Martin Balsam "The Goodbye People". In 1960, he appeared in one of his best-remembered roles as Detective Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". Along with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, Martin Balsam appeared in both the original "Cape Fear" (1962), and the 1991 Martin Scorsese remake. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Arnold Burns in "A Thousand Clowns" (1965). In 1968, he won a Tony Award for his appearance in the 1967 Broadway production of "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running". Balsam played "Washington Post" editor Howard Simons in "All the President's
Climbing the Stairs researched, politically balanced, and based on real experiences." Climbing the Stairs Climbing the Stairs is a young-adult novel written by Padma Venkatraman. It was published on 1 May 2008 by Penguin USA. The novel depicts fifteen-year-old Vidya, who is coming of age in a tumultuous time as her native India struggles for independence and the world battles in World War II. When her father suffers brain damage during an Indian independence protest, Vidya is forced to relocate with her family from Bombay to her paternal grandfather’s traditional home in Madras. In this new home, Vidya fights the subservient role assigned