| The 'King and I' comes to CT | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 11:04:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society will stage the most popular exotic musical, The King and I, at the Artscape Theatre in October. The show is based on the book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon which was also recently adapted into a most successful film starring Jodie Foster and Yun-Fat Chow. Along with the dazzling score which includes such memorable songs as I Whistle a Happy Tune, Hello Young Lovers, Getting to Know You, Shall We Dance? and of course the famous March of the Siamese Children is the incomparable Jerome Robbins Ballet The Small House of Uncle Thomas, one of the all-time marvels of the musical stage. East versus West makes for a dramatic, richly textured and ultimately uplifting tale of enormous fascination. The musical is set in 1862 in Siam when an English widow, Anna Leonowens, with her young son, arrives at the Royal Palace in Bangkok, having been summoned by the King to serve as tutor to his many children and wives.... | |
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| | | ROCK STAR: SUPERNOVA | | Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:03:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | There are four left - Magni, Dilana, Lukas, and Toby. By the end of this two-hour finale the band Supernova, made up of drummer Tommy Lee, bass player Jason Newsted, and guitarist Gilby Clarke, will have its singer. Smooth and charismatic Aussie, Toby, surely has the front running because his performances over the past three weeks have just got better and better. .... | |
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| | | Web search: A TV commercial break | | Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 9:04:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | A new TV season is beginning, football broadcasts have geared up and the baseball playoffs are just around the corner. You know what that means, right? More people watching TV and the accompanying barrage of big-buck prime-time commercials. But the ads aren't all bad. Sometimes, pitches can catch viewers' fancy. These websites come in handy when you want to know. ... .... | |
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| | | Patrick Swayze and Jodie Foster Come To Defense of Mel Gibson ... | | Posted Saturday, August 19, 2006 5:15:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | Both Patrick Swayze and Jodie Foster have come to the defense of Mel Gibson after his drunken driving arrest and derogatory statements against Jews. Swayze, who started in various films including Dirty Dancing said I feel really bad for Mel. The 50 year old Swayze told GMTV People say stupid things when they happen to have a few." Swayze is currently performing in Guys and Dolls in London's West End, according to the BBC. "I feel really bad for Mel." Swayze added Mel is "not anti-Semitic". "Hands deserved to be slapped if you do something stupid, but don't take it too far." He told Kate Garraway of GMTV on Monday "a man [as] talented" as Gibson would bounce back from his current ignominy. You don't put somebody down like that," Swayze said.... | |
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| | | Swayze joins Jodie Foster in defending Gibson | | Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 7:06:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | LONDON (Reuters) - Patrick Swayze became the latest actor to defend Mel Gibson, saying on Monday his friend was not anti-Semitic and that too much had been made of his controversial outburst blaming Jews for starting all wars. Gibson's widely reported remarks, made to a sheriff's deputy when drunk last month on the Californian Coast, have divided Hollywood, with several film executives criticizing the star and one actor vowing he would never work with him. But in an interview on British television, Swayze joined actress Jodie Foster in urging people to be more understanding. "I feel really bad for Mel," Swayze told GMTV. "He's a good guy, we have been in each other's lives for a long time. "He is not anti-Semitic. People say stupid things when they happen to have a few (drinks), and especially if you don't drink anymore, or have limited your drinking for a long time.... | |
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| | | Dakota Fanning's Rape Scene?!?! | | Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 1:01:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | I'll confess that I find kid star Dakota Fanning to be uber-annoying, but I'm feeling a lot more sympathetic towards her if this is the kind of judgment her parents and agent are exhibiting on her behalf . . . The New York Daily News reports that the 12-year-old is starring in a new drama called Hounddog, in which she will appear nude or wearing nothing but underwear, and for which she has already filmed a traumatic scene in which her character is raped. Her agent says she sees the movie as an Oscar bid for the not-yet-a-teen star, and is proud of the acting skill she has displayed in the movie, which was so disturbing that, at one point, production had to be shut down because of a lack of financing. This actually sheds a bit of light on a Fanning issue that's been bugging me for awhile.... | |
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| | | Two thumbs down | | Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 7:24:19 AM by Blog57 Team | | "Good Morning America" movie critic Joel Siegel walked out of a screening for "Clerks II" Monday and has incited a rift with writer/director Kevin Smith. According to the New York Post, Siegel couldn't stomach a scene in which the characters have a discussion containing references to bestiality. He stood up, loudly announced, "Time to go!" and stalked off. Smith, 36, who received a standing ovation at the screening of the movie at the Cannes Film Festival, has unleashed on the mustachioed critic on his MySpace.com page. Says Smith on the Web site: "Cardinal rule of movie-going: Shut your ---- mouth while the movie's playing. … (Siegel's) behavior in that screening was unconscionable and professionally unethical, not to mention childishly disruptive.... | |
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| | | 'I was in a bad place' | | Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 5:22:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | Paul Schrader was 26 and destitute when he wrote Taxi Driver. As the film is re-released, he tells Geoffrey Macnab why he's still proud of his violent movie - and why he lied about it to the FBI Thursday July 6, 2006 The Guardian 'I was Travis Bickle' ... Paul Schrader and Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver. Photographs: Linda Nylind/Kobal Collection .... | |
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| | | Golf Truth & Rumors: June 28, 2006 | | Posted Monday, July 03, 2006 3:06:21 AM by Blog57 Team | | While contemporaries and rivals such as Paula Creamer, 19, and Morgan Pressel, 18, have done what's in vogue -- skip college to turn pro -- Michelle Wie desires the college experience. She has talked to her parents about Brooke Shields and Jodie Foster, who attended Princeton and Yale, respectively, while maintaining acting careers, and she's settled on where she wants to go. "In October, we'll apply for early admission to Stanford," said her father, who serves as family spokesman. "We've met all the requirements and hope to have [word] by November." -- Boston Globe Newport (R.I.) Country Club is where Michelle Wie came earlier this week to hit golf balls and hone her swing under the eye of her instructor, David Leadbetter, and her parents, B.J. and Bo. The 6-foot-1-inch Wie pounded golf ball after golf ball into the netting that was held up by telephone poles some 250 yards away.... | |
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