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Monday | Westchester.com

Play Readings By The Armonk Players

Join the Armonk Players for a reading of a new play, Family Secrets, and meet with the playwright Norman Barasch.

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Related Topix: Armonk, NY, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Send Me No Flowers, Comedy Movies, Drama

Sun Jan 17, 2010

WisInfo

Theater Spotlight: Little Chute High School

What: Little Chute High School's winter play, 'Pillow Talk.' When: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Pillow Talk, Comedy Movies, Music!, Easy-Listening, Doris Day

Fri Jan 15, 2010

TwinCities.com

Theater review: Movies, Milton mash up in 'Whatever, Heaven Allows'... and it's strangely satisfying

In theory at least, "Whatever, Heaven Allows" is inspired by Milton's "Paradise Lost" and by the 1955 Jane Wyman/Rock Hudson movie, "All That Heaven Allows." But I wouldn't worry about doing a lot of cramming before heading over to the Walker Art Center to see the show by New York-based collaborative Radiohole.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Drama Movies, All That Heaven Allows, Jane Wyman

Fri Jan 08, 2010

Village Voice

Rock Hudson Only Liked Pink Anuses

There is no imaginable way to segue delicately into this one, folks, so let me just dive right in: Fifties screen hunk Rock Hudson --who died of AIDS-related causes in 1985--exclusively liked guys' buttholes to be pink.

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Wed Jan 06, 2010

Chicago Reader Online

Pillow Talk

This 1959 Doris Day vehicle, costarring Rock Hudson and Tony Randall, launched a cycle of romantic comedies predicated on her character's chastity; Mark Rappaport unpacked its extended gay-baiting innuendo in his 1992 film Rock Hudson's Home Movies .

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Related Topix: Pillow Talk, Comedy Movies, Music!, Easy-Listening, Doris Day, Tony Randall

Fri Dec 18, 2009

Grand Junction Free Press

A new Day

Can a person be reincarnated when she's still alive? Doris Day, I am happy to report, is with us yet in her 86th year on planet Earth, although it's been more than 40 years since her last motion picture and more than 30 since she sang in public.

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Related Topix: Send Me No Flowers, Comedy Movies, Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, Music!, Easy-Listening, Doris Day, Entertainment

Thu Dec 17, 2009

National Post

Five things you didn't know about Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones, the Oscar-winning actress and star of the classic Hollywood film "The Song of Bernadette" died today of at the age of 90 , from natural causes.

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Related Topix: Duel in the Sun, A Farewell to Arms, Western, Drama Movies, War Movies, Jennifer Jones, John Wayne, Gregory Peck

Sun Dec 13, 2009

The Times-Tribune

On December 13 in NEPA

On this date in NEPA 50 years ago, movies playing locally included "Pillow Talk," starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson, at the Comerford Drive-In; "Libel," starring Olivia de Havilland, at the West Side; and "The Tingler," starring Vincent Price, at the Strand.

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Related Topix: Pillow Talk, Comedy Movies, Music!, Easy-Listening, Doris Day, Olivia de Havilland, The Tingler, Horror Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Vincent Price

Sun Dec 06, 2009

Anorak

Rock Hudsona s Lover Marc Christian Dies From Frank Sinatra Syndrome

ANORAK'S Man in LA looks at the death of Marc Christian, who gained a kind of fame as screen legend Rock Hudson's lover.

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Related Topix: Entertainment

Sat Dec 05, 2009

AZCentral.com

Lover who sued Hudson estate over AIDS dies

Marc Christian MacGinnis, who won a multimillion-dollar settlement in 1991 from the estate of ex-lover actor Rock Hudson, after convincing a jury Hudson had knowingly exposed him to AIDS, is dead.

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Related Topix: Burbank, CA

Mon Nov 30, 2009

Queerty

Rock Hudson's Lover Marc Christian, In The Flesh

After we learned about the passing of Rock Hudson's one-time lover Marc Christian , we scrambled to find a photo of the fella, but came up short.

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Sun Nov 29, 2009

The Dallas Morning News

Texas and Southwest books

A Texan in Hollywood Robert Hinkle with Mike Farris Robert Hinkle was just a "West Texas cowboy turned two-bit actor" when legendary producer-director George Stevens hired him to be Rock Hudson's dialogue coach for the 1956 movie Giant .

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Related Topix: University of Oklahoma, West, TX, James Dean, Dean, TX, Dallas Metro

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Rock Hudson

Main American actor original name Roy Harold Scherer, Jr. , later Roy Fitzgerald born November 17, 1925, Winnetka, Ill., U.S. died October 2, 1985, Beverly Hills, Calif.

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Related Topix: Send Me No Flowers, Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, Comedy Movies, Music!, Man's Favorite Sport?, Entertainment, McMillan and Wife, Drama, Television

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Filmexperience.blogspot.com

Having a Laugh

One of the best "Best Original Screenplays" of all time and so much fun to watch.

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Mon Nov 16, 2009

Child of Television

This week in Television History: November 2009 PART 3

It's hard to say where the truth really lies. November 16, 1946 Television Screen Magazine launches.

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Related Topix: 60 Minutes, Entertainment, Television, Pillow Talk, Comedy Movies, Music!, McMillan and Wife, Soap Opera, Dynasty, Drama, Winnetka, IL

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Towleroad

London Cloud, Rock Hudson, United Airlines, Annise Parker

Architectural "cloud" proposed in London . America's Next Top Model 's Miss J is the father of a 7-year-old boy : "A French lesbian had asked if we would be sperm donors.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Wedding

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Village Voice

Marc Christian Has Passed

A source tells me that Marc Christian --the lover of Hollywood god Rock Hudson , who sued Rock's estate because he felt the star had unfairly made him potentially susceptible to AIDS--has died.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Hartford Courant

"Giant" Steps for Ashley Robinson After "R & J": Behind the Curtain | Frank Rizzo

Ashley Robinson , one of the four young men who make up Hartford TheaterWorks' production of "Shakespeare's R & J" recently had a major role in a hot property with New York aspirations.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Texas

Tue Oct 27, 2009

ChicagoMaroon

Siskel Center revisits tragic romance

All That Heaven Allows, Far from Heaven, and Ali:Fear Eats the Soul will all be showing at the Gene Siskel Film Center this November.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, All That Heaven Allows, Far from Heaven, Jane Wyman, Julianne Moore

Thu Oct 15, 2009

Hartford Courant

Legendary 'Giant' Playing At Avon Library

The Avon Free Public Library today, Oct. 15, will show one of the most beloved movie epics of the 1950s.

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Related Topix: Texas, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Movies, Entertainment

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