Kate

...of immoderate love. It also, annoyingly, reads like an act of moderate disingenuousness. Mann, who wrote the widely praised biography "Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn," insists time and again, on page after page, that his subject is broader...

In this article: Elizabeth Taylor, William J. Mann, Richard Burton, Hollywood, Cleopatra, Montgomery Clift, and Nicole Kidman

...immoderate love. It also, annoyingly, reads like an act of moderate disingenuousness. Mann, who wrote the widely praised biography Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, insists time and again that his subject is broader and deeper than Taylor...

In this article: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Hollywood, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

...voice, and when she speaks, you listen. Often, when I think about names, I think about high school, but I can't imagine Kate before she had her own apartment (studio; well-appointed but not ostentatious; clean) or her demanding yet...

In this article: Kate Moss, Petruchio, The Taming of the Shrew, Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett, and US

Don't turn to Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood, as Mann's book is subtitled, for shocking new revelations of the sort he uncovered in 2006's Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, in which he made a convincing case that Katharine Hepburn was bisexual.

In this article: Elizabeth Taylor, William J. Mann, Hollywood, Hedda Hopper, Katharine Hepburn, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oscars, and Surgery

...FOR EASY PRINTING Appearances can be deceiving in rowdy 'Taming of the Shrew' Benjamin Evett is Petruchio and Sarah Newhouse is Kate in Actors' Shakespeare Project's "The Taming of the Shrew. '' (Stratton Mccrady CAMBRIDGE - As the...

In this article: The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio, Bianca, William Shakespeare, and Marx Brothers

...Andronicus bake his enemies into a pie or Cornwall gouge out Gloucester's eyes is not near so cringe-inducing as watching the fierce Kate spiral into wifely subjugation. But hey, it was the 1590s. Elizabeth I was kicking butt and taking...

In this article: Petruchio, The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare's plays, and William Shakespeare

Marg Helgenberger, Ryan's Hope, 1982-1986 The CSI vet and Nebraska native was spotted by a talent scout for the ABC soap while playing Kate in a Northwestern University production of "The Taming of the Shrew" in 1981. This landed the...

In this article: As the World Turns, Ryan Phillippe, Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin, Sarah Michelle Gellar, James Franco, Anne Heche, Meg Ryan, Daytime Emmy Award, and Courteney Cox

...that wit in the service of his own matchless melodies was not just the icing on the cake, it was another cake entirely). But this "Kate,'' powered by two superb performances in the leading roles and an endlessly energetic young ensemble,...

In this article: Cole Porter, Lois Lane, and Kiss Me, Kate

...it was all a bit much. A modern director can depict the shrew's defeat viciously, or at least ironically, or can create a Kate who is hot for Petruchio and so happy to play along with his game. Potts veers towards the latter,...

In this article: Petruchio, The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare, Climate change, and Bell Shakespeare Company

...that's both funny and thought-provoking. His first bold decision is to ignore the text's references to Kate's beauty, and to cast her as a butch-looking fattie in Viz comic mode, stomping round the house in cropped hair and trainers while her...

In this article: The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio, William Shakespeare, Bianca, and Glasgow