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Wrapped up in Liberace ... Angelina & Leo -- heroes! A look at networks and HBO ... Actors, Actors, Actors
Liz Smith"THERE'S NOTHING MORE intriguing than a movie star wrapped like a mummy playing someone just emerging from plastic surgery. Think Humphrey Bogart in "Dark Passage," Elizabeth Taylor in "Ash Wednesday." And now, in HBO's "Behind the Candelabra," Michael...Tags: Weather, Breast Cancer, Matt Damon, Television Industry, Environmental Issues
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The Short List: Three memorable moms
Seattle TimesStage mom Mama Rose A female King Lear, with music. The stage mother from hell. That would be Mama Rose, the dominant figure in the classic Broadway musical "Gypsy." A frustrated performer herself, Rose drags her kids into show biz and coerces...Tags: Marge Simpson (fictional character), Music Theater, Music, Theater, 30 Rock (tv program)
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Tom Hanks a shoo-in for a Tony
Liz Smith"When you start a column, you're in a very creative state; you're building a personality in a piece of writing. It's a strange kind of business. After a while the column becomes a tyrant. You've created a personality that is one aspect of yourself, and it...Tags: New York Public Library, George Takei, Michael Landes, Tony Awards, Entertainment
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Nine Tribeca Film Festival titles you'll soon be hearing about
NEW YORK--The Tribeca Film Festival that ended Sunday occupies an odd niche in the movie-confab calendar, which among its oddities includes a large number of posts about the odd niche it occupies in the movie-confab calendar. But amid all the hand-...
Tags: TriBeCa Film Festival, John Slattery, Michael Haneke, Film Festivals, Sundance Film Festival
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Personality drives this Tribeca Film Festival
NEW YORK — In 11 previous editions, the Tribeca Film Festival has showcased dozens of glitzy studio productions and stars — Tobey Maguire and his "Spider-Man 3" crew rode into town in 2007, Tom Cruise opened "Mission: Impossible III" here in...
Tags: Michael Haneke, Movies, Amy Morton, Let the Right One In (movie), Tom Cruise
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A musical cake for Cook
Broadway luminary Barbara Cook is in for a treat. During her one-night-only performance at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall on Saturday, she will be presented with a birthday card. Yes, birthday cards are common, but not ones filled with...
Tags: Music Theater, Arts and Culture, Chita Rivera, Tom Wopat, Arts
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What will you find 'Beyond the Pines'? -- Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper. Not a bad thing!
Liz Smith"STAR QUALITY. Whether you are born with it, or catch it from a drinking fountain, she had it!" That was a significant line from the 1954 Joe Mankiewicz film "The Barefoot Contessa." The remark referred to Ava Gardner, but I always think of it when a...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Liz Smith, Margaret Thatcher, Movies, Celebrities
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Jackie Bisset, Charlotte Rampling -- great beauties, still hard at work
Liz Smith"IT'S NOT incest when it's between men." That was a portion of actor Jeremy Irons wildly convoluted, much publicized recent remarks on gay marriage. He said he has no strong feelings on it, but then wondered, "Could it lead to fathers marrying their...Tags: Marriage, Liz Smith, Greenwich, Movies, Family
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Review: Bachelor and 'Company' of friends take jet trip to 2013
Even as I enjoyed Crown City Theatre's tuneful, compactly staged revival of the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical “Company," my mommy radar was on high alert: Who’s watching the kids? Several characters allude to having them. These kids...
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Cyndi Lauper's 'Kinky Boots' on Broadway: What did critics think?
“Kinky Boots,” a new Broadway musical about a sole-saving drag queen, high-stepped Thursday night into the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. The musical features a score by '80s pop queen Cyndi Lauper – her first turn as a Broadway composer --...
Tags: Music, Music Theater, Theater, Stark Sands, Entertainment Events
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Quick Takes
Netflix's 'Development' The Bluths will be back just in time for Memorial Day weekend. Netflix said it will premiere 15 new episodes of the cult hit "Arrested Development," starring Jason Bateman and Will Arnett, on May 26 on its online streaming...Tags: Al Green, Museums, Mavis Staples, Arts and Culture, Rob Bowman
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Stars watch Elaine Stritch's swan song at New York's Cafe Carlyle
New York theater institutions don't come much feistier or more dynamic than Elaine Stritch. The tart-tongued, 88-year-old force of nature -- whose stage career includes memorable collaborations with Stephen Sondheim and Edward Albee -- kicked off her...
Tags: TriBeCa Film Festival, Martin Short, Tony Bennett, Bernadette Peters, Alec Baldwin
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