deadlock with the i.r.a. During that push, a secret army detachment known as the Force Research Unit managed to insert an agent named Brian Nelson into the Ulster Defense Association, a loyalist gang. F.R.U.'s commander, Colonel Gordon Kerr (now Brigadier), later claimed his intent with Nelson was to stop killings. But the effect of the intelligence the army passed to Nelson was to turn the U.D.A., a vicious but often inept terrorist group, into a much smoother death machine. Many suspect the f.r.u.'s real goal...
Made famous by the memorable beach scene in From Here to Eternity which locks actors Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in a sandy embrace, the screenwriter was a master at adapting literature to the screen...
DIED. JEAN KERR, 80, witty, self-deprecating writer; of pneumonia; in White Plains, N.Y. The widow of New York Times drama critic Walter Kerr, with whom she wrote several plays, Kerr had her greatest solo hit with Please Don't Eat the Daisies, a best-selling collection of vignettes about domestic life that became a movie starring Doris Day. Kerr said she did most of her writing while waiting in the car for her six children. "There is nothing to do but write after I get the glove compartment tidied up," she said...
...DIED. JEAN KERR, 80, American author and widow of drama critic Walter Kerr, whose farcical portrayal of married life and show business resulted in the best-seller Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957) and the Broadway hit Mary, Mary (1961); in White Plains, New York. A colorful collection of everyday oddities, Please Don't Eat the Daisies was made into a movie with Doris Day and David Niven in 1960 and an NBC television series from 1965 to 1967. At the height of her success, Kerr remarked: "It's pretty good for a girl who tried writing to justify...
She’s got credentials aplenty—most recently, she won the Berrilla Kerr playwriting award, was writer-in-residence alongside August Wilson at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and has put on three of her own plays here at Harvard. But Jarcho’s charisma and cheerful iconoclasm go far beyond her résum?...