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Dec.21.2012
A tribute to Marilyn Monroe is now on display at two New York City subway stations. Iconic photos of the actress taken on Lexington Avenue are being showcased at two locations; inside the 42nd Street-Bryant Park station, and outside the subway station at the corner of 42nd Street and...
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Dec.03.2012
"What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.” - Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Today is the 55th anniversary of the Broadway opening of "A StreetcarNamed Desire," which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize...
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Nov.09.2012
Once I decided to put out my work as e-books, I started going over my manuscripts very meticulously. It took me about a year to finally push the buttons and throw them into the world. The Conversation books (Capote, Michener, Brando) were easy as they were already done and had...
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Oct.29.2012
Hollywood and American history crossed paths as Hurricane Sandy pounded the Eastern Seaboard. One of the casualties of this weather condition was the HMS Bounty, a replica used in the filming of Mutiny of the Bounty in 1960. The ship was built for MGM, and it appeared in several...
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Jul.21.2012
The History Channel takes an in-depth look at the most iconic trilogy in cinema, this side of John Ford’s trio of Westerns in the late 1940′s. The Godfather Legacy is a new two-hour special premiering this Tuesday, July 24th at 9pm (EST). The documentary looks at how this groundbreaking...
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Mar.27.2012
On this day in 1973, actor Marlon Brando declines the Academy Award for Best Actor for his career-reviving performance in The Godfather.
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Jun.02.2011
All this talk of an Apocalypse last month was crazy.
If you hadn’t heard, this old coot named Harold Camping, a Christian evangelist, declared May 21, 2011, to be Judgment Day. Supposedly, thousands of people around the globe believed him. On that Saturday, Harold and his kooky cohorts were...
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Jun.21.2010
This past Saturday night Kathi and I went and saw Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) at the San Francisco Opera. Produced by Stephen Spielberg and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, the cast of this all-star production of the Wagnerian classic includes Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Johnny Depp...
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Nov.07.2009
The in-house techno-wizard, Adele, has solved my computer problems and I am now able to read others' blogs here, as well as post my own without going through the always-reliable Huntington Sharpe, allowing him to direct his talents and energies elsewhere. Anyway, here's the link to my latest...
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Sep.17.2008
I picked up the above title, a new play by Robert Smallwood, at the Monterey (California) Public Library, for several reasons.
First, Brando's always interesting, and so's Tennessee Williams, so a play about them and `Me' struck me as intriguing.
And, it's generally acknowledged that Williams...
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