Richard Harland Smith
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A Clockwork Orange (1971) (opens the original)
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by Richard Harland Smith | September 16, 2015 The glue holding together the fragments of Anthony Burgess' peripatetic life might well have been a contradiction. Born in 1917, the only son of a music hall actress and her pianist husband, John Burgess Wilson's family was halved with the deaths of his mother and sister from influenza in 1918, and he was raised by his father and stepmother in rooms above a Manchester pub. Iconoclastic and insubordinate by nature, he nonetheless rose through the rank
Hattie McDaniel (opens the original)
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by Richard Harland Smith | August 01, 2026 She was the first Black actor to win an Academy Award, but Hattie McDaniel paid a price to cross Hollywood's color line. Schooled in minstrelsy in the years leading up to the Depression, during which time she developed the stock character of a sassy housemaid who refused to kowtow to her white employers, McDaniel arrived in Hollywood after the 1929 stock market crash and was soon earning more money playing servants than most stockbrokers were seeing fro
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