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...Universal Pictures, the sponsor of To Kill a Mockingbird, wanted the role of Atticus to go to its top star, Rock Hudson, whom Mulligan had directed the year before in the romantic comedy Come September. But Pakula and Mulligan held out for Peck, the screen's flintiest rock of movie rectitude. Lee was in enthusiastic agreement, for she had based Atticus on her lawyer father and saw a kinship between him and Peck. On the first day of shooting she told him, "Gregory, you've got a little potbelly just like my daddy," and Peck replied, "Harper, that's great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mockingbird Director Robert Mulligan Dies at 83 | 12/21/2008 | See Source »

...Miss Daisy she earned an Oscar as Best Actress in 1990. Two years later she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Fried Green Tomatoes. By then Tandy was more than an actress; she was a living monument to the old- fashioned belief in survival of the flintiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OBITUARY: The Last Leading Lady: Jessica Tandy (1909-1994) | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

...BOTTOM LINE: A majestic, misanthropic western finds the movies' flintiest icon musing on his own legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Roundup | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

Humanitarianism can take root in the flintiest soil. Even killing ground. While the national debate about the death penalty goes on, the Texas Senate last week passed a bill to make the method of execution in Texas "injection of a substance in a quantity to cause death." Electric chairs now wait for the some 58 inmates on Texas' death row, and Representative Ben Grant, who sponsored the original assembly bill, explains: "We've gone from stoning to the cross to the guillotine and now we need a more modern method. The current ritual of burning a person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Socrates' Way | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...Marilyn the Wild, Jerome Char-yn's ninth novel, father questing becomes a bizarre and moving search-and-destroy mission. Isaac Sidel, the flintiest, least corrupt, most overbearing cop in New York, is a self-appointed patriarch of the Lower East Side. For 20 years he has kept his microcosm free of outside influence. But too many people now find it hard to breathe when he is around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Terrible Beauty | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

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