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Brian Dennehy Stars In Eugene O'Neill's 'Hughie' at Long Wharf
Brian Dennehy is a man of contrasts.
He possesses both an imposing square frame and a physical grace; his eyes can burn with ferocity as well as warmth; and whether he's playing a lug, a king or a down-on-his-luck salesman, surface charms can belie inner...Tags: Vanessa Redgrave, Joe Grifasi, Music Theater, Celebrity, Robert Sean Leonard
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Tad Mosel, 86; TV writer won Pulitzer for Broadway's 'All the Way Home'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTad Mosel, a leading writer of live television dramas in the 1950s who won a Pulitzer Prize for "All the Way Home," his 1960 Broadway dramatization of James Agee's novel "A Death in the Family," has died. He was 86. Mosel, who had cancer and lived in...Tags: Newspapers, Patricia Neal, Music Theater, Washington Post Company, Arthur Penn
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Manny Farber, 91; iconoclastic film critic and artist
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterManny Farber, an iconoclastic stylist who achieved prominence in two careers -- as a painter of abstract canvases and still-lifes and as a film critic admired for his canny, muscular writing and advocacy of such directors as Sam Fuller, Howard Hawks and...Tags: Pauline Kael, John Wayne, Celebrity, John Ford, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Emmy-winning star of 'Search for Tomorrow'
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Larry Haines, a two-time Daytime Emmy winner for his 35-year role on the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow," has died. He was 89. Mr. Haines, who also had a successful career on Broadway, died July 17 at a Delray Beach hospital...Tags: Music Theater, Henry Fonda, Daytime Emmy Awards, Jack Lemmon, Delray Beach
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Spring awakening
linda.winer@newsday.comHowever the wind blows, theatergoers know it's spring when Broadway gets crazy with openings. Whatever the calendar says about the year's end, commercial theater will be observing New Year's Eve on May 7 - the last night to open eligible shows before the...Tags: Public Holidays, Music Theater, Lincoln Center, Celebrity, Morgan Freeman
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'The Life of Reilly' (Charles Nelson Reilly's one-man show)
Tribune movie criticCharles Nelson Reilly died last May, but for years before he died, people would gape at him at the grocery store, giving him that look that says: You're alive?!? And: Oooo, what's his name, again? Bronx-born into a melodrama-rich family, a more astute...Tags: North Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Jack Lemmon, NBC
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Hail to the chiefs, as played by . . .
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAmericans usually celebrate the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy on President's Day. But rarely are the less stellar commanders in chief ever mentioned, such as William Henry Harrison -- who caught a...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Charlton Heston, Celebrity, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Woodrow Wilson
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Hidden gems for the holidays
Special to the Tribune"It's a Wonderful Life," "White Christmas," "Miracle on 34th Street," and "A Christmas Story" quickly come to mind when lists of the most popular holiday films are mentioned. So, too, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "How...Tags: Public Holidays, Truman Capote, David Niven, Barbara Stanwyck, Celeste Holm
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Leaving art out of history
How did George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" reflect both the Jewish and African American experience in America? Why was Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" so influential for modern fiction and journalism? What was Abstract Expressionism, and why did...Tags: Charlie Chaplin, Society, Clint Eastwood, Lyndon B. Johnson, Marlon Brando
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Technicolor thriller in academy screening lineup
Times Staff WriterMost films produced in Technicolor during the late 1930s and early '40s were musicals, historical epics or period melodramas — but that all changed with 1945's juicy psychological thriller "Leave Her to Heaven." Leon Shamroy won a cinematography...Tags: Dick Powell, Vanessa Redgrave, Lillian Hellman, John Frankenheimer, Celebrity
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Hollywood Bio Hazards
From Moses to Malcolm X, Virginia Woolf to Loretta Lynn, historic figures have been showing up on the big screen since the early days of silent film. This year, by nominating six biographical pictures for Oscars — including three for best picture &#...Tags: Lillian Hellman, Katharine Hepburn, John Lithgow, Cinema Industry, Dashiell Hammett
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'All the President's Men' -- Two-Disc Special Edition
Zap2It.comOf the wave of paranoid thrillers that hit theaters in the 1970s -- like "The Conversation" or "Three Days of the Condor" or "The Parallax View" -- "All the President's Men" was among the best. Every bit as breathless, pulse-pounding and twisted as its...Tags: Alan J Pakula, Washington Post Company, Ned Beatty, Film Festivals, Dustin Hoffman
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