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New Edward Albee play postponed -- for the second time
Even Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights are prone to self-doubt. Edward Albee, the Tony Award-winning writer of 1962's “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” was supposed to see his newest work, “Laying an Egg,” debut off-...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Tony Awards, Awards and Prizes
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Lois Smith Cast In New Horton Foote Play, 'The Old Friends'
Hartford CourantMichael Wilson, former artistic director of Hartford Stage, will be directing Betty Buckley, Lois Smith and Hallie Foote in the world premiere of Horton Foote’s “The Old Friends” at off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre Company, which...Tags: Hartford Stage
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Recalling the great, great PR woman, Lois Smith
Liz Smith"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult," said Canadian feminist Charlotte Whitton back in the '70s. We don't want to dwell on tragedy -- every day there are losses everywhere. But...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, The Rolling Stones (music group), Celebrities, Mandy Patinkin, Brooke Smith
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'Odd Life of Timothy Green' a tale of a little green sprout ★★ 1/2
"The Odd Life of Timothy Green" is odd indeed. It comes from writer-director Peter Hedges of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" and other pictures, and in pleasing ways as well as some dubious ones, Hedges ranges all over the place in his expansion of a story...
Tags: Infertility, M. Emmet Walsh, Haley Joel Osment, Jennifer Garner, Tobe Hooper
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Who killed Lincoln? Who killed Kennedy? Ask Bill O'Reilly!
Liz Smith"One out of four Americans can't name Abraham Lincoln's assassin!" according to the "60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll" in the November issue of Vanity Fair. This really means people aren't paying attention. After all, Fox's Bill O'Reilly is still number four...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Abraham Lincoln, Brooke Smith, Nat Faxon, Ethel Barrymore
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New Barbra bio is like 'buttah' -- but she won't think so
Liz Smith"BEING COMPARED to other people, even to say she was in the same league as the greats, never felt like flattery to Barbra. She wasn't out to be as good as anyone else, or to be the next whoever. She wanted to be the best there ever was, in her own way,...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor, Liz Smith
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Conventions are over! On to the debates (and the real teeth-gnashing)
Liz Smith"THE REPUBLICANS left Tampa, Fla., wondering who had invited Clint Eastwood. The Democrats are now wondering who disinvited God," wrote my pal Gail Collins in The New York Times. This is the best thing written about the political conventions. Now, on...Tags: Yankee Stadium, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, Movies, Joe DiMaggio
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This weekend: Olympics, Marilyn Monroe, ‘True Blood’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelMarilyn Monroe is honored Saturday, the day before the 50th anniversary of her death. TCM will serve up her best films: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" at 4:15 p.m., "The Seven Year Itch" at 6 p.m., "Some Like It Hot" at 8 p.m., "Bus Stop" at 10:15 p.m. and... -
A man with a vision
heather.keels@herald-mail.comOn the Saturday morning in the early 1930s when Howard S. Kaylor was introduced to the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, he had no way of knowing the role the museum would play in his life, or the important role he would play in the museum's...Tags: The Salvation Army, Music, Economy, Business and Finance, Entertainment, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Out on Home Video: 'No Strings Attached' released
limiro@juno.comNO STRINGS ATTACHED (2011/B-/Directed by Ivan Reitman/Starring Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline, Cary Elwes, Greta Gerwig, Lake Bell, Mindy Kaling, Olivia Thirlby, Chris Bridges/DreamWorks//Rated R/Comedy/107 minutes/Available on: DVD and Blu-...Tags: Michel Gondry, Mike Vogel, Adriana Barraza, Jane Austen, Melanie Griffith
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Indie Spirit Awards nominations â 127 Hours, Winterâs Bone, and Greenberg? Last Exorcism?
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelA few fun surprises in this morning's Indie Spirit Award nominations. “Greenberg,” Ben Stiller's terrific March turn as an out of sorts fellow who has a sort-of–affair with a lost and lonely young woman, was remembered. Stiller and Greta... -
Movie review: 'Sweet Land'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) "Sweet Land" is a sometimes elegiac, sometimes joyous movie about an immigrant couple in the Midwestern farm belt in the 1920s and what happens to them during a time of national conservatism and clannishness. Based on Will Weaver'...Tags: Ned Beatty, Terrence Malick, World War I (1914-1918), Movies, Migration
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