By John Heilpern 5/02/05 12:00am

Great Backstage Gossip, But-A Craven Tynan? Never!

I’m glad I caught up with Austin Pendleton’s unusual backstage story, Orson’s Shadow, which has settled in for a long run, I hope, at the Barrow Street Theatre downtown. For one surprising thing, it’s a treat to see Laurence Olivier onstage again.

Olivier, greatest classical actor of the 20th century, is also to be seen Read More

By Rex Reed 5/17/99 12:00am

Cher, Judi, Lily Face Il Duce … Bring Back Boris Karloff

Cher, Judi, Lily Face Il Duce

A quintet of wonderful actresses, a richly evocative story set among the frescoes and Renaissance sculptures of Florence on the brink of World War II, and a chapter from the autobiographical memoirs of distinguished filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli, add up to an uncommonly rapturous cinematic experience in Tea With Mussolini Read More