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Both were Brits who excelled in aristocratic roles. Corin Redgrave was a second-generation middle child in an acting dynasty whose sisters Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave overshadowed his solid career in films and on the stage (though I’ll not soon forget his towering Tony-nominated performance in Tennessee Williams’ Not About Nightingales at New York’s Circle in the…
Continue readingPublished Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine Summer 2010 In the late Eric Rohmer’s Love in the Afternoon, the film’s hero, Frederic, rhapsodizes about the city: “I love the city. The suburbs and the provinces depress me. Despite the crush and the noise, I never tire of plunging into the crowd; I love the crowd as I…
Continue readingA salute to the cool that was Robert Culp, a veteran of TV and film, but most notable as the Bill Cosby’s other half on the groundbreaking (ostensibly because it was the first time a black man and a white man shared top billing in a television show, though their relationship and the intelligence Cosby…
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Good morning, Mr. Phelps…RIP
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Get a load of this, from Backstage.com . Tick, Tick, Tick: the obsession with the clock has driven this year’s Oscarcast producers to insanity’s edge…
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It rained in LA. Cablevision and Disney settled. Clooney scowled. Meryl glowed. Cameron lost. It’s the morning after the Oscars, that Hollywood rite-of-congratulation where worthy films often lose, when sentiment and box office determines winners, and where evening gowns posit enough importance to rival the Iraq War. I’ve been a fan of all its…
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Most know him as Mr. Cleo Laine, but if anything John Dankworth was probably more accomplished as a jazz musician, and certainly better known on the UK side of the Atlantic. If you think you’ve never heard his work before, just think back to the British series The Avengers–that stunning musical opening, a vibraphone…
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Lovely British actress who never quite got her due despite benchmark performances in Hamlet, The Actress, Elmer Gantry and The Happy Ending. Above, as Kanchi in one of my favorite films, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s shattering Black Narcissus (1947)
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