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Kingsman spy spoof loses the plot second time around

Edit North Shore News 22 Sep 2017
Kingsman. The Golden Circle. Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Starring Taron Egerton, Colin Firth and Channing Tatum. Rating ... The first film had Eggsy’s Pygmalion-type transformation, this film has the gaping cultural crevasse between Britain and the United States, punctuated by the fact that American agents have a penchant for cowboy hats, bourbon and lassos rather than the bespoke suits, whisky and weaponized umbrellas of the Kingsman shop ... ....

Noor Jehan: The queen of millions of hearts across generations

Edit Dawn 21 Sep 2017
Photo by White Star ... The songs were Meriya Dhol Sipaihiya and Mera Mahi Chail Chhabila and the voice was Madam Noor Jehan’s ... She herself set them to music right there on the spot ... Noor Jehan’s life was the stuff of legend ... Married at 17 to movie director Shaukat Hussain Rizvi, who seems to have been her Pygmalion, she combined her career with motherhood at a time when it was exceptional if not entirely unheard of ... She died in 2000 ... ....

This weekend at the Stanford: “My Fair Lady,” “East of Eden”

Edit The Stanford Daily 19 Sep 2017
The Stanford Theatre’s summer-long festival on the films from Warner Bros Studios is coming to a close. It’s beginning to end with great style. “My Fair Lady” (1964) plays Saturday, Sept. 23 to Monday, Sept ... Jack Warner, the long-time studio head of Warner Bros., personally guided this film adaptation of the hit 1956 Broadway musical, itself based on the 1913 play “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw ... In CinemaScope....

Academic punch-up over support for Brexit

Edit The Observer 17 Sep 2017
The Brexit-supporting academic who complains about being shunned by colleagues when they reveal their Brexit sympathies should count themselves lucky (Education, 15 September). I know of instances when physical violence has been, let’s say, “in the air” ... Dr Vincent Barnett. Harrow, Middlesex ... Lancaster ... • Emma Brockes argues (Notebook, 15 September) that My Fair Lady is the most successful musical adapted from a play – Shaw’s Pygmalion....

Harry Dean Stanton Dead: 'Twin Peaks' And 'Pretty In Pink' Star Dies, Aged 91

Edit Huffington Post 16 Sep 2017
Veteran character actor Harry Dean Stanton died on Friday, at the age of 91 ... After performing in ‘Pygmalion’ in college, Stanton got the acting bug and moved to California to study at the Pasadena Playhouse, according to Variety. His first broadcast appearance was in 1954 on an episode of the NBC show ‘Inner Sanctum’ ... ....

Memoir is bittersweet farewell to Bette Davis

Edit Rutland Herald 16 Sep 2017
“Miss D & Me. Life with the Invincible Bette Davis” by Kathryn Sermak with Danelle Morton, Hachette Books. Bette Davis battled studio bosses, husbands and rivals during her long acting career, establishing a tough persona in real life to match her enduring Hollywood image ... The mercurial Miss D also decided to play Pygmalion, grooming Sermak to become a young lady with the poise and discretion befitting her position ... Douglass K ... ....

Book review: Miss D & Me: Life with the Invincible Bette Davis, by Kathryn Sermak with Danelle Morton

Edit Stuff 16 Sep 2017
Miss D & Me. Life with the Invincible Bette Davis, by Kathryn Sermak with Danelle Morton, Hachette Books, $49,99. Bette Davis battled studio bosses, husbands and rivals during her long acting career, establishing a tough persona in real life to match her enduring Hollywood image ... READ MORE. ... The mercurial Miss D also decided to play Pygmalion, grooming Sermak to become a young lady with the poise and discretion befitting her position....

Harry Dean Stanton, Enduring ‘Repo Man,’ ‘Alien,’ ‘Twin Peaks’ Actor, Dies at 91

Edit The Wrap 16 Sep 2017
Harry Dean Stanton, who worked in Hollywood for over 60 years, died Friday afternoon, his agent confirmed. He was 91. The actor passed away at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles from natural causes ... Kelly said in a statement to TheWrap ... According to Kelly, Stanton first began acting after appearing on stage in a University of Kentucky production of “Pygmalion.” He then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in Hollywood....

Harry Dean Stanton obituary

Edit The Guardian 16 Sep 2017
The long-time David Lynch collaborator left a legacy of quintessentially American roles that spanned decades and won him an army of admirers. Harry Dean Stanton. Harry Dean Stanton obituary ... Harry Dean Stanton, cult American actor, dies aged 91 ... He then returned to study journalism and radio at the University of Kentucky, where he became seriously interested in acting after playing Alfred Doolittle in a college production of Pygmalion ... ....

An Exhaustive List of All the References We Could Find in Mother!

Edit Time Magazine 15 Sep 2017
Warning. spoilers for the movie mother! follow. Eliza. So the movie mother! was…something else. Eliana. I am shook. Eliza. I am…confused? Infuriated? Discombobulated?. Eliana. I’m coping by Googling as many references as possible ... Eliza ... Eliana ... Eliza ... Eliana. Yes and yes. And also a muse ... Pygmalion. In the myth of Pygmalion (as told by Ovid), a sculptor carves a woman out of ivory and then falls in love with the beautiful statue ... ....

Peter Hall: a titan of the theatre and a vulnerable, sensitive man

Edit The Guardian 13 Sep 2017
Michael Billington. In conversations with Hall over 40 years, I encountered a creative powerhouse who exuded confidence yet could be a strangely solitary figure. Peter Hall ... Twitter ... never more so than in a Much Ado About Nothing that brought out the latent homosexuality in Don John’s relationship to Claudio or in a Pygmalion that caught Professor Higgins’s ruefulness, as well as delight, in seeing Eliza achieve a spirited independence ... ....

Sir Peter Hall: A giant of British theatre

Edit BBC News 12 Sep 2017
"I saw Gielgud's Hamlet when I was 12," he later recalled, "standing at the back for sixpence.". Although German bombs were falling on London, people crowded into theatres as an escape from the war, and he witnessed some of the greatest actors of the age ... "I thought, this is what I want to do." ... Sir Peter was still working on the eve of his ninth decade, with a production of Pygmalion at the Hong Kong Arts Festival ... Related Topics. ....

Sir Peter Hall obituary: powerful force in British theatre

Edit The Guardian 12 Sep 2017
Creator of the Royal Shakespeare Company who built up the National and championed regional playhouses ... But in 2003 he established a vibrant annual summer season at the Theatre Royal, Bath, which ran for 10 years and yielded excellent productions of Shakespeare, Pinter, Coward and Rattigan as well as helping to re-establish Shaw’s reputation with a brilliant revival of Pygmalion (2007) starring Michelle Dockery and Tim Pigott-Smith ... ....
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