Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Reginald Rose


Related Topics

In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  Reginald Rose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reginald Rose (December 10, 1920-April 19, 2002) was an American film and television writer most widely known for his work in the early years of television drama.
Rose received an Emmy for his teleplay and an Oscar nomination for his 1957, feature-length adaptation.
Rose also later moved into screenwriting for films; he made four films with the British producer Euan Lloyd; The Wild Geese, The Sea Wolves, Who Dares Wins and Wild Geese II.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reginald_Rose   (702 words)

  
 Sixth Circuit Court Cases - Case Law and Opinions from the 6th Circuit Federal Court - Court of Appeals - unoffical ...
Rose was convicted of conspiring to distribute fifty grams or more of methamphetamine mixture, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 and 841(b)(1)(B), and of knowingly and intentionally carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 924(c).
Rose clarified that he was only pleading guilty to fifty grams of methamphetamine, in violation of § 841(b)(1)(B), and thus obviated any Rule 11 problems that might have arisen from the discrepancies between the Superseding Indictment and the plea agreement regarding the statutory provisions and the drug quantities.
Rose failed to prove that he did not intend to provide or that he was not reasonably capable of providing the additional two pounds of methamphetamine; therefore, the district court properly used a drug quantity of three pounds of methamphetamine mixture to determine Rose’s base offense level.
www.romingerlegal.com /sixthcircuit/opinions/04a0045p-06.htm   (6651 words)

  
 Rose, Reginald
Reginald Rose was one of the outstanding television playwrights to emerge from the "Golden Age" of television drama anthology series.
Rose deals directly with the issues of mob anger and difference from the norm, issues of general concern in a time when the pressures of conformity were overwhelming, and the memory of fascism still prevalent.
Although Rose kept his sights directed at the scrutiny of social institutions and mechanisms, his characters were as finely drawn as those writers who focused on domestic struggles.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/rosereginal/rosereginal.htm   (821 words)

  
 [Deathwatch] Reginald Rose, author, 81   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Rose won an Emmy Award in 1954 for writing the Studio One television version of "Twelve Angry Men", in which one juror painstakingly sways the 11 others debating the fate of a Puerto Rican youth charged with killing his father.
Rose received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of the 1957 film version, which starred Henry Fonda, who co-produced the movie with Rose.
Rose, a native New Yorker whose work was distinguished by his focus on social and political issues, won three Emmy Awards and was nominated for six.
slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2002-April/000109.html   (273 words)

  
 The Defenders
Brodkin and Rose were able to attract a large number of anthology alumni as writers for the series, including Ernest Kinoy, David Shaw, Adrian Spies, and Alvin Boretz.
Rose and his writers found much compelling drama in probing the psychology of juries, the motives of clients, the biases of opposing counsel, the flaws of the system itself, and the fallibility of their own lawyer-heroes.
As Rose declared in The Viewer magazine, "We're committed to controversy." And indeed, the series often went beyond a strict focus on "the law" to probe the profound social issues that are often weighed in the courtroom.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/D/htmlD/defendersth/defendersth.htm   (1458 words)

  
 APA, Adrian Bohm and Guy Masterson present - 12 ANGRY MEN by Reginald Rose - AUSTRALIAN CAST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Reginald Rose's original was broadcast as a television play in 1954 and was subsequently expanded into a full-length feature film in 1956.
Written by Reginald Rose in 1954 as a TV play (for which it won three Emmys), it was taken up by Henry Fonda and turned into the legendary film (which received three Oscar nominations but didn't perform so well at the box office) before being finally re-fashioned for the stage by playwright Rose.
Reginald Rose's drama (written for television in 1954) is riddled with such 'wisecracks', although the work's premise has granted it an understandably more serious reputation.
www.theatretoursinternational.com /PastShows/PSInternational/PS12AMoz.htm   (3968 words)

  
 Reginald Rose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A fearless Golden Age of Television writer of the highest caliber, Reginald Rose's ability to tackle pressing social issues distinguished him from the pack and, along with such contemporaries as Rod Serling and Paddy Chayefsky, left an indelible mark on the history of thought-provoking television drama.
Born in New York City in December of 1920, Rose enlisted in the Army in 1942.
Rose would continue to write for Studio One in the following years in addition to penning scripts for The Twilight Zone and such features as Crime in the Streets (1956) and Man of the West (1958).
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P108874   (422 words)

  
 Newsletter - Member Edition
Reginald P. Rose for her service on the Executive Committee of the Association from 1956 to 1982.
Rose, on behalf of the Association, was instrumental in the preservation of Sagamore Hill.
The “Rose Award” is bestowed to those officers and members of the TRA who have rendered outstanding service to the Association, and who have earned special prominence and distinction in the history of the Association.
www.imakenews.com /etra/index000031617.cfm   (341 words)

  
 echo37 Theatre Fellowship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
An abusive old man was stabbed in the middle of the night and his son, the victim of the old man’s abuse, has just had his case of “premeditated homicide” turned over to the jury for deliberation.
Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men was first presented as a television special to CBS viewers in early 1954.
Since then, Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men has been produced, on average, over fifty times a year in North America by various professional and amateur theatre groups.
www.ucalgary.ca /~jburnell/echo37/past/12am.html   (920 words)

  
 village voice > theater > Twelve Angry Men by Michael Feingold
It isn't Rose who creates that understanding, though his sense of what people are capable of certainly abets it: Less sensitive, less thorough actors might have made us feel that these changes of attitude were strictly pro forma, pieces of dramaturgic convenience to keep the suspense building.
Finding him not guilty is the only alternative to electrocution, and Rose constructs the evidence—an eyewitness, an identifiable weapon, a weak alibi—to seem as damning as possible, so that the lone juror who doubts (Boyd Gaines) can deconstruct it, piece by piece.
At such points, if Rose hadn't been so concerned to supply lectures on our constitutional rights and the responsibilities they entail, you could almost call him a wit.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0444/feingold.php   (845 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Twelve Angry Men, by Reginald Rose, is a very intriguing play that deals with many issues of human behavior.
Reginald Rose illustrates this perfectly when describing juror number nine as an, old man who let himself be beat by life, he knows what his problems are but he hides himself under his old age.
In the beginning of the script, Reginald Rose describes the admiration towards number eight from number nine as "This gentleman choose to stand alone against us.
www.beaconschool.org /~cravelo/12angry.html   (538 words)

  
 12 Angry Men - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Directed by Sidney Lumet and adapted by Reginald Rose from his 1954 teleplay which was originally broadcast on CBS, the film was nominated for Academy Awards in the categories of Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
In all of these categories, the film was eclipsed by The Bridge on the River Kwai, which won seven Academy Awards that year.
12 Angry Men was, therefore, Lumet's first feature film, and for Fonda and Rose, who co-produced the film (Fonda later stated that he would never again produce a movie), it was their first and only roles as film producers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/12_Angry_Men   (1457 words)

  
 JS Online: 'Twelve Angry Men' is one powerful drama
In the 1950s, Reginald Rose's gripping drama "Twelve Angry Men" focused on the American jury system to suggest that Adams should have known better.
Rose's question remains relevant today, as the Cornerstone Theatre Company demonstrates in a strong production of his play, which opened at the Brumder Mansion during the weekend.
Set in a New York City jury room on a sweltering summer day, "Twelve Angry Men" presents the deliberations of 12 white, male jurors in a case involving a teenager of an unspecified minority accused of murdering his father.
www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/nov03/183965.asp?format=print   (513 words)

  
 TDF Play by PLay Volume 9 Issue 1 Fall 2004 page 2
Playwright Reginald Rose is a critic of humanity, as he strategically poses the issue of race to the jurors to expose their inner conflicts.
Playwright Reginald Rose is a graduate of my school, Townsend Harris High School, and his granddaughter, Mollie Laffin-Rose is my good friend.
Rose, Class of 1937, attended Townsend Harris when it was still an all-boys institution located in upper Manhattan.
www.tdf.org /PlaybyPlayOnline/pp92045/pxp92p1.html   (785 words)

  
 theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Back in the Golden Age of Television, it was not unusual for well-received television dramas — such as "A Trip to Bountiful" and "The Miracle Worker" — to be adapted for the Broadway stage (and later made into films).
Reginald Rose's "Twelve Angry Men," which was a "Studio One" presentation September 20, 1954, instead went first to the big screen and only now in 2004 is coming to Broadway.
In a muggy, drab courtroom, twelve anonymous jurors are called upon to seal the fate of a young boy accused of killing his father.
www.nacc.edu /NACCTheatre/twelveplaysynopsis.htm   (915 words)

  
 Reginald Rose: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Reginald Rose: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
Rose received an Emmy[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] for his teleplay and an Oscar[For more, click on this link] nomination for his 1957, EHandler: no quick summary.
For his efforts on The Defenders Rose would win an additional two emmy[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] awards for dramatic writing.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/re/reginald_rose.htm   (570 words)

  
 Twelve Angry Men   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Perhaps this explains some of the appeal of Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men, a 1950s courtroom drama now on view in an accomplished and patriotic production at Merrimack Repertory Theatre.
Rose adapted his script for the stage in 1962 and then, much later, updated it for a 1997 film remake directed by William Friedkin.
The story's staying power stems from its infectious fascination with the sound of justice's grinding wheels and its wind-it-up-and-watch-it-go craftsmanship, both of which are well translated to the Merrimack stage.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/99/03/04/TWELVE_ANGRY_MEN.html   (779 words)

  
 KDHX Theatre Review - Twelve Angry Jurors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Twelve Angry Jurors is adapted by Reginald Rose from a 1950's television play, Twelve Angry Men, about a jury's struggle to decide the fate of a slum-bred juvenile on trial for murder.
What I noticed was that here there were no gasps, no tension and no release in the audience, as I imagine there must have been in the 50's for the play and the movie.
Reginald Rose and The Alpha Players have sensibly done the only thing you can do with yesterday's message play; they remade it into a nostalgia piece.
www.kdhx.org /reviews/twelve_angry_0502.html   (527 words)

  
 Twelve Angry Men - New York Magazine Theater Review
Such a fate may overtake Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men, which began as a teleplay, was expanded into a movie, underwent several stage versions, and now takes flight at the American Airlines Theater as a classic in the making.
It tells of how a lone holdout at a murder trial, Juror 8, staunchly standing by his reasonable doubt in face of underwhelming evidence, confronts eleven other jurors who, convinced that a 16-year-old boy is guilty of killing his father, are ready to condemn him to what in 1954 was a mandatory death sentence.
Rose manages to make the dozen jurors both universal, by refusing so much as to name them, and sharply individual with remarkably few but subtle strokes—by their vocabulary, by some idiosyncratic character trait, by their laconism or volubility.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/theater/reviews/10275   (815 words)

  
 Aisle Say (NY): TWELVE ANGRY MEN
Which is not to say the dramatizations were fl and white (well, they were broadcast in fl and white, but you know what I mean).
Where there were gray areas, they were examined with vigor–many of those dramas, in fact, that seemed dated for a while, are now, in a divided nation, right on point again, and a prime example of the breed is "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose.
Rose is, to be certain, dealing with archetypes, but he transcends them with sharp particularity and a flawless ear for the cadences and locution of each character’s background and education.
www.aislesay.com /NY-TWELVE.html   (545 words)

  
 Twelve Angry Jurors, 2003 - 2004 plays
An adaptation by Sherman Sergel of Reginald Rose's suspenseful courtroom drama confronting issues of life and death.
Rose's drama premiered as "Twelve Angry Men" in 1954 in CBS Television's groundbreaking "Studio One" series.
In 1960 -- four years after the original broadcast -- playwright Sherman L. Sergel adapted Reginald Rose's teleplay for the stage.
www.stthomas.edu /theater/season04t.htm   (426 words)

  
 Steve Rhodes reviews 12 Angry Men 1957
The script by Reginald Rose is firmly rooted in the 1950s, but, like a Shakespearean play, most of the lines reveal deeper meanings and hidden truths.
The only link between the two is Reginald Rose's script, which was kept almost totally intact.
The beauty of Rose's script is that we come to know each of the jurors by the end of the deliberations.
www.svtoday.com /svt/sr/121957.htm   (1138 words)

  
 Variety.com - Reviews - Twelve Angry Men   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
While the latter version contemporized the action, allowing for an ethnically mixed jury, Rose's play was and is very much rooted in a 1950s setting, placing a dozen combustible white men of different temperaments and social extractions around a table in a closed room to thrash out a difficult decision.
Gaines and Bosco have the meatiest roles, the former a quietly intelligent voice of reason, stability and unintimidated independent thought, the latter a hotheaded bully, his judgment clouded by bitter personal experience that ultimately unlocks his painful emotional exposure.
But alongside these controlled, anchoring perfs is a superb ensemble fleshing out Rose's complex characterizations, each of them taking a bracing turn in the spotlight.
www.variety.com /review/VE1117925396?categoryid=33&cs=1   (954 words)

  
 Funeral Homes and Cremation Service-Knowlton Hewins Roberts
WINTHROP — Reginald Scott Rose, 90, of Narrows Pond Road died Thursday, July 3, 2003, at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta.
He was born in Canton on Feb. 22, 1913, the son of Winfield and Bertha (Reed) Rose.
He was predeceased by his parents; his wife, Katharine Dailey Rose; infant son Reginald Rose; a brother, Clifford Rose; a sister, Pauline (Rose) Therrien; brother-in-law Joseph Clinton; and a son-in-law, Stephen Kelley.
www.khrfuneralhomes.com /cgi-bin/obit.cgi?Name=Scott   (620 words)

  
 Henry Fonda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1957, Fonda made his first foray into production with 12 Angry Men, based on a script by Reginald Rose and directed by Sidney Lumet.
The intense film about twelve jurors deciding the fate of a young man accused of murder was well-received by critics worldwide.
Fonda shared the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations with coproducer Reginald Rose and won the 1958 BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his performance as the logical "Juror #8." Henry Fonda vowed that he would never produce a movie ever again.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Fonda   (2910 words)

  
 Past Shows Domestic 12 ANGRY MEN by Reginald Rose - ORIGINAL CAST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Reginald Rose's classic courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men, memorably filmed with Henry Fonda in the 1950s, asks for a cast of, you've guessed it, 12.
REGINALD ROSE (Playwright) Reginald Rose first wrote The Twelve Angry Men in 1954 for CBS Television.
Rose then adapted his screenplay for the stage and the play was first presented in London in 1964.
www.theatretoursinternational.com /PastShows/PSDomestic/PS12AM.htm   (7950 words)

  
 Movie Database - tvguide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lumet's debut, Rose's adaptation of his television play: verbose, stage-bound, predictable and acted to within an inch of its life.
This classic courtroom drama begins in the final hours of a trial for murder in a hot, muggy New York City courtroom.
He had admired the television play authored by co-producer Rose and had attempted to get Hollywood's established studios interested in it, with little success.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/Movie-Review.asp?MI=24671   (439 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.