The popularity of "M*A*S*H" is well-documented: Its record-setting finale telecast, which captivated 125 million people in total, is cited in media studies lessons, bar trivia games, and world record books alike. But when we talk about how "M*A*S*H" went out on a high note with the most-watched non-Super Bowl telecast of all time, we don't often talk about what those viewership numbers make clear: The show ended while plenty of fans were still clamoring for more.
"M*A*S*H" ran for 11 seasons before bowing out with the feature-length finale, "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen." But unlike most shows that fizzle out after a long run or are canceled after a short one, "M*A*S*H" didn't have trouble getting audiences' attention. According to classic TV ratings databases, nine of the show's seasons were among the top 10 most-watched shows on TV, and millions of fans tuned in regularly even before its big finish. By all indications, the...
"M*A*S*H" ran for 11 seasons before bowing out with the feature-length finale, "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen." But unlike most shows that fizzle out after a long run or are canceled after a short one, "M*A*S*H" didn't have trouble getting audiences' attention. According to classic TV ratings databases, nine of the show's seasons were among the top 10 most-watched shows on TV, and millions of fans tuned in regularly even before its big finish. By all indications, the...
- 10/8/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Broadway actor Chris Peluso, known for his work in productions such as Mamma Mia and Wicked, died Wednesday, August 15, his family confirmed to Playbill. He was 40.
A cause of death has not been revealed. His sudden passing came a year after he announced he would be stepping away from acting to seek treatment for a schizoaffective disorder, Playbill reported.
An alum of the University of Michigan Theatre Department, Peluso became known as a respected understudy on Broadway, first covering The Balladeer in the 2004 Tony-winning revival of Assassins, as Louis and Nicolas in Elton John’s Lestat , and all three leading male roles in Beautiful The Carole King Musical.
He played Sky in the 2008 Broadway production of Mamma Mia. He also starred and covered the role of Fiyero in the touring company of Wicked, and he starred in Off Broadway’s The Glorious Ones.
In London’s West End, he appeared...
A cause of death has not been revealed. His sudden passing came a year after he announced he would be stepping away from acting to seek treatment for a schizoaffective disorder, Playbill reported.
An alum of the University of Michigan Theatre Department, Peluso became known as a respected understudy on Broadway, first covering The Balladeer in the 2004 Tony-winning revival of Assassins, as Louis and Nicolas in Elton John’s Lestat , and all three leading male roles in Beautiful The Carole King Musical.
He played Sky in the 2008 Broadway production of Mamma Mia. He also starred and covered the role of Fiyero in the touring company of Wicked, and he starred in Off Broadway’s The Glorious Ones.
In London’s West End, he appeared...
- 8/18/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Rita Lakin, the boundary-pushing TV writer and showrunner who worked on Peyton Place, The Doctors and Mod Squad and created series including The Rookies and Flamingo Road, has died. She was 93.
Lakin died March 23 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Novato, California, her son, writer-producer Howard Lakin, told The Hollywood Reporter. “Before her, they hadn’t thought about writing television from a woman’s point of view,” he noted.
Lakin also penned a groundbreaking 1975 episode of CBS’ Medical Center centered on a transgender character; served as a showrunner/executive producer on the 1976-77 CBS drama Executive Suite; and wrote such popular telefilms as 1971’s Death Takes a Holiday and 1973’s Message to My Daughter and A Summer Without Boys.
After she met some people from Texas whom she didn’t like, she rejected an offer in 1978 to create the pilot for a show about an oil family in the Lone Star State.
Lakin died March 23 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Novato, California, her son, writer-producer Howard Lakin, told The Hollywood Reporter. “Before her, they hadn’t thought about writing television from a woman’s point of view,” he noted.
Lakin also penned a groundbreaking 1975 episode of CBS’ Medical Center centered on a transgender character; served as a showrunner/executive producer on the 1976-77 CBS drama Executive Suite; and wrote such popular telefilms as 1971’s Death Takes a Holiday and 1973’s Message to My Daughter and A Summer Without Boys.
After she met some people from Texas whom she didn’t like, she rejected an offer in 1978 to create the pilot for a show about an oil family in the Lone Star State.
- 4/21/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s a Christmas tradition for almost every great television series to end the calendar year with a Christmas episode. When done right, this segment can become a classic that brings joy to the holiday season. Whether they are completely original or variations on themes involving Santa Claus, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Ebenezer Scrooge or some other staple, fans of these shows can hold such episodes in their hearts forever. Our photo gallery looks back on the 20 greatest Christmas episodes from such shows as “Happy Days,” “The Brady Bunch,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Seinfeld,” “Saturday Night Live,” “The Office,” “Late Night with David Letterman” and more.
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Here’s a delicious taste below of some of the episodes selected for the gallery:
Happy Days – “Guess Who’s Coming to Christmas” (1974)
This one is sad yet sweet and launched a TV icon into the hearts of America. When...
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Here’s a delicious taste below of some of the episodes selected for the gallery:
Happy Days – “Guess Who’s Coming to Christmas” (1974)
This one is sad yet sweet and launched a TV icon into the hearts of America. When...
- 12/24/2019
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Join The York for the Off-Broadway premiere of Anything Can Happen in the Theater The Musical World of Maury Yeston, an unforgettable evening in the theater featuring a collection of songs from the two-time Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist. The genius of Yeston's songs -- intricate yet emotional, cerebral yet romantic, clever yet unendingly melodic -- is coupled with an outstanding cast to be announced soon for a memorable evening showcasing the myriad sides of the writer's repertoire. Showstoppers from Nine, Grand Hotel, Titanic, Phantom, and Death Takes a Holiday intertwine with premieres of new songs from the Yeston songbook to show off his immense breadth of style -- from the hilarious to the deeply moving.
- 11/25/2019
- by Genevieve Rafter Keddy
- BroadwayWorld.com
Martin Brest’s 1998 drama “Meet Joe Black” was a box office bomb in the U.S. with a $44 million gross on a $90 million production budget, but 21 years later it’s officially become a viral sensation. A clip from the movie resurfaced on Twitter this week featuring the film’s most ludicrous moment, a car accident scene in which Brad Pitt’s character gets bounced in the air between two moving vehicles, and it’s currently earned over 23,000 shares and nearly 90,000 likes. Only in the age of social media would “Meet Joe Black” find relevancy over two decades after its release.
“Meet Joe Black” was distributed by Universal Pictures and was loosely based on the 1934 classic “Death Takes a Holiday.” The scene in question occurs after the first encounter between Claire Forlani’s Dr. Susan Parrish and Pitt’s unnamed man. The two characters meet in a coffee shop and have instant chemistry,...
“Meet Joe Black” was distributed by Universal Pictures and was loosely based on the 1934 classic “Death Takes a Holiday.” The scene in question occurs after the first encounter between Claire Forlani’s Dr. Susan Parrish and Pitt’s unnamed man. The two characters meet in a coffee shop and have instant chemistry,...
- 4/12/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
It’s a Christmas tradition for almost every great television series to end the calendar year with a Christmas episode. When done right, this segment can become a classic that brings joy to the holiday season. Whether they are completely original or variations on themes involving Santa Claus, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Ebenezer Scrooge or some other staple, fans of these shows can hold such episodes in their hearts forever. Our photo gallery looks back on the 20 greatest Christmas episodes, ranked best to worst, from such shows as “Happy Days,” “The Brady Bunch,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Seinfeld,” “Saturday Night Live,” “The Office,” “Late Night with David Letterman” and more.
SEE15 Greatest Christmas Movies of All Time
20. Little House on the Prairie – “Christmas at Plum Creek” (1974)
Christmas is all about secrets. Laura (Melissa Gilbert) wants to buy an expensive present for her mother. Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) wants...
SEE15 Greatest Christmas Movies of All Time
20. Little House on the Prairie – “Christmas at Plum Creek” (1974)
Christmas is all about secrets. Laura (Melissa Gilbert) wants to buy an expensive present for her mother. Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) wants...
- 12/21/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Ask a certain crowd of people what the defining MTV show of their childhood was, and it’s not Trl, or Real World or Jersey Shore. It’s Daria. Though Ms. Morgendorffer had been seen on Beavis and Butt-Head before, the March 3, 1997, premiere of Daria proved that the two shows couldn’t be more different. Let’s take a fond trip back to Lawndale for a closer look at the best animated misanthrope of the ‘90s.
1. B&B-h creator Mike Judge had no involvement in Daria …
Judge agreed to release the character, but that’s where his involvement with the show ended.
1. B&B-h creator Mike Judge had no involvement in Daria …
Judge agreed to release the character, but that’s where his involvement with the show ended.
- 3/3/2017
- by Alex Heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Maxwell Caulfield, Zoe Doano and Chris Peluso are to head the cast of Death Takes A Holiday, the third Charing Cross Theatre musical directed by Artistic Director Thom Southerland following the critically acclaimed Titanic and Ragtime, which has just received an all-time record 14 Off West End Award nominations as well as WhatsOnStage Award nominations for Best Musical Revival and Best Off West End Producton.
- 12/31/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Maury Yeston, the composer and lyricist best-known for Nine and Titanic, visited the West End a few months before the West End opening of his new musical, Death Takes a Holiday. Based on a film which was based on a play this story tells of howDeath changed his perspective. He used tonot quite understandwhy everyone he came to collect was quite so aggrieved to die, until he met a particular woman whoallowed him torealisequite what makes life worth clinging to. The side effect of Death's occupation being, though, that he can't collect anyone else while he's so distracted - Death the person and death the concept take a break Maury was kind enough to discuss his musical background, some of his better-known works and his latest venture for the stage.
- 9/30/2016
- by Liz Cearns
- BroadwayWorld.com
Here's a sterling example of what Hollywood excelled at back in the golden age: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains and Edward Everett Horton star in possibly the most magical of movies known as Film Blanc. A cosmic goof leaves a man with fifty years yet to live without a body -- so heavenly troubleshooters try to find him a new one. Here Comes Mr. Jordan Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 819 1941 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 94 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date June 14, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason. Cinematography Joseph Walker Art Direction Lionel Banks Film Editor Viola Lawrence Original Music Frederick Hollander Written by Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller from the play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall Produced by Everett Riskin Directed by Alexander Hall
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Some movies are so entertaining that it's best to tell people,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Some movies are so entertaining that it's best to tell people,...
- 6/7/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Given how revered Disney's "Pinocchio" is today, it's hard to believe it was a flop when it was first released exactly three quarters of a century ago. Upon its New York City premiere, on February 7, 1940, critics hailed the film as a masterpiece, and even to this day, many prefer it to Disney's pioneering first animated feature, 1937's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Yet it took the film many years and multiple re-releases to make a profit.
Today, of course, the legacy of "Pinocchio" is inescapable. Everyone's image of the puppet-boy with the nose that grows when he lies comes not from Carlo Collodi's original novel but from the kid with the Tyrolean hat and the Mickey Mouse gloves, as drawn by Disney animators. And the opening tune, Jiminy Cricket's "When You Wish Upon a Star," is ubiquitous as the theme music played before every Walt Disney movie and home video release.
Today, of course, the legacy of "Pinocchio" is inescapable. Everyone's image of the puppet-boy with the nose that grows when he lies comes not from Carlo Collodi's original novel but from the kid with the Tyrolean hat and the Mickey Mouse gloves, as drawn by Disney animators. And the opening tune, Jiminy Cricket's "When You Wish Upon a Star," is ubiquitous as the theme music played before every Walt Disney movie and home video release.
- 2/7/2015
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Been meaning to catch up with Sam and Dean Winchester, but just haven't found the time? Our Supernatural tips for beginners may help...
Maps To TV Shows: Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then Maps To TV Shows is for you!
In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do you want to...
Maps To TV Shows: Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then Maps To TV Shows is for you!
In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do you want to...
- 1/13/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
In honor of Supernatural's 200th episode, EW took a quick trip down the road so far. And by quick, we mean that we ranked every episode of Supernatural ever. From Sam and Dean's first battle against the Woman in White to Sam's recent rescue of Demon Dean, we left nothing out, and we're pretty sure it was just as difficult as that one time that Sam and Dean stopped the apocalypse. If you're looking for our Top 40 picks, check out gallery No. 1, and for our Worst 10, head here. For everything in between, scroll down, relive the memories (and...
- 11/7/2014
- by Samantha Highfill and Jonathon Dornbush
- EW.com - PopWatch
Death takes a holiday from onstage depiction in Marjorie Prime, the new play by Jordan Harrison, a writer on Orange is The New Black. The same goes for grief and loss, though the drama is suffused with a piquant sense of all of them. Instead, the deceased appear only in the form of a computer program. Its aim is to provide solace by projecting the departed's physical presence, based on detailed input from the bereaved. This essentially Twilight Zone-like high concept thankfully eschews the hectoring metaphoric significance of Rod Serling, employing indirect suggestion to propel its characters through parlous emotional
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- 9/23/2014
- by Myron Meisel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The road so far …
It wasn’t exactly easy for genre television in 2005. Well, it’s really never been easy for genre television ever in the history of television, but in 2005, a deluge of genre shows premiered and almost all of them had fallen prey to the swift axe of the television gods by the next year. Start by thinking about television now. It’s a fruitful time for horror and science fiction and fantasy. There are a multitude of genre shows, running the gamut from The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, to True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. They’re all massive hits.
Now, think of all of the shows that premiered around that time in 2005. There was Surface, and that was cancelled after ten episodes by NBC. Invasion, a well-regarded show written by Shaun Cassidy (who created one of my favorite shows, American Gothic) and that was cancelled...
It wasn’t exactly easy for genre television in 2005. Well, it’s really never been easy for genre television ever in the history of television, but in 2005, a deluge of genre shows premiered and almost all of them had fallen prey to the swift axe of the television gods by the next year. Start by thinking about television now. It’s a fruitful time for horror and science fiction and fantasy. There are a multitude of genre shows, running the gamut from The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, to True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. They’re all massive hits.
Now, think of all of the shows that premiered around that time in 2005. There was Surface, and that was cancelled after ten episodes by NBC. Invasion, a well-regarded show written by Shaun Cassidy (who created one of my favorite shows, American Gothic) and that was cancelled...
- 6/4/2014
- by Nathan Smith
- Nerdly
Musical Theatre Guild, the winner of the Los Angles Drama Critic's Circle Margaret Harford Award for sustained excellence in the theatre, will present the West Coast premiere of Death Takes A Holiday, the second performance of their 2013-2014 season at the Moss Theatre at New Roads School in Santa Monica. The one-night-only concert will take place on Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 700 pm.
- 2/5/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc, in a collaboration with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, will record three songs from the little-known 1947 musical comedy Barefoot Boy With Cheek featuring performances by Jenn Colella Chaplin, Closer Than Ever, Max von EssenEvita, Death Takes a Holiday and Robert Lenzi South Pacific, Hello Again. Umc's recordings will be released for free digital download on the New York Public Library's website as part of its Musical of the Month blog series, which recently featured Umc's reconstruction of the Barefoot Boy libretto. The musical has never received a cast album.
- 6/12/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Town Hall Presents Broadway By The Year, Featuring Howard McGillin, Lisa Brescia & More, Tonight
The Town Hall is proud to announce the season finale of Broadway by the Year featuring The Broadway Musicals of 1988, includingThe Phantom of the Opera, Chess, Legs Diamond, Romance Romance, Carrie, and More Scott Siegel, the creator, writer, and host of Broadway by the Year has selected a half dozen performers to star in the concert, including Howard McGillin, who holds the record for playing 'The Phantom' longer than any other actor in Broadway history. He will be joined by one of his Christines, Jennifer Hope Wills. Drama Desk Nominees Farah Alvin The Marvelous Wonderettes and Kevin Earley Death Takes a Holiday return toBroadway by the Year. Lisa Brescia, who starred on Broadway in Twyla Tharp's The Times They Are A-Changin', as Elphaba in Wicked, and as Donna in Mamma Mia makes her Broadway by the Year debut and favorite Scott Coulter will direct and star in the concert.
- 6/3/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Town Hall is proud to announce the season finale of Broadway by the Year featuring The Broadway Musicals of 1988, includingThe Phantom of the Opera, Chess, Legs Diamond, Romance Romance, Carrie, and More Scott Siegel, the creator, writer, and host of Broadway by the Year has selected a half dozen performers to star in the concert, including Howard McGillan, who holds the record for playing 'The Phantom' longer than any other actor in Broadway history. He will be joined by one of his Christines, Jennifer Hope Wills. Drama Desk Nominees Farah Alvin The Marvelous Wonderettes and Kevin Earley Death Takes a Holiday return toBroadway by the Year. Lisa Brescia, who starred on Broadway in Twyla Tharp's The Times They Are A-Changin', as Elphaba in Wicked, and as Donna in Mamma Mia makes her Broadway by the Year debut and favorite Scott Coulter will direct and star in the concert.
- 5/29/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Gersten has announced casting for the 2013 summer season's exciting slate of productions. On the Main Stage, the cast of Animal Crackers playing June 26 - July 14, 2013 will include Jonathan Brody Naked Boys Singing, Adam Chanler-Berat Peter and the Starcatcher, Mara Davi Death Takes a Holiday, Renee Elise Goldsberry Good People, Ellen Harvey How to Succeed..., and Jacob Ming Trent Hands on a Hardbody, all making their Wtf debuts.
- 4/25/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today we are talking to a charming and affable presence onstage and onscreen who has scored in a wide range of roles in the West End and throughout the UK from his work as Bobby in Company to Merrily We Roll Along, Marguerite and many more to, now, starring in the Theatre du Chatelet production of Sunday In The Park With George in the title role, Julian Ovenden. In addition to revealing details about the Paris Sondheim production, Ovenden also offers thoughts on his Sondheim work in general. Additionally, Ovenden illustrates his impressions of two spectacular small screen ventures - essaying the role of JFK in the musical-within-the-series on Smash as well as preparing to play a pivotal role in the new season of Downton Abbey. Most importantly, Ovenden shares his deep affection for the music of Rodgers amp Hammerstein and discusses his participation in the stupendous Rodgers amp Hammerstein...
- 4/20/2013
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
Submitted by Templar:
Blake Shelton: ”You know people are making such a big deal out of Tim McGraw’s new buff look, but I say he’s always had one of the best bodies in country music.”
Luke Bryan: ”And her name is Faith Hill.”
–Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan at the Acm Awards
Come back tonight to share your pick for best sound bite!
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Blake Shelton: ”You know people are making such a big deal out of Tim McGraw’s new buff look, but I say he’s always had one of the best bodies in country music.”
Luke Bryan: ”And her name is Faith Hill.”
–Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan at the Acm Awards
Come back tonight to share your pick for best sound bite!
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- 4/8/2013
- by EW staff
- EW.com - PopWatch
Today, Michael Riedel fills in a few more blanks in the New York Post, including word that producer Robert Fox has signed on, as well as director Richard Eyre the National Theater, Mary Poppins. The show is next headed for a reading in London next week, followed by a summertime presentation at Lloyd Webber's annual Sydmonton Festival if all goes well. Riedel also adds that the composer wants Julian Ovenden last seen in Death Takes a Holiday, to star.
- 1/16/2013
- by BWW
- BroadwayWorld.com
News.
A new issue of one the most essential film publications, La Furia Umana, is now available online. As always, alongside a rich collection of disparate texts, the issue has separate dossiers devoted to specific filmmakers, including ones on René Vautier (edited by Nicole Brenez) and Ida Lupino with Claire Denis. The amount of must-read coverage is daunting: included, too, are homages to Chris Marker and Stephen Dwoskin, a new video by David Phelps, and much more to explore.
In this issue, our pride and joy is to be found in the monograph-length dossier on Hollywood auteur William A. Wellman, a dossier edited by Gina Telaroli and Phelps. Our editor Daniel Kasman has contributed anoverview to Wellman's filmography; Telaroli has an incredible image-based piece on Good-bye, My Lady (alongside "scraps" and "findings" pointing the way for even more coverage of this filmmaker's wide oeuvre), filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has a new piece,...
A new issue of one the most essential film publications, La Furia Umana, is now available online. As always, alongside a rich collection of disparate texts, the issue has separate dossiers devoted to specific filmmakers, including ones on René Vautier (edited by Nicole Brenez) and Ida Lupino with Claire Denis. The amount of must-read coverage is daunting: included, too, are homages to Chris Marker and Stephen Dwoskin, a new video by David Phelps, and much more to explore.
In this issue, our pride and joy is to be found in the monograph-length dossier on Hollywood auteur William A. Wellman, a dossier edited by Gina Telaroli and Phelps. Our editor Daniel Kasman has contributed anoverview to Wellman's filmography; Telaroli has an incredible image-based piece on Good-bye, My Lady (alongside "scraps" and "findings" pointing the way for even more coverage of this filmmaker's wide oeuvre), filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has a new piece,...
- 10/8/2012
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Tony Award winner Donna McKechnie A Chorus Line, Company, Promises, Promises, Tony Award nominee Will Swenson Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Hair, Jill Paice Rebecca, Death Takes A Holiday, Curtains, Jeremy Kushnier Jesus Christ Superstar, Jersey Boys, Footloose and Jim Walton Merrily We Roll Along, The Music Man, Sweeney Todd have joined the cast of the Broadway-themed web series Pzazz 101.
- 8/22/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
When I was a kid I was always drawn to stories with fantasy elements, like Harvey, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, On Borrowed Time and Death Takes a Holiday. Introducing unexplainable or mystical elements into a real-world setting is hard to resist, when it’s done right. If I had a 10-to-12-year-old child, I would take them to see The Odd Life of Timothy Green, because it traffics in that kind of everyday fantasy and plays it with sincerity. If it whets a young person’s appetite to see more of this kind of storytelling, that’s great. I’m only sorry it isn’t a better movie. Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton play a loving couple who want a baby more than...
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- 8/16/2012
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Nominations for The 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced on Friday, April 27, 2012 at Feinsteins at Loews Regency by Drama Desk Award winners Brian dArcy James and Donna Murphy, with Death Takes a Holiday, Follies and Nice Work If You Can Get It leading the pack. Yesterday, May 8, all of the nominees were celebrated at a special reception and BroadwayWorld was there to capture it all.
- 5/9/2012
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle have announced the winners of the organization’s 77th annual awards on Monday night.Stephen Karam’s “Sons of the Prophet” won the award for Best Play. Other finalists included Amy Herzog’s “4000 Miles” and Nina Raines’ “Tribes.” According to the Nydcc website, it took four rounds of voting to determine a clear winner. “Tribes” went on to win the award for Best Foreign Play, over Richard Bean’s British import “One Man, Two Guvnors.”“Once,” which leads the pack of Tony competitors with 11 nominations, won Best Musical. Other finalists included “Death Takes a Holiday” and “Queen of the Mist.”The group also decided to bestow two special citations. One went to the Signature Theatre Company on the occasion of its major expansion, and the other went to director Mike Nichols for career achievement. Nichols directed the current revival of “Death of a Salesman” on Broadway.
- 5/8/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Doug Strassler)
- backstage.com
Carey Mulligan, Kevin Spacey and Philip Seymour Hoffman are among the Hollywood stars who have been nominated for Drama Desk Awards in recognition of their New York stage performances.
Mulligan's turn in Through a Glass Darkly has landed her in the Outstanding Actress category, which also includes fellow Brit Joely Richardson (Side Effects).
In the running for Outstanding Actor, Spacey (Richard III) and Seymour Hoffman (Death of a Salesman) face competition from the likes of James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Hugh Dancy (Venus in Fur).
Pop star Ricky Martin has nabbed a nod for Outstanding Actor In A Musical for Evita, which is also up for the Outstanding Musical Revival crown.
The 57th annual Drama Desk Awards look set to be a big night for Broadway production Follies and the off-Broadway show Death Takes a Holiday - both landed 10 nominations each.
The trophies will be presented during a ceremony at The Town Hall in New York City on 3 June.
Mulligan's turn in Through a Glass Darkly has landed her in the Outstanding Actress category, which also includes fellow Brit Joely Richardson (Side Effects).
In the running for Outstanding Actor, Spacey (Richard III) and Seymour Hoffman (Death of a Salesman) face competition from the likes of James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Hugh Dancy (Venus in Fur).
Pop star Ricky Martin has nabbed a nod for Outstanding Actor In A Musical for Evita, which is also up for the Outstanding Musical Revival crown.
The 57th annual Drama Desk Awards look set to be a big night for Broadway production Follies and the off-Broadway show Death Takes a Holiday - both landed 10 nominations each.
The trophies will be presented during a ceremony at The Town Hall in New York City on 3 June.
- 5/3/2012
- WENN
The Drama Desk Award nominations, announced Friday, are causing some drama of their own. After inexplicably not including the Outstanding Orchestrations category in this year’s awards – the press release says, “The Board also decided to eliminate the category of Orchestrations” - the Drama Desk board has ruffled more than a few industry feathers.Drama Desk and Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown took to his blog to register his outrage. Calling on this year’s nominated composers - Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (“Once”), Michael John Lachiusa (“Queen of the Mist”), Alan Menken (“Leap of Faith” and “Newsies The Musical”), Frank Wildhorn (“Bonnie & Clyde”), and Maury Yeston (“Death Takes a Holiday”) - to boycott the awards on June 3, Brown wrote: “I think it's the duty of those writers to support the orchestrators who have served them so valiantly and brilliantly this season and throughout their careers. I think the.
- 4/30/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Julienne Bilker)
- backstage.com
Following an overwhelmingly less-than-friendly response to omitting the “Outstanding Orchestrations” category from their 2011-2012 nominations, the Drama Desk Executive Board has reversed its controversial decision, announcing the nominees for that award on Monday afternoon. The nominations for “Outstanding Orchestrations” are as follows:Bill Elliott, “Nice Work If You Can Get It”Larry Hochman, “Death Takes a Holiday”Martin Lowe, “Once”John McDaniel, “Bonnie & Clyde”Michael Starobin, “Queen of the Mist”Danny Troob, “Newsies The Musical”The initial decision to exclude the Orchestrations category this year met with a healthy amount of protest, Back Stage reported on Monday morning. The petition to reinstate the category racked up more than 3,000 signatures, while Drama Desk and Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown’s blog calling for this year’s nominated composers to boycott the award ceremony made the interweb rounds.Commenting on the reversal, Drama Desk President Isa Goldberg stated:“The Drama Desk prides...
- 4/30/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Julienne Bilker)
- backstage.com
New York, April 28 (Ians/Efe) Singer and actor Ricky Martin was nominated Friday for a Drama Desk Award in the category of Outstanding Actor in a Musical, for his role in the current Broadway revival of "Evita".
"Thank u! What a way 2 srt my day!," the star said on Twitter.
Martin will compete for the prestigious prize with Raul Esparza for "Leap of Faith", Danny Burstein for "Follies", Kevin Earley for "Death Takes a Holiday", Jeremy Jordan for "Newsies The Musical" and Norm Lewis for "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess".
"Evita" also had another three nominations.
"Thank u! What a way 2 srt my day!," the star said on Twitter.
Martin will compete for the prestigious prize with Raul Esparza for "Leap of Faith", Danny Burstein for "Follies", Kevin Earley for "Death Takes a Holiday", Jeremy Jordan for "Newsies The Musical" and Norm Lewis for "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess".
"Evita" also had another three nominations.
- 4/28/2012
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
"Follies" and "Death Takes a Holiday" received the most nominations for the 57th annual Drama Desk Awards, which were announced by Broadway stars Donna Murphy and Brian d'Arcy James at a press conference at Feinstein's at Loews Regency on Friday. Both performers are previous Drama Desk winners. Murphy will be featured in a revival of "Into the Woods" at the Delacorte Theatre this summer and d'Arcy James is currently starring on NBC's "Smash." Unlike the Tony Awards, the Drama Desks consider productions from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway equally in each of its multiple categories. "Follies," the hit revival of the 1971 Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical about a reunion of showgirls which will soon open in Los Angeles, and "Death Takes a Holiday," a Roundabout Theatre Company production which played Off-Broadway last summer, received 10 nominations each.The Drama Desk is an organization of New York-based theater writers, critics, and editors.
- 4/27/2012
- by help@backstage.com (David Sheward)
- backstage.com
Dean (Jensen Ackles) enters a Chinese butcher's to find Doctor Robert (Robert Englund) who used to fix Dad. He had his medical licence back then. Dean wants to flatline so he can meet with the reaper, Tessa (Lindsey McKeon) and subsequently converse with Death (Julian Richings). He gives the doctor a letter for Ben incase something happens to him. Then calls for Tessa in Latin and needs Death, who comes anyway. He only loaned Dean the ring and he knows where Dean's stashed it. Death can break into Lucifer's cage, where both Sam's (Jared Padalecki) and Adam's souls are. Dean wants them both and he can only pick one. No contest as to who he was going to choose. Sam's soul has been there for a year and is damaged. Death offers to put up a wall in Sam's mind so he won't recall anything. Tessa says it's not permanent.
- 2/5/2012
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
Announced to star this Thursday, January 5th at 11 Pm will be Tony Award Winner Alice Ripley her second appearance in The Ballyhoo, Drama Desk amp Olivier Nominee Nancy Anderson, Kevin Earley Death Takes a Holiday, and the award-winning vocalist Carole J. Bufford also making her second appearance in The Ballyoo. Musical Direction by Jesse Kissel and hosted by Series CreatorProducer Scott Siegel...
- 1/4/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Death takes a holiday.
Imagine that no one dies. Plants and animals continue with their normal life-cycles, but humans don’t. They sustain massive injuries, get blown up, stabbed, burned, what have you, but yet they live and live and live without the great surcease of pain. For some this would be a blessing; time granted to them while surgeons repair damaged bodies. To others it would be a living hell no one should ever endure.
This is the situation the world finds itself in at the start of “The New World,” the first episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day. It’s the fourth series to of the Doctor Who spinoff be produced and the first to be co-produced with the American television network Starz.
As the story opens, we find a man, Oswald Dane (Bill Pullman), about to be executed for the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl.
Death takes a holiday.
Imagine that no one dies. Plants and animals continue with their normal life-cycles, but humans don’t. They sustain massive injuries, get blown up, stabbed, burned, what have you, but yet they live and live and live without the great surcease of pain. For some this would be a blessing; time granted to them while surgeons repair damaged bodies. To others it would be a living hell no one should ever endure.
This is the situation the world finds itself in at the start of “The New World,” the first episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day. It’s the fourth series to of the Doctor Who spinoff be produced and the first to be co-produced with the American television network Starz.
As the story opens, we find a man, Oswald Dane (Bill Pullman), about to be executed for the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl.
- 7/8/2011
- by Chris Swanson
- Obsessed with Film
On Torchwood, Gwen Cooper has faced down extraterrestrial threats to life on Earth and always survived. But Eve Myles, the actress who plays Gwen, shooting Torchwood: Miracle Day involved a terrifying new challenge: Driving on the right-hand side of the road.
Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper. Presumably Myles doesn't drive with a gun.
“I’ve been petrified for I don’t know how long,” recounts the Welsh-born actress between takes on the show’s Burbank set. “And I thought if this is going to be like the first time I rode a bike, where I went straight towards a wall, so I covered my eyes with my hands and hit the wall, please don’t do this in the car.”
Torchwood, a spin-off of the legendary Doctor Who series, has enjoyed widespread popularity in the United Kingdom and a fervent fanbase in the U.S. With the show’s fourth season,...
Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper. Presumably Myles doesn't drive with a gun.
“I’ve been petrified for I don’t know how long,” recounts the Welsh-born actress between takes on the show’s Burbank set. “And I thought if this is going to be like the first time I rode a bike, where I went straight towards a wall, so I covered my eyes with my hands and hit the wall, please don’t do this in the car.”
Torchwood, a spin-off of the legendary Doctor Who series, has enjoyed widespread popularity in the United Kingdom and a fervent fanbase in the U.S. With the show’s fourth season,...
- 7/5/2011
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Backlot
From the backrooms of Manchester gay bars to the outer reaches of space and time, Russell T. Davies has taken TV viewers around the world on a breathtaking ride. He first hit everyone’s radar as the creator of the original Queer as Folk when it aired in the United Kingdom in 1999, and after concocting the similarly groundbreaking Bob & Rose (about a gay guy who falls in love with a woman) and The Second Coming, (about the return of the Messiah), Davies had the clout to do whatever he wanted, which turned out to be a revival of the venerable science-fiction series Doctor Who.
His 2005-2010 run with the Doctor was hugely popular with both old-school fans and new viewers, and the show’s success led to two Davies-created spinoffs: The Sarah Jane Adventures (which recently ended due to the untimely death of its star, Elisabeth Sladen) and Torchwood, about the time-traveling,...
His 2005-2010 run with the Doctor was hugely popular with both old-school fans and new viewers, and the show’s success led to two Davies-created spinoffs: The Sarah Jane Adventures (which recently ended due to the untimely death of its star, Elisabeth Sladen) and Torchwood, about the time-traveling,...
- 6/14/2011
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Backlot
Week 3 of EW’s 2011 Summer Movie Body Count continues with Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, and Geoffrey Rush. Click here for a reminder of our extremely precise definition for what counts as a death, and how we’re counting them. And since we’re going to be talking about deaths here, the requisite spoiler alert should almost go without saying, but we’ll say it anyhow: Spoiler Alert!
Syrena the mermaid might look sweet, but don’t be fooled: She comes from a race of bloodthirsty killing machines. In the latest Pirates of the Caribbean flick,...
Syrena the mermaid might look sweet, but don’t be fooled: She comes from a race of bloodthirsty killing machines. In the latest Pirates of the Caribbean flick,...
- 5/23/2011
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Adjust your calendars accordingly: Ridley Scott’s Prometheus — starring Noomi Rapace — has been moved from March 9, 2012 to June 8, 2012. [THR]
More on Scott: Ridley and Tony Scott will produce The Drivers, a drama set in the 1960s surrounding the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a day-long car race. That’s a lot of Cheetos.
Mark Ivanir has replaced Jeremy Northam in A Late Quartet — also starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, and Christopher Walken — which follows a string quartet celebrating their 25th anniversary who fight to stay together. All they need is more cowbell. Too overused? Then how about we celebrate their 25 with a passport to Florida?...
More on Scott: Ridley and Tony Scott will produce The Drivers, a drama set in the 1960s surrounding the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a day-long car race. That’s a lot of Cheetos.
Mark Ivanir has replaced Jeremy Northam in A Late Quartet — also starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, and Christopher Walken — which follows a string quartet celebrating their 25th anniversary who fight to stay together. All they need is more cowbell. Too overused? Then how about we celebrate their 25 with a passport to Florida?...
- 1/26/2011
- by Kate Ward
- EW.com - PopWatch
Preface: I was Wrong! Completely, thoroughly, absolutely wrong! I said there was no way that Sam gets his soul back this episode. I knew for sure that they would keep us hanging over the hiatus. I was prepared to be Kripked for over a month. But I was wrong. And I really hate that.Previously - Death was scarily awesome and helped stop the Apocalypse, Tessa was a pretty reaper, Balthazar collected souls, Cas warned Dean about Sam's soul, and RoboSam was happy being soulless.
In a back room of a Chinatown??? (place cards please) butcher shop, Freddy Krueger, M.D. needs a refresher on sterilization and interpersonal relations. He may have stitched up John but Dean wants some personal space and maid service. Blade Runner Babe has no bedside manner and Dean is okay with a 75% survival rate. Awww, he has a note for Ben if he dies. (Nice handwriting.
In a back room of a Chinatown??? (place cards please) butcher shop, Freddy Krueger, M.D. needs a refresher on sterilization and interpersonal relations. He may have stitched up John but Dean wants some personal space and maid service. Blade Runner Babe has no bedside manner and Dean is okay with a 75% survival rate. Awww, he has a note for Ben if he dies. (Nice handwriting.
- 12/12/2010
- by Dahne
Karloff's classic horror television series "Thriller" is finally making its way to DVD courtesy of Image Entertainment and we couldn't be happier. All 67 episodes will be transferred to a 14 DVD box set due out August 3rd...
Below is the press release and DVD box artwork for the series.
For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”
Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute to a television legend with the August 31st release of “Thriller: The Complete Series” 14-dvd Deluxe Box Set. All 67 unforgettable episodes have been remastered,...
Below is the press release and DVD box artwork for the series.
For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”
Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute to a television legend with the August 31st release of “Thriller: The Complete Series” 14-dvd Deluxe Box Set. All 67 unforgettable episodes have been remastered,...
- 5/15/2010
- by admin
- Horrorbid
Now this is the way we love to end a Friday. Fans of Boris Karloff and classic horror television shows have long sought after the series "Thriller". It was available on VHS way back when and of course almost every bootlegger has peddled a copy online at one point or another, but now thanks to Image Entertainment the wait and the search are officially over!
From the Press Release
For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”
Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute...
From the Press Release
For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”
Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute...
- 5/15/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Character actor Joseph Wiseman brought to life the first screen villain for British secret agent James Bond when he played Dr. No in the 1962 film of the same name.
Wiseman played the cool and calculating menace in the first of the long-running series of James Bond films, which initially starred Sean Connery as the British secret agent.
Wiseman was born in Montreal, Canada, on May 15, 1918, and moved to the United States with his family as a child. He began his career on stage and made his Broadway debut in the late 1930s.
Wiseman appeared frequently on television throughout his career, with roles in the 1950s anthology series Suspense, Lights Out, Tales of Tomorrow, and Inner Sanctum. He was featured as Death in a 1954 production of Death Takes a Holiday for Kraft Theatre, and was the Sorceror in a 1958 Shirley Temple Storybook adaptation of The Wild Swans. He starred in the...
Wiseman played the cool and calculating menace in the first of the long-running series of James Bond films, which initially starred Sean Connery as the British secret agent.
Wiseman was born in Montreal, Canada, on May 15, 1918, and moved to the United States with his family as a child. He began his career on stage and made his Broadway debut in the late 1930s.
Wiseman appeared frequently on television throughout his career, with roles in the 1950s anthology series Suspense, Lights Out, Tales of Tomorrow, and Inner Sanctum. He was featured as Death in a 1954 production of Death Takes a Holiday for Kraft Theatre, and was the Sorceror in a 1958 Shirley Temple Storybook adaptation of The Wild Swans. He starred in the...
- 11/7/2009
- by Harris Lentz
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
The celebrity deaths keep on happening, which makes me hope that Death takes a holiday at least over the 4th of July weekend. Yesterday we lost actor and baritone singer Harve Presnell, who is best remembered nowadays for playing William H. Macy's father-in-law in Fargo, and now today we say goodbye to Karl Malden, who won a supporting actor Oscar for A Streetcar Named Desire, which was one of his four collaborations with director Elia Kazan. He was also Oscar-nominated for his performance in Kazan's On the Waterfront. Other memorable film appearances include roles in Gypsy, <em ...
- 7/1/2009
- by Christopher Campbell
- Spout
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