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Srt's 'Sonnet Sings the Bard' Benefit to Feature Shaiman, Wittman, Shire & More, 11/16; Seth Rudetsky Hosts
2 November 2009 12:36 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Sonnet Repertory Theatre (Srt) has announced its scheduled line-up for 'Sonnet Sings the Bard' concert, which takes place on November 16 at the 92YTribeca. Contributing composers to this one-night-only benefit event include: Tony, Grammy, Emmy and Drama Desk Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated composers and lyricists Marc Shaiman and Scott Whittman (Hairspray, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Patti LuPone on Broadway), Tony, Grammy and Emmy-nominated and Academy Award-winning composer David Shire (Baby, Closer Than Ever, Big, Saturday Night Fever), Georgia Stitt (This Ordinary Thursday: The Songs Of Georgia Stitt with Sara Ramirez, Kelli O'Hara, Faith Prince, and many more), Ray Leslee (Avenue X, Educating Rita, Standup Shakespeare), Karl Mansfield (conductor and keyboardist for Broadway's Xanadu, La Boheme, 13, Dracula, Corum Boy, Sweet Charity, and Off-Broadway's Grey Gardens, Toxic Avenger, Shafrika the White Girl and Alter Boyz), and Wade McCollum (composer and lyricist for One, and award-winning performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch »
Ex-Hear'Say singer lands 'Grease' role
13 October 2009 5:21 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Ex-Hear'Say star Noel Sullivan has landed the role of Danny Zucko in the West End production of Grease. The popstar and actor will take over from Dancing On Ice champion Ray Quinn from November 30. He will appear in the Piccadilly Theatre musical until July 2010. Emma Stephens (Starlight Express, Saturday Night Fever) will star alongside Sullivan as Sandy. "I'm thrilled to be joining the cast of Grease and making my West End debut in such a legendary show," he (more) »
- By Alex Fletcher
Travolta jurors 'shown hidden-camera tape'
6 October 2009 7:12 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Jurors have been shown a hidden-camera tape of the ex-senator accused of attempting to blackmail John Travolta. The Saturday Night Fever star recently arrived at the trial of paramedic Tarino Lightbourn and his attorney, former Bahamian senator Pleasant Bridgewater. The pair are alleged to have attempted to blackmail Travolta by going public with a medical document relating to his son Jett's death. The 16-year-old passed away from a fatal seizure in January while on a family holiday in the Bahamas. Members of the jury watched Bridgewater meet with Travolta's lawyer Michael McDermott, The AP reports. On the tape, the ex-politician asked the attorney for $$20 million (£13.7 million) not to release the papers. Bahamian police had previously set up cameras in a hotel (more) »
- By Tim Parks
Nigel Hamid: Toronto Correspondent
30 September 2009 12:36 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
If you ask Nigel what his all time favourite film is, he’ll proudly tell you that it’s a tie between The Godfather and Saturday Night Fever, but don’t hold that against him (the latter is a guilty pleasure). He works in the financial district, but secretly wishes he could review movies 24/7 – unfortunately for him, that wouldn’t pay the bills. A true horror fan, while in L.A., Nigel actually had his girlfriend wait in a cab while he took pictures of the original Halloween house (much to the dismay of the homeowners). In his spare time, Nigel enjoys photography and writing & directing short films. Artist, Musician, Poet and Scholar – yes, Nigel is none of those things, but you can rest assured knowing he’d like to be. Email Nigel: hnigel8@hotmail.com [1] [1] http://www.soundonsight.orgmailto:hnigel8@hotmail.com »
- Ricky
Lesbian Love in the Afternoon: Queer Women on American Daytime Dramas
21 September 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
Fictional small American soap towns such as Pine Valley, Springfield, and Llanview have historically dabbled in social angst as it relates to abortion, war, and AIDS, but until recently, have avoided directly addressing homosexuality and same-sex relationships, as if shooting an unscripted pregnancy behind a laundry basket.
This has changed in the last decade or so, however, as a few American daytime dramas have introduced gay and lesbian characters, and achieved several important "firsts" in the portrayal of same-sex relationships.
"I certainly think the impact of these stories have been huge," says Michael Fairman, Advocate.com soap reporter and columnist. "These stories have hit mainstream press and have heterosexual men and women, as well as the gay audience, embracing them."
Long considered one of the most politically conservative art forms in the country, American daytime television’s progress is commendable — but how strong is their commitment to representation when it »
- m.dawson
Ricky Gervais Compares His Cemetery Junction to Saturday Night Fever
18 September 2009 9:34 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Ricky Gervais' The Invention of Lying opens October 2, but the British comedian is already working on his next project. Cemetery Junction re-teams him with The Office and Extras co-creator and director Stephen Merchant. Gervais describes their first big-screen collaboration to Collider as following "the minutia of human behavior".
I suppose it's about class. It's a romantic drama I suppose. It's funny though. It's sort of a return to what Steve and I do best ... the minutia of human behavior. It's set in the early '70s and it's about a group of twenty-somethings that try to escape that stifling small town sort of mentality. One of the lines that inspired us is from [Bruce Springsteen's] "Thunder Road." It's a town full of losers and we're pulling out of here to win. It's like our Saturday Night Fever. Gervais says the movie is definitely inspired by his own life.
Well, everything you do is autobiographical. »
- Ryan Gowland
What's a 'Mamma Mia' sequel without Abba?
17 September 2009 9:46 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Can there be such a thing as a Mamma Mia sequel without Abba music? Maybe. First Meryl Streep teased that she'd welcome a sequel to the smash movie musical, as long as all the film's male actors returned. Then, Abba chieftain Benny Andersson seemed to shoot down the possibility by insisting that his band's music would not be involved in any follow-up. And now, Colin Firth, in Toronto to promote Tom Ford's A Single Man, shared with Collider.com that "people who do want to make are considering the possibility of using another band's music." (Universal had no comment on Firth's statements.) Recreating the same Mamma Mia musical magic with an entirely different artist's catalog might be a pointless task. But not impossible. So let's help Universal figure this out. The music has to be from the 1970's. Has to. And obviously, the music has to be infectious. The Bee Gees are ideal. »
- Jeff Labrecque
Ricky Gervais Calls Cemetery Junction His Saturday Night Fever. Plus Info on His New HBO Animated Series
16 September 2009 10:48 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
A few days ago, I attended the press conference for Ricky Gervais’ new film “The Invention of Lying” at the Toronto Film Festival. While you usually have to wait for the stars to arrive, Ricky showed up a few minutes early and when I went to put my recorder down, I managed to ask him a number of questions about his next project with Stephen Merchant called “Cemetery Junction”. If you’re a fan of “Extras” or the British version of “The Office”, Ricky and Stephen Merchant created the shows together and “Cemetery Junction” is the first film they’ve written and directed together.
Anyway, he told me while filming only recently finished, they’ve already done a friends and family screening and it turned out quite well. He also called the movie his “Saturday Night Fever”. For more on the project and his new HBO animated series “The Ricky Gervais »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Rigby: 'I'll leave Hollyoaks in style'
9 September 2009 4:46 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Hollyoaks star Emma Rigby has vowed to bow out "in style" when she leaves the soap at the end of the year. The 19-year-old actress will film her final scenes as Hannah Ashworth in December following a four-year stint with the Channel 4 programme. Rigby has now revealed that she is hoping to mark the occasion by throwing a massive celebration with her show colleagues. "I'd love a huge leaving party. I'm thinking of a Saturday Night Fever theme. It's one of my favourite films," (more) »
- By Daniel Kilkelly
Jenn Colella, David Balderamma, and Timothy Among Those To Work With Aspiring Musical Theatre Performers In The Musical Theater Conservatory Program
4 September 2009 2:40 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Aspiring musical theatre performers from all over the world will have the opportunity to work with a Broadway veteran faculty in the Musical Theater Conservatory Program at the New York Film Academy, merging stage and screen with cutting-edge movie musical opportunities. Additional faculty announcements include Jenn Colella (High Fidelity, Urban Cowboy), Lisa Mandel (Sunset Boulevard, Producers, Mamma Mia!), David Balderamma (In The Heights, Movin? Out, Saturday Night Fever), Robin Irwin (Titanic, Grease, Dance of the Vampires), Stephanie Kurtzuba (Billy Eliott, Boy From Oz, Mary Poppins), Dan Johnson and Timothy Smith (Aida, Sweet Charity, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels). »
Natalia Vodianova and Justin Portman: Best-Dressed List 2009
26 August 2009 10:01 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
The ballots are in! While fashion has always had its politics, this year’s International Best-Dressed List includes Barack and Michelle Obama, Michael Bloomberg and Diana Taylor, and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, alongside Hollywood stars (Brad Pitt, Penélope Cruz, Daniel Craig), royals (H.R.H. Princess Letizia of Asturias), and businessmen (Arpad Busson, Alejandro Santo Domingo), among others. Now it’s your chance to get in on the vote. Which outfit looks best on today’s honoree? Plus: See photos of everyone who made the best-dressed roster. Fashion model Natalia Vodianova, 27, has a laundry list of favorite up-and-coming designers—Alexander Wang, Rodarte, Rachel Roy, Elise Overlund, Chris Barros, and Denis Simachev—but when it comes to attending fashion shows, she sticks with the big houses such as Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton. Her favorite luxury boutiques are Codognato, in Venice, and Fred Leighton, in New York City, while she »
Quentin Tarantino: Imagining Hollywood without him
21 August 2009 6:57 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Take your seats, class: Senior writer Chris Nashawaty concludes his in-depth weeklong study of all things Quentin Tarantino with his final installment of EW University. Check out our gallery of 20 Tarantino movie and movie poster faves, our look at the original 1978 Inglorious Bastards, our guide to the film-geek references in Tarantino's Basterds, and our Quentin Tarantino final exam. Imagining Hollywood -- and the world beyond it -- without Quentin Tarantino No one divides moviegoers like Quentin Tarantino. Those who are in his corner love his infectious cineaste enthusiasm, his references to obscure B-movies, and his pop culture-drenched, rat-a-tat-tat dialogue. The haters find his movies too long, too talky, and too ... well, just too much of everything. But just for a second, try to imagine Hollywood without him. It's harder than you think. Ever since the video store clerk-turned-world famous auteur unveiled 1992's Reservoir Dogs, his influence has rippled out and »
- Chris Nashawaty
Which was the best year for movies: 1977, 1994, or 1999?
5 August 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Last week, we posted a story about how 1984 was the best movie year ever when it comes to films you actually want to watch on a rainy day playing hooky from work. Movies like Ghostbusters, Bachelor Party, This is Spinal Tap, Footloose, and The Terminator. Movies that were the exact opposite of the highfalutin' offerings from 1939 -- the year critics always cite as the greatest Hollywood vintage of all time. Don't get us wrong, there were some decent high-brow movies from 25 years ago, too, like Amadeus and The Killing Fields. But mostly we were talking about movies that were, you know, fun. And while some of you agreed with us about 1984's greatness, others were outraged. Apoplectic. Even concerned for our sanity. Some even made cases for other "greatest years". And we listened. That's what we do. So now, we've tallied up your nominees and narrowed it down to your »
- Chris Nashawaty
Which was the best year for movies: 1977, 1994, or 1999?
5 August 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Last week, we posted a story about how 1984 was the best movie year ever when it comes to films you actually want to watch on a rainy day playing hooky from work. Movies like Ghostbusters, Bachelor Party, This is Spinal Tap, Footloose, and The Terminator. Movies that were the exact opposite of the highfalutin’ offerings from 1939 — the year critics always cite as the greatest Hollywood vintage of all time. Don’t get us wrong, there were some decent high-brow movies from 25 years ago, too, like Amadeus and The Killing Fields. But mostly we were talking about movies that were, you know, fun.
And while some of you agreed with us about 1984’s greatness, others were outraged. Apoplectic. Even concerned for our sanity. Some even made cases for other “greatest years”. And we listened. That’s what we do. So now, we’ve tallied up your nominees and narrowed it down »
- Chris Nashawaty
Saturday Fright Fever
2 July 2009 9:59 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
After winning raves at last year's New York Film Festi val, Pablo Larrain's "Tony Manero," from Chile, is receiving a run here.
Set in 1978 Santiago, during the brutal Pinochet regime, it is the story of 50-something lowlife Raúl (an impressive Alfredo Castro, who co-wrote), who has a sick obsession -- right down to the white suit -- with Tony Manero, the John Travolta disco dandy/paint-store clerk in "Saturday Night Fever" (1977).
Sadly, Raúl's obsession leads him »
- By V.A. MUSETTO
Podcast: Pablo Larraín
2 July 2009 10:13 AM, PDT | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »
As Andrew Grant, David Fear and I discussed in our podcast last October, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín's Tony Manero was my favorite feature at the 2008 New York Film Festival, a marvelously unhinged study of pop-culture obsession in a suffocating environment (if I may crib myself). From All Movie Guide: As Augusto Pinochet holds Chile in the grip of dictatorship, a fifty year old man obsessed with John Travolta's character from Saturday Night Fever imitates his idol each weekend in a small bar on the outskirts of Santiago. Each weekend, Raúl Peralta (Alfredo Castro) and his friends—a devoted group of dancers—gather in a small bar and act out their favorite scenes from Saturday Night Fever. Raúl longs to become a showbiz superstar, and when the national television announces a Tony Manero impersonating contest it seems like he may finally have a shot at living his dreams. But »
Night Fever: The World of Obsessive Fan Movies
2 July 2009 7:50 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
A crowd eagerly watches as a man dressed in a white suit performs an elaborate disco routine to the sounds of the Bee Gees' "You Should Be Dancing." Sound familiar? It should; it's the signature sequence from 1977's "Saturday Night Fever." But now the scene belongs to another film as well, "Tony Manero," named after John Travolta's Brooklyn disco king character. In this version, a middle-aged "Fever" fanatic named Raúl Peralta (Alfredo Castro) appears on a Chilean TV show and reenacts those famous dance moves as part of a contest to determine the country's best Tony Manero impersonator. Raúl's impoverished struggles in late '70s Chile resemble Tony's in late '70s Brooklyn (a reason, no doubt, he responds so strongly to "Saturday Night Fever") with one crucial difference: where Tony strains against obstacles he encounters, Raúl simply removes them. If that obstacle happens to be a person, »
- Matt Singer
'Tony Manero': Blood On The Dance Floor, By Kurt Loder
2 July 2009 6:33 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Torture, the movie.
Alfredo Castro in "Tony Manero"
Photo: Koch Lorber Films
Chilean director Pablo Larrain's "Tony Manero" must be one of the worst-looking movies ever submitted for Oscar consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The picture is washed-out and blurry, contains some of the most dismal sex scenes outside of the Andy Warhol canon, and features a protagonist who's about as engaging as an abandoned luncheonette. Could this be ... art?
A lot of critics on the international festival circuit, where "Tony Manero" made the rounds last year, appear to have thought so. They discerned a political allegory, which is easy enough to do, I suppose, but raises the question: So what?
The story is set in Santiago in 1978, five years into the near-20-year military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet — a brutal national ordeal in which thousands of people were murdered and tens of thousands were jailed and tortured. »
Simon Cowell Eyes ‘Saturday Night Fever’ Remake
10 June 2009 4:18 AM, PDT | TheImproper.com | See recent TheImproper.com news »
Music mogul Simon Cowell is in talks with film producer Robert Stigwood, who owns the rights to the screenplay “Saturday Night Fever.” Cowell wants to update the classic 1977 John Travolta movie and wants Zac Efron for the lead role. “Simon has been looking into buying the rights for years and opened discussions with Robert about the remake. The charm offensive has been in full swing and they made a breakthrough over the last couple of weeks. Robert was keen to get some assurances the original wouldn’t be completely butchered before he agreed to the deal,” a source said. »
- kgirard@theimproper.com (Keith Girard)
Simon Cowell wants Saturday Night Fever
9 June 2009 2:05 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Simon Cowell is set to remake 'Saturday Night Fever'. The music mogul is in talks with film producer Robert Stigwood, who owns the rights to the screenplay, to update the classic 1977 John Travolta movie and wants Zac Efron for the lead role. A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Simon has been looking into buying the rights for years and opened discussions with Robert about the remake. "The charm offensive has been in full swing and they made a breakthrough over the last couple of weeks. Robert was keen to get some assurances the original wouldn't be completely butchered before he agreed to the deal. "Simon has been drawing up a list of people he wants to get »
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