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...Charles MacArthur's 1928 comedy The Front Page zipped like the Super-Chief through a plot of political and journalistic malfeasance. When director Howard Hawks in 1940 changed ace reporter Hildy Johnson from man to woman, the story was also about another frantic combat: marriage. Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell are the sparring partners in the fastest, nastiest farce Hollywood has ever made...
...their deaths. Put that way, such a plot does not seem like much of a love story for the ages, and many aspects of the production highlight this cynical undercurrent. As the titled character Romeo, Mickey Solis is excellent as he sighs and mopes over his early rejection by Rosalind and then falls in love with Juliet (Annika Boras). But once his character encounters adversity, Solis’s performance seems to be set on “shout” and begins to get tiresome. Boras fares better. Although she is much older than the 14 year-old Juliet...
She’s a character, quite literally. She checks into hotels under the name Rosalind Connage, the debutante from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘This Side of Paradise.’ “When she buys clothes online, she has her parcels delivered to “Duchess Erica Birmingham...
DIED. MAURICE WILKINS, 88, British Nobel laureate who helped discover the double-helix structure of DNA; in London. With his colleague (and frequent adversary) Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London, he came up with a clear X-ray image of DNA. Within weeks of receiving the photograph, James Watson and Francis Crick built a model of the giant molecule's double-spiral structure. Watson, Crick and Wilkins later shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine...
...NASA, many space historians believe, than to Cooper. DIED. MAURICE WILKINS, 88, British Nobel laureate who helped discover the double helix structure of DNA; in London. After a stint on the Manhattan Project during World War II, he turned his attention from physics to biology. With his colleague Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London, he came up with a clear X-ray image of DNA. Within weeks of receiving the photograph, James Watson and Francis Crick built a model of the giant molecule's double spiral structure. Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Watson and Crick...