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...young actors and locating their emotional acuity. Mulligan directed Paul Newman in his second TV appearance (Suspense, 1952), and three years later in the Vidal TV play The Death of Billy the Kid, which Newman replayed on the big screen as The Left Handed Gun. Steve McQueen, Sidney Poitier, Walter Matthau, Rosemary Harris and George C. Scott did potent early TV work under his guiding hand. Scott made his Broadway debut in the only play Mulligan directed, the 1958 Comes a Day. He was no slouch with veterans either, winning an Emmy in 1960 for directing Laurence Olivier...
...highlight of my year was visiting Walter Reed Army Hospital with my beloved New York Mets last summer. I'll never forget two of the younger players, Daniel Murphy and Nick Evans, sitting patiently with an equally young double amputee who talked a blue streak but couldn't remember where he was serving when he was wounded. We also met several of the extraordinary soldiers who were badly wounded while holding their Afghan firebase against an overwhelming Taliban assault last July. The Mets crashed, yet again, at the end of the season, but they earn a Teddy for remembering...
...shown the confidence to hit big shots late in the game.” GW forward Damian Hollis had a game-high 22 points, and forward Rob Diggs and guard Tony Taylor also posted double figures with 12 and 11, respectively. —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...
...Together, Chess and Waters—along with songwriter Willie Dixon, played by Cedric the Entertainer—begin to construct the Chess empire. Dixon’s voiceover, which opens and closes the film, serves as a narrative frame for the entire film. Waters and Little Walter, played by Columbus Short, popularize a blues style that is copied by other artists, destroying their chances at mainstream success. Chess seeks out a different artist who can cross over not just in terms of style, but in terms of color, from country-boy black to white radio. He finds Chuck Berry...
...Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...