Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Un-American Activities Committee questioned 18 of the 23 about Communism, and they refused to answer. The other five boldly ignored the committee's subpoenas. All were blacklisted. Each of the 23, including Oscar-winning Actresses Gale Sondergaard and Anne Revere and Oscar-winning Writer Michael Wilson, demanded $2,250,000 in "damages for loss of employment opportunity" and $1,000,000 in punitive damages...
...fall, he plans to move to his land, build a five-room house for Elizabeth and their three young children (Monty, Randy and Michael). "I've done carpenter work, and I think I can get my house up." he said quietly. "Besides, many of the veterans who got farms up there last year came and offered to help. One fellow, a bachelor, is living in a tent, but you should see the crops he's got . . ." By spring, with his family in, Powers hopes to clear the rocks, uproot the brush and plow the land for his first...
...whole picture is a happy surprise. The songs (words by Johnny Mercer, music by Gene de Paul) are fresh; the dances (staged by Michael Kidd) are wonderfully prancy; the screenplay (by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley) is fairly funny without taking itself too seriously. Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain) does a fine kind of under-direction that leaves the picture looking as though it just happened. Even the Ansco color often tastefully fits the mood of the wide-screen scene...
...current era of matchstick prose and poetry: "Search the horizon as we will, we can see no budding poet, no young incipient novelist . . . The Irish literary Hamlet has expired; the rest is silence." The horizon-searching Irish Times has apparently overlooked a 44-year-old Belfast schoolteacher named Michael McLaverty, who is admittedly no Hamlet, but whose novels make first-rate kindling for a homely, old-fashioned literary fire...
...Suitor. In Los Angeles, suing for divorce, Mrs. Margaret McCarthy, 44, testified that her fourth husband Michael had falsely claimed that he owned a house, 180 acres of land, that he stood to win a $5,000,000 lawsuit over oil rights, that he was 56 when he was really...