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...myself." He pumped air to Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! and to Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life, each time winning an Oscar as the year's best supporting actor. He created sworls of off-center violence in dozens of other good movies, from 1943's The Ox-Bow Incident to 1961's The Guns of Navarone. But despite his Oscars and his gold-lettered credits (including La Strada), few people -least of all Anthony Quinn-thought of him as a so-called actor of stature until suddenly there he was up on a Broadway stage...
...Osgood modestly puts her off with the words, "Aw shucks, Milly, Al Isn't do nothin." Then Milly discovers she's inherited $25,000 and she and Osgood agree to marry. Milly gets tears in her eyes and, in a heart-rending final scene, cries "Now we can pay ox the mortgage on the old homestead...
Seventy families agreed to the move, but 140 other families had to be convinced at gunpoint. Leading their cows and water buffaloes, with their belongings piled on ox carts, the 1,200 displaced peasants filed into the jungle clearing of Ben Tuong to be greeted by a banner bearing the somewhat ironical message: "We will root out all the Viet Cong who destroy our villages." A concrete administration building and clinic is already standing at Ben Tuong, but the peasants must erect their own thatch-roofed houses, dig a protective ditch around the site, and crown it with a dirt...
...Family Friend Joshua Logan cast her in her first movie. Tall Story, and also in her first Broadway play, There Was a Little Girl. The first reviews made her an actress forever. "The Boston critics said I was fragile," she remembers. "I'm strong as an ox. They said I was coltish, febrile, virginal, translucent-me! I realized I had created something that moved an audience...
...singer who has ever been buffeted by a Wagnerian orchestra knows that a performance of Die Walküre (four hours) calls for the constitution of a wild ox. At a Walküre performance last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, some of the singers were in sub-ox condition; and before the final curtain fell, substitutes had shuttled on and off the stage in an evening of monumental confusion...