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‘Evita’ and ‘Newsies’ Dancers Lead Astaire Award Nominations
8 May 2012 8:13 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
Nominations for the 30th Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, which honor excellence in dance on Broadway and film, were announced on Monday night. Dancers from Broadway’s “Evita” and “Newsies” lead this years nominees.As previously announced, Liza Minnelli will be honored with the Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award. The ceremony will also pay tribute to legends Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon with performances of signature Fosse numbers featuring current Broadway performers.Other honors to be presented include the “Adele Astaire Scholarship,” awarded to a young up-and-coming dancer, and a special award for three-time Tony Award-nominated producer Kathleen Raitt, in recognition of her helping found The Astaire Awards in 1982.The 30th Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards will take place on Monday, June 4th at 7:30pm at Nyu’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Select tickets are available to the public at www.TheAstaireAwards.org.A complete list of nominees is below. »
- help@backstage.com (Julienne Bilker)
Liza Minnelli to be Honored at Astaire Awards
13 April 2012 1:18 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
Four-time Tony Award winner Liza Minnelli will be honored with the Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award at the 30th annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, which will be presented on June 4.After more than six decades in show business, Minnelli has reached icon status. One of her most famous films, “Cabaret,” about the sexual decadence and political disregard in Berlin nightclubs during the 1930s, still holds resonance for the modern audience. “Cabaret” was directed by Bob Fosse, and under his direction, Minnelli won an Oscar for Best Leading Actress for her performance in the film. The Astaire Awards will also pay tribute to both Fosse and Gwen Verdon for their successful careers and work as choreographers. Other awards Minnelli has received, in addition to the four Tonys, are a Grammy, two Golden Globe Awards, and an Emmy, making her one of the few performers who’s won all four awards. Minnelli. »
- help@backstage.com (Briana Rodriguez)
'Singin' in the Rain' 60th Anniversary: 25 Things You Didn't Know About Hollywood's Greatest Musical
29 March 2012 6:47 PM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
In a year when the Best Picture Oscar went to a comedy about Hollywood's turbulent transition from silence to sound, "Singin' in the Rain" suddenly seems timely again. The beloved musical, which marks the 60th anniversary of its release in U.S. theaters in April, is not only fondly remembered for its exuberantly athletic song-and-dance numbers, but also for its witty dramatization of the birth of Hollywood's sound era. If you haven't seen it, imagine 2011's "The Artist" with spoken dialogue and without the heroic dog. But of course, you have seen it, even if you don't realize it. The title number, featuring a soaked but joyful Gene Kelly, is one of the most iconic (and most frequently parodied) sequences in film history. The film's impact on popular culture is enormous, from making stars out of Debbie Reynolds and Cyd Charisse to influencing directors as far-flung as Jacques Demy and Stanley Kubrick. »
- Gary Susman
John Ostrander: Batter Up!
26 February 2012 5:00 AM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
It’s spring training for baseball, a time when even Cubs fans can be hopeful despite knowing that, sooner or later, this year’s team will break our hearts as every Cubs team has done for over a century. Truth is, if the Cubs ever won the World Series, their mystique would be gone. Their legend is based on being losers.
As baseball season is upon us, and tonight is the Academy Awards, I want to look back not only at the game but at my favorite baseball movies. For my taste, there is something better about baseball films than there is in films for any other sport. There’s a duality to it; baseball is played by teams but it comes down to individuals – batter versus pitcher.
So here, in no particular order, are my favorite baseball films. I’m not saying they’re the best but they are »
- John Ostrander
David Finkle: First Nighter: NBC's Smash Is No Such Thing, Leading-Lady Katharine McPhee Is
3 February 2012 8:19 AM, PST | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
When Katharine McPhee was heading towards her number-two finish on the 2006 American Idol season -- and singing "Over the Rainbow" with full-blast passion at least twice -- it was as obvious as her Boston Conservatory past that the incipient diva's true destination was not pop-charts prominence but Broadway. And now it looks as if she's aimed directly there. Ironically, it's not in an actual Great White Way enterprise but as one of the stars in the new NBC television series about a B'way-bound musical.
She's landed a role in Smash, which is about -- if you haven't seen the boob-tube promos plugging its Feb. 6 kick-off the day after the Super Bowl Xlvi kick-off -- a group of B'way vets and newbies readying a tuner based on Marilyn Monroe's life. More than that, McPhee has not only nailed the part of mid-Western transplant Karen Cartwright, but if the pilot is any indication, »
- David Finkle
Meryl Streep Photo: SAG Awards 2012
1 February 2012 1:10 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Meryl Streep Meryl Streep, nominated as Best Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance as the controversial former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, attends the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards, which was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/WireImage.) Meryl Streep lost the SAG Award to Viola Davis for her performance in Tate Taylor's The Help. Coincidentally, Davis was featured opposite Streep in John Patrick Shanley's Doubt (2008) — for which Streep won her first (and so far only) SAG Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture. Streep and Davis' competitors this year were Glenn Close as a 19th-century Irishwoman passing for a man in Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs, Tilda Swinton as the mother of a young mass murderer in Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, »
- D. Zhea
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