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...repeatedly on Warners to press for higher pay and protest its grueling working conditions and bumper-to-bumper production schedule. For all his fame, Cagney had little taste for Hollywood night life. He liked best the company of a permanent band of actor buddies, including Pat O'Brien, Spencer Tracy, Ralph Bellamy and Frank McHugh. In private he could be shy and gentle. O'Brien called him a "faraway fella...
...used the fast-changing rhythms of a hoofer to orchestrate a characterization. Like all the best actors, he always made it look easy. Like Spencer Tracy, he seemed a natural force: everything seemed to flow out without calculation. Tracy, however, made chamber music; Cagney was a marching band. It is probably this particular blend of effortlessness and theatricality that moved Orson Welles to marvel, "You're supposed to be scaled down and subtle in movie acting. But look at Cagney--he's big. Everything he does is big, and it works...
...glittering spectators could have been excused if they became confused about what star was being honored. The subject of the Manhattan benefit for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts was Spencer Tracy, a 1923 academy graduate who went on to what he might have called a nice little career of 74 films and two Oscars. But the actual star of the evening, in the hearts of the audience at least, was Katharine Hepburn, Tracy's co-star in nine movies and his real-life love for more than 20 years, until his death in 1967. The evening featured...
...Plano, Texas, committed suicide, four by carbon-monoxide poisoning, three by guns. Five boys in New York's Westchester and Putnam counties died by their own hand in February 1984, four of them by hanging. Within the past two weeks, one student at David Prouty High School in Spencer, Mass., committed suicide; at least two schoolmates, possibly four, tried to kill themselves and failed...
Kenton Jernigan, the top amateur in the nation, set the tone by dominating Navy's top player Spencer Wall, 3-0, surrendering only 18 points in the match...