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'Spamalot' Back At The Bushnell Next Week
'Monty Python's Spamalot" returns to the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford Sept. 4 to 7. (The show was originally supposed to open Tuesday but has been pushed back. Ticket holders for Sept. 2 and 3 performances should call the...Tags: Animals, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Music Theater
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Liz Smith: Some conservatives saying 'nice things' about Hillary Clinton
"We thought she (Hillary-Clinton) would be a steadier hand as president than Sen. Barack Obama would be, with more hawkish instincts and greater political realism," write the National Review editors, explaining why some conservatives have been saying...Tags: Batman, Indiana Jones, Celebrity, The Dark Knight, Music Theater
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Griffin going for the show-biz grand slam
Kathy Griffin is on a quest for the grand slam of awards. "I am trying to be Rita Moreno," she said. Moreno is one of 10 who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony. The others: Mel Brooks John Gielgud Whoopi Goldberg Helen Hayes Audrey Hepburn...Tags: John Gielgud, Kathy Griffin, Rita Moreno, Marvin Hamlisch, Helen Hayes
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Heat wave breaks tonight
Maryland WeatherWith any luck at all, tonight will see the end of this nasty late-spring heat wave. Look for increasing clouds as the day wears on, and all this hot, humid, ozone-laced soup begins to clash with an approaching cool front......Tags: Odenton
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Liz Smith: Rubbing elbows with New York's mayor, other elite
Iwent to dinners with the mayor of New York City on two consecutive evenings last week. (Well, I didn't exactly go "with" him, but he did kiss me twice as we passed like ships in the night.) What really happened is I sat next to the wily and clever...Tags: Regional Authority, Museum of Modern Art, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Henry Kissinger
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Linda Winer: Broadway's 'Passing Strange' season
linda.winer@newsday.comEver since "Passing Strange" was virtually overlooked by the Tony Awards last month, I've been nagging friends to see the show - the sooner the better. I have no crystal-ball insights about the musical's life span on Broadway. I hope it runs until Stew,...Tags: Steve Martin, Lincoln Center, John Turturro, Culture, Liam Neeson
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Charles H. Joffe, 78; top manager of comedic talent co-produced Woody Allen's films
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCharles H. Joffe, a legendary manager of comic talent who helped guide the careers of Dick Cavett, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Woody Allen and co-produced nearly all of Allen's films, died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles...Tags: Billy Crystal, Cinema Industry, Woody Allen, NBC, Scarlett Johansson
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Manager helped stand-ups stand out
Chicago Tribune NewspapersLOS ANGELES — Charles Joffe, a legendary manager of comic talent who helped guide the careers of Dick Cavett, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Woody Allen and co-produced nearly all of Allen's films, died Wednesday in Los Angeles after a long...Tags: Woody Allen, Billy Crystal, Elaine May, Robin Williams, David Letterman
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'Nobody, nothing was sacred'
Shortly before midnight on Aug. 3, 1958, Lenny Bruce got off an airplane at Midway Airport. No one knows exactly what he did the next day until, at 8 p.m., he walked onto the stage of the Cloister Inn nightclub and said, "I've been thinking a lot about...Tags: Woody Allen, Richard Pryor, Long Island, Bob Newhart, Jonathan Winters
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'Plaza Suite' makes for a dark room
Chicago Tribune criticNeil Simon's "Plaza Suite" is a comedy of marital despair. I swear it would never get written and produced today. Not with the Boomers in charge. In its day, of course, this 1968 play was a huge success, running on Broadway for years under Mike Nichols'...Tags: Neil Simon, Steve Scott, Walter Matthau, Second City
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Newcomers salvage Broadway season
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" on Broadway. Uh, wait. That's this fall when a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" opens at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in September.
Not that Dickens' most quotable line from one...Tags: Radio City Music Hall, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Al Hirschfeld, John Waters, Music Theater
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Fast chat: Peter Gallagher
Special to NewsdayPeter Gallagher loves the old alley behind the Broadway theater where he's co-starring with Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand in Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl." Some 30 years ago he was just starting out, appearing on this very stage in his first...Tags: Bill Cosby, Mae West, Maureen Stapleton, Steven Soderbergh, Laurence Olivier
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