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Calder Baynard Willingham Jr. (December 23, 1922 – February 19, 1995) [1] was an American novelist and screenwriter. Before the age of 30, after three novels and a collection of short stories, The New Yorker was describing Willingham as having “fathered modern black comedy,” [2] his signature a dry, straight-faced humor, made funnier by its concealed comic intent.
The week of May 20 to 24, 1985, Gumbel, Pauley and Scott took the show on the rails. The "Today Express" was a specially outfitted passenger train that took the cast and crew to special broadcasts in Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Indianapolis and Cincinnati.
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 72 years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running United States television serie
John Lennon and Yoko Ono made an appearance on the show in 1969, sharing a bed with Eamonn Andrews. [4] The show is now most commonly remembered for Bill Grundy's 1976 interview with the Sex Pistols, which caused public outrage at the time. [5] Today was replaced in September 1977 by Thames at Six, a more conventional news magazine programme.
A thinly veiled depiction of The Citadel provides the background for Calder Willingham's novel End as a Man (1947) and the film adaptation, The Strange One (1957). [138] Pat Conroy's 1980 novel The Lords of Discipline was based on Conroy's experience as a cadet at The Citadel during the 1960s and on his research of other military schools. The ...
The Strange One is a 1957 American film noir about students faced with an ethical dilemma in a military college in the Southern United States.It was directed by Jack Garfein, produced by Sam Spiegel, and was adapted from a novel and stage play by Calder Willingham called End as a Man.
Rambling Rose was directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Calder Willingham (adapted from his own 1972 novel of the same name). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Laura Dern and Diane Ladd , daughter and mother in real life, were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress , respectively, making them the first mother-daughter duo ...
In 1956, he performed in Calder Willingham's play End as a Man at the Players Ring Gallery in West Hollywood. A review by Jerry Pam in the Valley Times said Launer's performance was "at times, too philosophical" but that he seemed at home with children and that his end speech was "exciting". [2]