Highlights
Joanne Woodward is married to Paul Newman, one of the icons of the American theater and big screen. She's won an Oscar for her performance as a woman with many personalities in "The Three Faces of Eve." And she rescued the Westport Country Playhouse in her home town. Woodward has raised three daughters, been an advocate for liberal politics and is a frequent visitor to the Canyon Ranch spa in the Berkshires. In 2001, she took on the role of artistic director with Anne Keefe as associate artistic director. Woodward revived the theater -- with the help of her friends and husband. He helped score one of the theater's biggest critical and financial successes, playing the Stage Manager in a prod...
Joanne Woodward is married to Paul Newman, one of the icons of the American theater and big screen. She's won an Oscar for her performance as a woman with many personalities in "The Three Faces of Eve." And she rescued the Westport Country Playhouse in her home town. Woodward has raised three daughters, been an advocate for liberal politics and is a frequent visitor to the Canyon Ranch spa in the Berkshires. In 2001, she took on the role of artistic director with Anne Keefe as associate artistic director. Woodward revived the theater -- with the help of her friends and husband. He helped score one of the theater's biggest critical and financial successes, playing the Stage Manager in a production of "Our Town'' first in Westport in 2002, before moving it to Broadway (where it earned $1 million for the theater), and later as a PBS production. In 2005, with the playhouse firmly established, Woodward stepped down, remaining as artistic director emeritus.
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Good Readings At Westport
The Hartford CourantWestport play readings have become a starry affair. Last month, there was Christopher Walken in "Arsenic and Old Lace." Now, Oscar winner Marisa Tomei ("My Cousin Vinny"), at right, will be among the actors taking part in a reading of Clifford Odets'...Tags: Sammy Davis Jr., Westport Country Playhouse, Clifford Odets, Movies, Christopher Walken
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Paul Newman finishes chemo, has weeks to live
Associated PressPaul Newman has finished chemotherapy and has told his family he wants to die at home. It was reported Friday that Newman, 83, had only weeks to live and had returned home to his wife, Joanne Woodward. The Oscar-winning actor was pictured being pushed...Tags: Paul Newman, New York
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Emmy Awards 2008: Facts and Figures
Zap2It.comNON-CABLE NOMINATIONS AND WINS ABC – 76 nominations CBS – 51 nominations CW – 2 nominations FOX – 28 nominations NBC – 50 nominations PBS – 33 nominations CABLE NOMINATIONS AND WINS A&E – 9 nominations AMC – 20 nominations Animal Planet – 1...Tags: Diahann Carroll, Mel Brooks, Kyra Sedgwick, Paul Newman, Mary-Louise Parker
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Shows to watch
'Celebrity Family Feud' 7 p.m., WMAQ-Ch. 5 Who's in the mood to feud? Famous folks are in the spotlight, playing for their favorite charities, in this new edition of the classic game show. Host Al Roker presides as the celebrity contestants answer...Tags: Celebrity Mothers, William Faulkner, Teen-agers, Celebrity, Paul Newman
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Friends Confirm Paul Newman Has Cancer
KTLA NewsNEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Paul Newman, who has recently appeared gaunt in photos and dropped plans to direct a play in his Connecticut hometown, is battling cancer, his longtime neighbor and business partner said Wednesday. Writer A.E. Hotchner, who...Tags: Butch Cassidy, Cancer, Celebrity, Paul Newman, Gang Activity
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A New 'Sybil' On CBS; Discovery Recounts Space Travel Triumphs
Because Sally Field made such an impression in the 1976 version, there seems little reason to remake "Sybil" ( CBS, 8 p.m.). Yet, here is a new version that is at once a little more true to the original but also, at half the time, rushed. Jessica...Tags: NASA, Jessica Lange, Animals, Big Brown, Motor Racing
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'Sybil' doesn't give audience a chance to analyze much
Times Television CriticFor anyone older than 40, the story of “Sybil,” as told in the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber(book) and the Emmy-winning television movie that starred Sally Field and Joanne Woodward, is one of those semi-traumatizing pop-cultural touchstones...Tags: Jessica Lange, Sexual Assault, Illnesses, Columbia University, Judy Garland
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Some Drama, Some Comedy, Some Of It Unintentional
Courant Staff WriterTalk about drama. The 2007-08 Connecticut theater season got off to a nail-biting start when, a few days after the opening of Hartford Stage's "Our Town," actor Hal Holbrook, giving one of the best performances of his career, dropped out because of...Tags: Arts, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Yale Repertory Theatre, Ted Neeley, Paul Newman
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Paul Newman will not direct 'Of Mice and Men'
Citing unspecified health issues, Paul Newman will not direct the fall production of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" at Connecticut's Westport Country Playhouse, the theater's artistic directors announced Friday.
Newman, 83, will be replaced by Mark...Tags: John Steinbeck, Westport Country Playhouse, Connecticut, Hartford Stage, Paul Newman
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Culture Cash
The arts are a vital part of the economic engine in Connecticut and next year might get a boost from the state in the form of increased grants included in the governor's revised budget proposal. In addition, the state might create a separate bonding...Tags: New Britain, Old Lyme, Louisiana, Harrison Ford, Goodspeed Opera House
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'Rosemary's Baby' Author Ira Levin Dies
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIra Levin, who gave the devil his due in "Rosemary's Baby," created an archetype in "The Stepford Wives" and brought a notorious Nazi to fiction in "The Boys From Brazil," has died. He was 78. Levin, a novelist, playwright and screenwriter, died Monday...Tags: Christopher Reeve, Gregory Peck, Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, Iowa
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Movie capsules
South Florida Sun-SentinelA summary of the movies playing Oct. 11 to Nov. 15, 2007 at the 22nd Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Most tickets are $10 general admission; $5 for members and free for holders of FLIFF Fast Pass. Parties and special events are priced...Tags: High Schools, Vehicles, Local Authority, Assault, Jim Taylor
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