Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muscle flexing from A (for assault with a deadly weapon) down to Y (for yelling from the witness stand-see Investigations). But it missed the last letter, until Z turned up around the House of Representatives recently in the form of a hard-boiled Hoffa lobbyist. His name: Sidney Zagri...
...That Gloria and "Stoky" could never see eye to eye on the children had been apparent to friends for a long time. After she divorced him (because, as a friend says, "she found she didn't need a father, and wanted a husband"), she married Stage-TV Director Sidney Lumet, who was her own age, and resumed housekeeping in her ten-room duplex penthouse on Manhattan's fashionable Gracie Square. There, in the glow of dramatic opulence (red rugs, red chairs, white curtains, a pink passageway, a yellow door), she was transported to the heady world of upper...
...their steps, and then suddenly take up a stance and break into song. And for some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak in precise, cultivated accents that are miles away from the Negro slums of South Carolina. For that matter, Sidney Poitier's Porgy is not the dirty, ragtag beggar of the Heyward script, but a well-scrubbed young romantic hero who is never seen taking a penny from anybody. And Dorothy Dandridge, who emphasizes the elegance of her bones more than the sins of the flesh, makes something...
Blackboard Jungle (at the Brattle, today and tomorrow only). This is the juvenile delinquency classic that helped Sidney Poitier and Glenn Ford to stardom...
...like a cameo. A good girl in Bus Stop, raped, kicked and beaten in Peyton Place, a glossy career girl in The Best of Everything, she can project whatever is asked for with the professional competence of an actress who started on the stage when she was twelve (in Sidney Kingsley's The Patriots). "A lot of people who are stars never have time to work out what they are doing," says she. "Acting is important to me, and I believe it is important to the world...