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...obit headlines have it right. For all of Robert Mulligan's impressive credentials in his 40-year career as a director of television and movie dramas, his signature achievement was the 1962 film version of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The picture - which won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Gregory Peck, and earned Mulligan his only Oscar nomination - had an immediate and lasting impact. Back then it provided a Hollywood echo of the civil rights agitation that had roiled the South and seized the nation. But Peck's role as Atticus Finch...
...Universal Pictures, the sponsor of To Kill a Mockingbird, wanted the role of Atticus to go to its top star, Rock Hudson, whom Mulligan had directed the year before in the romantic comedy Come September. But Pakula and Mulligan held out for Peck, the screen's flintiest rock of movie rectitude. Lee was in enthusiastic agreement, for she had based Atticus on her lawyer father and saw a kinship between him and Peck. On the first day of shooting she told him, "Gregory, you've got a little potbelly just like my daddy," and Peck replied, "Harper, that's great...
...rights campaigners are in a forgiving mood. As far as it can be said about anyone, Bagosora was evil. In his book Shake Hands With The Devil, Romeo Dallaire, the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission when the Rwandan genocide began, described meeting Bagosora after the worst of the killing ended. "With menace in every line of his face, he promised that if he ever saw me again he would kill me," wrote Dallaire, who would later testify for the prosecution in Bagosora's case. The fact that such a man will spend the rest of his life behind bars...
...hockey.”Just three days after being upset on the road by Connecticut and falling out of the national polls for the first time in over six years, the Crimson came out firing against the Big Green. Harvard had to fight through nearly three minutes of penalty kill early in the first frame, after defensemen Kathryn Farni and Kati Vaughn were called for hooking. But as soon as Dartmouth’s advantage expired, the Crimson struck.Sophomore defenseman Leanna Coskren found tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt on the left side of the ice, and the senior took care...
...Rhee asks, "What is ... so exceptional about teachers that they should have [tenure]?" How about the fact that they are there when your daughter says she wants to kill herself, when your son is being teased, when your small child forgets lunch and needs a loan. All over the country, groups of teachers worried about youngsters are talking to one another to find answers. These teachers don't go home and forget; they are devising ways to reach their students even as they cook for their families. At first I thought Rhee did not understand D.C. culture, but after...