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38-512: The program included such events as an adaptation of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , starring Jason Robards (from the 1962 novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ); The Seven Little Foys , starring Mickey Rooney , Eddie Foy Jr. and the Osmond Brothers ; Think Pretty , a musical starring Fred Astaire and Barrie Chase ; and Groucho Marx in "Time for Elizabeth", a televised adaptation of

76-490: A Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards . Pollack won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for Out of Africa (1985). He was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), and Tootsie (1982). Pollack's other notable films include Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of

114-1199: A Bob Hope Special . Every season, Hope traveled to Vietnam for Christmas , to entertain the troops. Actors who appeared in episodes included Phyllis Avery , John Cassavetes , Broderick Crawford , Angie Dickinson , Peter Falk , Sean Garrison , Sam Levene , Jack Lord , Carol Lynley , Ida Lupino , George Maharis, Darren McGavin , Dina Merrill , Hugh O'Brian , Suzanne Pleshette , Cliff Robertson , William Shatner , Robert Stack , Robert Wagner , Stuart Whitman , Shelley Winters , and Robert Young . Notable directors included Sydney Pollack , Stuart Rosenberg , John Cassavetes , Sam Peckinpah , Ida Lupino , and Daniel Petrie . Several episodes were rerun from 1968 through 1972 under several different titles: NBC Adventure Theatre (1971–1972), NBC Action Playhouse (1971–1972), NBC Comedy Playhouse (1968–1970) and NBC Comedy Theater (1971–1972). The Hope introductions were replaced by other hosts, such as Peter Marshall (who hosted "Action"), Art Fleming ("Adventure" in 1971), Ed McMahon ("Adventure" in 1972), Monty Hall ("Comedy Playhouse" in 1968) and Jack Kelly ("Comedy Playhouse" in 1970, and "Comedy Theater"). In syndication,

152-577: A bunch of cretins like you!" In 1957, after being released from the exile that followed his imprisonment, Solzhenitsyn began writing One Day . In 1962, he submitted his manuscript to Novy Mir , a Russian literary magazine. The editor, Aleksandr Tvardovsky , was so impressed with the detailed description of life in the labor camps that he submitted the manuscript to the Communist Party Central Committee for approval to publish it—until then Soviet writers had not been allowed to refer to

190-411: A collective farmer, a worker in a chemical laboratory, and simply "young people." These letters reflect a broad spectrum of opinion. On the one hand, jubilant readers lavished praise on Solzhenitsyn, [ Novy mir editor] Aleksandr Tvardovskii , and all that seemed to truly promise a "new world"; on the other hand, skeptical voices remained convinced that the camps had been populated by inveterate enemies of

228-786: A director). He also appeared in Woody Allen 's Husbands and Wives as a New York lawyer undergoing a midlife crisis, and in Robert Zemeckis 's Death Becomes Her as an emergency room doctor. His last role was as Patrick Dempsey 's father in the 2008 romantic comedy Made of Honor , which was playing in theaters at the time of his death. He was a recurring guest star on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace , playing Will Truman 's ( Eric McCormack ) unfaithful but loving father, George. In addition to earlier appearances on NBC's Just Shoot Me and Mad About You , in 2007, Pollack made guest appearances on

266-569: A fictitious Soviet prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had first-hand experience in the Gulag system, having been imprisoned from 1945 to 1953 for writing derogatory comments in letters to friends about the conduct of the war by Joseph Stalin , whom he referred to by epithets such as "the master" and "the boss". Drafts of stories found in Solzhenitsyn's map case had been used to incriminate him (Frangsmyr, 1993). Solzhenitsyn claimed

304-500: A play that Marx and Norman Krasna wrote in 1948. Generally, each episode ran for an hour, although for some 'special presentations', NBC expanded the broadcast time to 90 minutes. Hope was paid US$ 25,000 ($ 251,815 in 2023 dollars ) per week for those episodes he merely introduced, and US$ 500,000 ($ 5,036,304 in 2023 dollars ) for those in which he starred. Hope's performances consisted of his typical joke- and celebrity-filled blackout sketches . These were usually called Chrysler Presents

342-413: A second ration of food at lunch, and he had smuggled into camp a small piece of metal he would fashion into a useful tool. The 104th is the labor-camp team to which protagonist Ivan Denisovich belongs. There are over 24 members, though the book describes the following characters the most thoroughly: One Day is a sparse, tersely written narrative of a single day of the ten-year labor camp imprisonment of

380-593: A select group of non- and/or former actors awarded membership in the Actors Studio , Pollack resumed acting in the 1990s with appearances in such films as Robert Altman 's The Player (1992) and Stanley Kubrick 's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), often playing corrupt or morally conflicted power figures. As a character actor , Pollack appeared in films such as A Civil Action , and Changing Lanes , as well as his own, including Random Hearts and The Interpreter (the latter also being his final non-documentary film as

418-616: Is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir ( New World ). The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the early 1950s and features the day of prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. The book's publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history, since never before had an account of Stalinist repressions been openly distributed in

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456-484: Is generally well-respected. Rations are meager – prisoners only receive them on the basis of how productive their work units are (or how productive the authorities think they have been) – but they are one of the few things that Shukhov lives for. He conserves the food that he receives and is always watchful for any item that he can hide and trade for food at a later date, or for favors and services he can do for prisoners that they will thank him for in small gifts of food. At

494-459: Is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp. The day begins with Shukhov waking up feeling unwell. For arising late, he is forced to clean the guardhouse, but this is a comparatively minor punishment. When Shukhov is finally able to leave the guardhouse, he goes to the dispensary to report his illness. It is relatively late in the morning by this time, however, so the orderly is unable to exempt any more workers and Shukhov must work. The rest of

532-529: Is the only one that is based on the canonical Russian text and the only one authorized by Solzhenitsyn. The English spelling of some character names differs slightly among the translations. Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet Gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II . Although innocent, he

570-515: The Best Picture category. He formed a production company called Mirage Enterprises with the English director Anthony Minghella . The last film they produced together, The Reader , earned them both posthumous Oscar nominations for Best Picture. Besides his many feature film laurels, Pollack was nominated for five Primetime Emmys, earning two: one for directing in 1966 and another for producing, which

608-589: The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre from 1952 to 1954, working on a lumber truck between terms. He was drafted for two years of army service as a truck driver at Fort Carson, Colorado ending in 1958. He returned to the Playhouse at Meisner's invitation to become his assistant. In 1960, John Frankenheimer , a friend of Pollack, asked him to come to Los Angeles to work as a dialogue coach for

646-670: The Condor (1975), Absence of Malice (1981), The Firm (1993), and Sabrina (1995). Pollack produced and acted in Michael Clayton (2007), and produced numerous films such as The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Iris (2001), Cold Mountain (2003) and The Reader (2008). Pollack acted in The Player (1992), Woody Allen 's Husbands and Wives (1993), and Stanley Kubrick 's Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Pollack

684-618: The HBO TV series The Sopranos and Entourage . Pollack received the first annual Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking award from the Austin Film Festival on October 21, 2006. As a producer he helped to guide many films that were successful with both critics and movie audiences, such as The Fabulous Baker Boys , The Talented Mr. Ripley , and Michael Clayton , a film in which he also starred opposite George Clooney and for which he received his sixth Academy Award nomination, in

722-608: The Soviet Union. Novy Mir editor Aleksandr Tvardovsky wrote a short introduction for the issue entitled "Instead of a Foreword". At least five English translations have been made. Of those, Ralph Parker's translation (New York: Dutton, 1963) was the first to be published, followed by Ronald Hingley and Max Hayward 's (New York: Praeger , 1963), Bela Von Block's (New York: Lancer 1963), and Gillon Aitken 's (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1971). The fifth translation, by H.T. Willetts (New York: Noonday/Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991),

760-493: The Soviet people. Yet in the extant corpus of citizens' letters, such stark positions appear relatively rare. Such open publicity was, however, short lived. In October 1964, Khrushchev was ousted and the gulag theme was disallowed in the Soviet press. Solzhenitsyn's later novels were published abroad and circulated within the Soviet Union illegally. In 1969, Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union . In 1970, he

798-485: The age of 34 in the crash of a small, single-engine plane which clipped a power line and burst into flames in Santa Monica, California . Claire Griswold died on March 28, 2011, at 74 years of age, from Parkinson's disease . Concerns about Pollack's health surfaced in 2007, when he withdrew from directing HBO's television film Recount , which aired on May 25, 2008. He died from cancer the following day at his home in

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836-410: The camps. From there it was sent to the de-Stalinist Nikita Khrushchev , who, despite the objections of some top party members, ultimately authorized its publication with some censorship of the text. After the novel was sent to the editor, Aleksandr Tvardovsky of Novy Mir , it was published in November 1962. The labor camp featured in the book was one that Solzhenitsyn had served some time at, and

874-536: The child actors on Frankenheimer's first big picture, The Young Savages . It was during this time that Pollack met Burt Lancaster , who encouraged the young actor to try directing. Pollack played a director in The Twilight Zone episode " The Trouble with Templeton " in 1960. He made his feature film debut as an actor in Denis Sanders ' War Hunt (1962) where he met Robert Redford , who would go on to be

912-482: The end of the day, Shukhov is able to provide a few special services for Tsezar (Caesar), an intellectual who does office work instead of manual labor. Tsezar is most notable, however, for receiving packages of food from his family. Shukhov is able to get a small share of Tsezar's packages by standing in lines for him. Shukhov reflects on his day, which was both productive and fortuitous for him. He did not get sick, his group had been assigned well paid work, he had filched

950-591: The episode "Two is the Number" (1964), Shelley Winters won for outstanding lead actress in a miniseries or movie. Simone Signoret won for outstanding lead actress for her performance in "A Small Rebellion" (1966) which also starred Sam Levene as theatre owner Noel Greb and George Maharis as playwright Michael Kolinos. Cliff Robertson won for outstanding lead actor for his performance in "The Game" (1966). Rod Steiger won for outstanding lead actor for his performance in "A Slow Fade to Black" (1964). Sydney Pollack

988-466: The film from public view, fearing that it could hurt external relations with its eastern neighbor. Sydney Pollack Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor. Pollack is known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films. Over his forty year career he received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards and

1026-407: The magazine Ogoniok wrote: "The Soviet Union was destroyed by information – and this wave started from Solzhenitsyn's One Day ". A one-hour dramatization for television, made for NBC in 1963, starred Jason Robards Jr. in the title role and was broadcast on November 8, 1963. A 1970 film adaptation based on the novella starred British actor Tom Courtenay in the title role. Finland banned

1064-482: The male lead in seven of Pollack's films as director. He found his real success in television in the 1960s by directing episodes of series, such as The Fugitive and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour . After doing TV he made the jump into film with a string of movies that drew public attention. His film-directing debut was The Slender Thread (1965). Over time, Pollack's films received a total of 48 Academy Award nominations, winning 11 Oscars. His first Oscar nomination

1102-411: The novel deals mainly with Shukhov's squad (the 104th, which has 24 members), their allegiance to the squad leader, and the work that the prisoners ( zeks ) do in hopes of getting extra food for their performance. For example, they are seen working at a brutal construction site where the cold freezes the mortar used for bricklaying if not applied quickly enough. Solzhenitsyn also details the methods used by

1140-430: The prisoners to survive; the whole camp lives by the rule of day-to-day survival. Tyurin, the foreman of gang 104, is strict but kind, and the squad's fondness for him becomes more evident as the book progresses. Though a morose man, he is liked because he understands the prisoners, talks to them, and helps them. Shukhov is one of the hardest workers in the squad, possessing versatile skills that are in great demand, and he

1178-424: The prisoners wept when news of Stalin's death reached them. He uses the epithet batka usaty ( батька усатый ) in his novel, which translates to "Old Whiskers" or "Old Man Whiskers". This title was considered offensive and derogatory, but prisoners were free to call Stalin whatever they liked: "Somebody in the room was bellowing: 'Old Man Whiskers won't ever let you go! He wouldn't trust his own brother, let alone

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1216-517: The series was presented as Universal Star Time and Theatre of the Stars , minus Hope's opening and closing segments. Several of the dramatic episodes of the series aired in Britain on BBC2 as Impact , which also included episodes of Kraft Suspense Theatre . The show won a total of seven Primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for six more. Among them were the following: For her performance in

1254-465: Was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his Soviet citizenship, and exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. Two days after his expulsion, Glavlit issued an order removing all his books from libraries' open stacks. Until Gorbachev's perestroika allowed their re-publication, they circulated only illegally, as samizdat . Vitaly Korotich , the perestroika-era editor of

1292-604: Was born in Lafayette, Indiana , to a family of Jewish immigrants, the son of Rebecca (née Miller) and David Pollack, a semi-professional boxer and pharmacist. The family relocated to South Bend and his parents divorced when he was young. His mother, who suffered from alcoholism and emotional problems, died at the age of 37, when Pollack was 16. Despite earlier plans to attend college and then medical school, Pollack left Indiana for New York City soon after finishing high school at age 17. Pollack studied acting with Sanford Meisner at

1330-708: Was for his 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don't They? , and his second in 1982 for Tootsie . For his 1985 film Out of Africa starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford , Pollack won Academy Awards for directing and producing . During his career, he directed 12 actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Jane Fonda , Gig Young , Susannah York , Barbra Streisand , Paul Newman , Melinda Dillon , Jessica Lange , Dustin Hoffman , Teri Garr , Meryl Streep , Klaus Maria Brandauer and Holly Hunter . Young and Lange won Oscars for their performances in Pollack's films. One of

1368-539: Was given four months after his death in 2008. The moving image collection of Sydney Pollack is housed at the Academy Film Archive. In the 2002 Sight & Sound Directors' Poll, Pollack revealed his top ten films in alphabetical order: Pollack was married to Claire Bradley Griswold, a former student of his, from 1958 until his death in 2008. They had three children: Steven (1959–1993), Rebecca (b. 1963), and Rachel (b. 1969). In November 1993, Steven died at

1406-847: Was located in Karaganda in northern Kazakhstan . One Day was published in 1962 in Novy mir with the endorsement of CPSU First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev , who praised the novella at the Party plenum. In 1964, it was a candidate for the Lenin Prize and evoked heated debates among the prize committee, but ultimately failed to win the nomination. It evoked heated debates among the Soviet reading public, as well. As Miriam Dobson notes: The Novyi mir mailbag contains letters from lawyers, teachers, party members, purge victims and their relatives, self-confessed thieves, prisoners, camp workers, pensioners, an army captain,

1444-677: Was nominated for directing "Something About Lee Wiley" (1963), and won for directing "The Game" (1966). Rod Serling won for writing the episode, "It's Mental Work" (1964). Additionally, the show was nominated twice for the Directors Guild of America Award and twice for the Edgar Allan Poe Award . One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Один день Ивана Денисовича , romanized:  Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha , IPA: [ɐˈdʲin ˈdʲenʲ ɪˈvanə dʲɪˈnʲisəvʲɪtɕə] )

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