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Charges include first-degree burglary, first-degree criminal trespass, third-degree criminal mischief, carrying a pistol without a permit, and carrying a firearm while intoxicated.

This is from the I-didn't-even-know-he-was-alive file. Actor and alcoholic Rip Torn was arrested for burglary and carrying an illegal weapon.

Widely considered the most important American playwright of the post-WWII, era, Williams wrote the TEARDROP DIAMOND screenplay at the height of his late-1950's heyday, amid such classic plays, , as "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Suddenly, Last Summer," "Sweet Bird of Youth," and "Orpheus Descending." Set in the Roaring Twenties in the town of Memphis, ...

Bryce Dallas Howard stars in "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond" with Chris Evans. A magnolia-scented receiving line of great actresses have queued up to play Tennessee Williams's fractured heroines on screen - Elizabeth Taylor , Geraldine Page , Katharine Hepburn and, of course, Vivien Leigh .

Loss of a Teardrop Diamond Synopsis: THE LOSS OF A TEARDROP DIAMOND is a new drama based on a recently rediscovered original screenplay by legendary writer Tennessee Williams.

Eight classic productions from television's "golden age," the 1950s. These teleplays were performed live and featured the work of writers like Rod Serling, Paddy Chayefsky, and Ira Levin, directors like John Frankenheimer, Delbert Mann, and Ralph Nelson, and actors like Paul Newman, Julie Harris, Jack Palance, and Rod Steiger.

It took me 89 minutes to figure out what Arthur Laurents was trying to say in "Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are" at the George Street Playhouse .

Previewed by Leanne Cari : 2009-10-09 20:02:30 The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond is a new drama based on a recently rediscovered original screenplay by legendary writer Tennessee Williams.

Slyly leading up to the deal she wanted to make, Hopper laughingly told the young Newman about how Errol Flynn, angered about an item she put in a column about him, appeared on her doorstep.

Has it been a year already? Movie icon and Fairfield County fixture Paul Newman died last Sept.

This brash, statuesque former Las Vegas showgirl brought a blowzy sultriness and a sweet vulnerability to a number of starring and supporting roles in the 1970s and 80s.