Sheridan Whiteside : [opening a box of candy] “Ah, pecan butternut fudge!” Nurse Preen : “Oh, my, you mustn't eat candy, Mr. Whiteside, it's very bad for you.” Whiteside : “My great aunt Jennifer ate a whole box of candy every day of her life. She lived to be 102 and when she'd been dead three days she looked better than you do now!”—George S. Kaufman and Moss...
... role as "The Queen" in a play written and staged by her older sister; her discovery by MossHart and her Broadway debut in an unsuccessful show that he both wrote and directed; her illustrious directors and leading men, including Laurence Olivier (who personally demonstrated how she was to play Ophelia's mad scene), John Gielgud (who fired her at one point), Richard Burton...
i'd like to refer you to this post . in it i said that the dead weather were boring me. my friend emma kindly offered me a spare ticket to see them at brixton last week and as i'm in love with alison mosshart i snapped it up. my opinion has changed 100%. they were amazing. in fact, they were so good live that i tried to see them again on saturday at a free gig in shoreditch. i left it far too...
... a run of several weeks, is a wry valentine to the impossible world of theater in the manner of MossHart’s Light Up the Sky and the George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber dramedy, The Royal Family (now itself being revived on Broadway). Playwright Lennox Robinson (1886-1958) was, early in the last century, both a constant supplier of new product for the Abbey Theatre and a director of...
{source: I'm not sure, but if you google image search 'alison mosshart' it comes up} Dead Weather was crazy tonight. I didn't much like the support band , but we were pretty close to the stage and had a clear veiw of the drums (wooh yay Jack White!!!) . The band looked amazing , all in black, and I wanted to steal the clothes right off Alison Mosshart's back(awesome jewellery too.) Dead Weather...
... non-US team to win the World Series , downing the Atlanta Braves in 6 (1992) Today's Birthdays MossHart (1904-1961): playwright, You Can't Take it With You ; plus, poet Denise Levertov (1923-1997) Bob Kane (1915-1998): cartoonist creator of Batman Bill Wyman (73): bassist of the Rolling Stones Kevin Kline (62): award-winning actor; other actors born on this date include F. Murray...
... – West Virginia seceded from Virginia …”Almost Heaven, West Virginia!” 1904 – Playwright, director MossHart was born …knowing “You Can’t Take it With You”! 1911 – Orville Wright spent 9 mintues and 45 seconds aloft in the Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina …gonna fly now! 1915 – Comic book artist Bob Kane born …to create DC Comics superhero, Batman: KAPOW! 1936 –...
... a still deeper sense of déjà vu sets in, for this, of course, is the gist of George S. Kaufman and MossHart's "You Can't Take It With You." Like his distinguished predecessors, Jaglom -- the filmmaker behind "Eating" and a number of entertainment-world stories, including "Last Summer in the Hamptons" -- embraces both the folly and the heroism of his characters. But that's where similarities...
Some reasons to see the new revival of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's The Royal Family , at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre: Performances by Rosemary Harris and Tony Roberts; a chance to see an early, pre-MossHartGeorge S. Kaufman play; and a rare glimpse at what the world thought of the Barrymore Family at the height of their prowess.
