Lyndon Johnson and Me
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Lyndon Johnson presided over our country as the 36th President during one of the tumultuous and historical significant periods of United States history. Becoming President just as the nation was rocked by the assassination of John F. Kennedy, life as America knew it immediately began to change. As for civil reform, it’s possible no President did more than LBJ. His Great Society programs which included voting rights, Medicaid, foodstamps, education aid, environmental protection, consumer protection, public radio and telelvision, and the Civil Rights Act, have left an impact that resonates even today. And his commitment to the space program ensured that we would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. Read the rest of this entry »
Two of Hume Cronyn’s earliest roles were in Alfred Hitchcock films, Shadow of Doubt in 1943 (in which he nearly stole every scene in which he appeared) and Lifeboat in 1944. He went on to work of the screenplay adapatations for two additional films with the Master of Suspense, Rope and Under Capricorn. His celebrated career went on for nearly sixty years, culminating in the magnificent Marvin’s Room (with my buddy Robert DeNiro), in which he again stole the show – without uttering a single word.