Anne Bancroft News

The weekend's free movies at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater on Mount Pony focus on overcoming obstacles or getting over on somebody.

Even though Anne Bancroft seduced a much younger Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate in 1967, it must have been hard then to believe that 42 years later, a cruise specifically for frisky middle-age females would be so popular.

We know The Miracle Worker is a wonderful play about Helen Keller. We've come a long way since the 1962 movie starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.

Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin will make her Broadway debut next March in the first rialto revival of 1960 best play winner "The Miracle Worker." Breslin will play Helen Keller while Tony nominee Alison Pill takes on the role of her inspirational teacher Annie Sullivan .

Today is Monday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2009. There are 73 days left in the year.

Today is Monday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2009. There are 73 days left in the year.

Meg Roe promises to strip The Miracle Worker down to its beautiful bones. The production that Roe is directing runs at the Playhouse from tonight to October 31, but William Gibson's script started life in 1957 on television's dramatic anthology Playhouse 90.

Sentimental? Yes. Done a thousand times? Yes. Still, despite the folderol of the script, The Miracle Worker usually packs a punch - if the production manages to find a good Helen Keller.

Cage and CBS's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All earned her Emmy Award nominations.

The film festival is pure gold if you are a MLF. . Hollywood has finally heeded the charms of women over 40 and half of those are in town for TIFF, touting movies or jostling with teenyboppers on the red carpet.

As Susan Sontag put it in 1972, "Getting older is less profoundly wounding for a man, for in addition to the propaganda for youth that puts both men and women on the defensive as they age, there is the double standard of ageing that denounces women with special severity." Hollywood has been an unashamed supporter of this double standard, allowing ...

'The Graduate' Before the word "cougar" ever entered the lexicon, people called older women who dated younger men "Mrs. Robinsons." And for good reason.

Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft in 'The Graduate.' Mark Harris Canongate Books There's always more to learn from imperfection than those few, hallowed works of art that defy any critique.

Buy this DVD at Amazon.com Rating: PG Starring: Freddie Prinze Jr. as Delgo Chris Kattan as Filo Jennifer Love Hewitt as Princess Kyla Anne Bancroft as Sedessa Val Kilmer as Bogardus Malcolm McDowell as Raius Michael Clarke Duncan as Elder Marley Louis Gossett Jr.

The older woman-younger man relationship has been a source of inspiration for film-makers in the past ... THE GRADUATE : Despite being hailed as the bible for older lady seduction, at the time of filming, 'student' Dustin Hoffman was actually 30, and husky-voiced mistress Anne Bancroft was 36.

FROM the minute Elaine Sawyer slinked on to The Rep's stage as the original desperate housewife Mrs Robinson, it was clear she had intentions of seducing not only a trembling and terrified Benjamin Braddock but her entire audience too.

Things get even more time-warped than usual for Connor and his team when an anomaly opens in a junkyard and releases a dinosaur from the Cretaceous Era.

"THIS is Benjamin. He's a little worried about his future." The words are as familiar to film buffs as the image which they accompanied - that of Dustin Hoffman contemplating Anne Bancroft's shapely leg.

Which of these was not one of them? A. Julie Andrews for "Victor/Victoria" B. Dustin Hoffman for "Tootsie" C. John Lithgow for "The World According to Garp" D. Robin Williams for "Mrs. Doubtfire" 4. What is the only letter in the word "piano" that corresponds to a piano key? A. P B. I C. A D. N 5. What capital of Tyrol has hosted the Winter ...

Near its end, "The Miracle Worker" offers a harrowing scene that still chills audiences to this day, when a blind, animal-like Helen Keller and her equally lonely, but sighted teacher Annie Sullivan, have an intellectual moment of clarity.