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...only seen the extremes of America, either New York or Los Angeles. I've never been in what I call 'real America' before," said Glenda Jackson, 48, from the heartland. This week the English stage and film star finishes a four-week stint in Scranton, Pa., where she has been trying out one of her most challenging roles-that of university professor. Accompanied by her son Daniel, 15, Jackson has been on a working vacation at the Jesuit-run University of Scranton, teaching a master class in acting for a hand-picked group of twelve students from...
...Henry Higgins in Pygmalion." Young Burton probably had more in common, however, with Alfred Doolittle, the free-living dustman in the play, who, as Higgins said, had "a certain natural gift of rhetoric." That gift took Burton to Oxford during World War II, and in 1948, after a mandatory stint in the Royal Air Force, to London's West End, where he soon established himself as a logical successor to the reigning monarchs of the stage: Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. Coriolanus, he thought, was his greatest role, and others agreed. "Nobody else can ever again play...
...Daniel James, 73, a Kansas City-bred, Andover-and Yale-educated Anglo, who was a Hollywood screenwriter before being blacklisted by McCarthyites in 1951. James took on his ethnic nom de plume (Santiago is used in Spanish for James) shortly after he and his wife began a 25-year stint as social workers in predominantly Chicano East Los Angeles. James says that his intention was never to deceive but simply "to write about Mexicans from the inside. I wasn't trying to jump on the ethnic bandwagon." Besides, he liked being the impudent young Santiago who is "like...
...exist." So said the U.S.S.R.'s internationally celebrated film director Andrei Tarkovsky as he announced in Milan last week that he was seeking political asylum in the West. One reason for his decision: Soviet officials had ignored his repeated applications for permission to extend an 18-month working stint abroad. The director, whose wife is with him, said that requests for other members of his family to join him, particularly Son Andrei, 13, had also gone unheeded...
During his first stint for Time Inc., as a writer for FORTUNE, Agee was assigned a story that let him weld his overheated rhetoric to a social theme: the lives of '30s sharecroppers in the South, with photographs by Walker Evans. Agee later appraised his own work as "a sinful book at least in all degrees of 'falling short of the mark.' " The critical and popular response reflected his view: published as a book in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men had sold only 600 copies by the end of the year. But Agee...