Tag: Broadway
July 12, 2013 /

HAVE WE TALKED ABOUT COFFEE?

Poppets, Los Angeles is home to some fine blends. And, the older I get the more I rely on that velvety smooth, slightly chocolatey/butterscotchy jolt in the morning. As in, if I don’t get it I’m likely to snarl. We do the French press thing at home. For awhile the…

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January 8, 2013 /

CONSTANCE BENNETT AS AUNTIE MAME

Auntie Mame Counts No Calories. –

January 7, 2013 /

ROMEO AND JULIET – 1934

My grandmother told me a story long ago of taking the train to New York City to see Katherine Cornell and Basil Rathbone in “Romeo and Juliet”: The first time he played Romeo, Rathbone was twenty-one – which I think would have been around 1913. In 1934 Basil would have…

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November 28, 2012 /

FROM BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD – THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH

[Tom Ewell’s] most successful and arguably most identifiable role came in 1952 when he began the Broadway production of The Seven Year Itch. With Vanessa Brown as “The Girl”, the show ran for almost three years, and Ewell played the part more than 900 times, as he said when he…

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