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Jessica Tandy wins a Tony for her role in A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams' drama. Along with winning a Pulitzer Prize for best drama, Williams' play included Marlon Brando, whose performance caused Life to comment that his "deeply meant acting and oddly compelling way of speaking showed that he was an actor of real stature." Brando's sister, Jocelyn, also graced Broadway, starring in Mister Roberts. Other Tony winners include Paul Kelly for his role in Command Decision, Basil Rathbone for The Heiress and Judith Anderson for Medea...
...Turner's brush. "Beautiful day, isn't it?" a neighbor asks one predictably fabulous morning, and Truman chirps back, "Always!" He's headed for his honorable job as an insurance salesman, then home to his blond, bedimpled wife Meryl, perhaps off for a late brewski with his best friend, Marlon. You have it all, Truman: good afternoon, good evening and good night! Except for one thing, folks. The whole kit and kaboodle is fake. Truman (Jim Carrey) is the unknowing star of a 24-hour-a-day TV drama that has been aired live around the world for nearly...
...Marlon A. Cicero, one of these demonstrators,described intense hostility leveled against hisgroup, including racial epithets. One member ofthe group was spat upon, he said...
...imagine a restaurant or owner allowingone of their waiters to do something like that,"Smith said. "The waiter certainly has a problemwith Marlon [Davis] and people who he associateswith Marlon. It's discrimination and illtreatment. Whether it's motivated by race, I don'tknow...
...terror, the Sovereignty Commission often seemed like a band of Klanstone Kops. Investigators were flummoxed by the race of a baby with a light complexion and dark, curly hair. They railed hilariously at "beatniks" and "Castroites" and sought to boycott sponsors of integrationist entertainers such as Lena Horne and Marlon Brando...