Word: casting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Ritchie, director of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad," described the events this way: Returning from a cast party at 4:30 a.m., he discovered a four-foot pile of crumpled newspapers outside his door. Dismissing it as a prank, he entered his room and prepared to retire when the smell of smoke began to permeate the room...
...Bancroft caught much of the charm of her impetuosity. Indeed, when the theater's elite gathered to celebrate her triumph at the opening night party for The Miracle Worker, many were not surprised to find her completely absorbed singing and playing "Clap Hands" with young girls of the cast, some of whom are blind...
Nobody who has seen Pull My Daisy by Jack Kerouac [with Beat Poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky in the cast] can agree with the distorted impression you have given of it in your Dec. 14 issue. You have completely neglected to mention that Putt My Daisy is an attempt at spontaneous movie making and does not pretend to be anything else. You attempt to compare it to a home movie because the narrator speaks for the characters; yet even your obvious attempt to make Kerouac's prose seem humorous cannot dim its haunting poetic quality...
Political Career. After the war, Kennedy naturally turned to politics, successfully ran for Congress in 1946. Six years later he cast his net for the Republican Senate seat of Brahmin Henry Cabot Lodge and won, in a stunning reversal of the Eisenhower tide that swept through Massachusetts and the nation. In the Senate, Kennedy has been a thoughtful middle-reader, with a highly independent record and a special interest in labor reform. At the 1956 Democratic Convention he was chosen to make a nominating speech for Adlai Stevenson, then was swirled up in the great attempt to stop Tennessee...
Heartbreak House. Shaw's picture of Europe's pre-World War I leisure class, if wordy and sprawling, is also witty and brilliant. The cast includes Maurice Evans, Pamela Brown, Diana Wynyard...