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...seventh grade, my children read April Morning, a coming-of-age novel by Howard Fast. It's the story of a boy, Adam Cooper, whose father is shot by the British on Lexington Common on April 19, 1775. In the chaos that follows, Adam joins a group of men who, in their everyday clothes, hiding behind walls and trees, mow down a column of Redcoats marching back from Concord...
...WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE IN THE GROUP OF HITCHCOCK, CHAPLIN, HOWARD HAWKS, RENOIR, KING VIDOR, ANTONIONI AND ANDRZEJ WAJDA--GREAT DIRECTORS WHO NEVER WON A COMPETITIVE OSCAR BUT LATE IN LIFE GOT AN HONORARY AWARD? Oh, that'd be wonderful. Yeah, I'm fine with that...
...DIED. HOWARD FAST, 88, best-selling author of vivid historical novels of social justice, including Citizen Tom Paine and Freedom Road; in Old Greenwich, Conn. After refusing a request from the House Un-American Activities Committee to provide details of an antifascist group, Fast, a Communist Party member from 1943 to 1956, was jailed for contempt and blacklisted. He turned the experience into Spartacus, the story of a slave revolt in Rome, which became a 1960 Oscar-winning film...
...some point, after one of the Northeastern rowers allegedly stole his sunglasses, Howard said he left the auction to retrieve them...
...Howard added that he could not recall what happened next, but he was found around 11 p.m. lying on the ground at the corner of JFK St. and Memorial Drive and transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he stayed for two nights...