June 28, 2004
PATRICIA NEAL
Tom Shales of The Washington Post
reviews a Turner Classic Movies interview with
href="http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm0623658/">Patricia Neal today.
Although an Oscar winner, Neal is one of the lesser-acclaimed
actresseses of her time and I have to say that I was surprised to read
she was still alive. One of Neal's first roles was that of the steely
female counterpart to Gary Cooper's Howard Roark in
href="http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0041386/">The
Fountainhead. She would later go on to star opposite Paul
Newman in
href="http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0057163/">Hud, John Wayne
in In Harm's
Way, and George Peppard in
href="http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0054698/">Breakfast at
Tiffany's. Shales notes that Neal was the wife of writer
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-
url/index=stripbooks&field-keywords=roald%252520dahl&search-
type=ss&bq=1&store-name=books/ref=xs_ap_l_xgl14/104-9885429-
0503939">Roald Dahl, author of
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141301155/qid=1088436706/
sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-9885429-0503939">Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory,
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140374248/qid=1088436737/
sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-9885429-0503939">James and the Giant
Peach, and many other classic stories. I certainly didn't know
that. Robert Osborne's interview airs tonight on TCM at 8 p.m. and 11
p.m.
Posted by Lexiphane at June 28, 2004 11:33 AM
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