Displaying items 37-42 of 42
» View wsbtradio.com items only
< Previous
•
1
2
3
4
-
'The Rest Is Noise, Listening to the Twentieth Century' by Alex Ross
Special to The Times[This Book Review originally ran in the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 11, 2007] A unified, comprehensive history of 20th century music is the philosopher's stone of modern criticism: How to transmute such vast, maddening complexity into conceptual gold? It's...Tags: Music Theater, Culture, Los Angeles Times, Music Industry, Opera (genre)
-
Building boom gives Hollywood pause
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterConstruction cranes hover over Hollywood as the movie industry's historic home undergoes another sweeping -- and sometimes wrenching -- transformation. More than a dozen multimillion-dollar projects have been announced, launched or just completed that...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Jack Benny, Los Angeles Times, Restaurants, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
-
Literary forger tells of her success in humorous memoir
Associated Press"She is a bright, talented actress," Noel Coward once wrote of Julie Andrews, "and quite attractive since she dealt with her monstrous English overbite." Pure Coward—except that it isn't. Banged out on an old Olympia typewriter in 1991, this...Tags: Tallulah Bankhead, Upper West Side, Crime, Law and Justice, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Lillian Hellman
-
They're the real thing
The winter feast of movie fools is upon us again, that silly time of the year when we seek order and reason in the Oscar nominations. One might just as well try to make sense of the strange jumble of produce that is growing moss in the fridge. All...Tags: Malcolm X, Academy Awards, Christianity, Pocahontas, Sex
-
'Funny Girl' (1968)
Times Staff WriterThe revival of the pain-stakingly restored "Funny Girl" is important for a number of reasons. First of all, the musical biography of comedian Fanny Brice emerges as a true classic, as enthralling as the day it was released in 1968. It is a superb...Tags: Lower East Side, Movies, Florenz Ziegfeld, Renovation, Entertainment
-
Allan Jones; Tenor Sang in '30s Film Farces
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAllan Jones, the boyishly good-looking lyric tenor who added pleasant musical interludes to film farces of the 1930s, has died of lung cancer. The curly-haired Jones, whose signature song was "Donkey Serenade," was 84 when he died Saturday in New York...Tags: Music Theater, Bars and Clubs, Theater, Australia (movie), Los Angeles Times
Sep 23, 2008
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 6, 2008
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Aug 16, 2008
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Feb 26, 2006
|Story| Zap2It
Aug 31, 2001
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jun 30, 1992
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Original site for Fanny Brice topic gallery.
