| Early Oscar buzz swirls around Eastwood, Mirren | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 7:17:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES - Helen Mirren could be crowned best actress at the Academy Awards. Seven-time loser Peter O'Toole may finally win that elusive Oscar. Jack Nicholson could tie Katharine Hepburn with a record fourth win. And Clint Eastwood may establish himself as one of the winningest directors in Oscar history. Though plenty of Oscar-worthy films will not hit theaters until December, many potential contenders and a few early front-runners have emerged for Hollywood's big night Feb. 25. Leading the way could be Eastwood, 2004's top winner, who won his second best-picture and directing prizes with "Million Dollar Baby." Eastwood is back with the World War II saga "Flags of Our Fathers," a sprawling account of the Iwo Jima invasion and the controversial circumstances over the raising of the U.S.... | |
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| | | The hidden Hepburn | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 3:05:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Katharine hepburn's public life breaks down, conveniently enough, into three acts. In the 1930s, on-screen she was pretty much what she was in life: well-bred and high-spirited, a visibly spunky young woman determined to bring fresh air (and airs) to variously musty, generally upper-class, settings. In the latter part of the decade — we can conveniently date it from the divine "Bringing Up Baby" (1938) — she began playing either career women or heiresses in serious need of taming by sensible, plain-spoken men generally of a lower, more obviously democratic, caste. "The Philadelphia Story," a play she commissioned and then packaged for the screen (1940), is possibly the most widely beloved of those films, but the best comedies she made with Spencer Tracy ("Woman of the Year," "Pat and Mike," "Adam's Rib") surely rank close to it in the public's affection.... | |
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| | | Clark Gable and Katharine Hepburn Together | | Posted Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:25:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | Can a devil-may-care guy find happiness with a conventional, upper crust woman? That?s the dilemma Cary Grant faces in Holiday (1938). Johnny Case (Grant) has fallen hard for the lovely Julia Seton (Doris Nolan). Upon learning that Julia lives in a Fifth Avenue mansion, Johnny assumes she?s a servant and goes to the back door, only to learn his new love is a member of THE Seton family. Trying hard to remain true to himself while trying to please Julia and impress her father, Johnny finds an ally in her sister, Linda (Katharine Hepburn) and to a lesser extent her drunken brother Ned (Lew Ayres). Johnny doesn?t have the lofty ambitions Julia and her father expect. His goal is to acquire enough money to retire young and to travel and enjoy life. He?s actually surprised when Julia doesn?t see herself skipping along the same path.... | |
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| | | HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY RETURNS TO LIFE AS STEPHANIE ZIMBALIST PORTRAYS ... | | Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 9:21:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | /24-7PressRelease/ - LAS VEGAS, NV, August 19, 2006 - Her film career spanned seven decades, and she was perhaps the most decorated actor, male or female, in the industry. She won more Academy Awards for lead roles than anyone, and her 12 nominations in the Best Actress category stood as a record until 2003 when Meryl Streep surpassed her total with 13. In her work, Katharine Hepburn transformed herself from the key actress of a generation into thespian royalty, an uncontested icon of live theater and cinematic art. In her private life, her 25-year love affair with actor Spencer Tracy is the stuff Hollywood legends are made of, and so are her bouts with Hollywood itself. Katharine Hepburn now beckons us into her Connecticut home for a cozy chat and an intimate look at the legend, and the woman based behind the legend.... | |
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| | | Book recounts life on Long Beach Island | | Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:03:49 AM by Blog57 Team | | In a small red-trimmed house alongside Barnegat Bay, near the little cove named for her grandfather, Margaret Thomas Buchholz has spent years sorting and poring over photo archives. Organizing her own family collection is still a future project. But the writer and editor used some of those images among the 320 photographs in her latest effort, Island Album. The 207-page book shows Long Beach Island and its people from the late 1800s to the present, including many images that disappeared into attics generations ago and have never been seen in public before. A half-dozen volumes carry her name, but writing books is a second act for Buchholz. She published the Beachcomber weekly newspaper in Ship Bottom for more than 30 years, a career that gave her a depth of knowledge about the Jersey Shore and its history -- and a trove of photographs.... | |
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| | | Lauren Bacall and Blythe Danner to Receive Katharine Hepburn ... | | Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 5:13:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | Tony Award winners Lauren Bacall and Blythe Danner will each receive the Katharine Hepburn Medal from Bryn Mawr College at a gala celebration to be held on Saturday, September 9 at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. The event, which will help mark the launch of the college's new Katharine Hepburn Center, will be hosted by Cynthia McFadden of ABC News. The Hepburn Center and the award are named for the legendary star, who graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1928. The Katharine Hepburn Medal honors "women whose lives, work, and contributions embody the intelligence, drive, and independence of Katharine Hepburn." Bacall won Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in Applause and Woman of the Year. Her other Broadway credits include Cactus Flower and Waiting in the Wings.... | |
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| | | Rehearsals Begin for National Tour of On Golden Pond July 24 | | Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 11:04:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | Rehearsals begin July 24 for the new national touring company of Ernest Thompson's On Golden Pond, inspired by the 2005 Tony Award-nominated production under Leonard Foglia's direction. In addition to the previously announced Tom Bosley as retired professor Norman Thayer and Michael Learned as his wife Ethel, the cast that will launch the seven-month tour at St. Paul's Ordway Center Aug. 22 will include Kate Levy (of The Graduate's national tour) as daughter Chelsea, Evan Pappas (Parade, My Favorite Year) as Bill Ray (Chelsea's beau), Craig Bockhorn as mailman Charlie Martion (he's re-creating his Broadway and Kennedy Center performances) and young actor Shadoe Brandt (A Christmas Carol in Manhattan, and tours of Dr. Doolittle, The King and I, Seussical) as Billy. Understudies include Edwin Owens, Brian Russell, Dylan Perlman.... | |
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| | | Theater League season | | Posted Saturday, July 08, 2006 1:01:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | But it happens in the 2006-07 Colonial Properties Trust Broadway Theater League season. Michael Learned, winner of four Emmys and best known for the role of Olivia Walton is the 1970s series "The Waltons," joins Tony winner Tom Bosley in "On Golden Pond." Bosley is remembered as Richie Cunningham's dad in the long-running sitcom "Happy Days." The stage version of "On Golden Pond," was a Tony nominee for best play revival in 2005. The film version, which starred Henry Fonda as the crusty Norman and Katharine Hepburn as his spirited wife, Ethel, won an Academy Award for best picture. The production explores the elderly couple's summer vacation at their lakeside cottage, which is interrupted by the arrival of their daughter and her fiance's son. "On Golden Pond," which runs March 2-4, is one of five shows included in BTL's season.... | |
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| | | MONDAY | | Posted Monday, July 03, 2006 7:07:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | 7-11 p.m. at Cathedral City Town Square, 68-700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero. Information: 770-0346 TUESDAY Hey, baby, it's the Fourth of July! Catch a fireworks show or other all-American celebration in Palm Springs, Desert Hot Springs, Indio, Palm Desert, Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms. For more details, see the Local section. WEDNESDAY The Summer Concert Series continues on the Lawn at Old Town La Quinta. Bring your lawn chairs and blankets. 7-9 p.m. Washington Street and Calle Tampico, La Quinta. Information: 771-2567, Ext. 4 THURSDAY Catch a free movie and get a little international enlightenment at the Global Film Series screening of "Fuse." The movie features a small Bosnian town that is turned upside down as it prepares for a visit from then-President Bill Clinton.... | |
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