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Obituary: Lawrence Toynbee
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LAWRENCE TOYNBEE was a fine all-round painter of sportsmen,
landscapes and portraits. His pictures of cricket, rugby, squash and
more obscure pursuits like Real Tennis are rare in being true to how
the game was played while aesthetically making no compromise.
"Toynbee was probably the leading artist in recent times to
specialise in cricket," says Stephen Green, curator at Lord's cricket
ground. "He knew how to play games." Toynbee was a member of the MCC,
and Lord's has a fine collection of his work, of which Hit to Leg and
his charming painting of the Oxford University ground, Cricket in ...
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Kazan finds honor
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...this month for legendary director Elia Kazan - and as befits a Hollywood story, it...Sciences, proposing an honorary Oscar for Kazan. After several members seconded the nomination...Oscar ceremony. The decision to honor Kazan marked a dramatic turnaround in the artistic...
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Elia Kazan: A Biography.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; Elia Kazan: A Biography by Richard Schickel. New...29.95. In the first line of Elia Kazan, Richard Schickel declares that he has...insights and an overview of the art of Ella Kazan not already available in Kazan's numerous...
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Kazan's final drama to play out at Oscars
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KAZAN;S ROLE IN BLACKLIST EXTOLLED, DECRIED
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
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Kazan deserves his Oscar and our applause for being anticommunist
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; Elia Kazan had a choice in 1952: to stand with the...have reviled him ever since. On March 21, Kazan will receive an Oscar for lifetime achievement...it is an honor long overdue. For years Kazan's enemies have kept him from receiving...
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KAZAN DESERVES APPLAUSE.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; Byline: JEFF JACOBY Elia Kazan had a choice in 1952: to stand with...reviled him ever since. On March 21, Kazan will receive the Oscar for lifetime achievement...is an honor long overdue. For years Kazan's enemies have kept him from receiving...
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Kazan's Oscar Gets Praise, Protest
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...Associated Press Writer AP Online 03-21-1999 Kazan's Oscar Gets Praise, Protest LOS ANGELES...Demonstrators for and against Elia Kazan getting a special Oscar carried signs and...decades would have quelled the debate over Kazan's decision to name names in a government...
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Lainie Kazan looks back fondly on her wild ride
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune
; ...probably wild and wonderful -- but not more so than Lainie Kazan. Kazan ushers in 2007 from the tiny stage of San Francisco...after she bids adieu to 2006. If you know anything about Kazan, it's probably that she played the pushy mother in...
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Zoe Kazan, on Broadway in `Come Back, Little Sheba,' has theater in her blood
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; Zoe Kazan grew up in California in a family with deep...renowned On the Waterfront director Elia Kazan and her parents are both Hollywood screenwriters...Hollywood break. Instead, the 24-year-old Kazan headed to New York where she's portrayed...
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ELIA KAZAN: A BiographyBOOKS / Nonfiction
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
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