Word: lancasterism
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After the U.S. put its first astronaut into space in 1961, Smith decided that was where he wanted to be. His first step was to gain admission to a service academy. "In high school he paid a lot of attention to academics because he knew that was the best way...
For many, the most moving moment occurred when Actor Burt Lancaster read a telegram from Rock Hudson, the veteran movie and TV star who acknowledged last July that he had been stricken with the illness, which is almost invariably fatal. Hudson's disclosure sent shock waves through the West Coast...
DIED. Harold Hecht, 77, independent film producer who followed a string of Technicolor swashbucklers in the mid-1950s with the low-budget, Oscar-winning Marty; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. Hecht was a struggling agent when he teamed up with Actor Burt Lancaster; during the next 15 years, the pair...
She is "very, very bad" at drawing and says that "talent, unfortunately, is not hereditary." Nevertheless, Sophie Renoir, 20, a great-granddaughter of French Impressionist Painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, is determined to express herself. Her chosen medium is film acting (well, her great-uncle is Film Maker Jean Renoir), and...
Birnbach's effort has received mixed grades. Her mostly favorable description of Amherst strikes its public affairs director, Douglas Wilson, as "fair enough," and her in-person approach gets praise from W.W. Washburn, head of admissions at the University of Washington. But other administrators award her a D-. A...