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2 min read 2022-06-02 02:39:27

So good! Classic cartoons on Hollywood Legion Theater big screen

WE’RE ON OUR WAY TO RIO (1945, J. Tyler/I. Sparber)Popeye and Bluto, on shore leave, visit Rio and fall in love with a bewitching Samba dancer, in

2 min read 2022-06-02 01:22:26

It is problematic calling yourself “the Mozart of …” well, anything. It just is. And yet that how the choreographer Mark Morris, in his press

2 min read 2022-05-26 03:49:24

Rita Finds Drama One Big Stairway Charles Vidor, who directed “Gilda,” has a penchant for stairways. He has them in all his pictures, because he

1 min read 2022-05-26 01:50:30

matthew mcconaughey “The true call to action now is for every American to take a longer and deeper look in the mirror, and ask ourselves: ‘What

1 min read 2022-05-21 03:47:00

As you see from the above “information sheet” for “Theatre World” magazine, Steve Reeves, the astonishingly buff muscle guy who was big on

5 min read 2022-05-13 01:15:00

Photo credit: Stephanie Berger When Odissi dancer Bijayini Satpathy was selected as the MetLiveArts Artist in Residence for 2021-22, she

2 min read 2022-05-10 06:51:16

Daisies (1971), Leonid Steele ed. note: We are pleased to share images of the work of Leonid Steele shared by his son Alexey Steele, who himself is a

2 min read 2022-05-10 03:51:59

The bad and sad news was he was deeply closeted as a gay man. The good news is that he was an MGM movie star’s best friend. He was MGM’s chief

3 min read 2022-05-06 03:23:15

It was a special occasion, April 23, 2022, and an honor, to be among the writers, all drawn to TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 by a shared interest

1 min read 2022-05-04 08:52:00

She was different. Not one of the glamour girls. But, oh, that voice. And at fourteen years-old, she was already belting like a torch singer,

1 min read 2022-05-03 00:28:48

la nijinska cover and author lynn garafola A study of sibling rivalry? Or shared dance DNA? Lynn Garafola uncovers the astonishing life of the

5 min read 2022-04-27 07:24:38

The range is surprising once you see it in print. It spans from television to film to theater to streaming content to a much acclaimed one-woman

3 min read 2022-04-19 22:52:57

Some may have missed the moment when Dante Puleio assumed the helm of José Limón Dance Company as Artistic Director. It happened during the summer

6 min read 2022-04-19 11:06:19

pam grier, coffy (1973), in-person at tcm fest After a full three years away, I look forward to returning to this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival

3 min read 2022-04-16 05:46:00

Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ in rehearsals. Photo by Julieta Cervantes. It will be a reckoning. I have been researching Bob Fosse through his several