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Wednesday Nov 4 | 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

Tue Oct 13, 2009

Boxoffice

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

So I was watching the latest episode of Mad Men last night and I had if not quite an epiphany than at least an interesting thought.

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Related Topix: Mad Men, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Pillow Talk, Comedy Movies, Music!, Easy-Listening, Doris Day, The Ed Sullivan Show

Tue Aug 04, 2009

International Herald Tribune

Critics' Picks: 'Lover Come Back'

For this week's Critics' Picks video, A. O. Scott looks back at the golden years of the romantic comedy with "Lover Come Back," starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Lover Come Back, Easy-Listening, Doris Day, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Advertising, 60 Minutes

Mon Aug 03, 2009

International Herald Tribune

Critics' Picks: 'Lover Come Back'

For this week's Critics' Picks video, A. O. Scott looks back at the golden years of the romantic comedy with "Lover Come Back," starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Lover Come Back, Easy-Listening, Doris Day, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Advertising, 60 Minutes

Sun Aug 02, 2009

Sunday Times

DStv Films

The Red Badge Of Courage Sunday, 08:55, TCM Audie Murphy plays a young recruit forced to master his cowardice when it has terrible consequences in this devastating war film.

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Related Topix: The Red Badge of Courage, Drama Movies, War Movies, Audie Murphy, Thriller, Ice Station Zebra, Action Movies, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan

Thu Jul 23, 2009

Hartford Courant

Library To Show, Discuss "Giant"

The final showing of the Books into Films program will be held Aug. 19, when participants can watch the classic film "Giant" and discuss the book.

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Related Topix: Texas, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Simsbury, CT

Mon Jul 13, 2009

Ararat.yourguide.com.au

Film societies on the up and up

President of the Federation of Victorian Film Societies Bryan Putt has reported that the Film Society movement is growing.

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Related Topix: Pillow Talk, Comedy Movies, Music!

Wed Jul 01, 2009

San Diego Weekly Reader

Your Week

So many places to shop, so few places to park. If you frequent Hillcrest and have any questions, comments, or complaints about the parking in the area, here's your chance to speak your mind before the Uptown Partnership's board of directors.

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Related Topix: San Diego, CA, Pillow Talk, Comedy Movies, Music!, Easy-Listening, Doris Day

Sun Jun 28, 2009

San Diego Reader

Tarnished Angels

Douglas Sirk's polished transcription of William Faulkner's Pylon , a tale of barnstorming pilots between world wars, might be easy to overlook among his Universal Studio melodramas of the Fifties: it's in ungaudy black-and-white, for starters, and the milieu is more that of Hawks and Wellman.

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Related Topix: Written on the Wind, Drama Movies, Movies, Entertainment

Tue Jun 23, 2009

BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

QFest 2009 Hosts 'A Day with Doris' Featuring Brunch & Double-Features 7/12

Your day is sure to be filled with daisies and rainbows when you spend it with Doris Day .

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

Mon Jun 22, 2009

KQED-TV San Francisco

Rock Hudson: Tall, Dark and Handsome

Duration: 57:02 CC TVPG When Rock Hudson first arrived in Hollywood in 1945, he was a shy, rugged and extraordinarily handsome young man with no job, no acting experience, no contacts in the film business and just a dream of becoming a movie star.

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Related Topix: A Farewell to Arms, War Movies, Drama Movies, Television

Sun May 17, 2009

City Paper

The world premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's unevenly glorious musical.

Music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa; Book by Sybille Pearson; Based on the novel by Edna Ferber; Directed by Jonathan Butterell First thing: Forget the movie.

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Related Topix: Michael John Lachiusa, Texas, Sal Mineo, Theater, Arts

Fri May 15, 2009

Washington Times

THEATER: Ambitious 'Giant' lacks focus

Comments Sprawling, far-reaching, and nearly woozy with some of the most epic and stirring music composer Michael John LaChiusa has ever written, Signature Theatre's "Giant" lives up to its name.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Michael John Lachiusa, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Texas

Wed May 13, 2009

Bloomberg

Oil Musical `Giant' Gets Lavish $1.1 Million Staging in Virginia: Review

Like a Texas ranch with newly tapped oil reserves, the world premiere of the musical a oe Giant a at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, offers a rich, sprawling evening.

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Related Topix: Texas, Elizabeth Taylor, Theater, Arts

Wed May 06, 2009

Express

See a 'Giant' show at the Signature

DON'T COME LOOKING for James Dean at Signature Theatre . The new musical in Arlington may share a name and source material with the iconic Dean/Elizabeth Taylor/Rock Hudson-starring film from 1956, but the world premiere of Michael John La Chiusa and Sybille Pearson 's reimagining of " Giant " overlaps little with the film, instead offering an ...

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Related Topix: James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Texas

Sun Apr 26, 2009

San Diego Reader

Magnificent Obsession

The first of Douglas Sirk's series of Technicolor soap operas that so endeared him to R.W. Fassbinder, among other cultists and auteurists.

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Related Topix: Jane Wyman, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Apr 16, 2009

DVD Talk

DVD review

Author's Note : The transfer for this new 50th anniversary edition of Pillow Talk has been improved over the one used in the Rock Hudson and Doris Day Romance Collection boxed set from 2004 .

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

Wed Apr 15, 2009

New York Post

Hollywood 'Virgin' Reborn with 'Pillow Talk'

OSCAR Levant once famously quipped, "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin." The dyspeptic actor-composer was referring to Day's unlikely rebirth as a born-again virgin, which made her the nation's No.

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Related Topix: Pillow Talk, Comedy Movies, Music!, Lover Come Back, Easy-Listening, Doris Day, Human Sexuality, Wedding, Movies, Entertainment

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