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...coach Edward McCarthy, of the Southeast New Bedford Hot Wheels, shared Maynard's opinion of the heat. Nevertheless, citing the numerous athletes he coaches who brought home medals, he said he was enjoying the competition...
These three boys drove up to a school, intent on committing a murder in front of dozens of people, and they did just that. The three were apprehended the same day and were arraigned Tuesday in District 3 Juvenile Court in New Bedford. They are awaiting a trail that, with roughly twenty-five eyewitnesses, they have little chance of winning. It is what should be an open and shut case, both legally and morally. These kids committed a horrible crime without provocation and should never see the light of day again. The question is this: if the judicial system...
DIED. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 83, film director, writer and producer; in Bedford, New York. Mankiewicz loved words; he filmed words; he realized that talking pictures were just that. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he started off as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune before entering the world of film. He won an Oscar for best director and best screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and won both those awards again for All About Eve (1950). He also directed one of the biggest film flops of all time: Cleopatra (1963, starring Elizabeth Taylor). But his cinematic successes were legion...
...loved the stage; British paintings like Gallery of the Old Bedford treat the worn, overloaded gilt-and-mirror interiors with the seriousness another artist might have brought to an Italian church. Since Sickert had spent time in Venice, there may be some subliminal connection between the clusters of audience in derby hats, leaning precariously from the balconies and reflected in the mirrors, and the more elegant crowds that thronged Tiepolo's ceilings. Sickert never condescended, and his portraits of the now forgotten stars of this dead form of entertainment are done with fine straightforwardness: The Lion Comique, 1887 (patter singers...
Richard Nelson's quasi-historical piece about competing 19th century acting troupes, one led by a Briton and the other by an American, had moody staging by Jack O'Brien, three superb performances (by Brian Bedford, Victor Garber and Zjelko Ivanek) and an unjustly brief life on Broadway...