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Expendables 4 Will Break The Movies’ Action Icon Obsession (& That’s Good)
The forthcoming The Expendables 4 will eventually split the series’ obsession with action icons. The Expendables is a film franchise centered on an ensemble of motion film stars, led by Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham, participating in a staff of elite mercenaries who have out numerous missions, normally for a mysterious handler recognised only as Mr. Church (Bruce Willis). The series was made with the intention of spending homage to the design of 1980s action flicks and bringing the stars that led those flicks back again into the limelight. For occasion, The Expendables was the very first theatrically launched movie for Dolph Lundgren considering that 1995’s cyberpunk box business office…
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Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That Was Stephen Sondheim | Entertainment News
By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2010, the year he turned 80, Stephen Sondheim had to endure a public fuss when a Broadway theater was being renamed in his honor. At a ceremony outside the 1,055-seat auditorium on West 43rd Street, the composer looked sheepish by the time he got to the podium following gushing words from admirers that included Patti LuPone and Nathan Lane. He also offered up a window into his psyche. “I’m thrilled, but deeply embarrassed,” he said, tearing up as a mid-September sun fell over the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. “I’ve always hated my last name. It just doesn’t sing.” The comment…