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Wednesday Jul 1 | 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

Tue Apr 14, 2009

DVD Verdict

Pillow Talk: 50th Anniversary Edition

Judge Clark Douglas wonders what his pillows talk about when he isn't using them.

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

Wed Apr 08, 2009

Advocate

In a Word: Carter

An up-and-coming visual artist finds a collaborator in actor James Franco, making a name for himself and getting his strange new film a screening at MoMA.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Milk, James Franco, Safe, Thriller, Julianne Moore, Revlon, Household Products

Thu Apr 02, 2009

The Corner

Sweet Home Alabama

I'm in Alabama, at the invitation of John O'Sullivan's lovely bride, and thoroughly enjoying this fair state , which I had never visited before.

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Related Topix: Alabama, Action, Thriller, Ice Station Zebra, Patrick McGoohan

Mon Mar 16, 2009

Free Republic

Sexual Politics: How long has it been since a First Couple seemed to want each other?

Look, Ma, no hands! Only one cool forehead and some extra-strength hairspray touch, and yet everything combusts in this Inauguration Night photo.

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Related Topix: Michelle Obama

Sat Mar 07, 2009

McCook Daily Gazette

Rock Hudson

I am a big fan of classic Hollywood, and one of my favorite actors was Rock Hudson.

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Related Topix: Pillow Talk, Comedy Movies, Music!, Send Me No Flowers, Lover Come Back, Thriller, Ice Station Zebra, Action, Easy-Listening, Doris Day

Sun Mar 01, 2009

BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

Signature Theatre Announces Casting for the World Premiere of LaChiusa's GIANT

Eric Schaeffer , Artistic Director of Signature Theatre, today announced casting for the world premiere production of the musical Giant by composer Michael John LaChiusa and playwright Sybille Pearson .

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

Fri Feb 27, 2009

Ain't It Cool News

Mr. Beaks Chats With NIGHTWING Cinematographer Charles Rosher, Jr.

And here is Part Three of my NIGHTWING 30th Anniversary Coverage. Part One, with Nick Mancuso, is available here .

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Related Topix: Horror, Nightwing, Nick Mancuso, Stephen Macht, Michael Douglas, Crime Movies, Comedy Movies, Pretty Maids All in a Row, Thriller

Wed Feb 25, 2009

Laura's Miscellaneous Musings

Coming to DVD: Pillow Talk

A 50th Anniversary Edition of PILLOW TALK, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson, will be released on April 14, 2009.

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

Thu Feb 19, 2009

Time

Fighting Terror

ABC's popular nighttime soap opera, Dynasty, ended last week's episode with typical edge-of-the-seat melodrama.

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Related Topix: Soap Opera, Dynasty, Entertainment, Drama, Television, John Forsythe

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