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Deborah Kerr: Sexual Outlaw
22 May 2012 2:03 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, The King and I Deborah Kerr Pt.1: What Lies Beneath True, you most likely won’t find Deborah Kerr labeled a sex goddess anywhere, but that’s merely because her sexual allure, apart from the beach scene in From Here to Eternity, was hardly obvious. Unlike overgrown little girls such as Marilyn Monroe, Clara Bow, Jean Harlow, Jayne Mansfield, or Brigitte Bardot, Kerr looked and acted like a mature woman even in her 20s. In other words, there was nothing kittenish about Deborah Kerr; she didn’t pout. Unlike Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Marlene Dietrich, Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau, Lizabeth Scott, or Susan Sarandon, Kerr’s seething sensuality had nothing to do with sultriness, come-hither looks, or bare body parts. Unlike Simone Simon, Jane Greer, the latter-day Barbara Stanwyck, and other (French or American) film noir dames, or Theda Bara and assorted film »
- Andre Soares
Deborah Kerr: What Lies Beneath
22 May 2012 2:02 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, From Here to Eternity. With Deborah Kerr, it’s not the bare shoulders that matter. It’s the eyes. Deborah Kerr, who died at the age of 86 on Oct. 16, 2007, has usually been labeled the cinematic embodiment of the English Rose: ladylike from coiffure to pedicure, perfectly enunciated English, a distinctive coolness, poise and class. I won’t argue with that description (except to point out that this English Rose was born in Scotland), but all the same I wonder if any of those labelers have ever watched Deborah Kerr on screen other than the "Shall We Dance?" sequence in The King and I. Then there are those who have seen two Deborah Kerr scenes: "Shall We Dance?" and the kissing-on-the-beach bit in From Here to Eternity. Shocking! Who would have guessed that the cool, red-headed British lady could be so fiery? Well, anyone who has paid »
- Andre Soares
Old-School Singer
5 May 2012 1:32 PM, PDT | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
April 28, 2012
Roslyn Kind is an authentic song artist and entertainer. The audience at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts was treated to a full hour-and-a-half of her fine voice and lively presence. Using her magnificent instrument, she beautifully rendered songs, "standards" and otherwise. Her infectious self-delight never faltered as she sang, conversationally spoke of growing up in a nearby Brooklyn neighborhood, and engaged with the audience as if the theater were her living room.
Ms. Kind is that breed of entertainer which sophisticated night-lifers would make it their business to see at the lavish "rooms" of old: El Morocco and the Persian Room in New York, or the Chez Paree in Chicago (all now long gone into history). Today we must to settle for the cabaret and the concert hall, and we are fortunate that »
- Jay Reisberg
Brian d'Arcy James and Donna Murphy Offer Advice for Newcomers
27 April 2012 1:32 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
At the announcement of the Drama Desk Award nominations on Friday, Broadway stars Brian d'Arcy James ("Smash," "Shrek") and Donna Murphy ("Passion," "The King and I") offered some advice to newcomers to the stage."Get Back Stage," said d'Arcy James. "That's number one. Just be persistent with the auditions you can find which are suitable for you. I was just at the rehearsal studios at 440 Lafayette Street which was the site of my first audition in New York. It was an open call for a production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' in Bridgeport, Conn. I remember it because it literally came out of Back Stage. That's how you learn where to go and what to do. So I would say cast the nets wide and deep and see what you can get."Murphy was a bit more philosophical in her response."There's an element of trust that you're exactly where you're meant to. »
- help@backstage.com (David Sheward)
Lincoln Center Looking to Revive ‘The King and I’
18 April 2012 8:47 PM, PDT | Scott Feinberg | See recent Scott Feinberg news »
By Samuel Negin
In yet another example of recycling revivals much too quickly, Lincoln Center is looking at the idea of reviving The King and I, the famous musical with an even more famous score by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, II. Lincoln Center is also looking to hire an actress with whom they have a long history to play the leading role. Kelli O’Hara has received three Tony nominations, one for the Roundabout’s production of The Pajama Game and two for previous Lincoln Center Theater productions — The Light in the Piazza and South Pacific. O’Hara is currently starring in the Broadway production of Nice Work if You Can Get It, a pastiche musical based around the songs of the Gershwin brothers.
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- Kailyn Corrigan
Mindy Newell: Music To Write By
26 March 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
Every writer has his or her way of settling down to write. Mine is to bring a Diet Pepsi and a pack of Salem cigarettes – yeah, yeah, I know… my bad – to my computer desk. Oh, yeah, and slipping in a CD.
Here’s the dope.
I’m pretty much out of the loop when it comes to music.
On the radio I listen to our local NPR (I love everything about that station); the local CBS sports station (especially during the football season – and during the past two or three weeks, the Peyton Manning-Tim Tebow-Mark Sanchez drama here in New York City has mesmerized me); Wrl-1600 Am (the progressive station that took over for Air America here); occasionally Wwor-710 Am (though the station has moved too far to the right for my tastes – at least they got rid of Lou Dobbs!); and CBS’s “oldies” station when I’m commuting. »
- Mindy Newell
Smash Recap: What Is This Bar Mitzvah You Speak Of?
13 March 2012 12:54 PM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
“When God closes a door, somewhere he opens a window.” It’s not the most philosophically profound statement in all of Rodgers and Hammerstein — that honor belongs to “I do not believe such thing as snow,” particularly as played for all its bleakly Kierkegaardian subtext by a 9-year-old Rachel Shukert in an Omaha community theater production of The King and I, featuring accents that would have put the Shitty Wok guy from South Park to shame. (It was a different time.) But Fraülein Maria’s Alpine wisdom possesses a certain folksy logic all its own. God sends the Nazis to invade Austria, but he leads you across the mountains to Switzerland, or allows you to trade an entire lifetime’s worth of accumulated wealth for a single emergency exit visa to Uruguay, or caused a Gentile peasant farmer to line a rat-infested crawl space with hay for you to hide »
- Rachel Shukert
Rita Moreno, Hollywood Legend, On The Power Of Persevering
7 March 2012 1:17 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
When I met Rita Moreno in her suite at the Waldorf Towers in New York, I immediately noticed three things: She looks at least 20 years younger than her age. She moves with a lithe grace that bears witness to decades of dancing. And she was wearing pajamas: cherry-red with a floral, Japanese-inspired print.
It was fashion as metaphor: At age 80, Moreno has let go of the need to make a certain impression.
"I was always the darling, please-like-me kid," Moreno said. "It's the immigrant syndrome; it comes from being Puerto Rican, being on the outside. 'Don't make waves, don't make noise' -- my mother was very conscious of that. I was brought up trying to please the world. The greatest lesson I ever learned is that you don't die from not being liked. I wanted to world to like me."
That's a goal Moreno has accomplished in spades. Perhaps »
- Laura Rowley
The Iron Lady
14 January 2012 2:40 PM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Phyllida Lloyd
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent
Running Time: 1 hr 40 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: January 13, 2012 (Chicago)
Plot: The rise and fall of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Streep).
Who’S It For? Sure, you might be a fan of biopics, and maybe you even like movies in general, but there’s one big reason you’re here: Meryl Streep. If you come to The Iron Lady looking to love Streep even more, you’ll be satisfied. Appreciating the reign of Thatcher is second or even third on Iron Lady’s objective list.
Expectations: Any time Streep’s name gets thrown into nomination season hullabaloo, it’s always interesting to see just how much the praise is actually warranted. Also, this movie was written by Abi Morgan, who most recently did the sex addiction bummer flick Shame. What could that possibly mean for a biopic? »
- Nick Allen
Review: The Iron Lady
14 January 2012 11:00 AM, PST | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
The Iron Lady attempts to depict the rise and fall of Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the U.K. It does so in a less than cohesive manner, but the acting by Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent shines through.
A significant portion of the film occurs in 2011 (at least this is my assumption from hints given), with an octogenarian Margaret Thatcher (Streep) under the sway of dementia and visions of her dead husband Denis (Broadbent). Quick flutters of memory, such as holding hands during The King and I, are interspersed with longer flashbacks of growing up a grocer's daughter and her eventual entrance into the political world. For the present, her daughter Carol (Olivia Colman) and Thatcher's household staff are waiting for her to clean out Denis' wardrobe since he has been dead for eight years.
Phyllida Lloyd's first non-musical film seems dependent on the use »
- Elizabeth Stoddard
DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd Men Out Jack Clayton, David Lean, Stanley Donen
9 January 2012 7:15 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi in Oscar nominee (but not DGA nominee) David Lean's Summertime DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1948-1952: Odd Men Out George Cukor, John Huston, Vincente Minnelli 1953 DGA (12) Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, Above and Beyond Walter Lang, Call Me Madam Daniel Mann, Come Back, Little Sheba Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Julius Caesar Henry Koster, The Robe Jean Negulesco, Titanic George Sidney, Young Bess DGA/AMPAS George Stevens, Shane Charles Walters, Lili Billy Wilder, Stalag 17 William Wyler, Roman Holiday Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity 1954 DGA (16) Edward Dmytryk, The Caine Mutiny Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder Robert Wise, Executive Suite Anthony Mann, The Glenn Miller Story Samuel Fuller, Hell and High Water Henry King, King of Khyber Rifles Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, Knock on Wood Don Siegel, Riot in Cell Block 11 Stanley Donen, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers George Cukor, A Star Is Born Jean Negulesco, »
- Andre Soares
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