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Drawing heavily on his boyhood in an Italian neighborhood in New York City, Scorsese has constructed a loose narrative about a jobless adolescent named J.R. (Harvey Keitel) and a wispy, enigmatic girl (Zina Bethune). J.R. moves in a world where Cadillacs park conspicuously in front of tenements and the guy taking his grandchildren down to the corner for a lemon ice is the No. 1 professional murderer on the East Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Almost Making It | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...JUDY GARLAND SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Zina Bethune discards her nurse's uniform to try singing and dancing with Vic Damone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 15, 1963 | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

...early 20s, living in exile in Berlin, struggling not to be crippled by memories of the ancient family estate in Leshino, and trying to get his poetry and prose published in impoverished emigre magazines. His sister marries and leaves for Paris; he meets and falls in love with Zina, a remotely fragile German girl. All of this is simple, and corresponds roughly to the facts of Nabokov's own life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lord of Language | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...Nurses (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Louis Gossett, as guest star, is a gunman hospitalized after having been shot in a holdup. Treating his wounds are the series regulars: Head Nurse Liz Thorpe (Shirl Conway) and Student Nurse Gail Lucas (Zina Bethune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Nov. 2, 1962 | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...lack of security behind passionate tirades against the new world's lack of manners and tradition, almost managed to mask the fact that the play was little more than a monologue. This Property Is Condemned was another disguised monologue, touchingly acted by a 13-year-old ballet hopeful, Zina Bethune. As an abandoned child living in the tortured, twisted glories of her past, she bore a remarkable resemblance to her older but equally demented sister, Blanche DuBois of Streetcar fame. Tennessee's three were clearly the first drafts of a talented author's later work. Their distinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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