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Great Old Broad Series: Estelle Parsons
Last Sunday's screening at New Haven's Lyric Hall of the documentary "Broads,"that features salty, outspoken interviews with actresses of a certain age remind me of some of my own favorite interviews of like-minded dames. I'll post a series of these...
Tags: Entertainment, Arthur Penn, Cloris Leachman, Music Theater, Barbra Streisand
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Norma Merrick Sklarek dies; pioneering African American architect
Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first African American woman in the country to become a licensed architect, who helped produce Terminal 1 at Los Angeles International Airport and the American Embassy in Tokyo, died Monday at her home in Pacific Palisades....Tags: Technology, Heart Failure, Architecture, Leo Baeck, Los Angeles International Airport
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Broadway's "Nice Work" Rings a Goodspeed Bell
Hartford CourantThe upcoming Broadway musical “Nice Work if You Can Get It” may have a familiar whiff to Connecticut audiences. This new-old Gershwin show bears a striking resemblance to “They All Laughed” which was also marketed as a new-old...Tags: Entertainment, Music Theater, Chris Sullivan, Mary Beth Peil, Theater
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Verify, don't trust: Do homework to avoid Ponzi schemes
South Florida Sun-SentinelFrom Lou Pearlman to Bernard Madoff, a rash of investment frauds in recent years has many people fretting about how to avoid becoming ensnared in a so-called Ponzi scheme. Maitland financial planner Susan Spraker had just told a wealthy, prospective...Tags: Entertainment, Florida, Securities, Lou Pearlman, Financial Markets
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'Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark' on Broadway: Spidey is stuck in a tangled web
The Theater Loop“Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark” plays on Broadway at the Foxwoods Theatre, 213 W. 42nd St., New York. (Tickets at 877-850-2929 or www.ticketmaster.com) BROADWAY REVIEW NEW YORK — After the $65 million spent, the endless delays, the injuries, the... -
NBC News Correspondent Edwin Newman Dead at 91
![NEW YORK -- Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC newscasts for more than three decades, and battled linguistic pretense and clutter in his best sellers "Strictly Speaking" and "A Civil Tongue," has died. He was 91.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-09/56169938-15094329-187105.jpg "NEW YORK -- Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC newscasts for more than three decades, and battled linguistic pretense and clutter in his best sellers "Strictly Speaking\" and \"A Civil Tongue,\" has died. He was 91.")
Associated PressNEW YORK -- Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC newscasts for more than three decades, and battled linguistic pretense and clutter in his best sellers "Strictly Speaking" and "A Civil Tongue," has died. He was 91. NBC News did not...Tags: Entertainment, Today (tv program), NBC (tv network), Television, Television Industry
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Jeffrey Richards: big man on Broadway
![On the opening night of the revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms," Kevin Spacey, Naomi Watts and a crush of theatergoers pressed into the St. James Theatre. But the man most instrumental in its transfer from Chicago's Goodman Theatre was nowhere to be seen. Finally, as the lights blinked final warning, lead producer Jeffrey Richards appeared, glad-handing the crowd of theater professionals. The snappy attire, including chic aviator sunglasses, seemed Richards' only concession to his new position as one of Broadway's most powerful producers.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-06/47300283-04111746.jpg "On the opening night of the revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms,\" Kevin Spacey, Naomi Watts and a crush of theatergoers pressed into the St. James Theatre. But the man most instrumental in its transfer from Chicago's Goodman Theatre was nowhere to be seen. Finally, as the lights blinked final warning, lead producer Jeffrey Richards appeared, glad-handing the crowd of theater professionals. The snappy attire, including chic aviator sunglasses, seemed Richards' only concession to his new position as one of Broadway's most powerful producers.")
On the opening night of the revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms," Kevin Spacey, Naomi Watts and a crush of theatergoers pressed into the St. James Theatre. But the man most instrumental in its transfer from Chicago's Goodman Theatre was...Tags: Gore Vidal, Entertainment, Noel Coward, Music Theater, Television
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Fixing up a home still may reap big returns
Special to The Washington PostWhat does remodeling add to the value of a house? Not as much as it did a couple years ago, according to an upcoming survey. Remodeling magazine's annual "Cost vs. Value Report" is to be published Nov. 1, so up-to-date information on how much bang you...Tags: Real Estate, Newspaper and Magazine, Real Estate Sellers, The Washington Post, Property
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Sophomoric, not Sophoclean
Tribune arts criticCall a show "Hillbilly Antigone" and you lead the ticket buyer to reasonably expect some kind of droll, Appalachian retelling of the great Sophoclean tragedythat brilliantly wrought, balanced geopolitical battle between Creon's expedient need to impose...Tags: Comedy (genre), Entertainment, Music Theater, Music Industry, Theater
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Julie Harris recounts a bountiful career
Tribune chief criticJulie Harris made her Broadway debut 56 years ago, in a play called "It's a Gift." She was 20, and she played the oldest of 11 children. Five years later, she memorably played the 12-year-old tomboy Frankie in Carson McCullers' "The Member of the Wedding,...Tags: Entertainment, Music Theater, Tony Awards, Cloris Leachman, Theater
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