Word: mockingbird
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...feeling rendered with light, sure strokes. It's also one more variation, but a lovely one, on a very old story form, the sensitive heart trapped in a monster's body. Think of Beauty and the Beast or Boo Radley, the well-meaning neighborhood oddity in To Kill a Mockingbird...
...gentle scores for more than 200 Hollywood films over 50 years; in Ojai, Calif. He composed the muscular jazz scores for such '50s films as The Man with the Golden Arm and Sweet Smell of Success; worked in a more delicate, bluer key for films like To Kill a Mockingbird and Far From Heaven; and created the familiar, oft heard themes for The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape. His only Oscar came for his score (but not the songs) for Thoroughly Modern Millie...
...gentle scores for more than 200 Hollywood films over 50 years; in Ojai, California. Bernstein composed the muscular jazz scores for such '50s films as The Man With the Golden Arm and Sweet Smell of Success; worked in a more delicate, bluer key for films like To Kill a Mockingbird and Far From Heaven; and created the familiar, oft-heard themes for The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape. His only Oscar came for his score (but not the songs) to Thoroughly Modern Millie...
...long prime with a Mount Rushmore visage and the voice of Yahweh on a good day, Peck was the sonorous pitchman for movie humanism. He showed how a strong man could also be a gentle man. He counseled ethnic tolerance: of Jews, in Gentleman's Agreement, and blacks, in Mockingbird. As a crusading attorney who is also a gentle single dad to his two young kids, Peck made rectitude appear robust. That sanctity had staying power: this month the American Film Institute chose Atticus Finch as the top hero in U.S. movie history...
DIED. GREGORY PECK, 87, square-jawed Hollywood leading man and star of such films as Gentleman's Agreement and To Kill a Mockingbird; in Los Angeles. (See page...