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The Trial Of Lee Harvey Oswald (play)
''The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald'' is a 1967 American play. The play's production and the actor who played Lee Harvey Oswald, Peter Masterson, are profiled in the William Goldman book ''The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway''. Robin Wagner (designer), Robin Wagner designed the set of ''The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald''. References External links * 1967 plays Cultural depictions of Lee Harvey Oswald {{1960s-play-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amram Ducovny
Amram Ducovny (September 11, 1927 – August 23, 2003) was an American non-fiction writer, playwright and novelist. Life and career Ducovny, born as Duchovny, was born and raised in the New York City area. His family was Jewish. His father, Moshe Duchovny, who came to the United States in 1918 from Berdychiv, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), was a noted Yiddish writer and journalist, who wrote for the ''Morning Journal'', among other publications. His mother, Julia, was an immigrant from Poland. Ducovny dropped the "h" in his last name to avoid its mispronunciations. He graduated from New Utrecht High School and received a B.A. from New York University. First, he worked in public relations for the American Jewish Committee in New York, and until his retirement for the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston. In 1977, he moved to Boston and became director of public affairs for Brandeis University. From 1978 to 1982, he was the vice president for public affairs at the universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963. Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at the age of 12 for truancy, during which time he was assessed by a psychiatrist as "emotionally disturbed", due to a lack of normal family life. After attending 12 schools in his youth, he quit repeatedly, and finally when he was 17, joined the Marines. Oswald was court-martialed twice while in the Marines, and jailed. He was honorably released from active duty in the Marine Corps into the Marine Corps Reserve, then flew to Europe and defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959. He lived in Minsk, Byelorussia, married a Russian woman named Marina, and had a daughter. In June 1962, he returned to the United States with his wife, and eventually settled in Dallas, where their second daughter was born. Oswald shot and killed Kennedy on November 22, 1963, fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson (born Carlos Bee Masterson Jr.; June 1, 1934 – December 18, 2018) was an American actor, director, producer, and writer. Life and career Masterson often worked with his cousin, writer Horton Foote. Acting from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, including 1975's ''The Stepford Wives'' as Walter Eberhart, since then he concentrated mostly on directing and producing. Actress Mary Stuart Masterson is his daughter; she appeared with her father in ''The Stepford Wives'', playing one of his daughters. His other acting credits include roles in ''Ambush Bay'' (1966), '' In the Heat of the Night'' (1967), ''Counterpoint'' (1968), ''Von Richthofen and Brown'' (1971), '' Tomorrow'' (1972), ''The Exorcist'' (1973), ''Man on a Swing'' (1974), and ''Gardens of Stone'' (1987). Masterson co-wrote (with Larry L. King) the books for the hit musical ''The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'' (1978) and its short-lived sequel ''The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public'' (1994). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Goldman
William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist before turning to screenwriting. He won Academy Awards for his screenplays ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' (1969) and ''All the President's Men'' (1976). His other well-known works include his thriller novel '' Marathon Man'' (1974) and his cult classic comedy/fantasy novel ''The Princess Bride'' (1973), both of which he also adapted for film versions. Early life Goldman was born into a Jewish family in Chicago in 1931 and grew up in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, the second son of Marion (née Weil) and Maurice Clarence Goldman. Goldman's father initially was a successful businessman, working in Chicago and in a partnership, but he suffered from alcoholism, which cost him his business. He "came home to live and he was in his pajamas for the last five years of his life," according to Goldman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Candid Look At Broadway
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Wagner (designer)
Robin Samuel Anton Wagner (born August 31, 1933) is an American scenic designer. Biography Wagner was born in San Francisco, the son of Phyllis Edna Catherine (née Smith-Spurgeon) and Jens Otto Wagner. He attended art school and started his career in theatres in that city with designs for ''Don Pasquale'', '' Amahl and the Night Visitors'', '' Tea and Sympathy'', and '' Waiting for Godot'', among others. In 1958, he relocated to New York City, where he worked on numerous off-Broadway productions before making his Broadway debut as an assistant designer for the Hugh Wheeler play '' Big Fish, Little Fish'' in 1961. His first solo project was a short-lived 1966 production of ''The Condemned of Altona'' by Jean-Paul Sartre. Wagner's many Broadway credits include '' Hair'', ''The Great White Hope'', '' Promises, Promises'', '' Gantry'',"Foresight" Gantry (1970), Ted Thurston, ''YouTube'', posted March 7, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g74V0h0Hsb0 '' Jesus Christ Superstar'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Plays
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and commercial relations (not diplomatic ones). ** Charlie Chaplin launches his last film, ''A Countess from Hong Kong'', in the UK. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps, USMC and Army of the Republic of Vietnam, ARVN troops launch ''Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 14 – The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love. * January 15 ** Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species ''Proconsul nyanzae, Kenyapithecus africanus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
