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Weed, snow, 'Phil Spector' getting eyeballs
This morning, Baltimore young'uns with their eyes all aglow are hoping for a snow day. Republican Senator Rand Paul, meanwhile is charitably hoping that if the glow happens to come from the burning of an illicit substance, the kids' lives won't be...
Tags: Media Industry, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, George W. Bush, Twitter, Inc.
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Al Pacino, Helen Mirren and David Mamet pool their collective talents in HBO's 'Phil Spector'
Executive producer Barry Levinson urges viewers to think of his HBO film "Phil Spector" as a two-person play —not a docudrama about the first murder trial of the rock producer. "It really is a two-person piece," Levinson said in a telephone...
Tags: California State Prison, Los Angeles County, Lawyers, Al Pacino, Murder, Xanadu (musical)
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HBO scores with Pacino as Phil Spector in Barry Levinson production
The Baltimore SunWhat a great weekend: HBO sent a screener for "Phil Spector," a made-for-TV movie about the legendary music producer, starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren. Barry Levinson is the executive producer, with David Mamet as writer and director. That enough...Tags: Music, Helen Mirren, Arthur Miller, Music Industry, Sean Penn
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'The Walking Dead' recap, episode 307: 'When the Dead Come Knocking'
Ooh, it's about to go down on The Walking Dead! In Sunday night's episode, Merle and the Governor interrogated Glenn and Maggie, respectively (but not respectfully!) and Michonne stumbled into the prison — sending Rick, Daryl and Oscar on a...
Tags: The Walking Dead (tv program), Music, Firearms, AMC (tv network), Government
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Stars light up Broadway this season
As autumn turns the Manhattan air crisp and cool, Broadway is gearing up for another season. In the 2012-2013 lineup are new plays, star-driven revivals, lavish musicals and shows inspired by movies, books, TV shows and one very well-known comic strip....Tags: Upper West Side, Television, Alec Baldwin, Al Pacino, Bobby Cannavale
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Live performances learn to live with noisy phones
It was the cellphone heard 'round the world.
A bouncy marimba ring tone on an iPhone erupted during the final soft, almost unbearably poignant minutes of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 at a recent New York Philharmonic concert in Lincoln Center.
Music...Tags: Marin Alsop, Transportation Accidents, Gustav Mahler, Judges, Apple iPhone
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For Cosby, the audience makes the performance
In Baltimore in recent months, Bill Cosby's name has been associated more with politics than with comedy, or even Jell-O.
In December, he was the marquee attraction at a $4,000-a-plate dinner to benefit Baltimore mayoral candidate Otis Rolley.
But...Tags: Television, Bill Cosby, Mark Twain, Elections, Comedy (genre)
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Centerstage gets a fresh start with a topical lineup
The big news in Baltimore theater this season is the arrival of British-born Kwame Kwei-Armah, who is taking the helm as the new artistic director of Centerstage (700 N. Calvert St., 410-332-0033). Kwei-Armah, who replaces Irene Lewis, has said he's...Tags: Howard Community College, A Christmas Carol (movie, 2009), Toni Morrison, Religious Festivals, Awards and Prizes
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Tapping into the relevant grit of 'American Buffalo'
Taped to the side of the counter in the junk shop that forms the set for David Mamet's "American Buffalo" at Center Stage is a vintage sign: "People who advocate violence should be shot."
Most people in the audience will never see that sign, or...Tags: Music, HBO (tv network), Boardwalk Empire (tv program)
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For Baltimore set designers, no detail is too small
Set designer Daniel Ettinger and technical director Bill Jamieson spent months painstakingly constructing a world accurate down to the tiniest detail, from the wallpaper pattern to the electrical sockets.
And they weren't one whit less meticulous, even...Tags: Music, Concerts, Television, Windermere, HBO (tv network)
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Mamet's messy 'Buffalo' roams again at Centerstage
The messy emotions in David Mamet's "American Buffalo" find material expression in the 1970s-era junk that fills every messy square foot of a Chicago pawn shop. Some of this clutter even hangs from the front of the stage, as if threatening to spill over... -
Next season at Center Stage: 'Jazz,' Sondheim, Mamet
The theme of Center Stage's 2011-2012 season might be summed up as rhythm — from the distinctive beat of "Jazz," a world premiere adapted from the Toni Morrison novel of that name, to the percussive profanity of David Mamet's "American Buffalo";...Tags: Toni Morrison, Music Theater, Theater, Minority Groups, Republic of Ireland
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