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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…
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State Theater showcasing several holiday movies | Local News
This holiday season the State Theater has movies featuring Griswolds, golden bells, a grouchy Grinch, guardian angels and the golden age of Hollywood. “We think there is a Christmas movie for everyone in our lineup,” said Beth Pyles, State Theater operations manager. The lineup includes “Christmas Vacation,” “The Polar Express,” “It’s A Wonderful Life,” “The Grinch” and “White Christmas.” Pyles said there are many favorites showing this year. “Christmas Vacation” she said is a film fans enjoy. “We all have a little dysfunction in our families so I think we can relate,” she said. Movies like “The Grinch” and “The Polar Express” are for not only the young but also…
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11/26/21 Entertainment News – KTOE
11/26/21 Entertainment News — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is spreading some holiday cheer and jokes. On Thanksgiving, the megastar posted a video of himself driving up to a Hollywood tour bus. He asked fans if they saw his house yet, but they said they had not seen it. He brought the jokes before driving off, saying “Good, keep it that way. Happy Thanksgiving!” It’s not the first time The Rock has interacted with fans touring the area. — Jimmy Kimmel seems to have had a mishap in the kitchen this Thanksgiving. T he Jimmy Kimmel Live! host took to Instagram with black chunks of ash scattered across his eyebrows, arm,…
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Valley News – Bert Dodson, prolific Vermont artist, dies at 83
BRADFORD, Vt. — Bert Dodson, an influential artist and illustrator who spent the bulk of his prolific career in the Upper Valley, has died at the age of 83. A draftsman of daunting skill, Dodson asserted that drawing, and art-making in general, is everyone’s birthright and wrote and illustrated two books on drawing meant to encourage people to take it up regardless of prior experience. “Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw with some degree of proficiency,” he wrote in Keys to Drawing, which came out in 1985. By that time, he was well-ensconced in the Bradford area, having moved there in 1977. He would spend the…
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Around the Town: Helena-area arts and entertainment news published Thursday, Nov. 25 | Local
Art ‘Found It!’ gift show opens at The Myrna Loy The Myrna Loy’s holiday gift show, “Found It! 100 Treasures Under $100” is now open at The Myrna Loy, 15 N. Ewing, and runs through Dec. 31. A variety of ledger art by Michael Fast Buffalo Horse is part of the “Found It!” gift show at The Myrna Loy. Photo provided “More than 25 artists have contributed to the show,” says artist and co-curator Amy Brakeman Livezey. Brakeman Livezey is among them, having contributed five small mixed-media, abstract figurative paintings. “There’s a nice variety of 2-D artworks,” she said, including landscape paintings by Barbara Rusmore, watercolors by Terry Cohea and…
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Soundbites: Alex Toth Talks Death, New Father Figuer Single | Music News + Views | Seven Days
click to enlarge Courtesy Of Michael Aaron Leviton TOTH It’s been a long, winding trip since the days of gigging across Burlington for Alex Toth. The University of Vermont grad went from playing funk in John Brown’s Body and jazz with the Lazybirds to forming art-pop act Rubblebucket and later collaborating with artists such as Kimbra and Cuddle Magic. Though Toth and his Rubblebucket cofounder Kalmia Traver eventually separated as a couple, the band continues to thrive. The two have pursued solo careers, as well: Traver formed Kalbells,…
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