From Here to Eternity News

It was my summer read, 1960. I was 12 and had already come to see the world as a harsh place ruled by secret agendas.

November 20 1952 was one of the most important dates in Frank Sinatra's career. Frank Sinatra was given a screen-test for the role of Maggio in the Columbia Picture's "From Here To Eternity" on this date.

The classic 1951 novel From Here To Eternity could have been From Queer To Eternity , if only the publisher hadn't caved in to Catholic group pressure and made author James Jones cut the gay stuff.

Romance is a lifetime adventure that is identified in different ways through this illustrious group of romance movies.

NY Senator Savino on marriage equality vote: " I'm hopeful it's Tuesday. " Alex Pettyfer strikes a profile in Vman .

Daughter of author James Jones discloses details of cuts insisted upon by the novel's original publisher Daughter of author James Jones discloses details of the cuts its original publisher insisted on Hidden story ... From Here To Eternity in its 1953 Hollywood incarnation starring Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr.

In looking for the "Most Romantic Films for Audiences Over 50," I couldn't narrow it down to just 10, so here's the list of 25 , in chronological order of release.

Most people know Kurt Vonnegut as the author of "Slaughterhouse-Five,'' but Kaylie Jones knew him as a dinner guest.

His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, Frank Sinatra was poised to make a comeback after he won the 1954 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 'From Here to Eternity.' But his singing career was still stalled.

And he thinks, "Once people get past the strange concept of [Mariah] Carey as an Oscar contender, they wona TMt be able to deny the power of her few scenes as a social worker.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a screening of a new digital restoration of the 1953 Best Picture winner From Here to Eternity on Wednesday, November 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

Duration: 57:45 TVG Francis Albert Sinatra - agreed by many to be the greatest entertainer in the history of American pop culture.

When Kaylie Jones was 16, her father, James Jones, the author of "From Here to Eternity," and "The Thin Red Line," died of congestive heart failure in Southampton Hospital.

He could be a senior citizen living in Naperville. He's friendly, down to earth and the type of person you might find in a downtown coffee shop sipping his favorite hot brew.

Mira Nair's exhilarating Monsoon Wedding and an essential documentary about those classic Ali-Frazier boxing matches are among this week's platinum picks on DVD.

Italian-American crooner Al Martino, who had string of international pop-chart hits in the 1950s and 1960s including "Spanish Eyes" and "Here in My Heart" and later put his creamy baritone to good use as the fading pop star supposedly based on Frank Sinatra in the 1972 film The Godfather , died Oct.

" Oct. 13, 2009, Sinatra-esque pop singer and actor, has died in his home in Springfield, Delaware County after apparently suffering cardiac arrest while cooking according to his son, Alfred Cini.

"Long before the pill, when John Wayne was keeping the frontier safe, when Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas fought or led the Romans, men were men and women were weak-kneed" IN A scientific journal piece that will put the wind up tall, broad, stocky, hairy, chisel-faced macho men everywhere, a female scientist at Sheffield Uni has proposed the ...

PATRIOTIC HOLLYWOOD: WORLD WAR II IN FILM SERIES: The Maryland Historical Society, 201 W. Monument St., starts this free film series with "From Here to Eternity," starring Burt Lancaster , Montgomery Clift , Frank Sinatra , Donna Reed , Deborah Kerr and Ernest Borgnine .

The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor takes place only near the end of "From Here to Eternity" . But it's an ideal selection for the Maryland Historical Society's series, "Patriotic Hollywood: World War II in Film." Stephen Ambrose once wrote, "What held [American GIs] together was not country and flag, but unit cohesion." "From Here to ...