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Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side: what became of Candy, Little Joe and co?

Edit The Guardian 07 Dec 2015
Holly Woodlawn, the transgender ‘superstar’ namechecked in the classic hymn to Warhol’s New York, died at the weekend – but she outlived most of her contemporaries. @michaelahann ... In her later years, Woodlawn had undergone something of a revival, appearing on screen again and performing on stage ... His late 60s boyfriend, Billy Sipple, became famous in September 1975, when he thwarted Sara Jane Moore’s attempt to shoot Gerald Ford ... Jackie....

Dead Man's Cell Phone Continues AU Theatre Season (Ashland University)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Oct 2015
(Source. Ashland University). 10/22/15 ASHLAND, Ohio - Ashland University Department of Theatre continues its 2015-2016 season with Sarah Ruhl's wildly imaginative comedy 'Dead Man's Cell Phone.' Directed by guest artist Rachael Swartz, performances will be held in the intimate Studio Theatre on Nov ... Her previous performances include Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, Betsy/Lindsey in Clybourne Park, Sara Jane Moore in Assassins, Mrs....

Ambitious 'Assassins' at Pico Playhouse can't overcome the show's peculiarities

Edit The Los Angeles Times 25 Aug 2015
First produced off-Broadway in 1990, Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins,” book by John Weidman, didn’t receive a Broadway production for well over a decade ... Add a comment. 0 ...  . Janna Cardia goes hilariously over the top as would-be Gerald Ford assassin Sara Jane Moore, while David Gallic is amusingly splenetic as obscure Samuel Byck, who tried to crash a plane into the Nixon White House ... (Los Angeles Times) ... --> ... ....

This Week's Curios

Edit Huffington Post 17 Jul 2015
Every day of the year, Curious.com CEO Justin Kitch writes a quirky fact, known as the Daily Curio, intended to tickle the brains of lifelong learners everywhere. This is a weekly digest. Last week's Curios covered saving the world with grasshopper tacos, the Mad Men stock market drop, and the fraudulent tongue map we learned in school ... Sara Jane Moore and Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme, both attempted to kill Gerald Ford in 1975....

Skip -- More Than Sara Jane's Brother -- My Friend

Edit Huffington Post 01 Jul 2015
The book is about his sister, Sara Jane Moore, the middle-age mother who shot at President Gerald Ford in 1975 in front of the St ... My friend and Sara Jane's brother, Olaf "Skip" Kahn, died from heart failure ... Me and Sara Jane. I met Sara Jane after she shot at Ford ... "While Sara Jane was pregnant with her third child, she had an unannounced visitor. On a warm day late in the spring of 1954, Sara Jane answered a knock at her apartment door....

Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations of US Presidents

Edit The Examiner 20 Jun 2015
Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, by one Charles J. Guiteau, who was caught, tried, and hanged ... Truman ... The second was when Ford was again making a public appearance in San Francisco, California, on September 22, 1975, when Sara Jane Moore fired a shot at Ford. Moore was apparently motivated by an obsession over the Patty Hearst kidnapping, the news events at the time, and a conviction that Ford was bad for the country ... ....

The Weekend quiz

Edit The Guardian 24 Jan 2015
What did Orson Welles describe as ‘the biggest electric train set any boy ever had’? Spoiler alert. answers to this and other teasers below (don’t cheat!). Dark star… Orson Welles in 1951. Photograph. Jane Bown. The questions. 1 What was Rudyard Kipling’s first language? ... What links. ... 12 Fanya Kaplan; Violet Gibson; Lynette Fromme and Sara Jane Moore? ... The answers ... ....

Assassins, Menier Chocolate Factory: 'Catherine Tate is cruelly funny'

Edit London Evening Standard 07 Jan 2015
Assassins certainly isn’t Stephen Sondheim’s most popular musical ... Catherine Tate is cruelly funny as President Gerald Ford’s would-be killer Sara Jane Moore, while Carly Bawden dazzles as Charles Manson’s disciple Squeaky Fromme ... ....

Sondheim "Assassins" revival hits the mark in London

Edit Reuters 10 Dec 2014
LONDON (Reuters) - A hush comes over the audience when one of the actors slowly revolves full circle while aiming a pistol at spectators in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's 1990 musical "Assassins" at an intimate London theater-in-the-round ... 11 airliner attacks ... Some of the assassins or would-be killers are shown as ineffectual or scatterbrained, like Sara Jane Moore (played by Catherine Tate), who tried to kill Gerald Ford....

Assassins, Menier Chocolate Factory - theatre review: 'Catherine Tate is cruelly funny'

Edit London Evening Standard 02 Dec 2014
Assassins certainly isn’t Stephen Sondheim’s most popular musical ... Catherine Tate is cruelly funny as President Gerald Ford’s would-be killer Sara Jane Moore, while Carly Bawden dazzles as Charles Manson’s disciple Squeaky Fromme ... ....

Assassins, Menier Chocolate Factory, review: Jamie Lloyd takes aim at the American Dream

Edit The Independent 02 Dec 2014
Roll up, roll up… it’s time to shoot a president! Jamie Lloyd’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s 1990 musical pitches its audience into a zanily macabre funfair, the traverse stage littered with clapped-out bumper cars and a giant clown’s head ... The top-drawer ensemble give committed ... Catherine Tate showcases her vocal talents and comedy chops with the extravagant drawl and trigger-happy slapstick of brash housewife Sara Jane Moore ... ....

Stephen Sondheim hails 'fresh' Assassins revival

Edit BBC News 02 Dec 2014
Composer Stephen Sondheim has helped to launch a new London staging of his 1990 musical Assassins, calling it "entirely different" from previous productions ... Sondheim, 84, said his musical had been "reconceived" for the Menier's space, which had helped to "keep it fresh" ... Tate plays Sara Jane Moore, a mother of four who was one of two women who attempted to shoot US president Gerald Ford in 1975 ... ....

Stephen Sondheim, interview: 'I'm not pretentious, I'm a product of Broadway'

Edit The Daily Telegraph 01 Dec 2014
Rex. By Dominic Cavendish ... Comments ... Catherine Tate, pictured here in rehearsal for Assassins, plays Sara Jane Moore (PHOTO ... The show brings together some of America’s best-known assassins – Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth – with lesser-known historical figures – Charles Guiteau, Samuel Byck and Sara Jane Moore, played in Jamie Lloyd’s new revival by Andy Nyman, Mike McShane and Catherine Tate ... Film ... ....
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