In the silence of my lonely room
I saw a very impressive new play, “Songs & Statues,” at the Stella Adler Studio in Manhattan Saturday night. The piece by Peter Nickowitz (left) was developed over the last year at the famed acting...
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Immortalized as the crazed editor in “Funny Face” and presented as herself in the hit off-Broadway play “Full Gallop,” Diana Vreeland was — up until the emergence of Anna Wintour — the most celebrated...
View Article‘Brando’s Smile’: cutting through the myths
Working from personal material that only became available after his death, Susan L. Mizruchi cuts through much of the mythology surrounding the life and career of a great actor in “Brando’s Smile,”...
View ArticleThe spellbinding new Brando documentary
Working from a recently discovered cache of private audiotapes that Marlon Brando made over many years, writer-director Steven Riley has come up with a unique documentary portrait of the great actor,...
View ArticleOn the fringes of Hollywood history
There are so many good little documentaries hidden away in various nooks and crannies of the Amazon Prime catalogue. Last night I watched a 54-minute gem, “The Man Who Saved Ben-Hur,” filmmaker Joe...
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