Donald O'Connor News

It seemed as though Saturday Night Live was determined to up the energy-quotient this week, perhaps under the impression that if everyone looked as though he or she was working really hard, we might not notice that the work wasn't all that amusing.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt helped energize SNL after last week's uninspired January Jones hosted episode.

Have you ever wanted to see on the big screen Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor dancing and singing away Singin' in the Rain or what about The Thin Man starring William Powell and Myrna Loy? Starting in December, you will be able to see these classic movies and more at All-Star Cinemas.

For the next few weeks, the forecast calls for intermittent nostalgia, melodic refrains, spirited dance routines and perfectly timed downpours - all on stage at the Tonne Playhouse in Largo Cultural Center.

Ranked No. 75 on imdb.com's list of the Top 250 Films of All Time, "Singin' in the Rain" starring Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor will show at 2 p.m. on Sunday at Merrimack Hall, 2211 Triana Blvd.

Modeling is anything but a model life. The new CW Network series "The Beautiful Life: TBL," which launches Wednesday night, portrays the profession as a weight-losing, back-stabbing, ego-destroying, modesty-ignoring, party-going, addiction-driving world where the line between success and failure is as thin as a magazine cover or as small as a size ...

This blonde dancer and light actress appeared in Hollywood musicals beginning in the early 1950s.

Dear Ken: I recently saw an actress named Clare Danes in the movie "To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday" on Lifetime Channel.

Dear Ken: I recently saw an actress named Clare Danes in the movie "To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday" on Lifetime Channel.

Dear Ken: I recently saw an actress named Clare Danes in the movie "To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday" on Lifetime Channel.

This week's "Movies" topic on The Chris Vernon Show was "Two Guys and a Girl" - films featuring a trio protagonists fitting that gender make-up - based on current box-office champ Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince .

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

Romantic drama about Brooklynite Leonard , torn between family friend Sandra and volatile new neighbor Michelle , 7 p.m. June 23, 25; 9:30 p.m. June 26, Riviera Theatre, 50 N. Main St., Three Rivers.

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.