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Palm Springs, His Way
Back in 1975, when Mel Haber first opened his Palm Springs restaurant, he waited for the call that would signal true success. Three months passed before it came: “He’s on his way over.” The “he” was Frank Sinatra. In those...
Tags: Rentals, U.S. Secret Service, Gregory Peck, John F. Kennedy, Marlon Brando
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Creative Minds: Mitch Glazer talks 'Magic City' and 1950s Miami
Show TrackerScreenwriter Mitch Glazer brings his Miami-based gangster vision to TV in the new Starz period drama “Magic City” — and yes, he’s ready to defend it against that other period drama that just made its comeback.... -
William Campbell dies at 87; actor had numerous film, TV roles
William Campbell, a veteran actor who had memorable roles in the television series "Star Trek," was in Elvis Presley's first film and in the 1950s was married to President Kennedy paramour Judith Campbell Exner, has died. He was 87.
Campbell died...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Star Trek (movie, 2009), John F. Kennedy, Francis Ford Coppola, Elvis Presley
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Paul Giamatti's Hamlet and Douglas Sills' JFK Both Have Issues With Their Fathers
Hamlet Ends April 13, Yale University Theatre, New Haven. Produced by the Yale Repertory Theatre. (203) 432-1234, yalrep.org Ride the Tiger Ends April 21, Long Wharf Theatre, 222 Sargent Drive, New Haven, (203) 787-4282, longwharf.org Greed...
Tags: Long Wharf Theatre, Arts and Culture, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), John F. Kennedy, Music
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'Ride The Tiger' Funny, Fascinating
The Hartford CourantThe show: "Ride the Tiger" by William Mastrosimone at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre First impressions: You can't keep your eyes off the characters in this juicy, funny and fascinating new play that is part myth, part political melodrama and part pulp...Tags: FBI, Joseph P. Kennedy, Arts and Culture, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Elections
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A Tale Of The Kennedys, Sinatra And The Mafia At Long Wharf
The Hartford CourantWhen William Mastrosimone was working on the script for the 1992 mini-series "Sinatra," the singer told him a startling tale that involved Joseph Kennedy Sr., JFK, Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana and Judith Exner, Sinatra's girlfriend who was also...Tags: Assassinations, Joseph P. Kennedy, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Adultery, Murder
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New Haven Fall Arts Preview: A Lively, Unpredictable Theater Season
Let the casting debates begin! Paul Giamatti will star as Hamlet next spring at the Yale Repertory Theatre, part of a lively Rep season that includes new works by Sarah Ruhl (with the Clean House playwright devising "a play in letters" from the...
Tags: Shrek (fictional character), Theater, Sam Shepard, Louis Armstrong, John Waters
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New Haven's Theater Scene is Bursting
Most states are lucky to have one theater that's won the Tony Award for Best Regional Theater. Connecticut has five, and two of them are in New Haven. The Yale Repertory Theatre [1120 Chapel St., New Haven; (203) 432-1234, yalerep.org], right downtown on...
Tags: Shrek (fictional character), Sam Shepard, Louis Armstrong, Hamden (New Haven, Connecticut), Blue Man Group
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AMC and Anthony Bourdain say you’d better watch “Mob Week”
Channel Guide MagazineYeah, tough guy, I’m lookin’ at you. So you’ve seen Goodfellas more times than there are oranges in The Godfather. And you’ve seen The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II — judiciously skipping the oft-maligned Part III &#... -
"My Name Is Asher Lev" Cast Gets Its Rabbinical Study
Hartford CourantThe cast of Long Wharf Theatre’s “My Name Is Asher Lev” is doing its rabbinical research. Director Gordon Edelstein and the cast of the play met with Rabbi Herbert Brockman of Congregation Mishkan Israel to talk about the Aaron Posner...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Crown Heights, John F. Kennedy
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The theater season never ends
A Spring Theater preview? But doesn't the regular theater season end in May? For some of the state's half-dozen major regional theaters, that's true. Others, which follow a spring-to-winter schedule instead of the academic-year calendar preferred in...
Tags: Shrek (fictional character), Theater, Crown Heights, John F. Kennedy, Wicked (musical)
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Extension 720 Audio Archives, November 2005
Staff reporterExtension 720 hosts a very important discussion on the necessity of building relationships between Jews and Muslims. The featured guest is Dr. Akbar Ahmed, professor of Islamic Studies and International Relations at American University and former High...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), John F. Kennedy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Teachers, Education
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