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TV best bets
7 p.m., Bravo In this episode, titled "Rock 'n' Runway," the designers compete in a musical genre challenge. 7 p.m., TCM Tatum O'Neal won an Academy Award as best supporting actress for her precocious performance as Addie Pray, a worldly 9-year-old...Tags: Peter Bogdanovich, Movies, Tatum O'Neal, Humphrey Bogart, Film Festivals
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After the curtain falls, the Web gets into the act
Special to The Washington PostTheater is the ephemeral art—except, that is, when it's bootlegged on YouTube. You can't actually watch Broadway's "Jersey Boys" online, and you can't balm the sorrow of missing out on "The Lion King" by downloading its majestic parades and...Tags: Organized Crime, Internet, Music, Teri Garr, Mel Brooks
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A troupe's bold beginning
Special to The SunA new Severna Park-based theater troupe is making an impressive debut with a high-caliber production of an over-the-top and overlooked musical. Standing O Productions' founder, Ron Giddings III, took on a challenge with the 1978 show On the Twentieth...Tags: Annapolis, John Barrymore, Severna Park, Film Festivals, Music
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Revival of 1992 comedy suffers from overwrought staging
Sun-Sentinel.comWendy Wasserstein's 1992 comedy "The Sisters Rosensweig" seemed to affirm, among other things, that the playwright took over the mantle of what passed for American boulevard comedy from Neil Simon. An Outer Critics Circle Award winner, it moved to...Tags: Wilton Manors, Neil Simon, Peggy Lee, Theater
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'Young Frankenstein's' cast
robert.kahn@newsday.comDirector-choreographer Susan Stroman didn't hire "Young Frankenstein" cast members to "recreate" the eccentric performances of the 1974 movie. Instead, she sought out versatile actors who could "sing, dance, act and be funny ... but they also had to...Tags: Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Gene Wilder, George Williams, Teri Garr
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'Young Frankenstein' cast is puttin' on the shtick
robert.kahn@newsday.com'What am I, a robber baron?" Mel Brooks barks into the phone from his Upper East Side apartment. "I'm giving you a performance to enjoy. I deserve whatever the hell I can get out of it." The 81-year-old comic has come unleashed at the rumor (confirmed, it...Tags: Strikes, Music Industry, Ray Bolger, Music, Marty Feldman
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MOVIES
BASIC CABLE "BLAZING SADDLES" *** 7 p.m., AMC Mel Brooks' 1974 western spoof is one of filmdom's funniest flicks from one of its funniest directors. Harvey Korman is at his best as the corrupt attorney general who wants to gain control of the soon-to-...Tags: Movies, Harvey Korman, Film Festivals, Mel Brooks
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Female comedy roles have become nothing more than empty shells
Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles TimesWatching "Lars and the Real Girl" recently, I had the feeling that I had seen this story before. The movie stars Ryan Gosling as a lonely weirdo who purchases a life-size sex doll, imbues her with a saintly personality (she's a celibate paraplegic...Tags: Tina Fey, Lily Tomlin, Amanda Bynes, Bernadette Peters, Cinema Industry
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New Broadway season: The play's the thing
The Associated PressA monster and a mermaid would seem to have the new musical market cornered on Broadway this fall, but it is plays rather than musicals that - surprisingly - are dominating the first half of the season. "The lineup of production for the fall season should...Tags: Invention and Innovation, Brian Cox, Kevin Kline, Edmond Rostand, New York
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'Family' funny business
Alex Borstein really is animated -- fitting for someone who plays a cartoon. Best known as the woman who voices matriarch Lois Griffin on Fox's "Family Guy" and for playing characters such as Ms. Swan on "MADtv" in the late 1990s, Borstein's resume...Tags: Family, Peter Sellers, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Seth Green, Gilda Radner
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Ladies in red go all out for a cause
NewsdayFirst Lady Laura Bush and leading ladies from the world of entertainment, sports, business and media came together Friday morning for Heart Truth's "Red Dress Collection 2007," a Fashion Week event held at the tents in Bryant Park. The mission? Using the...Tags: Marlee Matlin, Danica Patrick, Donna Karan, Lauren Hutton, Bill Blass
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'Vanities' still has the magic of three
This is a story about threes. Lots of threes. Once there were three friends who studied acting together at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They graduated in 1968 and came to New York to seek glory, or at least jobs. They were doing fine. Then,...Tags: Kathy Bates, Books, Books and Magazines, Stella Adler, Ben Affleck
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