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'How the West Was Won' back in Cinerama at ArcLight Hollywood
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBig-screen films didn't get much bigger or wider than in Cinerama. And this Sunday, the Cinerama Dome at the ArcLight in Hollywood will show the landmark 1963 epic "How the West Was Won" in its recently restored original three-projector Cinerama format...Tags: Music Theater, Gertrude Lawrence, Celebrity, Movies, John Ford
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Illeana Douglas, indie-movie fan
Special to The TimesILLEANA DOUGLAS appears in "Expired" with Samantha Morton and Teri Garr; it opens June 27 in L.A. She is working on another movie, "Oh Joy," with writer-director Greg Pritikin about "a guy, a girl and a cowboy." A new season of her Web show "Illeanarama"...Tags: John McCain, Adam Sandler, Teri Garr, Alan Cumming, New York Times
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And the Tony Award nominees will be
When nominations for the 61st annual Tony Awards are announced on Tuesday, there won't be as many glittery Hollywood names on the list as in seasons past. The close-knit theater community's frostiness last year toward Oscar winners Julia Roberts and...Tags: Frank Wedekind, Denzel Washington, Rex Harrison, August Wilson, Nathan Lane
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Fall Arts: New York Theater calendar
Critic's Picks
A Chorus Line, opening Oct. 5 at the Schoenfeld Theatre. All together now: "five, six, seven, eight!" The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning monument to Broadway gypsy dancers is back where its fans believe it has always belonged....Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Blythe Danner, Stephen King, Epidemics and Plagues, Twyla Tharp
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Step in time, STEP BACK in time
Newsday Staff WriterIf an enterprising composer were to pen a ballad about the coming theater season, he could call it "Memory," because so much of what's stagebound has an air of familiarity. Again, a gorgeous movie star is making her Broadway debut, though it's Julianne...Tags: Bernadette Peters, David Maysles, Duncan Sheik, Twyla Tharp, Julia Roberts
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Is Butley worth the wait?
Newsday Staff WriterNathan Lane has known Ben Butley longer than he's known Max Bialystock, Timon the Meerkat and Oscar Madison combined. It's been 34 years, in fact, since the two-time Tony-winner first encountered the acerbic academic of Simon Gray's black comedy "Butley,"...Tags: Music Theater, Nathan Lane, Celebrity, Long Wharf Theatre, Broadway
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Send away the clowns: It's misery lite for Lane
Newsday Staff WriterNathan Lane did not start out as America's favorite wicked clown and second-generation Zero Mostel. Almost two decades ago, Lane shredded souls as the deeply conflicted South African prep-school teacher in Jon Robin Baitz's "The Film Society." A few...Tags: Theater, Nathan Lane, Music Theater, Beatrix Potter, Dana Ivey
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Goodman weaves tale of art, love in `Silk'
Special to the Tribune"Silk," which gets its world premiere Tuesday at the Goodman Theatre, examines the origin of art in love. Adapted from the sensuous 1992 novel by Italian writer Alessandro Baricco, "Silk" focuses on Herve Joncour, a silkworm trader who has become the main...Tags: Health Treatments, Theater, Music Theater, Dieting, Goodman Theatre
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Movies With a Motive
Staff WritersAs the holiday season kicks into gear, Hollywood does some shopping of its own, wooing moviegoers and award voters with films that feature big stars and big ideas. Newsday's movie critics offer up a preview of some of the potential blockbusters that...Tags: Peter Weir, Ian McKellen, Cher, Brendan Gleeson, Defense
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This Couple Is Three of a Kind
STAFF WRITERIt is time to recognize that Yasmina Reza is indeed a theatrical phenomenon. Here is a French playwright, a female no less, whose talky, serious comedies are regularly translated by the heady English writer, Christopher Hampton, and have unusually healthy...Tags: Helen Hunt, Theater, Eileen Atkins, Music Theater, Celebrity
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Black Comedy 'Joe Egg' Serves Up Shining Light
STAFF WRITERSheila and Brian have so much fun together that, honestly, we almost forget that the source of their comic material is their grossly retarded 10-year-old daughter, who sits - or, more accurately, is propped into a sitting position - in her dead end of a...Tags: Jim Dale, Lenny Bruce, Theater, Margaret Colin, Dana Ivey
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Its Hard to Suffer This Fool Gladly
Staff WriterTHE SERVANTS of the handsome 19th century Russian estate are bustling and bumbling in preparation for the long-awaited return of the young lady of the house and her new husband. You know the scene -- part stock buffo antics, part lyric tribute to the...Tags: Theater, Music Theater, Music Box Theatre, Broadway, Frank Langella
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