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Jack Lemmon will star in FACE OF A HERO, a new play by Robert L. Joseph, opening Tuesday, Oct. 4, for two weeks, at the Wilbur. HA 6-5827. Tickets $2.40 to $5.50. Also at the Wilbur, RAISIN IN THE SUN, winner of the 1959-60 Drama Critics' Award, closing Saturday...
...there was Susskind. out in the Hollywood provinces last week, and not just to carry the battle to the enemy's home ground. He was there to show the languorous natives how to make motion pictures-and money. Among the Barbarians. Producing the screen version of A Raisin in the Sun for Columbia Pictures. Susskind makes it clear to all Hollywood that he is an East Coast messiah. Tossing off remarks about filmland's Gomorrah atmosphere, its chronic fearfulness. its tendency "to run with the tide." he sits in self-imposed isolation at one end of the long...
...power to make his presence felt. After fruitless chats with M-G-eminence Benny Thau, he came away saying: "The only thing we have in common is breathing." His current mission, as he sees it. is to light Hollywood's way out of its cultural cave. After A Raisin in the Sun, he has contracted to do three more films for Columbia, is considering doing the life of Evita Peron, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Rich Boy and Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow...
...Hotel Edison, Equity was in session. Poised, ponytailed children from The Sound of Music, clutching lap dogs, mingled with Negroes from Raisin in the Sun and Orientals from A Majority of One. Sari-draped Vivien Leigh held court, apparently trying to play a curious mixture of Cleopatra and Joan of Arc. Equity's George Nicolau recalled the 1919 strike: "Let your answer be now as it was then-Equity!" But hardly anyone remembered the old marching hymn. Shrunken in size. Equity is now "just a cut above the horseshoers" (as one labor organizer cracked), and for years has been...
...rich kids go to Wayne, its students go on to all sorts of success. Wayne's alumni include former U.S. Surgeon General Leonard Scheele, TV's Hugh Downs-and Broadway Director Lloyd (Raisin in the Sun) Richards. Wayne produced not only the union brothers Reuther, but also G.M.'s Vice President Louis G. Seaton, who sits across from Walter at the bargaining table. "To get through Wayne," says Seaton, "I worked eight hours a day as a sign painter. It was a down-to-earth, hardworking place then, and it still is. I feel awfully good about...