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    May 16, 2013 |Story| Allentown Morning Call

  1. Touchstone gives young playwrights a stage

    Touchstone Theatre Ensemble member Emma Chong has been a part of the company's Young Playwrights Festival for more than four years. Chong says she still gets excited when she sees the faces of those elementary and middle school children come alive as they...

    Tags: Music, Teaching and Learning, University of Southern California, Education, Broadway Theater

    2. May 13, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. John Gilbert, the silent era's talk of the town

    John Gilbert was the golden boy at MGM during the final years of the silent era. He was the young studio's biggest male star, working with such top directors as King Vidor ("The Big Parade," 1925), Erich von Stroheim ("The Merry Widow," 1925) and Tod Browning ("The Show," 1927).
    John Gilbert was the golden boy at MGM during the final years of the silent era. He was the young studio's biggest male star, working with such top directors as King Vidor ("The Big Parade," 1925), Erich von Stroheim ("The Merry Widow," 1925) and Tod...

    Tags: Celebrities, Movies, King Vidor, Singin' in the Rain (movie), MGM Inc.

    3. May 2, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  3. Jewish impact on entertainment presented

    Jews have had a huge impact on American media and entertainment. This impact is felt in American popular culture as many writers, directors, producers, composers and performers have been Jewish. The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave. in...

    Tags: Television Industry, Miami Beach, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Broward County

    4. Mar 25, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Rise Stevens dies at 99; mezzo soprano sang 'Carmen'

    Rise Stevens, an American mezzo soprano celebrated for her earthy interpretation of "Carmen," whose career also encompassed television and movie appearances alongside matinee idols Bing Crosby and Nelson Eddy, died Wednesdayof natural causes at her home...

    Tags: Music, Bing Crosby, Georges Bizet, Entertainment Events, Colleges and Universities

    5. Mar 21, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Review: A high-voltage 'End of the Rainbow'

    Playing Judy Garland in the months leading up to the actress' fatal 1969 overdose, Tracie Bennett spends much of "End of the Rainbow" horizontal — though rarely for more than 10 seconds at a time.
    Playing Judy Garland in the months leading up to the actress' fatal 1969 overdose, Tracie Bennett spends much of "End of the Rainbow" horizontal — though rarely for more than 10 seconds at a time. The central prop of the bio-musical now playing at...

    Tags: Music, Cary Grant, Theater, Fainting, Ed Sullivan

    6. Feb 24, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. How Oscars' fashion show changed through the decades

    The Academy Awards are the biggest fashion runway on the planet. When Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried and other stars step out onto the red carpet Sunday, they will be primed to talk as much about what and who they are wearing as about the films that got them there.
    Los Angeles Times Fashion Critic
    The Academy Awards are the biggest fashion runway on the planet. When Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried and other stars step out onto the red carpet Sunday, they will be primed to talk as much about what and who they are wearing as about...

    Tags: Movies, Media Industry, Norma Shearer, Stephen Burrows, Annie Hall (movie)

    7. Feb 23, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. The story of the Oscars

    While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...

    Tags: George Lucas, Movies, Museum of Modern Art, Les Miserables (movie), David O. Russell

    8. Dec 14, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Best movies of 2012: 'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' 'Dark Knight Rises,' more

    If the movies are a feast or famine business — and they are — we are in the heart of the feast at the moment. Both the studios and the smaller distributors, having hidden away their strongest films like squirrels hoarding especially tasty...

    Tags: Music, Christopher Nolan, Romance (genre), Movies, Les Miserables (musical)

    9. Jun 5, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. Big-top operetta that time forgot will receive its Chicago premiere

    As the young daughter of an internationally celebrated composer, Yvonne Kalman delighted in eavesdropping on conversations her father, Emmerich Kalman, had with other famed European emigres as they gathered around plates of freshly prepared Hungarian delicacies in the kitchen of the Kalmans' New York home, before the platters of food were brought out to the other party guests.
    As the young daughter of an internationally celebrated composer, Yvonne Kalman delighted in eavesdropping on conversations her father, Emmerich Kalman, had with other famed European emigres as they gathered around plates of freshly prepared Hungarian...

    Tags: Music, Movies, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture, Culture

    10. Jun 12, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Ann Rutherford dies at 94; actress was in 'Gone With the Wind'

    Ann Rutherford, an actress whose small role as Scarlett's younger sister Carreen in the 1939 film "Gone With the Wind" was her most enduring, has died. She was 94. Rutherford, who also portrayed Mickey Rooney's teenage girlfriend in the Andy Hardy...

    Tags: Evelyn Keyes, Celebrities, Movies, Romance (genre), Clark Gable

    11. Jun 12, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Ann Rutherford dies at 94

    Ann Rutherford, an actress whose small role as Scarlett's younger sister Carreen in the 1939 film "Gone With the Wind" was her most enduring, has died. She was 94.
    Ann Rutherford, an actress whose small role as Scarlett's younger sister Carreen in the 1939 film "Gone With the Wind" was her most enduring, has died. She was 94. Rutherford, who also portrayed Mickey Rooney's teenage girlfriend in the Andy Hardy...

    Tags: Evelyn Keyes, Romance (genre), Celebrities, Movies, Clark Gable

    12. Jun 11, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Ann Rutherford, actress in 'Gone With the Wind,' dies at 94

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    Ann Rutherford, an actress whose small role as Scarlett’s younger sister Carreen in the 1939 film “Gone With the Wind” was her most enduring, has died. She was 94. Rutherford, who also portrayed Mickey Rooney’s teenage girlfriend...
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