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Thanks to my friend, Jimmy, for originally posting this on Facebook!
Tag Archives: broadway
New Cheyenne Jackson Video!
Really cute new video from Cheyenne Jackson- one of my Broadway favorites- for his new Pop Song Single:
What a nice way to start the weekend!
Filed under Broadway, Entertainment, Television
Rest in Peace, Andy Griffith and Lonesome Rhodes
The news just broke this morning that Andy Griffith has died….
Most people will always remember Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry….
I’ll always remember him for his great performance as Lonesome Rhodes in the great film “A Face in the Crowd.”
He should have at least gotten an Oscar nomination for this….
And I wish more people would watch the film today….
Rest in Peace, Andy….you won’t be forgotten….
Filed under Broadway, Entertainment, Movies, Television
Don Grady Dead: Composer, Star Of ‘My Three Sons’ Dies At 68
This is sad news…
Robbie Douglas, aka Don Grady, has passed away…
I loved watching this show when I was a child and Robbie was my favorite…
I’m not going to analyze it any deeper than that….
From The Huffington Post:
Don Grady, who was one of television’s most beloved big brothers as Robbie Douglas on the long-running 1960s hit “My Three Sons,” died Wednesday. He was 68.
His “My Three Sons” co-star Barry Livingston, who played youngest brother Ernie, confirmed Grady’s death to The Associated Press. Livingston said Grady had been suffering from cancer and receiving hospice care at his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif. But the exact cause and place of death were not immediately clear.
“It’s the oldest cliche in the world when TV brothers start referring to each other like biological brothers, but he was the oldest, and somebody I looked up to and learned from a great deal about life,” Livingston said.
More: Don Grady Dead: Composer, Star Of ‘My Three Sons’ Dies At 68.
Filed under Television
Cher Developing Broadway Musical Based On Life and Career
This is truly scary…
Who knew Cher could write? Period?
Still, I would be so tempted to see this….
Or run from it…
From Playbill.com:
Producers are at work developing a Broadway musical based on the life of Academy and Grammy Award-winning performer Cher, the pop star recently tweeted.
The star states that the musical will incorporate songs from her career, with three different actresses set to play her at various stages of her life. One actress will play a young Cher through her “Sonny and Cher” years, while another will play the icon through the “Believe” tour, with a third to inhabit the star at the current point in her life.
The show will incorporate a theatrical conceit that allows all three actresses to talk to one another and perform together.
Cher also revealed that she is part of the writing process on the musical, which has been in development for “quite a while.” Broadway is the goal.
via Cher Developing Broadway Musical Based On Life and Career – Playbill.com.
Of course, I always thought she had already told her story in song:
Just kidding!!!
Filed under Broadway, Movies, Uncategorized
Julia Roberts, Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer and Alec Baldwin Join THE NORMAL HEART Film
I was one of the lucky people to see the recent Broadway production of this wonderful, heartbreaking play….
I’m so pleased it looks like it is finally headed to the big screen and thrilled with how the cast is shaping up….
Jim Parsons was a standout in the Broadway production and I’m so glad he’s repeating his role in the film. This is a great break for Matt Bomer, who I just love in “White Collar”. I think he’ll be just right in this part. I can see Julia Roberts being very, very good as well. This will be a challenge for her, but I can see it working. And Mark Ruffalo can do no wrong….
I’m so excited that this film is being done and apparently being done right!
From Broadway World:
Julia Roberts, Jim Parsons, Matt Bohmer and Alec Baldwin have joined Mark Ruffalo in the upcoming film adaptation of THE NORMAL HEART, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Larry Kramer will adapt his script for the movie; Ryan Murphy, best known for creating FOX’s musical show GLEE, is set to direct the film. It’s being produced by Plan B.
Ruffalo is to play Ned Weeks, while Roberts will play Emma Brookner (the role for which Ellen Barkin received a 2011 Tony Award) and Bomer will play Felix Turner (the role for which John Benjamin Hickey received his Tony). Baldwin is set to play Ben Weeks, and Parsons will reprise his Broadway role as Tommy Boatwright.
The Normal Heart played a 12-week limited engagement on Broadway from April to July 2011. The production won three 2011 Tony® Awards, including Best Revival of a Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play (Ellen Barkin) and Best Featured Actor in a Play (John Benjamin Hickey). The play has also been honored as this season’s Best Revival of a Play by the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Awards and has received Drama Desk Awards for Best Ensemble and Best Direction of a Play, along with a Special Citation from the New York Drama Critics Circle.
The story of a city in denial, The Normal Heart unfolds like a real-life political thriller — as a tight-knit group of friends refuses to let doctors, politicians and the press bury the truth of an unspoken epidemic behind a wall of silence. First produced by Joseph Papp at New York’s Public Theater, the play was a critical sensation and a seminal moment in theater history. So ahead of its time was this play that many of the core issues it addresses – including gay marriage, the healthcare system and, of course, AIDS – are just as relevant today as they were when it first premiered.
via Julia Roberts, Jim Parsons, Matt Bohmer and Alec Baldwin Join THE NORMAL HEART Film.
Filed under Broadway
Lucille Ball: Hey, Look Her Over
People forget Lucy could do more than situation comedy….
Doing “Mame” when she was way too old for the part kind of killed memories of how good she could be as a Song and Dance gal…
Not one of the greats, but very, very good and it provides proof of her abilities as an all around entertainer…
I think she still played her musical talent better on television- God knows, her movie of “Mame” was a mess….
Here are a couple of clips for entertainment on a rainy Saturday night- at least that’s the weather here in North Carolina…
From her Broadway show “Wildcat”, “Hey Look Me Over” with Steve Lawrence on TV:
With Shirley Maclaine from her TV Special “Gypsy in My Soul” (Which I really wish would come out on DVD….)
And from a Bob Hope Special:
Filed under Entertainment, Television
Why Must the Show Go On?
A few words of wisdom from the Master to put Show Biz in perspective….
Noel Coward’s talent is priceless…..
And his words ring so much truer today – with Lindsay Lohan, the Kartrashians and some of our show biz martyrs- than they did 50 years ago…
Filed under Entertainment
Happy Birthday to the Divine Miss M
I really can’t believe Bette Midler is 66 years old today….
How do all these entertainers keep getting older and I don’t?
I loved her from her first hit:
Then she was Oscar nominated for “The Rose”
and brought the house down with her TV performance as Mama Rose in the TV version of “Gypsy”
I hope she has many more Birthdays!!!
Filed under Entertainment, Movies, Uncategorized
Scotty Bowers: Hustler and Confidant to the Stars Tells All
I can’t wait to get my hands on this….
I’ve heard about this guy for years and never thought he would tell his stories. And from what I read, he’s a pretty honest and dependable guy…
Hollywood Historian William J Mann quoted him in his Katharine Hepburn bio, Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn– which is great reading and well worth your time if you need something to hold you over until this comes out..(http://www.amazon.com/Kate-Woman-Who-Was-Hepburn/dp/0805076255/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1321817616&sr=8-15)
I’ve just pre-ordered a copy at Amazon.com. and can’t wait to read this when it comes out in January or February.
Here’s the link to purchase at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Full-Service-Adventures-Hollywood-Secret/dp/0802120075
From Entertainment Weekly:
Scotty Bowers never acted in a single movie. But his story may cast a new light on old Hollywood by revealing the hidden love lives of stars like Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, and Rita Hayworth—all of whom Bowers claims as paramours from his heyday trading sex for money.
Literary agent David Kuhn confirms exclusively to EW that Grove/Atlantic president Morgan Entrekin has bought the rights to Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars, Bowers’ memoir of his years spent as a bartender, confidante, and gigolo to a laundry list of showbiz icons. A GI who moved to Hollywood after World War II, Bowers describes how he and friends serviced actors and actresses on leave from nearby studios—using an LA gas station as their base. He says he later became an in-demand bartender who developed intimate friendships with stars like Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson, among others. Now 88 and living in L.A. with his wife of 27 years, Bowers agreed to tell his stories now that most of the celebrities he claims were friends and clients have passed away.
“The book is a window onto the shadow lives of all these people who entertained us and made popular culture, but who in many ways weren’t what they appeared to be,” says Kuhn. “Scotty helped them to fulfill the desires that they couldn’t fulfill themselves.”
Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars is set for release on Feb. 14, 2012.
via Memoirist claims he turned tricks for stars like Cary Grant and Spencer Tracy | Shelf Life | EW.com.
Filed under Broadway, Entertainment, Movies
Lost in the 21st Century 