Word: newmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program of professional entertainment. Folk Singers Joan Baez, Josh White, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Peter-Paul-and-Mary rendered hymns and civil rights songs. Actor Marlon Brando brandished an electric cattle prod of the sort sometimes used by cops against civil rights demonstrations. Author James Baldwin, Actors Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston made appearances. And onetime Folies-Bergère Star Josephine Baker looked out at the biracial crowd and snapped satisfiedly: "Salt and pepper-just what it should...
Saturday, August 17 The Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Part II of the Emmy award-winning drama Madman. Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11:20 p.m.). The Long, Hot Summer, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Color...
...Newman's acting is one of two things that make Hud better than just a good modern adult western. The other is the screenplay, adapted by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. from a novel by Larry McMurtry. Besides being an absorbing study in the conflict between two strong personalities, it is that rarity among Hollywood scripts, a critique of society...
...could not have explored its unanswered moral questions with the subtlety it does without a performer like Paul Newman in the title role. It's easy to condemn sin: but it's not so easy to condemn the concrete, complex individual sinner. Newman makes Hud a man of charm and magnetism, a man difficult to dislike. Hud trades shamelessly on his personal attractiveness, but his shamelessness is a characteristic of his society as well as himself. Newman is letter-perfect, from his insolent walk to the mock-tough way he propositions the Bannon family maid. Even when Hud is silent...
...other actors in Hud provide good support for Newman. Melvyn Douglas' Homer is a bit too Isaiah-like; he oversimplifies his role, but without serious damage to the film's impact. Brandon de Wilde, as Lon, performs with the right mixture of naivete and poignant adolescent embarrasment. Patricia Neal, as Alma, the maid, is outstanding; she is convincing and matter-of-fact...