Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writer, another $25,000 as director. Colbert draws $75,000 as producer.) Daystar also has a TV production contract with Fox, has an ambitious plan for pilot films. Daystar is also one of the financial angels for a personal management firm that Stevens expects will "bring many young people more rapidly toward the realization of their abilities." Star client: statuesque Kate Manx Stevens. There are deals in the works with Movie Mogul Joe Schenck, and there are plans for a publishing house, Daystar Press. First book: a hard-cover novel version of Marriage-Go-Round. Author: Leslie Stevens...
Actor Saxon, born in Brooklyn in 1935, is not a convincing Puerto Rican, but if Cry Tough has a redeeming feature, it is his quiet, unmumbling appeal as an upcoming young actor...
Look Back in Anger (Woodfall, Warner), when it opened on the London stage three years ago, became a sort of Uncle Tom's Diggings, fanning a flame and suggesting a name for the new literary group that was soon known as the Angry Young Men. Its hero, Jimmy Porter, bellowed rage at religion, the Sunday Times, and his mother-in-law, a woman, he rasped, who was as "rough as a night in a Bombay brothel...
...surreal ravings still tell a real story -of a young university graduate educated beyond his background through the goodness of the welfare state, frustrated in a nation living in twilight, a second-class citizen in a society where the first-class citizens "spend their time mostly looking forward to the past." He has captured his wife Alison (Mary Ure) from the enemy above. With her and his business partner (excellently played by Gary Raymond), he lives in an attic in a Midlands town so bleak that it seems to smell of soft coal and leftover herring. There, University Man Porter...
...talented young first novelist named H. L. (for Harold Louis) Humes last year produced an almost classic example of the ambitious book that tries to say too much. The Underground City (TIME, May 26, 1958) was at once a war novel, a treatise on right and wrong, an indictment of the human condition. Its 755 pages were too many and too tiring. Now, in less than one-quarter the wordage. Author Humes, 33, has produced a new book that gives off more significance than his first could even suggest...