Word: rooney
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...Entertainment and a former programming sachem at Nickelodeon, is more emphatic. "Kids' TV is where you find the stars, not of tomorrow, but of today," he avers. "Movie directors don't need casting tapes anymore; they just need to turn on the TV. This is a golden age--Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland...
...when moviegoing was a family adventure, young actors ruled. Rooney was the top box-office draw in America, and Garland sent adults and kids over the rainbow. Teen soprano Deanna Durbin was, at 14, the world's highest paid actress. At the same age, Bonita Granville had her own series: the Nancy Drew films. Our Gang and the Dead End Kids filled out the program...
...seemed to think, didn't demean the subject so much as the artist. He had an inability to find the jugular in a entertainment figure. He did go for the jungular, exaggerating facial features and specializing in a kind of reverse anthropomorphism: he turned men into beasts. To Mickey Rooney, Bert Lahr and Zero Mostel, he gave outsize snouts. Many women he saw as birds: Lynn Fontanne, Katharine Hepburn and others are long-necked swans. He was drawn to larger-than-life, larger-than-art figures, from the vaudeville clowns Weber and Fields to later, self-distorting creatures like Jerry...
...ideas may not garner universal support; they are not intended to. Rain dispersed the crowd watching Ferris Bueller long before the hero triumphed and Mr. Rooney limped home defeated. However, outspoken and outgoing, Summers has already outdone Rudenstine in his contributions to Harvard’s intellectual and social vitality. Long may he continue...
...more Protestant approach to salvation, he strives to keep Michael Jr. from following his father's violent path. David Self's screenplay alters the story in clever ways to bring out the theme of father-and-son relationships. For the movie Sullivan Sr. becomes the adopted son of Rooney (authoritatively played by Paul Newman) whose jealous son, Conner (Daniel Craig) orchestrates the murder of Sullivan's family. Where the book's crucial father/son scene has the father assuring the son that we can all leave this world in a state of forgiveness, the movie has the father confessing that...