Born on June 25, 1887, George Abbott was a celebrated playwright, screenwriter and film director. Some of his most famous productions includeAll Quiet on the Western Front, Damn YankeesandA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.Over the course of his career, he earned six Tony Awards...
Born on June 25, 1887, George Abbott was a celebrated playwright, screenwriter and film director. Some of his most famous productions includeAll Quiet on the Western Front, Damn YankeesandA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.Over the course of his career, he earned six Tony Awards...
Born on June 25, 1887, George Abbott was a celebrated playwright, screenwriter and film director. Some of his most famous productions includeAll Quiet on the Western Front, Damn YankeesandA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.Over the course of his career, he earned six Tony Awards...
I said in the title that the two leads have big, big voices. As forAriana Grandeit’s not so much a “big” voice but one with a four-octave range. I knew little of her before the film other than the Manchester Arena attack happened during one her concerts. It turns out she has ...
I had asked my friend Derek to promise to tell me what happened. But he never did. (I still don’t know.) 1953 – note the wonderfully streamlined space ships! After arriving in America one of my favourite presents, if not the favourite present, was a book called Rockets, Jets, ...
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The executive who actually pulled the trigger, Garth Ancier, visited the set of "Saturday Night Live"in 2014, during a week when "Geeks" cast member Seth Rogen just happened to be hanging out. Rogen discussed the encounter onHuffPost Livein 2014,saying he and Ancier talked about the ...
As has become my practice, I celebrate the end of a year and the start of a new one here at AVC with back to back posts focusing on what happened and then thinking about what might happen. Today, we focus on what happened in 2017. Crypto: I went back and looked at my predictions ...
'The best experiences happened to me when I wasn't planning them, and they include singing a Bob Marley song on a bus to Nimbin, the hippiest city inAustralia,seeing koalas in nature and staring at the whales jumping in the ocean. And I danced barefoot at sunset inByron Bay, while the...
As late as the '40s, C.S. Lewis (in Mere Christianity) found it necessary to depict democratic liberalism as merely one alternative for a Christian, beside socialism and fascism. So what happened? Well, communism failed, of course By this time, it's such a commonplace that communism ...