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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Theater</title>
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		<title>Bea Arthur</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Beatrice Arthur, the witty television  star in the hit shows Maude  and The Golden Girls, and a Tony winner,  died today at her Los Angeles home. Arthur, who was suffering from cancer,  was 86.
Born Bernice Frankel on May 16, 1922, (1923 according to some sources) in New York City, Arthur &#8212; generally known as Bea Arthur &#8212; first caught critics&#8217; attention with  her performance in the  1954 off-Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera. Also onstage, she originated the role of the matchmaker Yente  in Fiddler on the Roof in 1964, and two years later won a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Mame, in which she plays  Mame&#8217;s buddy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Fonda&#8217;s Broadway Comeback</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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In the New York Times, Ben Brantley reviews Jane Fonda&#8217;s return to Broadway after 46 years:
&#34;It’s a fine line between brittle and breakable. Jane Fonda blurs that distinction to memorable effect in 33 Variations, the new drama written and directed by Moisés Kaufman that opened on Monday night at the Eugene O’Neill Theater. Playing a sharp-witted, terminally ill musicologist confronting the betrayal of her body, Ms. Fonda exudes an aura of beleaguered briskness that flirts poignantly with the ghost of her spiky, confrontational screen presence as a young woman.
&#8230;
&#34;Ms. Fonda, 71, is surely nervous about performing for a live audience after decades of working mostly in front of cameras, followed by years of semiretirement from acting. After all, younger stars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Magic Lantern Show at the Academy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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In addition to a screening of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will have another East Asian cinematic event in the upcoming weeks: an evening dedicated to the Japanese magic lantern tradition of Utsushi-e, described as &#34;a blend of moving images, light, color, music, storytelling and traditional art.&#34; Presented by the Academy&#8217;s Science and Technology Council, the Minwa-za Company of Tokyo will make its American premiere performance on Wednesday, July 2, at 8 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. 
As per the Academy&#8217;s press release, the program, led by Minwa-za of Tokyo director Fumio Yamagata, will &#34;recreate and examine the uniquely Japanese art form using reproductions of lanterns and slides of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN to Become an Opera</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Variety reports that the New York City Opera has commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on Annie Proulx&#8217;s short story &#34;Brokeback Mountain,&#34; the source of Ang Lee&#8217;s acclaimed 2005 film.
Brokeback Mountain &#8212; the movie &#8212; caused a sensation in 2005. The story of a two-decade-long love affair between a ranch hand (Heath Ledger) and a cowboy (Jake Gyllenhaal), Brokeback Mountain won the best film award at the Venice Film Festival, in addition to a best director Oscar for Ang Lee, and best picture honors from most U.S. critics&#8217; groups.
 It was also the odds-on favorite to take home the best picture Oscar, but a (probably small) majority of Academy members opted for Paul Haggis&#8216; bombastic Crash instead.
 &#34;Ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Scofield</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Benedict Nightingale&#8217;s &#34;Paul Scofield: an overlooked acting great&#34; in The [London] Times:
&#34;Why didn&#8217;t most theatregoers think of Paul Scofield in the way they thought of Olivier, Gielgud and Richardson? After all, he had pretty well all the qualities, from Olivier&#8217;s danger through Gielgud&#8217;s grace to Richardson&#8217;s soul, that we admired in the 20th century&#8217;s most renowned triumvirate.
&#34;Indeed, Richard Eyre, who directed him as Ibsen&#8217;s John Gabriel Borkman in what was to be his last theatrical performance, once said he was &#8216;not just the best there is but the best there has ever been.&#8217;&#34;
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I&#8217;ve never seen Paul Scofield on stage, but I&#8217;ve seen him in a handful of (the few) films he made in the last half century. Scofield, who had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Albee Interviewed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Post is one of the vilest rags around, but Michael Riedel&#8217;s March 12 column on Edward Albee, who&#8217;s turning 80 today, is well worth checking out.
A couple of Albee quotes, remembering his lover of 35 years, artist Jonathan Thomas, who died of cancer in 2005.
&#34;I learned something important about dying, about a slow death, as Jonathan&#8217;s was. What I learned was: Never forget who&#8217;s dying. It&#8217;s not about you. It&#8217;s always about them.
&#34;And I learned something about grief: It never ends. It&#8217;s like a third arm.&#34;
&#8230;
&#34;Am I lonely? Probably. Yes. I want Jonathan back.&#34;
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And here&#8217;s a picture of Edward Albee in 1962, the year of Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (the play, not the movie, which was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Adams&#8217; Print Powder Puff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donna Freydkin&#8217;s &#34;Rising star Amy Adams&#8217; career seems enchanted&#34; in USA Today:
&#34;Amy Adams [right, with Jack Davenport in The Wedding Date (2005)] is having one of those enchanted Manhattan moments.
&#34;&#8217;Look, it&#8217;s snowing!&#8217; she cries, looking out of the window of an Upper West Side cafe to the snowflakes gently settling on the cabs and buildings outside. &#8216;It&#8217;s sticking!&#8217;
&#34;Adams has an ability to make whatever she&#8217;s focusing on seem irresistible. There&#8217;s a sparkle to her, a glimmer that hasn&#8217;t escaped the notice of a certain co-star of hers, Meryl Streep, who just wrapped the drama Doubt with Adams.
&#34;&#8217;Amy has a little light on inside her that burns &#8212; sometimes a soft light, sometimes a hot little blue flame, but you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mickey Rooney Keeps Busy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Retire? Why? Why is it everyone wants me to retire? Who cares about age? I don&#8217;t need to retire.&#34;
That&#8217;s Mickey Rooney, 87, voted by film exhibitors the top box-office star in the United States for three years in a row, 1939&#8211;1941. 
Why such an enormous success? Well, pictures like Babes in Arms (opposite Judy Garland, and for which he received a best actor Oscar nomination), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Strike Up the Band (also with Garland), and, ahem, Life Begins for Andy Hardy. 
Love him or hate him, one must admit that Rooney has lots of stamina, having been putting on a show since the late 1920s. According to Robert C. Lopez&#8217;s Greensboro News &#38; Record article on Rooney, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Goulet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actor-singer Robert Goulet died Tuesday (Oct. 30) morning while waiting for a lung transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Goulet had been suffering from interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, reportedly a rare lung disease. He was 73.
Born on Nov. 26, 1933, in Lawrence, Mass., Goulet spent much of his youth in Canada. He became a stage star in 1960, after playing Sir Lancelot in the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical Camelot on Broadway. His co-stars were Richard Burton as King Arthur and Julie Andrews as Guenevere.
 In the ensuing decades, in addition to numerous television and Las Vegas appearances, Goulet could be seen in several motion pictures. Among those were the 1964 comedies I&#8217;d Rather Be Rich (1964), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harold Pinter&#8217;s Nobel Prize Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#34;The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them,&#34; said British playwright and screenwriter Harold Pinter, 75, during his Literature Nobel Prize acceptance speech on Wed., Dec. 7.
 &#34;You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It&#8217;s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.&#34; 
Additionally, Pinter described the war in Iraq as &#34;a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law,&#34; asserting that &#34;at least 100,000 Iraqis were killed by American bombs and missiles before the Iraq insurgency began. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Fry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Christopher Fry has died. Christopher Fry (1907-2005), was the author of The Lady's Not for Burning, Venus Observed, and wrote (solo or drafts) the screenplays for Barabbas (1962), Ben-Hur (1959), The Bible (1966), The Beggar's Opera (1953), and A Queen Is Crowned (1953).]]></description>
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		<title>Margaretta Scott</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actress Margaretta Scott died last April 15. She was 93.
Although the London-born actress (on Feb. 13, 1912) is best known today for her role as Mrs. Pumphrey in the television series All Creatures Great and Small, Scott had what Michael Coveney in The Guardian described as a &#8220;distinguished career [that] spanned 70 years of theatre and film and, as the last surviving signatory of the document that established Equity, the British actors&#8217; union, in 1934, she was highly regarded in her profession.&#8221;
Onstage, Scott worked with Tyrone Guthrie and Alec Guinness at the Old Vic, with George Bernard Shaw at the 1934 premiere of Androcles and the Lion, and in 1958 she played Gertrude opposite Peter O&#8217;Toole&#8217;s first Hamlet at the [...]]]></description>
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