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Category Archives: Theatre
“Great balls of fire! My friend, Roderigo!” Jerry Lee Lewis as Iago
A re-post in honor of the Killer. R.I.P. In 1968, there was a short-lived production of Othello in Los Angeles, a dream project of producer Jack Good, who wrote a loose adaptation filled with rock ‘n roll songs. He called … Continue reading
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” — Oscar Wilde
It’s his birthday today. One of my heroes. His mother, Jane Speranza Francesca Wilde (aka Lady Wilde, aka “Speranza”) was an incredible woman – also in the canon of Irish literary history certainly, not to mention its politics and social … Continue reading
Posted in Books, On This Day, Theatre, writers
Tagged Ireland, Irish poetry, Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellmann, Seamus Heaney
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R.I.P. Angela Lansbury
Even if you came to Gaslight clean, without knowing a thing, which is hard to believe, but let’s just pretend: Even if you knew nothing about it, it would be instantly obvious that the teenage girl who plays the maid … Continue reading
“If someone spends his life writing the truth without caring for the consequences, he inevitably becomes a political authority in a totalitarian regime.” — Václav Havel
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” — Václav Havel Vaclav Havel, whose birthday … Continue reading
Posted in On This Day, Theatre, writers
Tagged Czechoslovakia, Golshifteh Farahani, Iran, Iranian film, Jafar Panahi, Shabnam Toloui, Vaclav Havel, war
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Dynamic Duo #35
Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando, 1948
Posted in Actors, Theatre, writers
Tagged Marlon Brando, Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
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“I didn’t think then, and I still don’t, that I was actually sick.” — Frances Farmer
“She’ll come back as fire To burn all the liars And leave a blanket of ash on the ground.” — Nirvana, “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle” It’s her birthday today. When Nirvana’s album In Utero came out … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Movies, On This Day, Theatre
Tagged Clifford Odets, Frances Farmer, Group Theatre
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“I’ve been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.” — James Gandolfini
It’s his birthday today. 51 years old. It seems incomprehensible. Like a lot of people, he first came on my radar through the extraordinary scene in the motel room with Patricia Arquette in True Romance (“you gotta lotta heart, kid.”) … Continue reading
“I swear my next project is going to be something really simple and focused and minimal.” — Baz Luhrmann
It’s his birthday today. “I think what I’m saying is, when you get to where I am in your journey, you just have to start to accept that there’s something inside you that you’ve been trying to get out and … Continue reading
Posted in Directors, Movies, On This Day, Theatre
Tagged Australia, Baz Luhrmann, Ewan McGregor, Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Kidman, The Great Gatsby
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Things done and seen in Chicago
I haven’t flown in three years, maybe more. There’s still a lot of stress in going out into the world and mingling with the populace. Plane tickets are insanely expensive right now too. But I was determined to take a … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Music, Personal, Television, Theatre
Tagged Elvis Presley, friends, Judy Garland, Robert De Niro, snapshots, Taxi Driver
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R.I.P. Peter Brook
RIP to the legendary theatre director (and more, but that’s primarily what he’s known for) Peter Brook, whose illustrious career earned him the right to be called a visionary. You’ll hear it a lot. He was also one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Directors, RIP, Theatre
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