Love is not only, as the song goes, for the very young. Sometimes it aims an unexpected arrow at an older mark, after the dewlaps sag and the apple won’t bite. You wouldn’t know this from the movies, where producers are scarcely out of diapers and anyone over 50 is considered the box office equivalent Read More
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Running time 102 minutes
Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Jodie Markell
Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Mamie Gummer, Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margaret
Unearthed from a dusty file long forgotten, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond is an unpublished, unproduced Tennessee Williams screenplay that has been Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The day before Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States, the lunch seating at Café Milano, the Italian restaurant in Georgetown, was booked solid.
Milano is the Michael’s of D.C. But it’s still in D.C. The air buzzed with the chatter of heavily hair-sprayed women wearing pink blouses, dangly Read More
Oscar-winning dame Ellen Burstyn will star in The Little Flower of East Orange, the new Off Broadway play by Stephen Adly Guirgis to be directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. According to Variety, the play is a ghost story set in an upper Manhattan charity hospital and is set to begin previews March 18. Burstyn Read More
Ellen Burstyn, the co-president of The Actors Studio and the first woman president of Actors’ Equity, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 Theatre Museum Awards tonight at the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park. New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley will receive the Theatre History Preservation Award. Jim Dale, who narrates Read More
Call me George, but with a cherry tree lying at my feet, I cannot tell a lie: Liza’s Back! That’s the name of her comeback show at the Beacon, a reconverted old movie house on the Upper West Side, and that’s the talisman she lives by in her reconverted life. Onstage and off, she is Read More
The Toronto International Film Festival reminds me of what Red Skelton said at Harry Cohn’s overcrowded funeral: “Give the people what they want, and they’ll come.” With film festivals, there’s one small difference. They come, in thundering droves, and decide if it’s what they wanted later.
The 25th anniversary of the world’s most popular and Read More
