Yul Brynner News

October 23, 2009 - From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.

The hills are alive with the sound of nerds compiling Ten Best Lists: No, that pitter-patter on your roof isn't the sound of Yul Brynner pacing as he discusses arithmetic with Anna in The King and I , nor is it Cartman and the South Park boys trying to force Kenny down your chimney - it's your buddies at DVDFile tip-tapping on their computer ...

Sometime in the near future, an amusement park offers its visitors fantasy encounters with androids programmed to satisfy all their needs until a computer malfunction turns things deadly.

American actor, director and producer. 1985: Yul Brynner. American actor, whose films include The Magnificent Seven and The King and I. 1999: Peter Moro CBE.

Perhaps the busiest actress of Asian descent on American TV in the 1980s and early 90s, Chao began performing at age seven with the Peking Opera traveling company in her native California.

RIDING OVER THEM ON MY WAY TO CHURCH that September Sunday in 1959, I looked down at the railroad tracks beneath my bike's tires, mindful that just a few miles down those tracks Nikita Khrushchev would soon be stopping at the Santa Barbara station, on his way from L.A. to San Francisco and soon to ride over this very same spot.

1952 Gertrude Lawrence dies. She was starring as Anna in The King and I at the St.

An especially pleasurable documentary that tells the story of African-Americans jazz musicians finding a welcome home in prewar France, "Harlem in Montemarte: A Paris Jazz Story" makes its premiere on "Great Performances" . Telling the tale of well known figures such as Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt as well as the less well known Sidney ...

An especially pleasurable documentary that tells the story of African-Americans jazz musicians finding a welcome home in prewar France, "Harlem in Montemarte: A Paris Jazz Story" makes its premiere on "Great Performances" . Telling the tale of well known figures such as Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt as well as the less well known Sidney ...

Although an ambitious production with a large cast, challenging music and an important ballet sequence, John Greene's biggest hurdle with staging the Young Artists Repertory Theatre production of The King and I was contending with his young cast's summer vacations.

Human hair grows about half an inch in a month. A strand of healthy hair lasts three to six years, then falls out.

Human hair grows about half an inch in a month. A strand of healthy hair lasts three to six years, then falls out.

Human hair grows about half an inch in a month. A strand of healthy hair lasts three to six years, then falls out.

THERE was no sign of Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen and the weather wasn't exactly akin to that of a Mexican village.

One thing that Hollywood may like more than money are robots. Okay, unless they're robots that turn garbage into money then probably not as much as money, but still, close enough.

Rating 5 Yee-haw! This 13-movie box set of western classics has galloped right to the top of my shortlist for DVD release of the year.

In a bucket-of-blood Mexican cantina, Chico drunkenly faces down good-guy gunman Chris , who's rejected the kid's application to join a group of hired guns he's putting together.

In a bucket-of-blood Mexican cantina, Chico drunkenly faces down good-guy gunman Chris , who's rejected the kid's application to join a group of hired guns he's putting together.

Director John Sturges was extremely fortunate in securing a near-perfect cast for this enduringly popular western reworking of the Japanese classic, Seven Samurai .

"People think that everyone who plays this role should be bald when in fact, the king himself was not bald - it was only Yul Brynner who was bald," says actor Daniel Dae Kim.