Earlier this year, NBC pulled out all the stops for it special “Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love.” And on Dec. 21, CBS is throwing a birthday party for one of its biggest stars, Dick Van Dyke, who headlined the landmark 1961-66 sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show” as well as the lighthearted detective series “Diagnosis, Murder,” which ran from 1993-2000.
“Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic” is a two-hour valentine to the actor, who celebrated his birthday on Dec. 13, featuring special guests such as Jane Seymour, Rob Reiner, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen and testimonials from Carol Burnett, Mark Hamill and “Mary Poppins” herself, Julie Andrews. Song-and-dance also play an important part of the special. Van Dyke earned a Tony in 1961 for “Bye Bye Birdie” and reprised his role in the 1963 musical. He introduced the Oscar-winning tune “Chim Chim Cher-ee” from 1964’s “Mary Poppins” as well as the...
“Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic” is a two-hour valentine to the actor, who celebrated his birthday on Dec. 13, featuring special guests such as Jane Seymour, Rob Reiner, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen and testimonials from Carol Burnett, Mark Hamill and “Mary Poppins” herself, Julie Andrews. Song-and-dance also play an important part of the special. Van Dyke earned a Tony in 1961 for “Bye Bye Birdie” and reprised his role in the 1963 musical. He introduced the Oscar-winning tune “Chim Chim Cher-ee” from 1964’s “Mary Poppins” as well as the...
- 12/19/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Carol Locatell, who had a memorable turn as the foulmouthed mother Ethel Hubbard in Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning and worked alongside Burt Reynolds in three films, has died. She was 82.
Locatell died April 11 at her home in Sherman Oaks after a long battle with cancer, her husband, songwriter and record producer Gregory Prestopino, told The Hollywood Reporter. They were together for 50 years.
Locatell moved from Los Angeles to New York in the mid-1980s to shake up her career, and from her first audition there she landed a part on Broadway in Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound, which premiered in 1986. She then appeared in The Shadow Box in 1994 and in The Rose Tattoo a year later.
She first met Reynolds when she auditioned for him for a role in Simon’s Chapter Two at his dinner theater in Jupiter, Florida. She worked with him in Paternity...
Locatell died April 11 at her home in Sherman Oaks after a long battle with cancer, her husband, songwriter and record producer Gregory Prestopino, told The Hollywood Reporter. They were together for 50 years.
Locatell moved from Los Angeles to New York in the mid-1980s to shake up her career, and from her first audition there she landed a part on Broadway in Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound, which premiered in 1986. She then appeared in The Shadow Box in 1994 and in The Rose Tattoo a year later.
She first met Reynolds when she auditioned for him for a role in Simon’s Chapter Two at his dinner theater in Jupiter, Florida. She worked with him in Paternity...
- 4/18/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Broadway’s Cort Theatre will officially become the James Earl Jones Theatre in an official renaming and dedication ceremony on Monday, Sept. 12, the Shubert Organization announced today.
The ceremony follows a 47 million restoration and expansion of the 110-year-old building on West 48th Street in Manhattan’s Theater District. The dedication ceremony will be open to invited guests and members of the press, and will include special performances, tours of the venue and the unveiling of a new marquee.
Shubert, which owns the theater, commissioned extensive renovations and construction work on the venue over the course of the Covid pandemic years and under the guidance of Francesca Russo Architect. A new contemporary annex, designed by Kostow Greenwood Architects, expands accessibility, increases public space, adds dressing rooms and rehearsal space.
The venue’s name change to honor the venerable actor was previously announced, and followed a pledge by Shubert and other Broadway...
The ceremony follows a 47 million restoration and expansion of the 110-year-old building on West 48th Street in Manhattan’s Theater District. The dedication ceremony will be open to invited guests and members of the press, and will include special performances, tours of the venue and the unveiling of a new marquee.
Shubert, which owns the theater, commissioned extensive renovations and construction work on the venue over the course of the Covid pandemic years and under the guidance of Francesca Russo Architect. A new contemporary annex, designed by Kostow Greenwood Architects, expands accessibility, increases public space, adds dressing rooms and rehearsal space.
The venue’s name change to honor the venerable actor was previously announced, and followed a pledge by Shubert and other Broadway...
- 9/1/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
James Earl Jones will receive a special Tony Award in June for lifetime achievement in theater, the awards’ administration committee announced Thursday. The 86-year-old actor made his Broadway debut in 1957 and went on to win Tony Awards for “The Great White Hope” in 1969 and August Wilson’s “Fences” in 1987. He most recently appeared on Broadway opposite Cicely Tyson in the 2015 revival of “The Gin Game.” He also earned a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for the big-screen adaptation of “The Great White Hope,” and an honorary Oscar in 2012. In 1991, he picked up dual Emmy Awards for...
- 4/27/2017
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Mary Tyler Moore, star of The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died on Wednesday. She was 80.The beloved icon passed away “in the company of friends and her loving husband of over 33 years, Dr. S. Robert Levine,” Moore’s longtime rep, Mara Buxbaum, said in a statement. “A groundbreaking actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile.”
It had been reported early Wednesday that the TV icon was in a Connecticut hospital in critical condition. TMZ noted that,...
It had been reported early Wednesday that the TV icon was in a Connecticut hospital in critical condition. TMZ noted that,...
- 1/25/2017
- TVLine.com
To glimpse the future of our nation’s theater, look no further than the Humana Festival of New American Plays. In its first-ever iteration in 1977, after all, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky, produced “The Gin Game” by D.L. Coburn, a play that would go on to a successful Broadway run and win a Pulitzer Prize. The 40 years since have seen this new plays festival launch nearly 400 playwrights from relative unknowns to trailblazing visionaries. “It’s recognized locally, nationally, and internationally,” Actors Theatre artistic director Les Waters told Backstage. “It’s one of the places people look at for who’s writing the great plays in the country at the moment.” Waters, a prolific director in his native England as well as at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, has championed rising playwrights from Caryl Churchill and Charles Mee to Anne Washburn, Lucas Hnath, and Sarah Ruhl. He’s in the business of...
- 4/13/2016
- backstage.com
It's a Star Wars miracle! Maz Kanata and Darth Vader might not be on the same side of an interplanetary battle, but Star Wars actors James Earl Jones and Lupita Nyong'o demonstrated that the duo have plenty of common ground. Nyong'o, 32, posted a heartfelt selfie with the veteran actor, 84, who famously voiced the lord of the Dark Side in the original Star Wars films. The Oscar winner praised the "trailblazer" after watching him perform in The Gin Game on Broadway - just prior to her Broadway debut in Eclipsed next month. "When paths cross. #GinGame meets #Eclipsed, #DarthVader meets #MazKanata,...
- 1/13/2016
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd, @kathyehrichdowd
- PEOPLE.com
It's a Star Wars miracle! Maz Kanata and Darth Vader might not be on the same side of an interplanetary battle, but Star Wars actors James Earl Jones and Lupita Nyong'o demonstrated that the duo have plenty of common ground. Nyong'o, 32, posted a heartfelt selfie with the veteran actor, 84, who famously voiced the lord of the Dark Side in the original Star Wars films. The Oscar winner praised the "trailblazer" after watching him perform in The Gin Game on Broadway - just prior to her Broadway debut in Eclipsed next month. "When paths cross. #GinGame meets #Eclipsed, #DarthVader meets #MazKanata,...
- 1/13/2016
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd, @kathyehrichdowd
- PEOPLE.com
The new Broadway production of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Gin Game, starring Tony Award winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, ends its limited run today, January 10, 2016. The Gin Game opened on October 14 at the Golden Theatre. In honor of the show's final curtain, BroadwayWorld brings you a look back at its run on the Great White Way...
- 1/10/2016
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
Earlier this month, in a star-studded celebration on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage, Seiji Ozawa, Tony Award winner Rita Moreno West Side Story,Carole King, George Lucas, and Tony Award winner Cicely Tyson The Gin Game, The Trip To Bountiful were saluted by great performers from Hollywood and the arts capitals of the world on The 38Th Annual Kennedy Center Honors. Jane The Virgin's Gina Rodriguez launched the event which aired tonight with a tribute to Rita Moreno. Watch her emotional speech below...
- 12/30/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Yesterday, in a star-studded celebration on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage, Seiji Ozawa, Tony Award winner Rita Moreno West Side Story ,Carole King, George Lucas and Tony Award winner Cicely Tyson The Gin Game, The Trip To Bountiful were saluted by great performers from Hollywood and the arts capitals of the world on The 38Th Annual Kennedy Center Honors.
- 12/7/2015
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
BroadwayWorld recently announced a new partnership with renowned caricature artist Ken Fallin, a life-long theater enthusiast, who has drawn many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Fallin previously drew for BroadwayWorld and our readers have long wanted his return, so it is with great pleasure that we welcome him back Be sure to check back for more of Ken's exclusive art.Below, check out his illustration of James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson in The Gin Game.
- 10/23/2015
- by Ken Fallin
- BroadwayWorld.com
It has not been a good fall for elders onstage. A few weeks ago, the meddlesome 70ish character played by Marlo Thomas in Clever Little Lies nearly torpedoed her marriage while trying to save her son’s. Then came the 80-somethings James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson as residents of a home for the aged, savaging one another in a blobby revival of The Gin Game. Both plays portray the Golden Years as a time when the forgotten or rationalized sins of earlier life — unfaithful spousing, neglectful parenting — return with a vengeance, making everyone behave badly if cutely. Though Ripcord, now at the Manhattan Theatre Club, treads similar terrain, you expect more from the playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, and you get it. The author of comedy-dramas (like Fuddy Meers and Good People) that toy with sitcom expectations but then veer elsewhere, he is obviously riffing, in Ripcord, on television templates...
- 10/21/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
The new Broadway production of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Gin Game, starring Tony Award winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, opened last night, October 14 at the Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. The production will play a limited engagement through Sunday, January 10, 2016.BroadwayWorld takes you inside the opening night party with Jones and Tyson below...
- 10/15/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
The new Broadway production of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Gin Game, starring Tony Award winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, opened last night, October 14 at the Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. The production will play a limited engagement through Sunday, January 10, 2016. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the opening night after party...
- 10/15/2015
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
The new Broadway production of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Gin Game, starring Tony Award winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, opened last night, October 14 at the Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. The production will play a limited engagement through Sunday, January 10, 2016. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the red carpet arrivals...
- 10/15/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Cicely Tyson doesn’t let her approaching 91st birthday get in the way of being downright girlish on stage. She achieves this marvel twice in the new Broadway revival of “The Gin Game,” which opened Wednesday at the Golden Theatre. She evokes youthful giddiness at beating the pants of James Earl Jones‘s card-playing veteran in the first act. Later, when she may be falling in love with him, their hands accidentally touch and then they dance. Tyson suddenly has the glow and all of the stability of an adolescent. Jones is one of the busiest octogenarian actors in Broadway history,...
- 10/15/2015
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
The new Broadway production of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Gin Game, starring Tony Award winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, opens tomorrow, October 14 at the Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. The production will play a limited engagement through Sunday, January 10, 2016. Below, check out a first look at the cast in action...
- 10/13/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
“We’re the only ones who come out here on visitors’ day,” says James Earl Jones in a farm-bred accent several notches folksier than the voices of CNN, Mufasa, and Darth Vader. He and Cicely Tyson are seated across a card table and surrounded by the accoutrements of old age — crutches, wheelchairs, and other flotsam. None of it belongs to Jones, who is 84, or Tyson, who doesn’t give her age but is reportedly 90. These are only props, strewn across the back half of a large rehearsal room on 42nd Street. Flynn Earl Jones, James’s son and assistant, is sitting in a far corner of the room, looking over notes.Behind the actors, a large piece of drywall stands in for the ramshackle nursing home whose front porch they’ll occupy when the Broadway revival of The Gin Game opens on October 14. Though their offstage appearances tend to be...
- 10/8/2015
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
The fall Broadway season unofficially begins tonight with the opening of Spring Awakening, the first of six revivals in a row. It’s not surprising that with so many déjà vus, and more to come, people are asking whether we really need to have Fiddler on the Roof for the sixth time, or The Gin Game ever again. Didn’t The Color Purple just close? And it’s true that, too often, old shows are remounted merely because some stars are available to squeeze the last juice out of them. But other times the motives are purer, if never pure: We get revivals not because we “need” them but because artists do, or because a perfect alignment of interests provides a unique opportunity. Occasionally — and Deaf West Theatre’s production of Spring Awakening is a superb example — something latent in the material meets the mood of the time to make...
- 9/28/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
Below, check out Fallin's preview illustration for the fall 2015 Broadway season, featuring Danny Burstein in Fiddler On The Roof bottom left, Al Pacino in China Doll, Bruce Willis in Misery, Cicely Tyson amp James Earl Jones in The Gin Game,Annaleigh Ashford amp Matthew Broderick in Sylvia, Clive Owen in Old Times, andKeira Knightley amp Judith Light in Therese RAQUINBelow, check out his illustration of composer Leonard Bernstein, who would have turned 97 years old today, August 25.
- 9/11/2015
- by Ken Fallin
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tickets are now on sale atTelecharge.comfor the new Broadway production ofD.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic,The Gin Game, starring Tony Award-winnersJames Earl JonesandCicely Tyson. The Gin Game, directed byLeonard FogliaMaster Class, Thurgood opensTuesday, October 13at the Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. Previews begin Friday, September 18. The production will play a limited engagement throughSunday, January 10, 2016.
- 7/13/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The new Broadway production of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Gin Game, starring Tony Award-winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, will begin previews on Friday, September 18. The Gin Game, directed by Leonard Foglia Master Class, Thurgood opens Tuesday, October 13 at the Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. The production will play a limited engagement through Sunday, January 10, 2016. Check out photos of the marquee below...
- 7/8/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Pre-sale for Citi cardmembers and Audience Rewards members has been announced for the new Broadway production of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Gin Game, starring Tony Award-winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson. The Gin Game, directed by Leonard Foglia Master Class, Thurgood opens Tuesday, October 13 at the Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. Previews begin Friday, September 18. The production will play a limited engagement through Sunday, January 10, 2016.
- 6/23/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson will be getting back together on Broadway this fall. The two Tony winners will share a Broadway stage for the first time in nearly fifty years in a new staging of D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Gin Game, directed by Leonard Foglia. The production is set to begin previews Sept. 21 before its Oct. 13 opening at the John Golden Theatre, the same venue where the play originally opened in 1977. Directed by Mike Nichols and starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, that production ran for more than a year, winning Tandy her
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- 4/24/2015
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I haven't been to a Broadway show in a few years, but this is one that I'd definitely pay the high ticket fee to see. Via a tweet from New York theater journalist/critic Jonathan Mandell, James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson will be sharing the same Broadway stage, starring in a revival of D.L. Coburn's "The Gin Game," at the Golden Theatre, with previews set to begin on September 21. Directed by Leonard Foglia, the production will officially open October 13. In the play, an elderly man and woman play repeated games of gin in their retirement home, as they slowly come to grips with what is left of their lives, in their old age, Jones and Tyson last shared a...
- 4/22/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
We can pretend there are holiday movies that compare to the classic 1965 holiday special A Charlie Brown Christmas, but that’d be dumb. All those other movies are grating kite-eating trees compared to the smooth, calming vibe of A Charlie Brown Christmas, which manages to pack a lot of personality, humor, and conscience — not to mention Charlie Brown’s legendary insufferableness — into a very short time.
Here’s why it may be the best holiday film ever – even though it predates the existence of my main girls Peppermint Patty and Marcie, my rough-and-tumble Birkenstock dames who only came along in 1966 and 1971, respectively.
1. Charlie Brown is miserable from beginning to end.
While Charlie Brown is the protagonist of this moody yuletide, it’s not like we’re rooting for his spiritual renaissance. In fact, he’s such a dick that it’s impossible to sympathize with him. The zigzag-shirted legend starts...
Here’s why it may be the best holiday film ever – even though it predates the existence of my main girls Peppermint Patty and Marcie, my rough-and-tumble Birkenstock dames who only came along in 1966 and 1971, respectively.
1. Charlie Brown is miserable from beginning to end.
While Charlie Brown is the protagonist of this moody yuletide, it’s not like we’re rooting for his spiritual renaissance. In fact, he’s such a dick that it’s impossible to sympathize with him. The zigzag-shirted legend starts...
- 12/2/2013
- by Louis Virtel
- The Backlot
New York (Associated Press) — Julie Harris, one of Broadway's most honored performers, whose roles ranged from the flamboyant Sally Bowles in "I Am a Camera" to the reclusive Emily Dickinson in "The Belle of Amherst," died Saturday. She was 87.
Harris died at her West Chatham, Mass., home of congestive heart failure, actress and family friend Francesca James said.
Harris won five Tony Awards for best actress in a play, displaying a virtuosity that enabled her to portray an astonishing gallery of women during a theater career that spanned almost 60 years and included such plays as "The Member of the Wedding" (1950), "The Lark" (1955), "Forty Carats" (1968) and "The Last of Mrs. Lincoln" (1972).
She was honored again with a sixth Tony, a special lifetime achievement award in 2002. Her record is up against Audra McDonald, with five competitive Tonys, and Angela Lansbury with four Tonys in the best actress-musical category and one for best supporting actress in a play.
Harris died at her West Chatham, Mass., home of congestive heart failure, actress and family friend Francesca James said.
Harris won five Tony Awards for best actress in a play, displaying a virtuosity that enabled her to portray an astonishing gallery of women during a theater career that spanned almost 60 years and included such plays as "The Member of the Wedding" (1950), "The Lark" (1955), "Forty Carats" (1968) and "The Last of Mrs. Lincoln" (1972).
She was honored again with a sixth Tony, a special lifetime achievement award in 2002. Her record is up against Audra McDonald, with five competitive Tonys, and Angela Lansbury with four Tonys in the best actress-musical category and one for best supporting actress in a play.
- 8/25/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Julie Harris: Best Actress Oscar nominee, multiple Tony winner dead at 87 (photo: James Dean and Julie Harris in ‘East of Eden’) Film, stage, and television actress Julie Harris, a Best Actress Academy Award nominee for the psychological drama The Member of the Wedding and James Dean’s leading lady in East of Eden, died of congestive heart failure at her home in West Chatham, Massachusetts, on August 24, 2013. Harris, born in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, on December 2, 1925, was 87. Throughout her career, Julie Harris collected ten Tony Award nominations, more than any other performer. She won five times — a record matched only by that of Angela Lansbury. Harris’ Tony Award wins were for I Am a Camera (1952), The Lark (1956), Forty Carats (1969), The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1973), and The Belle of Amherst (1977). Harris’ tenth and final Tony nomination was for The Gin Game (1997). In 2002, she was honored with a Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award.
- 8/25/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
At exactly 8 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, Dec. 27, Broadway will dim its lights to honor Charles Durning, who died Monday at 89.
Though well known for TV's "Rescue Me" where he played Michael, Tommy's dad for seven years, and as the voice of Francis Griffin on "Family Guy" for a decade, Durning was a steady presence on Broadway since 1964 when he began as an understudy.
By 1972, however, he had a breakout role in "That Championship Season" as the self-promoting mayor.
Durning won a Tony Award in 1990 for his portrayal of Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
The varied roles continued. And in 1996, Durning had a courtroom duel with George C. Scott -- consider the show of machismo on that stage -- in "Inherit the Wind." The next year he starred with Julie Harris in a Broadway revival of "The Gin Game."
His final Broadway appearance was at the kingmaker,...
Though well known for TV's "Rescue Me" where he played Michael, Tommy's dad for seven years, and as the voice of Francis Griffin on "Family Guy" for a decade, Durning was a steady presence on Broadway since 1964 when he began as an understudy.
By 1972, however, he had a breakout role in "That Championship Season" as the self-promoting mayor.
Durning won a Tony Award in 1990 for his portrayal of Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
The varied roles continued. And in 1996, Durning had a courtroom duel with George C. Scott -- consider the show of machismo on that stage -- in "Inherit the Wind." The next year he starred with Julie Harris in a Broadway revival of "The Gin Game."
His final Broadway appearance was at the kingmaker,...
- 12/27/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Not even a tornado warning can stop the 36th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, which runs through April 1. Violent rain storms hit the area on Friday, the first day of the industry weekend of this celebration of new works from seasoned and freshmen dramatists. Many of the most critically acclaimed plays of the past three decades have originated here. From last season, Jordan Harrison’s “Maple and Vine” was produced at Playwrights Horizons, Molly Smith Metzler’s “Elemeno Pea” was seen at South Coast Repertory, and A. Rey Pamatmat’s “Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them” has had numerous regional productions and is a finalist for the Steinberg New American Play Award from the American Theatre Critics Association. Previous Humana pieces, which have gone on to long lives on national stages and to win top awards, include “The Gin Game,” “Agnes of God,...
- 3/24/2012
- by help@backstage.com (David Sheward)
- backstage.com
Photo Credit: Kevin Mazur
Dick Van Dyke will present Screen Actors Guild.s 48th Life Achievement Award to Mary Tyler Moore at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, executive producer and director Jeff Margolis announced today.
Screen Actors Guild is honoring Mary Tyler Moore for her career achievement and humanitarian accomplishments. Past recipients of SAG.s Life Achievement Award include Ernest Borgnine, Betty White, James Earl Jones, Charles Durning, Julie Andrews, Shirley Temple Black, James Garner, Karl Malden, Clint Eastwood, Edward Asner, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, Robert Redford and George Burns.
The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, one of the awards season.s premier events, will be simulcast live coast-to-coast on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at 8 p.m. (Et) / 5 p.m. (Pt) from the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles. An encore primetime telecast will begin immediately following on TNT at 10 p.
Dick Van Dyke will present Screen Actors Guild.s 48th Life Achievement Award to Mary Tyler Moore at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, executive producer and director Jeff Margolis announced today.
Screen Actors Guild is honoring Mary Tyler Moore for her career achievement and humanitarian accomplishments. Past recipients of SAG.s Life Achievement Award include Ernest Borgnine, Betty White, James Earl Jones, Charles Durning, Julie Andrews, Shirley Temple Black, James Garner, Karl Malden, Clint Eastwood, Edward Asner, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, Robert Redford and George Burns.
The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, one of the awards season.s premier events, will be simulcast live coast-to-coast on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at 8 p.m. (Et) / 5 p.m. (Pt) from the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles. An encore primetime telecast will begin immediately following on TNT at 10 p.
- 12/14/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Mary Tyler Moore Biography Pt.2: First You Cry, Ordinary People, The Gin Game Moore’s first autobiography, After All, published in 1995, was a frank exploration of her childhood, personal challenges and career. Her second book, Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes is a candid, humorous and illuminating detailing of her battles with the disease since she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (then called "juvenile diabetes" for its prevalence among children) in 1970 at age 33. The book includes conversations with remarkable people who live with the disease and those who work on the frontiers of medical research. Moore donated all her profits from Growing Up Again to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (Jdrf), the world’s leading funder and advocate for Type 1 diabetes science. Moore has been Jdrf’s International Chairman since 1984. She has also chaired Jdrf’s biennial Children’s Congress since its inception in 1999, leading up...
- 9/8/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Mary Tyler Moore: 2012 SAG Award Life Achievement Award Moore showcased her dramatic talent in her Emmy-nominated depiction of TV correspondent Betty Rollins' battle with breast cancer in the 1978 CBS telefilm First You Cry. [Photo: Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke in the television movie The Gin Game.] In 1980 Moore was nominated for an Oscar® for her riveting portrayal of Beth Jarrett, a bitter mother coping with the death of one son and the attempted suicide of another in the Robert Redford-directed drama Ordinary People. The same year she continued to explore painful subject matter onstage in the hit Broadway play Whose Life Is It, Anyway? which earned her a Tony for playing a quadriplegic sculptor fighting to determine her own destiny, a role originated by Tom Conti and rewritten for its female star in her Broadway debut. Other feature films include: Six Weeks, opposite Dudley Moore; David O. Russell’s Flirting with Disaster; and Peter Calahan's dark comedy Against the Current, opposite Joseph Fiennes and Justin Kirk,...
- 9/8/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Art Photo Credit: Kevin Mazur
48th Annual Accolade to be Presented
During the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®
Simulcast Live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 29, 2012
Los Angeles (September 8, 2011) – Renowned actress, producer and humanitarian Mary Tyler Moore will receive Screen Actors Guild (SAG)’s most prestigious accolade - the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Moore created a new paradigm for female leads in television, won top honors for her courageous performances in film, television and on stage, produced some of the most lauded television programs of all time, and for thirty years, has served as a tireless advocate giving hope to all those afflicted with Type 1 diabetes.
Moore will be presented the Award, given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession,” at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, which premieres live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at 8 p.
48th Annual Accolade to be Presented
During the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®
Simulcast Live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 29, 2012
Los Angeles (September 8, 2011) – Renowned actress, producer and humanitarian Mary Tyler Moore will receive Screen Actors Guild (SAG)’s most prestigious accolade - the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Moore created a new paradigm for female leads in television, won top honors for her courageous performances in film, television and on stage, produced some of the most lauded television programs of all time, and for thirty years, has served as a tireless advocate giving hope to all those afflicted with Type 1 diabetes.
Moore will be presented the Award, given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession,” at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, which premieres live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at 8 p.
- 9/8/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein will be lecturing about Athol Fugard, described by the New York Times as "the greatest playwright writing in English since Shakespeare," Sunday, November 15 from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library, 146 Thimble Island Road, Stony Creek.
Edelstein is directing the world premiere of Fugard's Have You Seen Us?, running from Nov. 24 through Dec. 20 at Long Wharf Theatre, the site of many of Fugard's world premieres in the 1970s.
Fugard, born in 1932 in Middelburg, in the Karoo desert region of South Africa, battled to bring the stories of all South Africans to the world, even under the darkest years of apartheid, that abusive system that had one set of laws for whites, and another for people of color. For his service, he was awarded South Africa's highest award, the Ikhamanga Medal in 2005. His best-known plays include Bloodknot (1961); Boesman and Lena (1969); Sizwe Bansi...
Edelstein is directing the world premiere of Fugard's Have You Seen Us?, running from Nov. 24 through Dec. 20 at Long Wharf Theatre, the site of many of Fugard's world premieres in the 1970s.
Fugard, born in 1932 in Middelburg, in the Karoo desert region of South Africa, battled to bring the stories of all South Africans to the world, even under the darkest years of apartheid, that abusive system that had one set of laws for whites, and another for people of color. For his service, he was awarded South Africa's highest award, the Ikhamanga Medal in 2005. His best-known plays include Bloodknot (1961); Boesman and Lena (1969); Sizwe Bansi...
- 11/3/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Warm up your holiday season with Long Wharf Theatre. Experience the essence of the holidays with a healthy dose of humor - find yourself and your family in our stories My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm Home for the Holidays, the all new play by Steve Solomon, and the hit Sister's Christmas Catechism, by Maripat Donovan.
In Sister's Christmas Catechism, written by the author of Late Nite Catechism, Sister takes on the mystery that has intrigued historians throughout the ages - whatever happened to the Magi's gold? Employing her own scientific tools and assisted by local choirs as well as a gaggle of audience members, Sister creates a living nativity unlike any ever seen. With gifts galore and bundles of laughs, Sister's Christmas Catechism is sure to become a new holiday tradition. The show runs from Dec. 1-20. Tickets are $28.
Travel back home for the holidays with Steve Solomon...
In Sister's Christmas Catechism, written by the author of Late Nite Catechism, Sister takes on the mystery that has intrigued historians throughout the ages - whatever happened to the Magi's gold? Employing her own scientific tools and assisted by local choirs as well as a gaggle of audience members, Sister creates a living nativity unlike any ever seen. With gifts galore and bundles of laughs, Sister's Christmas Catechism is sure to become a new holiday tradition. The show runs from Dec. 1-20. Tickets are $28.
Travel back home for the holidays with Steve Solomon...
- 11/3/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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