Word: raying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rebel Without A Cause. James Dean rose to instant stardom as the troubled teenaged Jim Stark, a young man who has to learn to "choose your own friends; don't let them choose you." Nicholas Ray's talent is evident, but the script has some appalling weaknesses that even Dean's mumbling can't obscure. The film affected an entire generation, not to mention a generation of cinema, and Dean became a cult hero overnight. His talent is both marvelous and overwhelming, and the supporting cast is understated enough not to cramp his style. Natalie Wood, Jim Backus, Sal Mineo...
...RAY H. HYNDS...
Newport-New England. Friday: War, Ray Charles, Herbie Mann, the Staple Singers, and Billy Paul. Saturday: Donny Hathaway, B.B. King, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Stevie Wonder. At Fenway Park, July 27 and 28. Tickets...
...entirely different vein, the first day of the festival saw a reunion after 30 years of the Benny Goodman quartet, consisting of Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa and Teddy Wilson. Expatriate black author James Baldwin, returning to America from France, narrated his biography, The Life and Times of Ray Charles, in a special tribute. Other special festival recognitions went to Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, the late Art Tatum and the late Louis Armstrong...
...Damn Yankees. The unlikely mixture of music, baseball, and the Faust legend is sheer delight. Gwen Verdon demonstrates why Lola gets exactly what she wants, and a pre-Martian Ray Walston makes a slippery devil. Natives of Washington, D.C., enjoy this film more than any other viewers, for it is only those maligned sufferers who have spent hundreds of nights listening to the Senators lose and waiting for the cool Canadian air masses to move in who have considered selling their souls for an air conditioner and just one win over the Yankees, not to mention a pennant. Channel...