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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: Entertainment Events, Music, Mother's Day, 30 Rock (tv program), Entertainment
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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: Tony Awards, Tom Hanks, 30 Rock (tv program), Theater, Celebrities
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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: Theater, Broadway Theater, Arts, Chita Rivera, Entertainment Events
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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: Ray Liotta, Roger Ebert, Celebrities, Bradley Cooper, Human Interest
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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: Givenchy, Greenwich, Celebrities, Marriage, Incest
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Holland Taylor's big night ... what's the matter with Justin Bieber?
Liz Smith"If you're thin and rich and fun, everyone will want to dance with you!" said the late Brooke Astor. She always believed in dressing up to give people their money's worth! GREAT ACTRESSES are not always back-biting and jealous of one another. Many...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Celebrities, Ben Vereen, Netherlands, Feminism
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Actor Denis Leary has a great writer in his family -- his divine wife, Ann!
Liz Smith"THINK LIKE a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail," says Oprah. I'VE HAD a crush on the actor Denis Leary ever since I met him backstage one night at Carnegie Hall. This excellent performer who played the conflicted fireman in television's "Rescue Me"...Tags: Denis Leary, Brad Pitt, Celebrities, Paris Hilton, French Literature
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Barbara Walters -- on the mend in Manhattan
Liz Smith"Mr. Sinatra ... I am an Italian!" said the comedienne Kaye Ballard, currying favor way back when. "And I'm an American," Sinatra shot right back. (Funny, the things that turn up in old files.) OUR friend Cindy Adams of the Post settled it once and...Tags: D. W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, Chickenpox, Pete Seeger, Celebrities
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The 'Pink Panther' at 50: Still prowling!
Liz Smith"I AM into comedy!" declared model Heidi Klum. Anyone who has ever watched -- or participated in -- "Project Runway," might disagree. Sometimes "P.R." seems to be just a teeny bit sadistic. But I guess that can be amusing to some people. NEXT YEAR MARKS...Tags: Claudia Cardinale, Marion Cotillard, Theater, Celebrities, Steve Martin
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'ParaNorman'
The young title character in this stop-motion animation fantasy (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) shares a trait with Haley Joel Osment's alter ego in "The Sixth Sense," summed up by the sentence, "I see dead people." While that can mean comforting reunions,...
Tags: The Sixth Sense (movie), ParaNorman (movie), DVDs, Leslie Mann, Coraline (movie)
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IN THE MOVIE THEATER: Seeing is believing in 'ParaNorman'
Contributing writerPARANORMAN (2012/B/Directed by Chris Butler, Sam Fell/Voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Tucker Albrizzi, Casey Affleck, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Jodelle Ferland, John Goodman, Alex Borstein, Bernard...Tags: Drama (genre), Tim Burton, ParaNorman (movie), Pixar Animation, John Goodman
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My 'Ancient Evenings' with Norman Mailer
Liz Smith"LIKE WATCHING PAINT DRY!" This is the ultimate comment about the tiresome tedium of actually making movies. Despite all the romance, glamour and effort of writing, directing, makeup, costumes and technique, plus acting, the road to stardom sometimes...Tags: The Hangover (movie), 60 Minutes (tv program), Mike Wallace, Celebrities, Ryan Gosling
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