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This last is what people came to know best in recent years. It was the logical extension of his screen character as he had finally refined it, a healthy spirit who kept his troubles and even his memories to himself. Grant quit films in 1966 after Walk, Don 't Run...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Acrobat of the Drawing Room: Cary Grant 1904-1986 | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

Cabrini-Green was not always an urban version of hell. The project was originally intended as a way station for working-class families, both black and white, who were temporarily down on their luck. Since the first set of 55 row houses was built in 1943, however, the character of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Raising Children in a Battle Zone | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

Soon after leaving his job, Stevens was approached by the Manns with a book- and-movie contract. They saw him as a leading character, they said, perhaps played by Robert Redford?an ambitious lawyer but one whose conscience would not let him use a tainted case to advance his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Hollywood Tapes and Testimony | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

Perhaps the most dramatic instance of rewriting in Simon's entire career is the scene of mother and son dancing in Broadway Bound. There was no hint of it in the original version. Instead there was a scene between Eugene and his girlfriend Josie, a character intended to represent Simon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Simon: Reliving A Poignant Past | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

Neil Simon is America's foremost stage comedist, the theatrical equivalent of Woody Allen in the movies. Even in his weakest plays that gift of laughter has never faltered, and it is in full flower in his trilogy. But for all its exuberant humor, Broadway Bound is a comedy only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Simon: Reliving A Poignant Past | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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