Splendor in the Grass News

STEPHEN COLE Published on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 12:00AM EDT Last updated on Friday, Oct.

In Section: ON SCREEN >> Where The Wild Things Are iswell, is there really anything more to say about this movie? All that's left to do is go and see if the film stacks up to the buzz, and the trailer , and the posters , and the hopes and dreams of Maurice Sendak fans/hipsters/everyone else.

When a show's cult status precedes it, some viewers will naturally fight for a place on an already over-crowded bandwagon.

The man who brought the Method to Hollywood , Elia Kazan gave James Dean his first role and got career performances from Marlon Brando , Carroll Baker , Andy Griffith , Lee Remick , and Natalie Wood , as well as Robert De Niro 's most nuanced turn in a movie directed by anyone other than Martin Scorsese .

The perennial Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street starring Maureen O'Hara , John Payne, Edmund Gween , the only actor to win bestA supporting actorA playing Santa Claus, and Natalie Wood has been updatedA for 2009.

Composer David Amram wrote the scores to "Splendor in The Grass" and "The Manchurian Candidate." David Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including the classic scores for the films 'Splendor in The Grass' and 'The Manchurian Candidate;' two operas, including the ...

Original intent is a murky sea indeed if one wants to consider the U.S. Constitution, but for the work of Elia Kazan it now is an azure pool of clarity.

Even if you don't watch, you're here because you love talking 'bout the movies. Previously we covered a telling Gidget reference , a throwaway Wizard of Oz bit and the scandal of Lady Chatterley's Lover .

Only the most exceptional performer could appeal to sensibilities as disparate as those of homo-pornovateur Bruce LaBruce , who pays homage to Natalie Wood in his 1995 film Super 8½ , and Catherine Deneuve , who recently hailed Splendor in the Grass , which Wood made in 1961, as "one of the most beautiful love stories I've ever seen in ...

The seventeen-year-old Natalie Wood was rather touching when she worked with James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause," and her sexual hunger in "Splendor in the Grass," with Warren Beatty, may have been the most powerful emotion she ever expressed onscreen.

In a small Kansas town that inspired some of William Inge 's most melancholy characters, about two dozen never-before-performed plays are poised to become the found treasures of his collected works.

In a small Kansas town that inspired some of William Inge 's most melancholy characters, about two dozen never-before-performed plays are poised to become the found treasures of his collected works.

What, exactly, is an Elia Kazan movie? That's not an easy question to answer. In certain critical ways the acclaimed director fails the auteur theory that has served to define cinematic ambition and achievement ever since the French cooked it up a half century ago.

A groundbreaking pioneer in American comedy, comedienne Phyllis Diller represented the face of the female stand-up comic for a generation of baby-boomers. Predating Roseanne Barr's seminal "Domestic Goddess" shtick by.... A groundbreaking pioneer in American comedy, comedienne Phyllis Diller represented the face of the female stand-up comic for a ...

Eric Rosen , artistic director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre, has announced that William Inge 's 1955 classic Bus Stop will run at Spencer Theatre, March 12-April 4, 2010.

Three casts, three sets, three directors, three shows all come together this week as the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre's summer season gets into full swing with the opening of "Schoolhouse Rock Live! Too" on Tuesday, June 30, and William Inge's "Picnic" on Friday, July 3. The 2009 Summer Repertory season officially began with ...

If the name of Elia Kazan comes up in conversation, the chat, however brief, generally takes two turns.

This sensitive, delicately pretty leading actor, mostly on TV, came to fame as a girl playing Laura Ingalls on the NBC period drama series, "Little House on the Prairie" , based on the stories by the adult.... This sensitive, delicately pretty leading actor, mostly on TV, came to fame as a girl playing Laura Ingalls on the NBC period drama series, ...

What do anti-choice, anti-gay marriage and anti-birth control fanatics have in common? They all want to enhance and preserve their ideas about women's place in marriage and in society.