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HARKNESS COMMONS. To Kill a Mockingbird...
...fathom her reputation judging from her work here. She is flam boyant to the point of grotesquery, as is Miss Muldaur. But the Udvarnoky boys are appallingly convincing as the fey twins. Mulligan's special talent for directing children (Up the Down Stair case, To Kill a Mockingbird) is again splendidly in evidence here...
Faulkner's story was not one of his best, but it was far from as mawkish as what Foote (who was also responsible for the screenplay of To Kill a Mockingbird) has homespun out of it. The farmer undergoes every conceivable trial and hardship. When the woman dies soon after giving birth, the farmer devotedly raises the child (Johnny Mask) as his own, only to see the law return him eventually to his natural father. But like Dilsey in The Sound and the Fury, the farmer endures. Foote's script and Anthony's leaden direction transform this...
...Kill a Mockingbird. Gregory Peck in an Oscar-winning drama about bigotry in the South. 11, March 5, Chan...
...Artur Rubinstein, 81, received an honorary Oscar for his contributions (the dialogue and the music) to L'Amour de la Vie, a movie based on reminiscences of his life. Asked if the pianist could also be considered an actor, Gregory Peck, an Oscar winner himself (To Kill a Mockingbird in 1963), who presented the statuette to Rubinstein, replied: "Good Lord, yes. He's a much better actor than...