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Tim Adler leads an unauthorized tour in 'The House of Redgrave'
On Jan. 30, 1937, Michael Redgrave was performing the role of Laertes in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at the Old Vic in London. After the performance, Laurence Olivier stepped onto the stage to announce, "Ladies and gentleman, tonight a great actress was born:...
Tags: Celebrities, Natasha Richardson, Rachel Kempson, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson
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Monday's TV Highlights: 'Revolution' on NBC
Click here to download TV listings for the week Nov. 25 - Dec. 1 in PDF format This week's TV Movies  -------------------- SERIES Untold History of the United States: Oliver Stone examines the geopolitical aftermath of the development and deployment...
Tags: Cheri Oteri, Drama (genre), Terry Crews, New York Knicks, Television Industry
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Albert Marre dies at 87; director of 'Man of La Mancha'
The teleplay "I, Don Quixote" captured the attention of theater director Albert Marre in 1959, but not for its intense drama. He "saw it as a musical." By 1963, Marre was meeting in Palm Springs with the teleplay's author, Dale Wasserman, to sketch out...
Tags: Tony Awards, Celebrities, Entertainment, Prisons, Michael Redgrave
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Review: 'Dropped Names' by Frank Langella dishes on fellow actors
Dropped Names Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them Frank Langella Harper: 356 pp., $25.99 Frank Langella's "Dropped Names" is a different kind of memoir. Rather than recapping his life story, the veteran stage and screen actor offers a series of...
Tags: Charlton Heston, Tony Awards, Anthony Quinn, Paul Newman, Celebrities
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PASSINGS: John Finnegan, Nan Merriman, Sidney Reznick
John Finnegan Character actor appeared regularly on 'Columbo' John Finnegan, 85, a character actor who portrayed a scout in the 1984 baseball film "The Natural" and regularly appeared on television's "Columbo," died Sunday at his Palm Desert home from...
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Andrew Garfield is 'getting on the fridge' as Biff, Spider-Man
NEW YORK — Seeing as he grew up in the county of Surrey in southeast England and was called one of Britain's rising stage actors at an early age, you might expect that Andrew Garfield has Sir Laurence Olivier as one of his role models. But his...
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Kirk Douglas on the blacklist: Why Hollywood showed so little courage
24 FramesKirk Douglas has written a lively new memoir about one of his greatest triumphs. Titled “I Am Spartacus!” it recounts how Douglas helped break the midcentury anti-communist blacklist by secretly hiring Dalton Trumbo to write “Spartacus,&... -
Movies: Designs that build character
Los Angeles TimesA movie doesn't have to be jampacked with cinema style to have a memorable fashion moment or two, and in the course of screening the slate of holiday-season films, we found all kinds of clothes, accessories, hairstyles and makeup worth a mention. "Hugo"...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Conservative Party (UK), Celebrities, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Prince (music artist)
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Oscars by the Numbers
LA Times MagazineSurprising stats from the most famous awards show of them all... -
Around Town: Films, screenings and more in L.A. this week
24 FramesWith Gary Oldman getting strong reviews and Oscar buzz for his performance as spy George Smiley in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, the Arclight in Hollywood is offering a six-film retrospective of the British actor’s career beginning... -
Oscar voters: How some TV veterans made it into the academy
24 FramesSome members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences better known for their work in television than in film. How did they get in, and what perspective do they bring to the Oscars?... -
John Malkovich's message to the theater world on its special day
Culture MonsterJohn Malkovich will give the annual message for World Theatre Day in Paris at a March 22 kickoff gala of events leading up to the 50th annual celebration on March 27. Here's the text he'll deliver....
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