“What’s the story, morning glory? / What’s the word, hummingbird?” That was Broadway teen talk back in the early ’60s, when the high school kids in Bye Bye Birdie gossiped about their friends in a game of telephone tag
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A-list actors relive shameful audition moments
They are some of the biggest names in Hollywood, but even Susan Sarandon, Ethan Hawke and Dustin Hoffman have had their fair share of casting calamities they would rather forget.
Early photo of New York fetches $62,500
One of the earliest photographs in existence sold for $62,500 at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. The photo, which was estimated to bring in anywhere from $50,000 to $70,000, was sold to an unidentified buyer. The 5.5-by-4-inch, black and white daguerreotype shows a New York country estate
Is ‘West Side Story’ Overrated?
One of the perks of being a theater critic, in those dog days of the season when you find yourself struggling to sit through the latest Chekhov revival or pretentious little comedy about tightly wound New York singles, is the Broadway-musical revival. Yes, you can complain — as I often have — about unimaginative commercial producers who keep recycling surefire classics like Gypsy or Guys and Dolls. But there’s good reason they’re recycled so often: they are surefire — unfailingly entertaining, no matter how uninspired the production, the indomitable high points of a genre that is America’s great contribution to world theater.
Actress Natasha Richardson Dead at 45
One function of celebrity is to alert the rest of us to hard truths, to teach us the lessons of love and grief.
Director sues Jackson over ‘Thriller’ profits
Movie director John Landis is suing Michael Jackson, accusing the reclusive entertainer of fraud in his handling of profits from the iconic "Thriller" video the two made together more than 25 years ago. Landis claimed his 1983 contract with Jackson gave him 50 percent of net profits from the 14-minute video and the documentary about the making of it, both works that he directed and co-wrote with Jackson, court documents say.
New York names street ‘U2 Way’
U2 fans braved the frigid cold serenading each other with old hits as they waited hours for the band to show up Tuesday. They were not disappointed.