Word: sean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Villain of the piece is the devoted public prosecutor of Tangier, who presses for the execution of a bank robber, Sean McKenna, as a bonum exemplum of the power of the law even in that North African Gomorrah. Though only an accomplice in the crime, McKenna is condemned under the Draconian local statutes. As the hour of expiation nears, the distaste of prison wardens, lawyers, and even the firing squad grows rapidly...
After all those nights with the iguana down Mexico way, Director John Huston, 57, must have been getting used to "Juan." But it turns out he prefers "Sean." An Irishman by heritage, and a between-films resident of the Ould Sod for twelve years, the Missouri-born Huston has renounced his U.S. citizenship in favor of becoming Irish. "A person should be a citizen of the country in which he lives," said he. "I suppose it's a sort of atavism-a desire to get back to my ancestral roots. I've been thinking of this move...
Nothing floors Hollywood quite so much as an ordinary man with a reasonably strong character, and whenever one comes to town he stands out like a sea horse in a colony of jellyfish. One is there now. He is a polite, amiable, tall, dark, and loose-hung Scot named Sean Connery, who divides his time. In every other film he makes, he is Ian Fleming's Secret Agent James Bond (Dr. No, From Russia with Love). Now working in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie, he is playing a company owner who tries to cure a pretty kleptomaniac (Tippi Hedren...
Soft Sell. Connery is now making more than $200,000 a go, and he has a contractual guarantee of one freelance role for every appearance as Bond. He will soon be doing Fleming's Goldfinger, and after that he will go to Ireland to be Sean O'Casey in a film biography planned by Director John Ford...
...magic paper"-a scholarship to the Art Students League that brought him to the U.S. in 1945. Over the years after that, his clean-lined, brightly colored prints of California lettuce pickers and Fulton Market fish packers, plus his portraits of such literary figures as Bertolt Brecht and Sean O'Casey, won him a reputation as a wizard of the woodcut...