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...life has been as bitter as his father's darkest tragedies, and Shane O'Neill, 45, Eugene's disinherited son, believes he suffers from a tribal curse...
...Since any departure from formula comedy seems worthy, a slapstick farce about the Civil War perhaps deserves a nod for trying a different attack. This frolic manages, however, to be unremittingly fast, flip, energetic, and for the most part humorless. Based on a sober historical novel by Jack Schaefer (Shane), the movie attempts to spark laughs by logging the misadventures of Company Q, a detachment of Yankee misfits led by inept Colonel Melvyn Douglas and his wry-smiling lieutenant, Glenn Ford. The boobs under their command include a firebug, a flagpole sitter, a kleptomaniac, a skittish soldier afflicted with...
...tough-guy movie hero, a slight and, in real life, amiable Californian who hit the marquees in 1942 as the suave, trench-coated hood in This Gun for Hire (with Veronica Lake), played much the same cool role some 200 times thereafter, winning brickbats from the critics (except in Shane) but such dogged admiration from the fans that, as he once said, "every time Paramount wants to meet the payroll, they start an Alan Ladd picture"; found dead in bed; at his Palm Springs, Calif., home...
Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Shane Creamer found the publications worse than that. They are "patently offensive" and "go beyond the customary limits that society tolerates," said he. Judge Ralph C. Body apparently agreed. Last week the judge convicted Ginzburg on all 28 counts-leaving the publisher liable to fines as high as $140,000 and 140 years in prison when he is sentenced, sometime in the next few weeks...
Divorced. By Alfred Bertram ("Bud") Guthrie Jr., 62, novelist (The Way West) and screenwriter (Shane); Harriet Larson Guthrie, 55; on grounds of cruelty; after 32 years of marriage, two children; in Billings, Mont...