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Go Guide Calendar: October 9, 2008
THURSDAY OCT. 9 ART All About MartiniÂ…: Martini glasses designed by Dawn DeLong. Complimentary snacks and drinks. 7 p.m. Amber Connection, 3136 Hamilton Blvd., Allentown. 610-351-6200. BOOKS & AUTHORS Author Discussion and Book Signing: Pulitzer...Tags: Distilling and Brewing Industry, National or Ethnic Minorities, Muhlenberg College, Donovan, Games
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Reviews: Durang's 'Beyond Therapy,' 'Bette and Boo'
linda.winer@newsday.comAfter a weekend spent careening around the demented funhouse of two Christopher Durang revivals, I feel giddy with the joy of contradictory emotions: strong but needy women, big boys who do cry, and wild non-sequiturs that, somehow, seem less weird and...Tags: Joan Allen, Bay Street Theater, Theater, Katie Finneran, Thomas Hardy
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'The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore' Superb at Hartford Stage
Special To The Courant"The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," which opened Wednesday at Hartford Stage, is the last production in a 10-year Tennessee Williams "marathon" undertaken by the theater's artistic director, Michael Wilson. Surely it cannot be the last...Tags: Michael Wilson, Venice, Theater, Society, Peggy Guggenheim
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Dukakis to direct play premiere in Chicago
Noted stage-and-screen actress Olympia Dukakis is headed to Chicago to direct a new play by Todd Logan titled "Botanic Garden: A Walk Through the Paradise of Marriage." The two-person show, a portrait of modern coupling, will star real-life couple...Tags: Television, New York
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Cool it on the Alzheimer's jokes, group urges
Actress Julie Christie seems to be on everyone's short-list as a possible Oscar winner this year for her role as a woman with Alzheimer's disease in the film "Away From Her."
But when she accepted the best actress prize at last month's Screen Actors...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Film Festivals, Unions, Illnesses, Alzheimer's Disease
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Nora Dunn comes home
Tribune criticNora Dunn -- whose appearances alongside Dennis Miller, Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson and Al Franken were part of the "Saturday Night Live" renaissance of the late 1980s -- is alive, well and a new permanent resident of Chicago'...Tags: Sam Shepard, Molly Shannon, Los Angeles, Tina Fey, Dennis Miller
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Actresses make the most of it
EVEN as the men's acting Oscar categories are overflowing with strong contenders, the actress races, as usual, reflect the paucity of opportunities for women.
Don't expect that to change any time soon. "Not when Will Smith movies make $78 million on...Tags: Film Festivals, Charlize Theron, Marion Cotillard, Tilda Swinton, Diseases
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Julie Christie is good at being picky
THE 1967 photo book "Birds of Britain" refers to actress Julie Christie as "the very incarnation of the new British girl." Though it has long been inappropriate to refer to her as either a bird or a girl, there is still something remarkably fresh about...Tags: Diseases, Julie Christie, Alzheimer's Disease, Celebrity, Movies
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This 'Land' belongs to no one
Special to NewsdayIt would be an exaggeration to say I wanted to dig out my eyes with a spoon while watching "In the Land of Women," but have you ever wondered whether you could impale yourself on a nacho chip? Contemplating this - while staring slack-jawed at Meg Ryan's...Tags: Adam Brody, Los Angeles, Meg Ryan, Mark Rothko, John Anderson
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'Away From Her'
jan.stuart@newsday.comIn Sarah Polley's beautiful directing and screenwriting debut, "Away From Her," Julie Christie plays a self-aware and piercingly articulate woman of a certain age named Fiona. In an early scene, Fiona rises from a dinner table to pour wine for her...Tags: Alice Munro, Celebrity Mothers, Diseases, Julie Christie, Alzheimer's Disease
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War drama's world premiere at Hamptons fest
Newsday Staff WriterIt may be sleeker than ever this year, but the Hamptons International Film Festival isn't necessarily built for comfort. With an established program titled "Conflict and Resolution" helping to define its identity, the Hamptons festival knows that its...Tags: Festive Event, Film Festivals, Donovan, Central Intelligence Agency, Movies
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A pointed triptych on AIDS
Newsday Staff WriterWhile AIDS provided the focal point for Thom Fitzgerald's last film, "The Event," nothing in the career of this thoughtful Canadian director could prepare one for this provocative and ambitious triptych of stories in which the HIV virus wreaks havoc on...Tags: AIDS, Lucy Liu, Diseases, Stockard Channing, Chloe Sevigny
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