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Hollywood's struggle to deal with AIDS in the '80s

Edit CNN 01 Jun 2016
(CNN)In the early 1980s, the AIDS crisis was being covered nightly on the news -- but that was likely the only time you'd hear about it on your television. The entertainment industry struggled to produce story lines or songs around an epidemic that was shaping the national conversation of that decade ... Replay ... He played a stubborn cattle rancher battling change in oil-rich Texas in the George Stevens film based on Edna Ferber's novel ... ....

Noël Coward’s ‘A Song at Twilight’ opens Shakespeare Theatre’s 2016 season

Edit The Examiner 18 May 2016
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ)’s 2016 season just got underway with Noel Coward’s 1966 swan song, “A Song at Twilight,” seen Sunday afternoon, May 15 ... The two latest season openers couldn’t be more dissimilar. George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s “Royal Family” last year was a raucous, riotous romp spotlighting three generations of established Broadway stars, the Cavendishes (based loosely on the legendary Barrymores) ... Hugo....

Dallas Opera takes gamble and scores on ‘Show Boat,’ the 1st musical in its history

Edit The Dallas Morning News 16 Apr 2016
There aren’t any heroes in the 1927 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II adaptation of the Edna Ferber novel about river boat gamblers, performers and laborers struggling to get by in a segregated world of 1887-1927 where blacks had few rights and love between races was a crime. Yet there’s a humanity that rises to the level of majesty in imperfect characters doing their best in imperfect times ... E ... Plan your life ... $19-$275. 214-443-1000 ... ....

San Francisco Opera Returns to KQED Public Television with Four Spectacular Works Recorded in High-Definition (San Francisco Opera Orchestra)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Mar 2016
(Source. San Francisco Opera Orchestra). Release date. 3/4/2016. Photos Available ... The season airs in primetime over four consecutive Thursday evenings at 8 p.m ... San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley commented ... Broadcast dates ... Based on the novel by Edna Ferber and adapted for the stage, this new production was directed by Francesca Zambello and features an extraordinary ensemble cast spanning the worlds of opera and Broadway....

San Francisco Opera on screen and radio

Edit The Examiner 05 Feb 2016
San Francisco Opera is in the spotlight over the coming week, with the opening of its Grand Opera Cinema series at the Sundance Kabuki Cinema, and its recent production of Luisa Miller featuring in Classical KDFC’s San Francisco Opera broadcast on Sunday evening ... Show Boat - based on Edna Ferber’s 1926 novel - follows the lives of those on board the Mississippi riverboat, Cotton Blossom ... ....

San Francisco Opera Returns to Sundance Kabuki Cinemas with New Screenings of Show Boat, Susannah, ...

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jan 2016
(Source. San Francisco Opera Orchestra). Photos Available. San Francisco Opera partners again with Sundance Kabuki Cinemas to present the latest installment of the San Francisco Opera Grand Opera Cinema Series for winter 2016 ... The American masterpiece, based on the novel by Edna Ferber, was directed by Francesca Zambello and featured an extraordinary ensemble cast spanning the worlds of opera and Broadway ... # # # # # # # ... TICKETS ... (noodl....

True-crime stories: a centuries-old craze from Ben Franklin to Making a Murderer

Edit The Guardian 07 Jan 2016
Recent crazes like The Jinx and Serial might appear to show a renewed interest in the genre – but in fact, people have devoured it for centuries, as both high culture and populist entertainment. If we are, as so many people with an opinion would have us believe, in the midst of a resurgence of interest in true crime, it’s largely a question of packaging ... Discovery ... Novelists like Edna Ferber and Theodore Dreiser covered trials ... ....

Show Boat review – all aboard for performances of exceptional quality

Edit The Guardian 20 Dec 2015
5 / 5 stars. Crucible, Sheffield. Daniel Evans’s production of the 20th-century musical classic is unmissable. @clarembrennan. The star of Show Boat is, surely, the Mississippi river, its rolling presence famously extolled in one of the 1927 musical’s hit numbers. Ol’ Man River ... Performances of exceptional quality, each one true to the self that it must be, underscore a theme within Edna Ferber’s novel (the musical’s source) ... ....

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival announces 2016 lineup

Edit Atlanta Journal 18 Dec 2015
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, Atlanta’s biggest movie marathon, unveils the lineup for the 2016 edition Thursday night, showing that the biggest has grown even bigger. There are 77 films in the 23-day festival, not including short features ... 26 and ends Feb ... 26 ... 26 ... It was based on the novel by Edna Ferber, the crusading journalist and daughter of an immigrant Hungarian Jewish shopkeeper, who had experienced prejudice in her own life ... ....

American Dreams: Fiction’s Anti-Karlie Kloss

Edit The Daily Beast 12 Dec 2015
Mary Gaitskill’s novel about a stunning and cruel supermodel would be unrecognizable to the cookie-baking hyper-friendly #girlsquads of today. At the heart of this most anti-sentimental of novels is a sentimental story ... That is the story, at least, promoted by Veronica’s press copy and most of the reviews it received at the time of publication ... But Alison is not innocent for long ... I had that prettiness ... Boyle ... 1924—So Big by Edna Ferber....

American Dreams: When Frank Bascombe Had It Best

Edit The Daily Beast 05 Dec 2015
In Independence Day, the Everyman hero of of Richard Ford’s series glides along as his own revolution is surrendered. Historians write of the birth of nations and the death of empires ... The problem is the necessity of historical perspective. While births and deaths tend to be clearly marked, the intervening phases can be difficult to determine in the moment ... “Best” is long gone; “fine” is more than sufficient ... 1924—So Big by Edna Ferber....

7 Mistakes No Theater Fan Should Make

Edit About.com 29 Nov 2015
Pardon me while I get a bit pedantic, but in my many years of teaching, writing, and talking about theater, musical theater in particular, I';ve noticed a few common mistakes that people make ... To wit. ... Who says? The guy who wrote the show says (the redoubtable Oscar Hammerstein II) not to mention the woman who wrote the novel upon which the show is based (the formidable Edna Ferber) ... I can live with that ... Mr ... [Author's note....

How DeLillo Nailed Us in ‘White Noise’

Edit The Daily Beast 05 Nov 2015
A critical hit when it was published, this novel of a toxic America full of people poisoned by reality has achieved the status of unquestioned literary classic. Shop ▾. For all the discussion of artificial hearts, advanced plastics, and high-voltage power lines, DeLillo is really concerned with more primitive terrors, particularly the fear of death ... But something else had changed ... “Pretend?” ... Auel ... Boyle ... 1924—So Big by Edna Ferber ... ....
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