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...Many first-year law students enter wanting to be Atticus Finch and leave wanting to be Arnie Becker," Kahlenberg said, referring to the idealistic lawyer in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and the materialistic lawyer...
...echoes of To Kill a Mockingbird and The Member of the Wedding are hard to miss, and the show's two-hour pilot moves as slowly as, well, molasses in January. Yet producers Joshua Brand and John Falsey (St. Elsewhere, Northern Exposure) have created a drama of rich texture, few tricks and much truth. The racial issues are sketched in deft, understated strokes, from the way Lily quietly eats her dinner separately from the family she has just served to her six-year-old charge's innocent questions after a bus ride ("How come me and you had to change...
...just plain citizens who weighed in last week after MCA chairman Wasserman announced that he was selling Universal Pictures and the rest of the MCA entertainment giant to Matsushita Electric Industrial for $6.1 billion. How could he, they asked, sell to foreigners the studio that made To Kill a Mockingbird, Jaws, E.T., Born on the Fourth of July and Back to the Future? The home of TV heroes Magnum, Columbo, Jim Rockford, Sonny Crockett and even the Beaver? The company that runs the lodgings and jitneys in Yosemite Park? In Hollywood, some moviemakers wondered whether industrialists in Osaka would...
Parks, 47, has the salt-and-pepper hair and gentle, distracted manner of a day player in To Kill a Mockingbird. He was born in Hattiesburg, Miss., during the waning days of World War II. His father was the founder of Dick Parks and the White Swan Serenaders, and when not being what his son calls "an avocational musician," he pursued psychiatry as a colleague of Karl Menninger's. Young Van Dyke landed his first professional job with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1951 ("in the boys' choir") and has been doing unexpected things ever since...
...think of something piquant to say on your way to the gas chamber. 'See you in hell, Mom,' is nice. Things like . . . 'Don't stop to mourn, organize' sound too stiff for what's basically an informal situation." It is at such times that the mask of the mockingbird slips off to reveal the owl beneath, hooting at a world he is furiously attempting to save...