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...CABIN FEVER Get the real scoop on "life in the freezer" from this site, diligently maintained by a gossipy (and anonymous) employee of McMurdo Station, Antarctica's largest base. Pages are packed with entertaining complaints about mail and food and lots of vicious, small-town backbiting...
...movie studio wanted Rock Hudson to play Atticus Finch. Fate decreed otherwise. Gregory Peck got the role of the small-town Southern lawyer in the 1962 film version of To Kill a Mockingbird. The hero of Harper Lee's Pulitzer-prizewinning novel had been a man much like her father, and when the author met the actor on the first day of shooting, she noted, "Gregory, you've got a little potbelly just like my daddy." The star replied, "Harper, that's great acting...
DIED. Gregory Peck, 87, classically handsome, gravelly voiced Hollywood leading man famed for playing characters who were idealistic, courageous and wise; in Los Angeles. Over a six-decade career, Peck received five Oscar nominations and won the best actor award in 1962 for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, a small-town lawyer battling racism in To Kill a Mockingbird. Although not all his roles were likable?Peck played a mad scientist who clones Hitler in The Boys from Brazil?he once said, "I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean...
...Harvard had come to be known as the Kremlin on the Charles. Letters to The Crimson accused the University of being a center of communist indoctrination. Sensationalist headlines in major newspapers and small-town dailies lambasted Harvard for harboring “Red” faculty members...
...Small-town newspapers throughout the country printed excerpts of McCarthy’s letter within 48 hours of its release, dubbing the attack “Pusey vs. McCarthy.” A torrent of editorial letters flooded publications’ mailboxes...