| Actor Arthur Hill, 84, dies | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 3:09:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | Arthur Hill, a veteran actor whose career was punctuated by two distinctly different roles -- the weary, abused husband in the Broadway production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and the stalwart attorney in the ABC television series "Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law" -- has died. He was 84. Hill died Sunday of Alzheimer's disease at an assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, according to his son, Douglas. Known for his deep, pensive eyes and soft, calming voice, Hill fashioned a busy career over 40 years. He won a Tony Award for his work in the groundbreaking production of Edward Albee's "Virginia Woolf." Hill's portrayal of Owen Marshall, a small-town attorney, ran on ABC from 1971 to 1974. The show, which featured such up-and-coming actors as Lee Majors and David Soul as Marshall's associates, was modeled after another popular ABC series, "Marcus Welby, M.D.," which featured Robert Young as a small-town doctor.... | |
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| | | Patrick Wilson working with Streep and daughter | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:03:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Patrick Wilson, known to many for his work in "Angels in America," has teamed up again with Meryl Streep on the adaptation of Susan Minot's "Evening," which has just begun shooting. He says Streep's daughter Mamie Gummer will be the one to watch. "Her daughter has a very prominent role in the film," he tells us of the flick, which stars Vanessa Redgrave and Claire Danes, with Glenn Close and Toni Collette also in its stellar cast. "Meryl plays the older version of her daughter, which is very exciting. Having her daughter around is like having a spitting image of her." Working with such esteemed actors is something Wilson is becoming accustomed to. "My first day of shooting on film was with Al Pacino, so I feel like I can take anything now," says the two-time Tony nominee, whose film career is getting ever hotter.... | |
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| | | Go get Hitched | | Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:17:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | Films by suspense master Alfred Hitchcock will be featured in an eight-week series of free screenings at the Kansas City Public Library, 14 W. 10th. -"The 39 Steps" (6:30 p.m. Monday): Robert Donat plays a man on the lam because of a murder he didn't commit. Along the way he stumbles upon an international spy network. -"The Lady Vanishes" (6:30 p.m. Sept. 18): When a kindly old lady vanishes from a trans-European train, a couple of amateur sleuths (Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave) look for answers. -"Frenzy" (6:30 p.m. Sept. 25): An out-of-work man is mistaken for the modern-day Jack the Ripper who has been terrorizing London in this late Hitchcock entry. -"Notorious" (6:30 p.m. Oct. 2): U.S. agent Cary Grant uses a beautiful playgirl (Ingrid Bergman) to infiltrate a spy ring run by the suave Claude Rains.... | |
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| | | Antiques and Collectibles by Ralph and Terry Kovel | | Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 1:11:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | Most people today know Pinocchio through the story and images of the 1940 Disney animated movie. But collectors like the older versions of Pinocchio, too. The story was first published in serial form from 1881 to 1883 by an Italian, Carlo Collodi. The bad marionette-boy whose nose grew when he lied was a character in a moral tale about good and bad. The Blue Fairy was in the story, but in the original version she did not save Pinocchio by changing him into a real boy. Instead, the story ended with the death of the marionette. But it was meant as a children's story, and the ending soon was changed to the happy one. The Pinocchio story was translated into English in 1892, but did not become popular in the United States until after an inexpensive edition of the book was published in 1911.... | |
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| | | DC Notes: Researchers closing in on quicker way to identify ... | | Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 9:02:15 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON -- As the five-year anniversary of the deadly anthrax attacks approaches, government researchers say they're developing a quick way to determine whether powder found in the mail or elsewhere is toxic or a hoax. The National Center for Toxicological Research, which is part of the Food and Drug Administration, says it's employed a technology called mass spectrometry to determine in as few as three hours whether a suspicious substance is a bioterror agent, or, say, baking soda. Current techniques for an accurate determination can take more than 24 hours. HAVE MONEY, MUST TRAVEL Last year, the Pentagon dispatched 36,000 military and civilian employees to 6,600 conferences worldwide, at a cost to taxpayers of $79 million. Among the events last year: the Armed Forces Golf Conference in West Palm Beach, Fla., and the Armed Forces Bowling Conference in Orlando.... | |
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| | | D.C. Notes: Researchers closing in on quicker way to identify anthrax | | Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 11:02:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON -- As the five-year anniversary of the deadly anthrax attacks approaches, government researchers say they're developing a quick way to determine whether powder found in the mail or elsewhere is toxic or a hoax. The National Center for Toxicological Research, which is part of the Food and Drug Administration, says it's employed a technology called mass spectrometry to determine in as few as three hours whether a suspicious substance is a bioterror agent, or, say, baking soda. Current techniques for an accurate determination can take more than 24 hours. HAVE MONEY, MUST TRAVEL Last year, the Pentagon dispatched 36,000 military and civilian employees to 6,600 conferences worldwide, at a cost to taxpayers of $79 million. Among the events last year: the Armed Forces Golf Conference in West Palm Beach, Fla., and the Armed Forces Bowling Conference in Orlando.... | |
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| | | Superhero and humble spirit | | Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:10:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | The nicest thing I can report on Superman Returns is that someone took two dozen handicapped kids to the performance I saw, and they loved it, cheering spontaneously at the end. I don?t think they were judging the acting or the coherence of the story, or believed Superman was going to cure them. They were simply enthralled with the spectacular images of the hero?s preternatural gifts. They may not even have seen Richard Donner?s 1978 ?Superman,? with the late Christopher Reeve in cape and tights, and a cast including Marlon Brando, Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman -- probably an advantage, since Mr. Reeve was handsomer and funnier than this film?s Superman (Brandon Routh). Directed by Bryan Singer, ?Superman Returns? has our hero returning to the family homestead, the planet Krypton, by fireball, visiting his mother (Eva Marie Saint) and remembering his father (Marlon Brando) offering a last bit of advice: ?You will see my life through your eyes.? Then he whizzes back to Metropolis as the diffident Clark Kent and is given back his old job on the Daily Planet by editor Perry White (Frank Langella).... | |
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| | | Timeless BEAUTIES | | Posted Saturday, July 22, 2006 11:07:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ingrid Bergman refused to cap her teeth or pluck her eyebrows to satisfy studio heads, but when it came to her craft, she didn't hesitate to chop her hair to play Maria in "For Whom the Bell Tolls." Ava Gardner rebuffed requests to fill in a facial dimple with plastic surgery. Sophia Loren gave a firm "no" when she was told to get a nose job after her first screen test. Ditto for feisty Irish beauty Maureen O'Hara, who stood her ground, responding: "My nose comes with me, I've got a big square face, and I need my big nose. If you don't like it, I'll go back where I came from." The actresses of Hollywood's golden studio era not only had faces then - the line forever immortalized by Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard" - they had strong wills, an independent streak and plenty of style to carry it all.... | |
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| | | Crow House caught in struggle between preservationists, the ... | | Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:08:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW CITY, N.Y. — Somewhere close to New York City — but far, far away, up a narrow driveway and into the woods — lies Crow House, a rambling Arts and Crafts mix of architectural styles: an eccentric "not to everyone’s taste" kind of stone house designed and built in the 1920s by Henry Varnum Poor, for many decades one of the country’s most famous painters and potters. Although Poor, who died in 1970, is largely forgotten, his house now stands at the center of a complicated round robin of conflict that involves preservationists who have formed a group to save it; his son, who vows not to watch the house deteriorate and has just signed a contract to sell it to a local entrepreneur; Poor’s granddaughter, who opposes her father’s decision to sell but feels powerless to prevent it; and town officials who had begged in vain for more time to consider making the house into a museum.... | |
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| | | Lawrence High and Free State High School honor rolls | | Posted Saturday, July 01, 2006 11:01:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Lawrence High School announced its spring 2005-2006 honor roll students. Honor roll students attained a non-weighted 3.5 grade-point average or higher and took a minimum of five classes for a letter grade. Seniors Marc Albers, Marissa Ballard, Maggie Barnes, Elizabeth Beisner, Stuart Bell, Rebecca Blevins, Elizabeth Bodle, Christopher Bohling, Raya Bowden, Michael Brock, Charles Buck, Joel Burg, Meredith Bush, Christopher Cates, Miriam Cha, Phung Chau, Jana Christensen, Julie Cluff, Katie Collins, Cyril Cook, Mary Cottrell, Keith Countess, Jordan Crice, Jennifer Crowe, Brenna Daldorph, Sandra Differding, Joshua Edwards, Christina Eoannou, Jordan Farmer, Katelyn Farmer, Callie Fishburn, Kaylee Flory, Kendal Forio, Stephanie Gaines, Katelyn Galyardt, Cory Gaston, Kathryn George, Sydney Georgie, Sara Gering, Kelly Gibson, Ciara Grame, Brendan Halpin, Tara Hammer, Colby Harrell, Anna Harrington, Kelly Harrington, Cody Henry, Cameron Hershiser, Tamara Hilmes, Joshua Hinton, Chad Howard, Drew Huff, David Hughes-Pfeifer, Jennifer Hunt, Sarah Johnson, Helen Jones, Salmon Kadivar, Samoneh Kadivar, Nolan Kellerman, Sarah Kelly, Lindsey Kennedy, Tyler Knight, Jamie Kuhnert, Lindsey Lawrence, Whitney Lopez, Nicholas Madl, Amy Magnuson, Marthe McDonald, Brenna McKedy, David McManness, Kyle Mendenhall, Erin Miller, Yuri Mitchell, Kyle Morgison, Sean Muder, Camille Myers, Amy Naff, Emily Nightingale, Mariah Parker, Laura Parkinson, Edward Patterson, Margaret Pendleton, Scott Penny, Brianne Pfannenstiel, Matthew Pickerel, Shawna Randall, Evan Rapp, Matthew Riley, Mariah Riling, Ryan Robinson, Kate Rowden, Kristine Rudman, Estella Safford, Carly Sakumura, Tavis Sartin, Anthony Schinze, Philip Schneweis, Ray Segebrecht, Jamie Shmalberg, Kelly Simmons, Scott Simmons, Brett Sims, Spencer Sorenson, Kirsten Stack, Kelsey Starks, Matthew Stiles, Allison Stone, Allyson Taylor, Emily Thomas, Lydia Thomas, Emily Thompson, Hung Truong, Jane Turner, Lara Turner, Curtis Wakeman, Jessica Walton, Luke Wempe, Meredith West, Shelby White, Thora Whitmore, Anthony Wilkinson, Michael Williams, Thomas Willoughby, Laura Wilson, Sydney Wilson, Kayleia Workman, Brett Yulich and Daniel Zehr.... | |
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