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...bestselling novel of the same name. It tells the story of an Indianapolis family held prisoner in its own home by three escaped convicts who are ready to do anything, and the worse the better, to avoid capture. The leader of the gang (Humphrey Bogart) is a sallow old paranoid with nothing to lose but his worst enemy, the cop (Arthur Kennedy) who put him away. Bogart's younger brother (Dewey Martin) is a mixed-up little slumbunny with hot pants and cold feet. The third con (Robert Middleton) is a 260-lb. flitch of muscle directed...
...chance to get into local football games free, as a member of the Central Catholic High School band. What she thought she wanted then was to become a psychiatrist-largely because she had seen the movie Spellbound (in which Ingrid Bergman played psychiatrist to Gregory Peck's paranoid guilt complex). But then Lillian began to listen to such jazz artists as Baritone Saxman Gerry Mulligan and Trumpeter Chet Baker, and she became enthusiastic about her trombone...
Until he killed his parents last summer, Harlow Fraden was unable to work out any really satisfactory way of shaping his environment to fit his ego and personality. He tried immersing himself in poetry, but his mother-whom he habitually described to friends as "that hateful paranoid"-would have none of it. After he graduated from New York University as a chemistry major last June, she plagued him to get a job "like other boys." Instead, Harlow-a tall, thin, languid youth with cropped red hair and heavy hornrimmed glasses-lounged about the family's Bronx apartment, owlishly reading...
...rest of his life in the painful confines of a wheelchair; of complications following a bone operation; in Manhattan. His controversial 1952 book, A Catholic Speaks His Mind, was a biting criticism of U.S. Catholicism ("booming, aggressive, materialistic, socially ambitious, and inclined to use its membership as a paranoid pressure group...
Approaching middle age and permanently cased in a paranoid "mail of ice," Frederick Rolfe somehow found the strength to begin a new career as a writer...