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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: Glenn Ford, Mass Media, Jason Robards, Family, Geraldine Page
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DVD PICK: Frederick Wiseman documentaries
Tribune NewspapersA peerless, tireless chronicler of the inner workings and secret lives of American institutions, Frederick Wiseman has long been among the most respected documentarians in the world. He is also among the most resourceful of independent auteurs. Eschewing...Tags: Movies, Metal and Mineral, Arthur Hiller, Frederick Wiseman, Milos Forman
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Reviews are in: B'Way cast recordings
Curious about the changing sound of the Great White Way? Times Theater Critic Charles McNulty weighs in on five noteworthy cast recordings from the year on Broadway -- four from new shows that couldn't be more wildly disparate and one from a classic that'...Tags: Harvey Fierstein, Los Angeles, Bette Davis, Music, American Idol
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Competitors no match for 'South Pacific's' visual sweep
Tribune criticNEW YORK—The harmonic Seabees warbling "There is Nothing Like a Dame" at the start of Bart Sher's Lincoln Center revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" include whites and African-Americans. Nothing unusual there. It took decades, but...Tags: Harvey Fierstein, New York, Music, John Waters, Gore Vidal
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Drama Desk drafts "A Catered Affair"
Against the backdrop of the recent resignation of one of the seven journalists on the nominating committee, (CLICK HERE) arrived the announcement of those in contention for the 53rd annual Drama Desk Awards earlier this week.
Seemingly in answer to the...Tags: Peter Gallagher, Harvey Fierstein, Literature, Music, Harold Pinter
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'Catered Affair' brings post-war life to Broadway
Tribune criticThe new Broadway musical "A Catered Affair" is another cinematic adaptation set in the 1950s, but one in which everyone is too terminally depressed to cry. Based on the 1956 Richard Brooks movie "The Catered Affair" (penned by the formidable duo of...Tags: Gore Vidal, Harvey Fierstein, New York, Music Theater, John Doyle
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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: John Malkovich, New York, Celebrity Mothers, George Stevens Jr., Meg Tilly
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'Sopranos' creator David Chase to receive WGA award
David Chase, creator of "The Sopranos," will be given a lifetime achievement award by the Writers Guild of America, West.
Chase, who previously worked on such series as "The Rockford Files," "I'll Fly Away" and "Northern Exposure," will be presented with...Tags: Los Angeles, David Chase, Beverly Hills, Unions
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The sage of Sag Harbor
Tribune's cultural criticUp and up and up they inched, the sailors climbing to the ship's mastheads, because as every good whale-hunter knew, the masthead was the center of the world. "If, after a three, four, or five years' voyage she is drawing nigh home with anything empty...Tags: Physical Fitness, Engineering, People, Saul Bellow, Nelson Algren
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Who needs writers?
It's Day Four of the Writers Guild strike, and here's how to tell that the striking writers haven't so much as picked up a Bic: Their picket-line chants are crappy. Have you heard the lame call-and-response out there? "What do we want? CONTRACTS! When...Tags: NBC, Emmy Awards, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), John F. Kennedy, Steve Allen
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Oscar-Winning Director Delbert Mann Dies
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDelbert Mann, who directed the acclaimed live TV production of "Marty," Paddy Chayefsky's classic tale of a lonely Bronx butcher, and then won an Academy Award directing the 1955 movie version, has died. He was 87. Mann, a former president of the...Tags: Los Angeles, New York, Alzheimer's Disease, National Government, Newspapers
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Director Set for J.J. Abrams' 'Fringe' Pilot
Alex Graves has come on board to direct the high profile, two-hour pilot for "Fringe," a FOX drama created by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. FOX won a bidding war for "Fringe" back in early October, giving a series commitment to the science...Tags: NBC, Emmy Awards, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Television Industry, David Cronenberg
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