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A gangling song-and-dance man with extensive TV and stage credits, Carpenter also made his brief mark in a handful of MGM musicals which embodied the small-town vision of the USA so prevalent in the 1950s.

I just finished doing a classic movie review of "The Gay Divorcee" with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Here's a poser for you movie buffs: What do the white dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch" and the fur coat, muff and hat worn by Orson Welles in "Citizen Kane" have in common? Beyond their obvious status as movie artifacts, they're both part of a lawsuit filed in Johnson County by a 40-year-old Olathe, Kan., businessman, Gregory ...

Turning movies into stage shows is done all the time, as evidenced recently by "9 to 5 the Musical," "Shrek the Musical" and, of course, "The Producers," which was first a movie, then a smash Broadway musical and then a less-than-successful movie musical.

Otherwise known as 'Attack of the Killer Vaudevillian.' She may have been nave Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain 57 years ago, but she's not so innocent now that she's been around the block and the H'wood studios a few times.

Excerpts from the blogs of Inquirer critics. Playboy-taming virgins From Carrie Rickey's "Flickgrrl" www.philly.com/philly/blogs/ flickgrrl In the laugh du jour department, this arcane bit of movie scholarship: men-about-town who settle down once they meet that special virgin.

She's 77, still unsinkable, and she's doing an imitation of MAE WEST in a cabaret show in Manhattan not far from where the Empress of Sex once lived with Beverly.

DEBBIE Reynolds. The very name makes you think of the fresh-faced ingenue who stole your heart in "Singin' in the Rain." Or perhaps the innocent "Singing Nun" or "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." What you don't imagine is the saucy, bawdy comedian currently holding court at the decorous Cafe Carlyle.

How could a star with a 60-year show business career and a personal life that has made headlines not take away from the experience a profound sense of the absurd? As Debbie Reynolds , 77, speed-rapped, did celebrity impersonations and sang at Wednesday's opening-night performance of "Debbie Reynolds: An Evening of Music and Comedy" at the Cafe ...

Only six more days until Tony time! Do you know where your Tony viewing party is? Do you have your Tony pool ready? Do you have the rules to your Tony drinking game set? I am partial to every time someone says "musical," you drink.

Here's one for the books. Eleven former city officials met at the Midway Cafe in Springdale and came to the conclusion that Fayetteville's government, no matter who was running it, was outdated, inefficient and highly expensive to run and decided they wanted a city manager form of government.

Some of the most impressive cars that have participated in the Concours d'Elegance of the Eastern United States over the years return this weekend for the show's 20th anniversary edition.

As the star of more than thirty motion pictures, two Broadway shows and two television series, as well as dozens of television appearances, Debbie Reynolds continues to captivate audiences with her unforgettable performances.

Another flurry of sparkling events are at hand in our endless spring serenade. Will San Clemente High's "Anything Goes" win the Showstopper or Masterpiece trophy or maybe both at Sunday's 39th annual MACY awards gala at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts? Will the stars of the April musical - Chris Maze, Brian Ivie, Hilary Klatt, Joelle ...

As Mother's Day approaches, here's a look at a couple of new books about and for moms.

If you would like to see Debbie Reynolds still singing and dancing up a storm at age 77, she's doing just that right now with her one-woman show breezing along daily until May 10 at El Portal Theater in North Hollywood.

The sweet serenades and happy songs of spring are still all around us as good old April races into the home stretch.

Debbie Reynolds poses for a photo on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank on March 9, 2009.

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