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...Universal Pictures, the sponsor of To Kill a Mockingbird, wanted the role of Atticus to go to its top star, Rock Hudson, whom Mulligan had directed the year before in the romantic comedy Come September. But Pakula and Mulligan held out for Peck, the screen's flintiest rock of movie rectitude. Lee was in enthusiastic agreement, for she had based Atticus on her lawyer father and saw a kinship between him and Peck. On the first day of shooting she told him, "Gregory, you've got a little potbelly just like my daddy," and Peck replied, "Harper, that's great...
...impeach. If the vote passes, a formal trial is held in the Senate. If the Senate finds the official guilty of any of the House's charges, he or she is booted from office. (If this sounds boring, just read the above paragraph like it's a Schoolhouse Rock song...
...Story of My Life," that is a high point, even if the screechy characters wear a little thin as the evening goes on. Composer Jeanine Tesori (with lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire) has supplied a few other cute numbers, most of them straightforward Broadway pop but with an occasional blues-rock beat, as in the funny, flatulence-enlivened love duet between Shrek and Fiona, "I Think I Got You Beat." The musical's main addition to the movie's irreverent spirit is a few quick spoofs of other Broadway shows, from Gypsy to The Lion King, which add some...
Beware of people throwing things at you in the Middle East, even shoes. Think David and Goliath or the Palestinian intifadeh - a rebellion set off by a thrown rock. Or better yet, think of the rocks thrown in Nabatiyah, Lebanon...
...Rock me, sexy PUTIN...