News about Howard Hawks

Among the first talkie movies that depicted an alien was Howard Hawks's sci-fi classic The Thing From Another World (1951), which was based on the story Who Goes There? Hawks realised that this then-modern-day horror story could serve as an effective allegorical vehicle for the growing Cold War paranoia and the Soviet nuclear threat. Following a magnetic disturbance at the North Pole, an expedition consisting of soldiers and scientists is dispatched to study the source. There they find a great saucer-like object buried beneath the ice. Inside they discover a frozen human-like survivor (the Thing), which they take back to their base

As Famd's second series of Feud investigates Truman Capote's betrayal of the high-society women he surrounded himself with, FEMAIL examines his'swans,' including Jackie Kennedy's sister Lee Radziwill (right), actress and fashion muse C.Z Guest (centre) and Vogue editor Babe Paley (left). After the swans recognized themselves in his latest work of fiction, Answered Prayers, when an extract of the novel was published in Esquire magazine in 1975, Capote (inset) found himself barred from the New York social scene. After reading the extract, the women left Capote and became a social pariah until his death in 1984.