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Thursday Jul 2 | Daily Mail

Why Beyonce wants to be a soul sister

Sexy nun on the run: Could Beyonce take the lead role in a film of the stage version of Sister Act? Beyonce's got religion - showbiz style - and wants to star in a movie version of the stage musical Sister Act.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, Crime Movies, Sister Act, Black Entertainment, Whoopi Goldberg, New York, Pop/Rock, The Everly Brothers

Wed Jul 01, 2009

BBC

Quarry backdrop for film remake

The film crew remaking the Hollywood blockbuster Clash of the Titans have chosen a quarry in north Wales for some of its scenes.

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Related Topix: Clash of the Titans, Family, Action Movies, Adventure, Laurence Olivier, Gwynedd County, Wales, United Kingdom

Sat Jun 06, 2009

San Diego Reader

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

The title alone told you that you needed to read no further in the Rebecca Wells novel.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Drama Movies, Ellen Burstyn, Fionnula Flanagan, Shirley Knight, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Jun 04, 2009

The Independent

Sister Act, Palladium, London

Force of habit: Patina Miller is on blistering form as Deloris in 'Sister Act' enlarge Those wacky old nuns on Wimple Street are leaping about like nobody's business, as if this theatre's previous incumbents in The Sound of Music had been given a blessing to boogie.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Comedy Movies, Music!, Sister Act, Black Entertainment, Whoopi Goldberg

Tue Jun 02, 2009

Hollywood.com

Anthony Powell

Three-time Oscar-winning costume designer Anthony Powell began his professional career as a teenager touring with his handmade marionettes.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Family, Hook, Adventure, Entertainment

Fri May 15, 2009

Tbs.com

Sister Act

Comedy, Musical, Minority Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Najimy, Maggie Smith Whoopi is a second rate lounge singer who witnesses her boyfriend gun someone down in cold blood.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, Crime Movies, Sister Act, Black Entertainment, Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Najimy, Movies, Entertainment

Thu May 07, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Birthday boy

Alan Bennett, who turns 75 on Saturday, is a writer who captures the nuances of English life like no other.

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Related Topix: Beyond the Fringe, Comedy Movies, Vocal, Alan Bennett, Sardinia, NY, West Yorkshire County, England, World News, United Kingdom,

Wed Apr 29, 2009

411mania.com

[Movies] Nanny McPhee 2 to Start Filming Next Month

Emma Thompson will return in the lead role of Nanny McPhee, while Rhys Ifans will play Phil, the brother-in-law of Mrs.

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Related Topix: Emma Thompson, Rhys Ifans, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Movies, Entertainment

Fri Apr 17, 2009

BellaOnline

Ladies in Lavender

Ever since the 1960s I've been a fan of Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. I was fortunate enough to see them in several London stage productions in the 1960s, when they were in their mid- to late-20s. Judi Dench was in the first performance of a Shakespeare play that I saw in England: A Midsummer-Night's Dream .

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, Drama Movies, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Animation Movies, Short, Hamlet, Thriller, Crime Movies, Family, Judi Dench, Much Ado About Nothing

Tue Apr 07, 2009

Daily Herald

Finally, it's time to cast informed ballots

Finally! Despite a snowy break late Sunday, the day has arrived that many of us marked on our new 2009 calendars last fall.

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Related Topix: Oscars, John Wayne, Family, Golden Globe Awards, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Drama Movies, Naperville, IL

Sun Apr 05, 2009

Texas Gigs

Theater review part deux: Murder on the Nile

When: Sunday, April 5, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Cost: $20 - $40 Age limit: Not available Theatre Three is continuing its self-styled World Tour Season with Murder on the Nile , a 1946 play by the prolific and popular Agatha Christie, based on her earlier novel, Death on the Nile .

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Agatha Christie, Vocal, Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury

Sun Mar 08, 2009

Wyoming PBS Welcome!

My Music "My Music: Love Songs of the 50S and 60S"

Paul Simon, one of America's most respected songwriters and musicians, was the recipient of the first annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

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Related Topix: Animation Movies, Family, Drama, David Copperfield

Sun Feb 22, 2009

WETK-TV Colchester

Masterpiece Classic

David Copperfield - Part One Charles Dickens's beloved novel gets all-star treatment in this encore presentation of David Copperfield.

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Related Topix: Animation Movies, Family, Drama, David Copperfield, Vocal, Charles Dickens, Ian McKellen, Bob Hoskins, Daniel Radcliffe

Wed Feb 18, 2009

Independent Weekly

RLT's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

In the latest issue of The Believer , Brock Clarke has a piece on the use of artifice and metafiction in Muriel Spark's novels.

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Related Topix: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Drama

Fri Feb 13, 2009

Independent Weekly

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; more

Raleigh The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Raleigh Little Theatre - I admit to watching the 1969 film of Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie on AMC a few times when I was a teenager, and not completely ...

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Related Topix: Raleigh Metro, Raleigh, NC, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Drama, Harry Potter, Books, Arts, Literature

Wed Feb 11, 2009

USA Today

What the Dickens is PBS doing? Four adaptations

Charles Dickens fans won't have to ask for more when PBS' Masterpiece Classic serves up four of the English novelist's works over the next three months.

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Related Topix: Vocal, Charles Dickens, Crime Movies, Family, Oliver Twist, Drama, Adventure, Animation Movies, David Copperfield, Daniel Radcliffe, Bob Hoskins, Television

Fri Feb 06, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

West End girl: This year's dress code is drag or habit

Dressed for success ... Douglas Hodge and the Cagettes in the Olivier-nominated La Cage aux Folles.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Comedy Movies, Music!, Sister Act, Black Entertainment, Whoopi Goldberg

Mon Feb 02, 2009

Louth Today

Wharfingers Youth Theatre present The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

LOUTH Playgoers has been packing in audiences with some first class entertainment this season and the trend is set to continue with February's play, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

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Related Topix: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Drama

Thu Jan 29, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Sheila Hancock to star in Sister Act: The Musical

Sheila Hancock is to star in a West End version of the Hollywood film Sister Act, as theatreland looks for another feelgood musical to emulate the success of Mamma Mia! Hancock, 75, will play the formidable ...

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Comedy Movies, Music!, Sister Act, Ghost, Drama, Thriller, Black Entertainment, Whoopi Goldberg

Fri Jan 02, 2009

This Is Hertfordshire

Royle accolade: actress Liz Smith will receive an MBE for services to Drama

East Finchley resident Liz Smith has been awarded an MBE for services to Drama. The 87-year-old actress got her first major break at age 50 playing a down-trodden mother in Mike Leigh film Bleak Moments.

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Related Topix: The Vicar of Dibley, Entertainment, Television, Bleak Moments, The Royle Family, Liz Smith, Dawn French

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