By Threes: Ellen Stewart 1919-2011; Margaret Whiting 1924-2011; David Nelson 1936-2011
January 15, 2011
Ellen Stewart with playwright Robert Patrick Margaret Whiting David Nelson
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Ellen Stewart with playwright Robert Patrick Margaret Whiting David Nelson
Continue readingI loved this show as a kid (heck, anything with superheroes, spies, fancy guys or girls did it for me), Anne Francis was a cool chick who, when she wasn’t petting her ocelot, karate-chopped her way through the single season of this 60s TV series. But I always look forward to her first scene in…
Continue readingOne of cinema’s great character faces. Last seen in Ben Affleck’s The Town; Oscar nominated for playing Daniel Day-Lewis’s father (note the odd resemblance) in 1993’s In The Name of the Father. RIP.
Continue readingPublished in Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine, Winter 2011 2010 ends as the country strives to dig itself out of snowstorms that clobbered both the Eastern and Western regions of our nation. The weather feels an apt metaphor for a multiplicity of woes beyond airport delays and unplowed streets—think, for instance, of the snow job visited…
Continue readingOn the set of The Days of Wine and Roses in 1962. R.I.P.
Continue readingWhen I first moved to New York I knew a girl who fancied herself a kind of Holly Golightly. Oh, her nights! Always, she was full of stories about the latest film that mustn’t be missed, or that cool art opening she crashed the previous weekend. She represented the possibility of inclusion: one day those…
Continue readingThere’s a hole in the world. Or, to spin it like my yoga teacher, nothing’s broken, it’s neither right or wrong: things are just out of…balance. The GOP is gaining again, ironically invoking their nauseous less-government mantra as they fight like dogs to give the rich a tax pass and legislate morality re: telling me…
Continue reading(Penn, right, directing Gene Hackman in Night Moves) Goodbye to the great Arthur Penn–cinephiles should honor him by taking a second look at some of his notable works (try your local library). Some favorites: The Miracle Worker Bonnie and Clyde Little Big Man Night Moves The Chase
Continue readingStuart, top, in The Invisible; Fisher, bottom, flanked by Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds in what could be called the triangle of the century.
Continue readingAbove, Gould in Woody Allen’s Love and Death (1975). RIP
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