Word: offbeaters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Night) Capra insists that this time he is playing it straight. After years of research he is anxious to get started filming the life of St. Paul, and he has already picked his leading man: Frank Sinatra. "I'll admit that at first Sinatra seems a little offbeat for the role," says Capra. "When I first mentioned it to him, I think he was shocked. But there's no doubt about his acting ability, or his depth of feeling, and when you remember what kind of man St. Paul was when he started out -he started...
...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late novelist's last testament to offbeat life, suggesting that a sinning outsider may have the inside track...
...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late British novelist's last testament to offbeat life, suggesting that a sinning outsider may have the inside track...
...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late British novelist's last testament to offbeat life richly portrays a tawdry faith healer who suggests that a sinning outsider may have the inside track...
...from her Tennessee upbringing. Bonnie Golightly points to some other evidence. Like Capote's Holly, she lived in a brownstone on Manhattan's fashionable East Side, with a bar around the corner on Lexington. Like Holly, she is an avid amateur folk singer with many theatrical and offbeat friends. Like Holly, Bonnie says: "I just love cats. The cat thing corresponds, and all the hair-washing and a lot of little things hither and yon." One bit of Hollyana to which Bonnie makes no claim: "I've never, absolutely never, had a Lesbian roommate...