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The 1960s must have been exciting. The blooming flowers, the decadent love, the revolutionary energy; it all looks like so much fun, especially through the eyes of Neil Simon. His 1963 comedy, "Barefoot in the Park," an ode to newlywed life, is buoyant with puppy love and new furniture. Life is grand on this fifth-floor walk-up.
But in an updated and outdated production from Kaleidoscope Theatre, we don't have that much fun. Director Don Gervasi, a comedic and improvisational actor who is usually quick in his wits, has stretched this cute story into a laborious eavesdrop. He moves the action from 1963 to 1981, which brands a categorically different mark on the events in this New York City. John Lennon has been dead a year, decadence is about to hit the fan, and greed eradica...
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NO JOURNEY REUNION Steve Perry, the 62-year-old former frontman for rockers Journey, who co-wrote and sang lead on the band's 1981 smash, "Don't Stop Believin'," a song that has seen an incredible resurgence in popularity the past couple years, tells fans to stop believin' that he'll reunite with the band.
Perry, who joined the group in 1977, four years after they were formed in San Francisco by members of Santana, quit the band in 1998.
... former Who) drummer Kenny Jones, Julian Lennon, Chris de Burgh, former Ultravox leader Midge Ure,...While delivering the inaugural John Peel lecture at Salford, England, Townshend referr...
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: The celebrity-panel game show "I've Got A Secret" made its debut on CBS.
: Johnny Cash released his first single, "Hey, Porter.
...1 hit. 1981: Mark David Chapman pleaded guilty to killing Johnn Lennon outside Lennon's New York apartment building. 1996...
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KEITH RICHARDS PLAYS FIRST MAJOR SHOW IN FIVE YEARS Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards played what's been termed his first major concert in five years when he joined Eric Clapton at the Apollo Theatre in New York City for Clapton's star-packed "Howlin' for Hubert" tribute benefit for the Jazz Foundation honoring Howlin' Wolf's hugely influential great blues guitarist, Hubert Sumlin, who died in December at 80, reports CBS News. The foundation has supported hundreds of musicians who fell on hard times.
Richards, who has performed on rare occasions since the end of The Stones' "Bigger Bang" tour in 2007, , such as in 2008 when he joined The Crickets for a few Buddy Holly songs at that band's induction into the Musician's Hall of Fame in Nashville, joined Clapton on "Goin' Down Slow,"...
... Obama's impromptu lead vocals on Robert Johnson's immortal 1937 blues classic, "Sweet Home Chicago... in the last musical session between John Lennon and Paul McCartney one dayin Santa Monica in the s... a Little Bit" and "The Logical Song." In 1981, a rift developed between the two and Hodgson move...
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RANTHAMBHORE NATIONAL PARK, India -- Comedian Russell Brand and pop star Katy Perry were married Saturday in northwestern India, the couple confirmed in a statement. A Christian minister and longtime friend of Perry's family performed a "private and spiritual ceremony," which was attended by family members and close friends, said the statement released by the couple's representatives.
The backdrop was the inspirational and majestic countryside of Northern India," said the statement, which did not provide any further details on the ceremony.
... as the title character in a remake of the 1981 Dudley Moore-Liza Minnelli film "Arthur.". John Le... on the London home she shared with John Lennon. The blue English Heritage plaque adorns a Georgia...
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Sean Lennon likes instruction manuals. He didn't always; it wa... to Time Bandits, Terry Cilliam's trippy 1981 flick, and calls it "an homage to the past." Each ...(This is another place where it helps to be John Lennon's son, since in Friendly Fire those women a...
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BEACH BOYS TO RECORD NEW ALBUM This year marks the 50 th anniversary of The Beach Boys. The group that grew up in Hawthorne, CA, will celebrate that golden anniversary by reuniting to record a new album, announced singer Mike Love, reports Billboard. He said that he and his cousin, Brian Wilson, have each written new songs and that both are taking this project, "very seriously." He said that it appears that the album will be recorded this fall with a release date in early 2012. The goal-oriented Love added that the group is already in the Guinness Book for World Records for the longest stretch between #1 songs, saying, "Between 'Good Vibrations' and 'Kokomo' it was 22 years between #1 records. Can you imagine if we got a #1 record in 2012? Oh, that would be something.
THE WHO WILL RETU...
...The statue depicts the composer of "Johnny B. Goode," "Maybelline," "Roll Over Beethoven," "R... British metal band Iron Maiden since 1981, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music Degree...LAST LENNON AUTOGRAPH SOLD A John Lennon autograph signed on t...
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ANSWERS TO QUIZ:
c. Bridges
...Led Zeppelin; D. Sly & the Family Stone; E. John Denver. 8. c. "Alice's Restaurant". 9. b. "Last Daance". 10. c. John Candy. 11. D. John Lennon. 12. b. Norman Lear. 13. a. "Kid Galahad". 14. B. ...Baldwin. 2. "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981), starring Robert Duvall and Treat Williams, was b...
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ROBIN GIBB BATTLES LIVER CANCER Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, 61, was diagnosed with liver cancer earlier this year and has been undergoing treatment for several months, it has been revealed. His 91-year-old mother, Barbara, and 65-year-old brother, Barry, both flew to England from their homes in the United States to be by his side, reports Britain's Daily Mail.
Gibb has been rushed to the hospital more than once over the past year for intestinal problems, and in fact, he had intestinal surgery last October.
... Mode are reuniting for the first time since 1981 to release a series of EPs and a new album, accord..."Find a Little Faith" duet with Olivia Newton-John, "isn't cool enough" to have his songs played. Thi... was signed by George Harrison and John Lennon, while the flip side had autographs from Paul McCa...
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...In 1981, Ono dedicated the Strawberry Fields Peace Park in...