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Candy Spelling To Produce Broadway Musical
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Tori Spelling's mother, Candy, is heading to Broadway - she has signed on to produce a revival of musical Promises, Promises.
Candy Spelling, the wife of late TV mogul Aaron Spelling, will be a key force behind the new production, which is based on Billy Wilder's 1960 film The Apartment and features music by Burt Bacharach.
And she's looking forward to branching out into an industry her famous family has yet to tackle.
She tells the Associated Press, "It's not stepping on anyone's toes. My husband didn't do it, no one's done it in our family, so this is a first. I'm really excited."
Promises, Promises was originally staged on Broadway in 1968.
The April revival is set to star former Will & Grace actor Sean Hayes, while Anne Hathaway and Zooey Deschanel have both been linked to the production.
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Philip French's Classic DVD: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
2 January 2010 4:05 PM, PST
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Optimum, £15.99
Excellent screen version (directed by David Swift) of the Broadway musical, a satire on the world of big business, by the Guys and Dolls team of Abe Burrows (book) and Frank Loesser (music and lyrics). The original stage version won the 1962 Pulitzer prize for drama. Robert Morse recreates his stage role as the nebbish who uses the eponymous "How to" book to promote himself from window-cleaner to the president of a Manhattan corporation. The interwar crooner Rudy Vallee repeats his Broadway part as the eccentric boss.
Essentially it's a lite version of Billy Wilder's The Apartment. Superbly photographed by veteran Burnett Guffey (Oscar winner for From Here to Eternity and Bonnie and Clyde), it's furnished wall to wall with witty, melodic songs by Loesser, master of the monosyllabic lyric (eg, the song "A Secretary Is not a Toy" features the couplet: "Her pad is to write in/ Not
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Billy Wilder Rings Twice
1 January 2010 10:16 AM, PST
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We all had a great time at The Apartment for our New Year’s Eve Feast. Props should go to chef John Bullington for putting together one of the greatest menus our theatre has every provided. The film looked pristine and was a great way to ring in the new year in style.
If you enjoyed the show last night, or if you just like The Apartment, than you are in for a real treat at the end of the month. Billy Wilder, the director of The Apartment, wrote the screenplay for one of the great comedy classics of the 1930s, Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka. Starring the always beautiful Greta Garbo as a Soviet bureaucrat in gay Paris, the film is a delightful comic yarn about the seductive qualities of Europe…and Europeans! We are actually playing Ninotchka at the Ritz on January 31 as part of a new series called Cinema Club.
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