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'Freaks' was an influential horror flick
Sun ReporterFreaks, a film that so unnerved 1932 audiences that it was pulled from circulation after only a few weeks and was practically disowned by its studio, MGM, will be shown tomorrow night at the Creative Alliance, 3134 Eastern Ave., in the old Patterson...Tags: Charles Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock, Tod Browning, Colesville, Movies
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Teen Theater Troupes Offer Powerful Drama, Classic Comedy
The Oddfellows Playhouse's Teen Repertory Projectpresents "The Laramie Project" tonight at 7 and for the next two Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. The play, created by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Company, looks at the brutal beating and...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Wesleyan University, Yale Center for British Art, Old Lyme, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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May 9, 2008
Question: Which phobia plagued James Stewart in Alfred Hitchock's thriller Vertigo? A) acrophobia B) agoraphobia C) arachnophobia Answer: a) acrophobia. Filmed in San Franciso, the film debuted in the same city this day in 1958. -
Middletown-Area Entertainment Listing Through April 12
From this weekend through April 12, Oddfellows Playhouse, 128 Washington St., Middletown, will perform "Anon(ymous)," a modern adaptation of Homer's "Odyssey." Created by playwright Naomi Lizuka, the play opens as Anon, a refugee from Southeast Asia, is...Tags: Grace Kelly, Nikola Tesla, Wesleyan University, Folk Music, Felix Mendelssohn
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Richard Widmark dies at 93
Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in "Kiss of Death" and became a leading man in "Broken Lance," "Two Rode Together" and 40 other films, died at his home in Roxbury after a long illness. He was 93. Widmark's wife,...Tags: Company Information, Lake Forest College, Literature, Kirk Douglas, Media
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Final Merchant-Ivory film will satisfy the romantics
STAFF WRITERIsmael Merchant, a standard- bearer for cinematic civility and discerning taste, died in May. With his director-partner James Ivory, he produced more than 30 movies - many of them literary adaptations set in a bygone England, India or America - whose...Tags: Frank Jr Capra, Literature, Vanessa Redgrave, Bars, Ralph Fiennes
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Overcast for Allan Carr's Oscarcast
Times Staff WriterFrom The Times: Thursday, March 30, 1989 It wasn't hot, fiery, sizzling, flaming, broiling, roasting, smoking, fuming, igniting, kindling or incinerating. It wasn't Hollywood Burning. It was Hollywood Lukewarm. Three hours plus of nice. Fairly nice....Tags: Rob Lowe, Snow White, Billy Crystal, Geena Davis, Bob Hope
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Most Oscarcast Promises Kept
Times Arts EditorFrom The Times: Tuesday, March 26, 1985 By George, I think they've got it. Almost. The efforts by its producing quartet — Gregory Peck, Robert Wise, Larry Gelbart and Gene Allen of the academy — to revitalize and shorten the Oscar show paid off almost...Tags: Willie Nelson, Gene Kelly, Weather Reports, Gregory Peck, Lancaster County (Virginia)
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Oscars: 'Jones,' Poitier, Neal
From The Times: April 14, 1964
The 2,600-odd members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences spread their statuettes around much more liberally than was expected during the 36th annual Oscar presentation ceremony Monday evening in the Santa...Tags: Rita Hayworth, Shirley MacLaine, Rugby League, Ed Begley, Heavy Engineering
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'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'
STAFF WRITERJust what exactly are Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton doing to Willy Wonka, the childishly imperious, self-aggrandizing candy manufacturer of Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"? You would have to have been raised in captivity not to get...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Joan Crawford, David Kelly, Roald Dahl, Gene Wilder
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