Look Back in Anger (1959 film) difference between Jimmy and Alison. The film and play are classic examples of the British cultural movement known as kitchen sink realism. The black-and-white film opens with a close-up on Jimmy Porter performing on trumpet in a crowded, smoky jazz club (titles over). Having finished to a round of applause, he goes over to his friend Cliff, sitting at a front row table but his friend waves him off in dumb-show, being more intent on winning the affections of a woman. (The real Chris Barber jazz band is visible in the background). Scenes of Jimmy walking home through the depressing
John Osborne (journalist) becoming its editor the following year. In 1899 he became secretary of the Public Service Association of New South Wales. Osborne died after a heart attack at Double Bay in 1908. John Osborne (journalist) John Osborne (25 September 1842 – 1 September 1908) was an Australian journalist and Methodist minister. He was born at Wollongong to builder Robert Osborne and Rebecca Musgrave. He became a solicitor's clerk before joining the Wesleyan ministry. On 9 April 1867 he married Elizabeth Wastell, and they soon both departed to Samoa as missionaries. He was sent to Fiji in 1869 and Rotuma in 1870,