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The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z / SOH-shiz—short for Socials).
Rob Lowe and Francis Ford Coppola are sharing fond memories of making the 85-year-old director’s 1983 film The Outsiders — including the interesting ways Coppola helped his young cast get into ...
While still in her teens, Hinton became a household name [a] as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the 1960s. She began writing it in 1965. [ 7 ] The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School , [ 8 ] the Greasers and the Socs , [ 3 ] and her desire to empathize ...
Greasers are a youth subculture that emerged in the 1950s and early 1960s from predominantly working class and lower-class teenagers and young adults in the United States and Canada. The subculture remained prominent into the mid-1960s and was particularly embraced by certain ethnic groups in urban areas , particularly Italian Americans and ...
In the film, an adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel The Outsiders, Lowe played Sodapop Curtis — one of the Greasers — and Cruise portrayed Steve Randle. "It's funny, the movie meant ...
That book was S.E. Hinton’s 1967 gang drama The Outsiders, which fittingly, the Tulsa, Okla., native had begun writing when she was only 15.. The rest is history. Coppola began rolling cameras ...
Ponyboy Michael "Pony" Curtis is a fictional character and the main protagonist of S. E. Hinton's 1967 novel The Outsiders. On screen, he is played by C. Thomas Howell in Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film adaptation and by Jay R. Ferguson in the 1990 sequel TV series. Brody Grant originated the role on stage in the 2023 stage musical adaptation.
‘The Outsiders’ Director Danya Taymor on Making a Gritty, Violent Broadway Musical: ‘This All Needs to Take Place in the Dirt’ Brent Lang May 31, 2024 at 3:15 PM