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Versatile director leads the way
They say if you want a job done right, give it to a busy person. Well, Tim Nelson's one of the busiest, and he's been getting it done right for the past 30 years. At the moment, Nelson — whose many titles include director and musical director of...Tags: Rose Marie, Huntington Beach, Susan Egan, Steve Allen, Westminster (Orange, California)
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On Theater: Don't miss 'Brigadoon' while it's here
It's not really true that the musical "Brigadoon" only surfaces at a local theater once every 100 years. It only seems that way sometimes because the show is so seldom produced in our area. Which is why theatergoers — and particularly fans of...Tags: Garrett Brown Jr., Music, Weddings, Music Theater, Theater
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Tracie Bennett becomes Judy Garland as a dynamo at rainbow's end
For movie musical lovers in general and gay men of a certain age in particular, Judy Garland represents the alpha and omega of stardom. So it was with some trepidation that I knocked on the apartment door of Tracie Bennett, the English actress who has...
Tags: United Kingdom, Academy Awards, Physical Fitness and Exercise, England, Entertainment Events
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Review: Nothing magic about 'Jack the Giant Slayer'
Pity poor Jack. There he was, minding his own business in some dusty fairy tale book when the powers that be dragooned him into active service as the front man for the would-be blockbuster "Jack the Giant Slayer." Of course, Jack's been through the...Tags: Jack the Giant Slayer (movie), Bill Nighy, Sundance Film Festival, Colin Firth, Ian McShane
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Matt Mattox dies at 91; master Hollywood dancer and choreographer
Hollywood considered Matt Mattox one of the best dancers in the country when he was cast to dizzying effect in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," the 1954 Oscar-winning film celebrated for its imaginative and masterful dance moves. Billed as one of...
Tags: New York City, Marilyn Monroe, France, Entertainment Events, Radford (Radford, Virginia)
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The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...Tags: Citizen Kane (movie), Jerry Lewis, Johnny Carson, Howard Hawks, Ricky Gervais
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Screening Room: The Cinematheque boogies this weekend
The American Cinemathque's Egyptian Theatre gets its boogie on with a triple bill Saturday night of campy skating disco flicks. The first entering the rink is the 1980 cult fave "Xanadu," which was turned into a Broadway musical more than 20 years...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Sean Connery, Roman Polanski, Thomas Ince, Catherine Deneuve
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Review: 'Freud's Last Session' doesn't lend itself to deep analysis
Sigmund Freud considered religion a mass delusion, a sort of group neurosis ideally suited to obsessive types. C.S. Lewis was a literary intellectual who found ways of channeling his devout Christianity into even his nontheological writings, "The...Tags: Off-Broadway Theater, Religion and Belief, Philosophy, Judd Hirsch, Arts and Culture
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Johnny Carson to play it again on TCM
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelJohnny Carson, one of TV's greatest stars, gets a new gig next summer. Not bad for a man who died in 2005. TCM will replay Carson's “Tonight Show” interviews with Hollywood greats, from Henry Fonda and James Stewart to Sally Field and Susan... -
Ring in the new year with classic comedies
The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre has the perfect antidote for holiday blues -- a series of classic comedies from the golden age of Hollywood. "Screwball Comedy Classics for the 2013 New Year" serves up 1947's "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer"...
Tags: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (movie), Jean Arthur, David Bennent, Ernst Lubitsch, Sean Connery
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Packers winning methodically
GREEN BAY — Although the Bears have failed repeatedly to hold down the Packers, the rest of the league believes the Bears know how to do it. So this season, almost every Packers opponent has borrowed the Cover-2 pages from the Bears' playbook....Tags: Green Bay Packers, Bryan Bulaga, Lovie Smith, Brian Urlacher, Greg Jennings
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The Cinematheque celebrates the beauty of film
The American Cinematheque welcomes 2013 with "Motion Picturesque: Cinema at Its Most Beautiful" festival, which shines the spotlight on the visual splendor of motion pictures. The series opens Thursday at the Egyptian with Fritz Lang's influential...
Tags: Jack Klugman, Kon-Tiki (movie), Liza Minnelli, Roman Polanski, Entertainment Events
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