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Jose Ferrer impersonates Joe Stalin. John Houseman is Winston Churchill. Ed Flanders is Harry Truman. They were all gathered together on location outside Hamburg for a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV special entitled "Truman at Potsdam." "Truman was an honest, practical man of little intrigue," observed Flanders, best known for his 1974 Tony Award-winning role in A Moon for the Misbegotten. "I just had to stand up straight." Houseman, who won a 1973 Academy Award for his supporting role in The Paper Chase, learned to smoke cigars for his portrayal of Churchill and then picked up some of Winnie...
...mark in the House-with the exception of a speech he now regrets. During the Korean War, he urged that atomic bombs be dropped on the North Koreans unless they withdrew from the South. "I am wiser today," says Bentsen, who claims that a member of the Truman Cabinet suggested he make the speech to try to pressure the North Koreans to negotiate...
...Anyway, poor James Whitmore, star of the early fifties sci-fi feature Them, the hero of a couple of short-lived series like The Law and Mr. Jones, and a dead ringer for Spencer Tracy, is now getting a lot of attention for his portrayal of Harry Truman in this new movie, created from a play which Gerald Ford and a lot of other people loved, the much-advertised and obvious product of the recent Time Magazine-reported craze about the straight-talking, poker-playing, president. It started at the Circle Theatre in Cleveland Circle, Brookline--one of the most...
...inward to the details effaces and nuances of expression. Avedon's pictures are lean, made with soft daylight and bouncelight against a white, seamless background. They are also stark because of the moment that Avedon tries to capture, as in the 1955 picture of a youthful Truman Capote. He reads the eyes of his subjects, waiting for that second when they reveal the facet of character he wants: he allows an older puffy-faced Capote to stare dully past the viewer; he confronts Igor Stravinsky eyeball to eyeball; and he has Sculptor June Leaf look through...
...odds cannot be reduced entirely; the militant Puerto Ricans who in 1950 tried to gun their way through the front door of Blair House, where Harry Truman was staying, came alarmingly close to success. Lyndon Johnson told and retold the story that during his own presidency a dozen or so men had scaled the 8-ft. White House fence and made their way up to the mansion before being apprehended...