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Griffin going for the show-biz grand slam
Kathy Griffin is on a quest for the grand slam of awards. "I am trying to be Rita Moreno," she said. Moreno is one of 10 who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony. The others: Mel Brooks John Gielgud Whoopi Goldberg Helen Hayes Audrey Hepburn...Tags: Tennis, Mel Brooks, Whoopi Goldberg, Helen Hayes, Audrey Hepburn
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Valley native has small but huge role in Shepard play
Of The Morning CallThe biggest role of Elissa Piszel's theater career is one of the smallest. The Bethlehem native stands silent for four to five minutes in nothing but a slip and a cowboy hat. Her only act is to hand the hat to the man who tossed it into a self-dug grave,...Tags: Samuel Beckett, Jessica Lange, Celebrity, New York, Movies
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'Plaza Suite' makes for a dark room
Chicago Tribune criticNeil Simon's "Plaza Suite" is a comedy of marital despair. I swear it would never get written and produced today. Not with the Boomers in charge. In its day, of course, this 1968 play was a huge success, running on Broadway for years under Mike Nichols'...Tags: Steve Scott, Walter Matthau, Second City, Neil Simon
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Linda Winer: Broadway's 'Passing Strange' season
linda.winer@newsday.comEver since "Passing Strange" was virtually overlooked by the Tony Awards last month, I've been nagging friends to see the show - the sooner the better. I have no crystal-ball insights about the musical's life span on Broadway. I hope it runs until Stew,...Tags: Samuel Beckett, Music Theater, Awards and Prizes, Stew Leonard's, Fiction
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Charles H. Joffe, 78; top manager of comedic talent co-produced Woody Allen's films
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCharles H. Joffe, a legendary manager of comic talent who helped guide the careers of Dick Cavett, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Woody Allen and co-produced nearly all of Allen's films, died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles...Tags: Nicole Holofcener, Billy Crystal, Cinema Industry, NBC, Robin Williams
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Manager helped stand-ups stand out
Chicago Tribune NewspapersLOS ANGELES — Charles Joffe, a legendary manager of comic talent who helped guide the careers of Dick Cavett, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Woody Allen and co-produced nearly all of Allen's films, died Wednesday in Los Angeles after a long...Tags: Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Lenny Bruce, Los Angeles, New York
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Liz Smith: Some conservatives saying 'nice things' about Hillary Clinton
"We thought she (Hillary-Clinton) would be a steadier hand as president than Sen. Barack Obama would be, with more hawkish instincts and greater political realism," write the National Review editors, explaining why some conservatives have been saying...Tags: Mad Men, Music Theater, Phil Spector, Hillary Clinton, Will Smith
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'Nobody, nothing was sacred'
Shortly before midnight on Aug. 3, 1958, Lenny Bruce got off an airplane at Midway Airport. No one knows exactly what he did the next day until, at 8 p.m., he walked onto the stage of the Cloister Inn nightclub and said, "I've been thinking a lot about...Tags: Bob Newhart, Bob Hope, James Cagney, Midway Airport, Los Angeles
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Dustin Hoffman, 70, Enjoys His Own Youth Movement: Children's Movies
SPECIAL TO THE COURANTDustin Hoffman has some advice for the makers of "Kung Fu Panda," opening June 6: "Anyone who does animation, who is involved with this extraordinarily intricate process, has to have real emotional issues and I hope you get help." Hoffman, the two-time...Tags: Cannes Film Festival, Jack Nicholson, Celebrity, New York, Anthony Hopkins
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Paul Sills, founder of The Second City, dead at 80
Paul Sills, one of the founders of the improvisational comedy group "The Second City," which has turned out some of America's best-known comedians, died Monday. He was 80. Sills died at his home in Baileys Harbor, Wis., of complications from pneumonia,...Tags: Mike Myers, Celebrity, NBC, Bill Murray, Los Angeles
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Liz Smith: Rubbing elbows with New York's mayor, other elite
Iwent to dinners with the mayor of New York City on two consecutive evenings last week. (Well, I didn't exactly go "with" him, but he did kiss me twice as we passed like ships in the night.) What really happened is I sat next to the wily and clever...Tags: Henry Kissinger, Regional Authority, New York, Museum of Modern Art, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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Newcomers salvage Broadway season
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" on Broadway. Uh, wait. That's this fall when a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" opens at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in September.
Not that Dickens' most quotable line from one...Tags: Joshua Logan, Chazz Palminteri, Clifford Odets, Music Theater, Frances McDormand
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