living on the edge of an ocean my 24/7 job crisscrossing the country hardly afforded me time to see, I hopped a last-minute flight to join friends in Thailand, ferried to Koh-Phi-Phi, an island in the Andaman Sea. Determined to avail myself of the advertised too-good-to-be-legal ...
Broadway musical "Camelot" featured music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, the same talented duo behind "My Fair Lady." Composing the music was so stressful on Loewe that he left the musical theater business for more than a decade upon completion. While the play itself was ...
Beauty and the Beastis the first of these remakes to take inspiration from the relatively recent Renaissance. The stakes for this one are higher than the adaptations of the older films. The budget is bigger — it’s said to be the most expensive musical in the history of Hollywood — and ...
Disney made some final money by shooting a film of a 6-month-old girl named Kathalee Viley and selling his movie camera, earning enough money for a one-way train ticket, moving to Hollywood, California; he brought along an unfinished reel of Alice's Wonderland. The bankruptcy trustee was...