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Thespians by Night
As president of Insight 180, Wendy Baird spends most of her days in her office on Main Street in Ellicott City, crafting strategic marketing plans for area businesses. But few of her branding clients could ever guess how she spends her evenings. For a...
Tags: Next to Normal (musical), Restaurant and Catering Industry, George Mason, Ellicott City, Music
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Burlesque laid bare in revealing new book
Liz Smith"YA, know, from the way that dame walks, she would have made a damn fine stripper in her day!" So says Tessie Tura, commenting on Mama Rose, in "Gypsy." (Tessie is one of the three strippers who belt out "You Gotta Have a Gimmick!") I'VE HAD "Gypsy"...Tags: Auction Service, Barack Obama, The New York Times, Jennifer Aniston, Liz Smith
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Leslie Zemeckis sashays into the history of burlesque
During the shabby final days of the last of the burlesque houses that once dotted State Street near Congress Parkway, three of us — in possession of a few bucks and self-confidence fueled by fake IDs — entered the Follies Theater and saw a...
Tags: The Hollywood Reporter, Authors, Movies, Chicago International Film Festival, Film Festivals
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The Short List: Three memorable moms
Seattle TimesStage mom Mama Rose A female King Lear, with music. The stage mother from hell. That would be Mama Rose, the dominant figure in the classic Broadway musical "Gypsy." A frustrated performer herself, Rose drags her kids into show biz and coerces...Tags: Marge Simpson (fictional character), Theater, Music, Broadway Theater, Entertainment Events
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'The Nance' -- brilliant, brave and thought-provoking
Liz Smith"Niagara Falls! Slowly I turned..." God knows who wrote that, maybe someone like the early W.C. Fields. "Slowly I turned..." is the beginning of one of the many nonsense sketches performed constantly in burlesque in the early '30s in theaters where low...Tags: Celebrities, Liz Smith, Manhattan (New York City), Philosophy, Mel Brooks
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Anne Hathaway inspires billions and prepares for triumph in 'Les Miz'
Liz Smith"AT THIS stage in my life -- and this moment will not last forever -- me walking my dog is news. ... I don't fall out of nightclubs. I don't have photographers capture me spending untold amounts on a handbag. Of course, in the court of celebrity, if you...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Television Industry, CNN (tv network), Movies, NBC (tv network)
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Dita Von Teese steps out with a sexy glam clothing line
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticShe's splish-splashed naked onstage in a giant martini glass, married (and divorced) Marilyn Manson and acted on the TV series "CSI." And now, burlesque queen and fashion muse Dita Von Teese is designing her own capsule clothing line. The collection,...Tags: CSI (tv program), Home Shopping Network (tv network), Marilyn Manson, Sports Illustrated, Television Industry
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A Proposal For a New Way Theaters Can Eliminate Subscriptions, Get Advance Bucks and Make Everyone Happy
The mixed-but-very-vocal reaction in the blogasphere surrounding the concept of premium pricing for not-for-profit theaters (let the market decide; think airline tickets) got me to thinking... ...About thinking outsode the box office. What would I...
Tags: Prices, James Knox Polk, Media Industry, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre
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Humorist Phyllis Diller dies at 95 in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark cackle, died Monday morning in her Los Angeles home at age 95. "She died peacefully in her...
Tags: Alcoa Incorporated, Marriage, Radio Industry, The Tonight Show (tv program), ABC (tv network)
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Woody Allen's latest: A love letter to rome
Liz Smith"LOOK, I'm an intelligent guy. I've got a 165, 170 IQ." "Well, only if you calculate it by Euros." So goes an exchange between Woody Allen, as a retired stage director, and his wife, Judy Davis, in Woody's latest, "To Rome With Love." (Ms. Davis is...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Barbra Streisand, Julianna Margulies, Cate Blanchett, Rome (Italy)
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'Hunger Games' fashion comes to fiery life
Los Angeles Times Fashion Critic"The Hunger Games"is a visual smorgasbord of a movie, a cast of hundreds dressed in everything from utilitarian garb with Depression-era grit to glam-gone-grotesque Gaga get-ups inspired by the latest haute couture. Then there's that dress worn by the...Tags: Levi Strauss & Co., Los Angeles Times, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (movie), Elizabeth Banks, Josh Hutcherson
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The theater season never ends
A Spring Theater preview? But doesn't the regular theater season end in May? For some of the state's half-dozen major regional theaters, that's true. Others, which follow a spring-to-winter schedule instead of the academic-year calendar preferred in...
Tags: Michael Douglas, Parker Posey, Paul Giamatti, Music, Haddam
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