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Feinstein revs up Pasadena Pops summer season
The Pasadena Pops' star-studded "Sierra Acura Summer Concert Series" opens June 1 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia. At the podium: singer, pianist and renowned interpreter of the American Songbook, Michael Feinstein,...
Tags: Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, Music Industry, Christine Ebersole, Music Theater, Lincoln Center
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John Gilbert, the silent era's talk of the town
John Gilbert was the golden boy at MGM during the final years of the silent era. He was the young studio's biggest male star, working with such top directors as King Vidor ("The Big Parade," 1925), Erich von Stroheim ("The Merry Widow," 1925) and Tod...
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Debuts from Christopher Nolan, Stanley Kubrick: Kenneth Turan's pick
As the new year begins, what could be more fitting than a look at the first films of celebrated directors? The folks at Criterion have given us 1998's "Following," the fine independent debut by Christopher Nolan, who shot it over a year while he was...
Tags: Lawrence of Arabia (movie), Stanley Kubrick, Christopher Nolan, Movies, Fritz Lang
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Onstage, 'Singin' in the Rain' doesn't hold water
You certainly could not accuse Kyle DeSantis, the producer of the Drury Lane Oakbrook's huge new production of "Singin' in the Rain" of failing to deliver the wet stuff — as required for the title number and as immortalized by Gene Kelly in the 1952...
Tags: Movies, Theater, Music Theater, Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly
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Theatre at Center announces 2013 season
Theatre at the Center, the Equity-affiliated theater in Munster, Ind., has announced its 2013 season. The calendar year begins with the first Chicago-area production of "The Fox on the Fairway," the latest from farceur Ken Ludwig, and continues in the...Tags: Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Music
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Sweeney Todd kicks off Freddy Award season this weekend
The Freddy Awards kick off in weekend with Stephen Sondheim's dark musical "Sweeney Todd," presented by Blair Academy in Blairstown, N.J. Thursday through Saturday.
The Freddy Awards is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with a record number of...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Music Theater, Phillipsburg, Hellertown, Entertainment
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2012 Freddy Awards: Full schedule of shows
The Freddy Awards is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with a record number of schools taking part in the State Theatre's annual awards for excellence in high school musical theater. Thirty schools in the Lehigh Valley and Warren County, N.J.,...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Music Theater, Hellertown, Entertainment, Bethlehem Township (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
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On Oscars: The best often don't win
On Sunday, Hollywood celebrates itself and honors its own. All eyes (or most of them anyway) will be on the presentations of the Academy Awards.
But do the Oscars always end up in the right hands? Opinions abound on this topic, and what follows is only...Tags: Casablanca (movie), Frank Sinatra, Maximilian Schell, Katharine Hepburn, Ernest Borgnine
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John D. Lowry dies at 79; innovative film-restoration executive
John D. Lowry, an entertainment technology innovator who founded Lowry Digital Images, the renowned movie restoration company in Burbank that worked its magic by returning film classics such as "Casablanca" and "Star Wars" to their pristine state for...Tags: The West Wing (tv program), Snow White (fictional character), Casablanca (movie), Dyslexia, Culture
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'The Artist' is artful in the way it wins you over -- 3 1/2 stars
Please be silent behind the screen.
Backstage at the 1927 Hollywood premiere of his latest screen triumph, film star George Valentin — played with irresistible zest by Jean Dujardin — waits for the crowd's response. Standing in front of...Tags: Film Festivals, James Cromwell, Movies, Bernard Herrmann, PG-13 Rated Movies
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PASSINGS: Uan Rasey, Hanan Porat
Uan Rasey Trumpet player in 'Chinatown' and other films Uan Rasey, 90, a first-call trumpet player for MGM and other studio orchestras best known for his evocative solo in Roman Polanski's 1974 film "Chinatown," died Sept. 26 at Kaiser Permanente...Tags: Television, West Bank, Judaism, Religious Conflicts, Los Angeles Times
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Comden & Green (and now add Beane)
Special to The TimesWHEN I was a young writer and wore a pencil behind my ear without a hint of irony, I swore a great many things. One was that I would never adapt anything. My ideas would spring anew from my dramatic imagination and the world would rejoice -- though...Tags: Television, Music Industry, Nine Inch Nails (music group), M. Night Shyamalan, Music Theater
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