sunday obits
May. 1st, 2003 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbFinally got around to Sunday's Times, and was captivated by two of the obituaries:
Karen Morley, a movie star whose breakthrough role was in Howard Hawks's Scarface and whose career essentially ended when she pled the fifth before HUAC. From a different obituary:
And Ray Hicks, who, speaking "in a dialect scholars describe as Elizabethan, even Chaucerian," told "stories older than America" that "had been passed seemingly intact through eight generations of his family, among the first white people in their nook of Appalachia."
Sometimes time takes my breath away.
Karen Morley, a movie star whose breakthrough role was in Howard Hawks's Scarface and whose career essentially ended when she pled the fifth before HUAC. From a different obituary:
"I was what you'd call a 'pillow red,' " she told the San Francisco Weekly in 1999. "I became a communist because I fell in love with a man who was a red and entered the Army to take care of the fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one."
And Ray Hicks, who, speaking "in a dialect scholars describe as Elizabethan, even Chaucerian," told "stories older than America" that "had been passed seemingly intact through eight generations of his family, among the first white people in their nook of Appalachia."
Sometimes time takes my breath away.
