Mickey Rooney News

By Anne Cox The entertainer talks about his role in Cinderella, this year's dazzling pantomime.

Once, there was a golden time in the infancy of television, when there were just three channels.

Two screenings of the documentary "A Friend Indeed: The Bill Sackter Story" will be held this month in Decorah, including one at 3:00 p.m. Thursday at The Spectrum Network offices at 607 Washington Street in Decorah.

November 11, 2009, 7:00 AM / 1. Identify the U. S. first lady noted for a bouffant hairdo and pillbox hat.

A crowd of dignitaries, veterans, active duty personnel and friends and family assemble at the new expansion campus for the grand opening ceremonies of the expansion of the National WWII National Museum Friday.

The long time veteran's rights spokesman honored along with the men and women of the armed services at the 54th annual Thalians Ball.

All are invited from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6 to the Chili Cafe at River Forest United Methodist Church, 7970 W. Lake St.

Bill Sackter was a hero for people with disabilities. Mickey Rooney portrayed him in the 1981 made-for-TV movie "Bill." Now Iowa filmmaker Lane Wyrick has produced a feature-length documentary about Sackter.

The 54th Annual Thalians Ball will honor legendary film, stage and TV star Mickey Rooney and the USO Shows supporting America's Armed Forces around the world.

At age 89, Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney is not ready for retirement. Rooney, who's been on a stage since his vaudeville debut when he was 17 months old, is busy as ever.

PICK OF THE WEEK "Monsoon Wedding" : Just in time for her Earhart biopic "Amelia," Mira Nair's Bollywood-flavored 2001 movie comes out in a double-disc package offering a half-dozen of the director's earlier short films.

Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney will be spending Christmas in Milton Keynes. Mickey, 89, will be starring in this year's MK Theatre pantomime Cinderella alongside Bobby Davro and Anthea Turner.

What can you remember of ' Breakfast at Tiffany's' - Mickey Rooney with an unconvincing set of false teeth and a cringingly awful Chinese accent? Audrey Hepburn cool as a January cucumber in her swept-up chignon, tiara, pearls and yard-long cigarette holder? The gamine, twittery but ultimately loveable party girl around whom New York whirls like ...

Anna Friel plays the iconic Holly Golightly opposite Joseph Cross in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's.' A Colin Ingram & Peter Kane presentation with John Gore and Thomas B. McGrath, by arrangement with the Theater Royal Haymarket Company, of a play in two acts by Samuel Adamson, adapted from the novella by Truman Capote.

Film and stage legend Mickey Rooney and his wife, singer/actress Jan Rooney, perform at the Orillia Opera House on Sept.

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 23, the 266th day of 2009 with 99 to follow. The moon is waxing.

Now that it's 2009, we're assuming that any production of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's will most likely not include the Mickey Rooney style "Ah so solly! Me no rikey!" portrayal of Holly Golightly's landlord Mr.

Mickey Rooney was a little man who enjoyed a big career and a larger-than-life persona.

Having been in more than 360 films and starred alongside Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy and Audrey Hepburn among others, legendary actor Mickey Rooney doesn't wax poetic about his past glories.

John Wayne, as Genghis Khan in 1956's The Conqueror. Mickey Rooney, in Breakfast at Tiffany's. David Carradine, as Kwai Chang Caine in the hit seventies television series Kung Fu.