The play "Next Fall" opened last night at the Helen Hayes. Produc ers? Elton John and his David Furnish. The drama, which had a nice suc cess off-Broadway last year, suddenly became a wham bam slam glam opening. Cops. Walkie-talkies. Photographers....
Now you can order a rare vintage movie like it was a pizza. Hollywood studios are throwing open their vaults and allowing film buffs to order custom-burned DVDs online for about $20 apiece (prices fluctuate almost daily). They arrive in less than a...
Turner Classic Movies' website is listing an April 27 release date for the long-awaited second set of Deanna Durbin musicals, which TCM (and its marketing partner Movies Unlimited) have exclusively licensed from Universal for its TCM Vault Label....
Universal, which dipped its toes into the manufacturing-on-demand world via a licensing deal with Turner Classics for a trickle of classic titles that began in October, has jumped in with 25 titles quietly released yesterday via Amazon's MOD program,...
As I remarked several times here last year -- and Dave Kehr reiterated recently in an excellent piece -- new classic releases seem to be increasingly relegated to manufacturing-on-demand programs like the Warner Archive, except for the handful of...
An audience with the royals is always nerve-wracking, but at least there is usually a butler on hand with a stiff drink. Today, alas, there is only sad-looking guacamole in a tub for lunch, and a loudspeaker intoning: “Fifteen-minute call for...
By Terry Teachout Sarasota, Fla. How do you make science stageworthy? One way is by dramatizing the lives of scientists. Another is by using their ideas as a pretext for talking about something completely different. In "The Life of Galileo" and...
The math is against "Up in the Air" co-stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick at the Academy Awards, where they're likely to be left on standby in the supporting-actress category. Setting aside Mo'Nique's front-runner status for "Precious,"...
LOS ANGELES - The math is against "Up in the Air" co-stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick at the Academy Awards, where they're likely to be left on standby in the supporting-actress category. Setting aside Mo'Nique's front-runner status for "Precious,"...
the same film, Harry Carey and Claude Rains for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and Olivia de Havilland and Hattie McDaniel for "Gone With the Wind." McDaniel won, while Carey and Rains lost to Thomas Mitchell for "Stagecoach." The math is against "Up...
"John Brown's Body" was performed at the Majestic Theatre sometime between 1953 and 1956. I remember it as a panel of four to six very well-known actors and actresses, performing the entire book, taking on all of the varied characters. It was done as...
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal and in the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com, on Facebook and on Twitter. He also does a weekly video chat for Ohio.com. First season of...
