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Soul: Keeping it 'Real' Among the new generation of soul singers, truly great voices are hard to find. But as the name of her show indicates -- "The Real Thing Tour" with Jill Scott -- there's nothing about her that isn't authentic.
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CASTINE - , 81, passed away peacefully Nov. 9, 2011, surrounded by loved ones in Blue Hill. She was born Feb. 18, 1930, in Philadelphia, the daughter of Charles and May Merkel Wall. She grew up in Drexel Hill, Pa., with her two older brothers, Charles and Robert; and lived near her childhood friend, Grace Kelly, with whom she often played. After her education at Oberlin College she married Samuel A. Stafford, and had four children between her years living in California and Bethesda, Md. While raising her children, Marjorie put her incredible talents to use working at various public relations positions from graphic artist to overseeing productions at Merriweather Post Pavilion booking numerous performances including The Who, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin and Marlene Dietrich...
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Hollywood's master director brings Indiana Jones back with his latest globe-trotting adventure. The year is 1957 and archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is living a quiet life as a teacher at Marshall College. There Indy encounters young renegade Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf), who needs Dr. Jones' help in finding the Crystal Skull of Akator. Legend says that the skull was stolen from a mysterious City of Gold guarded by the living dead in the Amazon. Whoever returns it to the city's temple will become master of the skull's powers. Together they travel to Peru where they find themselves battling the Soviets under nefarious Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett), who wants the power of the skull as an advantage in the Cold War. Co-starring Karen Alien, Ray Winstone, John Hurt and Jim Broadb...
... affair with stage icon Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich) has made him a suspect in the death of I...
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It's easy to think of goth music in terms of darkness -- that is, after all, the very definition of the genre. But the music of Peter Murphy, who is often called the godfather of goth music, is not all black and gloomy. Instead it can be as poetic as it is aggressive, as lovely as it is stark. And oh, that voice -- its deep timbre causes goose bumps, and cuts to your very soul. With his black hair, pale skin and lithe body, Murphy has entranced us in song and in concert since the early 1980s -- first, with the influential goth/glam rock act Bauhaus, later as a solo artist with hits like "All Night Long," "Indigo Eyes" and such gorgeously hypnotic work as "A Strange Kind of Love" and "Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem." In the 1990s, Murphy moved to Turkey, where the culture se...
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GRAN ACTRIZ SUECA. El 29 de agosto de 1982, fecha en que cumplía 67 años de edad, Ingrid Bergman, actriz nacida en Estocolmo en 1915, dijo adiós a este mundo, víctima del cáncer que la afectó durante los últimos siete años de su existencia. Su brillante carrera histriónica le permitió obtener tres premios Oscar y haber sido considerada como una dé las mejores actrices del séptimo arte, así como gran dama del cine mundial. A finales de los años 40 Bergman era la actriz europea más popular de Hollywood. Se comentó entonces que "quizá menos mítica que sus rivales más inmediatas, Greta Garbo y Marlene Dietrich", pero en tal caso tuvo ante ellas un sitio aparte, por su contacto continuo con el teatro, no solamente con el cine. Al saber de su muerte, ocurrida en Londres, varios destacado...
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My edition of Maria Riva's 800-page biography of her mother, Marlene Dietrich, published in 1993, lacks a table of contents or index, making it something of an inconvenience to locate specific movie titles. Patience is usually rewarded, however, since Miss Riva's memory and descriptive powers seem exceptionally vivid and evocative. She provides a phenomenal front-row seat, even as a girlish eyewitness, to numerous works in progress and legendary personalities. Beginning, of course, with the oversized maternal- stellar personality that dominated her youth and loomed large forever after, prompting the observation, "At age three, I knew quite definitely that I did not have a mother, I belonged to a queen. In 1933, when Miss Riva was 9, Marlene Dietrich was preoccupied with playing a notor...
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SPOILER ALERT: We really shouldn't be telling you this, but Agatha Christie's suspense thriller "Witness for the Prosecution" is a lot of fun. Especially because of its celebrated "trick ending," in which the killer turns out to be -- well, you'll just have to see for yourself, when the Theater League of Clifton stages it. TELL ME MORE: The twist in this tale, originally published in short story form in 1925 and later transposed to theater, film and TV, was the subject of one of the most carefully orchestrated disinformation campaigns in show-business history. "The management of this theatre suggests that for the greater entertainment of your friends who have not yet seen the picture, you will not divulge, to anyone, the secret of the ending of 'Witness for the Prosecution,' " boomed th...
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A high percentage of the songs, especially in the first act, are standards like "Carol of the Bells," "We Wish You A Merry Christmas," "Silver Bells" and even Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad." Along with these are unfamiliar numbers from fashionable contemporary composers, like Jason Robert Brown's "Sarabaya Santa" and Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's "All Those Christmas Clichés." Finally, with all the wholesomeness of Midnight Mass at the Cathedral, we hear some heartfelt religious works. As one of the best-connected directors and impresarios in town, [Dan Tursi] always knows where to look for talent. His first important choice was engaging Jeff Unaitis as music director to accompany the entire score. Unaitis is incomparable in negotiating the devilish shifts in tone, from raucous t...
... descending to a contralto for a faux Marlene Dietrich. Rarely Done's space at Jazz Central does...
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The heart of the show is, of course, the performances, and Company XIV, directed by the talented Austin McCormick, truly delivers. One of the great things about repertory companies is that the actors work together for a long time on several different pieces, creating a community that can't be replicated. So it is also in the dance world, and this closeness helps bring the story to life. Toby Burns serves both as our narrator and the hapless Paris, and he plays both roles with aplomb, darting back and forth with true ease. Our Aphrodite and resident troublemaker is the zaftig and talented Gioia Marchese, who, with an eastern European accent no less, plays matchmaker between Paris and [Helen]. Helen is played with a remarkable amount of depth by Samantha Ernst, who shows Helen to be a fra...
... with a wide array of music ranging from Marlene Dietrich to the can-can. The show is highly entert...
