A playwright, film scenarist, and director, Clifford Odets (1906-1963) was America's outstanding dramatist in the 1930s. His colloquial dialogue, vital ideological protests on behalf of human dignity, and feeling for the family were distinctive. Clifford...

Clifford Odets is known primarily as a proletarian playwright of the 1930s, although this label is misleading. Odets's first few plays, which catapulted him virtually overnight to fame and affluence, reflect the experience of the Great Depression and hav...

Born in Philadelphia to Louis J. and Pearl Geisinger Odets, Clifford Odets grew up in a Jewish section of the Bronx. Though Odets at times suggested that he was raised under the shadows of poverty, his father became a prosperous businessman in the 1920s,...

Jeremy Moon exhibited his abstract paintings extensively in London and Germany for a decade beginning in 1962. He had solo exhibitions and was included in curated and published surveys of contemporary British art. Since his untimely death in 1973--at the age of 39,...

JOEL ANDERSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-19-2005 Rocket shooting for moon at $22M By JOEL ANDERSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 01-19-2005, Wednesday Section: SPORTS Edtion: All Editions NEW YORK - Roger Clemens filed for a record $22...

It may seem hard to remember these days and even harder to believe, but there was a time when the United States seemed united in the spirit of a common goal: rocketing to the moon during the summer of 1969.Director David Sington's documentary "In the...

Capsule reviews of films opening this week:"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" _ Brad Pitt stars as Jesse James, one legendarily famous person playing another. That's a rare injection of reality in this otherwise otherworldly production. It's set during the late...

The tendency still persists to make of Clifford Odets and his plays a political issue. That, I think, is a pity from any point of view now that the facts are becoming increasingly clear. Whatever his opinions may have been or; for that matter, may still be, those opinions are shared by many, while Mr. Odets reveals a gift for characterization and a gift for incisive dialogue unapproached by any of his Marxian fellows and hardly equaled by any other American playwright. "Rocket to the Moon" &#x...

Stripped to the bone, Rocket to the Moon is a triangle play; the story of a kindly, thin-blooded, tired dentist … who has accepted life at prevailing odds, surrendered to routine, "gone to sleep." His bitter nagging wife and his sinister, mocking father-in-law … appreciate his goodness, yet cannot help taunting him. From a romantic young girl … in his office who is fighting to live, do, go somewhere, and who loves him, he gets sympathy. Suddenly he finds himself in love wi...