Tennessee Williams

...Xzibit). On the run and at loose ends McDonagh drops in on his dad and stepmom, who seem to be wandering around the set of a Tennessee Williams play without a script. Who needs one? "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" - why "Port...

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...180. Runs to Dec. 23 ($25-$85 at 416-872-1212). Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King St. W. www.mirvish.com Summer and Smoke, Tennessee Williams' love story between a somewhat puritanical Southern girl and an unpuritanical doctor, is...

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...and Whitworth streets. McMillin said he was at the theater from about 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. rehearsing for his role as Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." When he left the theater, he noticed the passenger side widow of...

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...which is directed by Jodie Markell from Tennessee Williams' unproduced 1950s screenplay. As he notes, "Even though Williams died in 1983, he is still eligible for posthumous consideration in the original screenplay category. The filmmakers...

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...Jodie Markell with stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Ann-Margret and Ellen Burstyn. Even though Williams died in 1983, he is still eligible for posthumous consideration in the Original Screenplay category. The filmmakers are...

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...1955, censorship necessitated euphemisms such as "rutting" and "ducking", which must have sounded peculiar even then, and it was Williams himself who inserted the swearing for a 1974 revival. When you realise that Americans associate Jones...

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...the prism of the film, and through cliches that we have about what it means to be southern. Music was Ullmann's passport into Tennessee Williams's world. It was very clear when I started to read the play that I had to know more about the...

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...Gore at the controls. And there are photographs, too, of the young Vidal setting off to war and later frolicking with Tennessee Williams; and of a middle-aged Vidal running for Congress and shooting the breeze with JFK - Vidal shared...

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Playwright John Patrick Shanley referring to Tennessee Williams as a "gorgeous unstoppable beast," recounted an incident in a restaurant when he, a budding writer, maybe thirty feet away from the master dramatist, could not bring himself to...

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Heath Ledger won a rare posthumous competitive Oscar for "The Dark Knight" in February. Could Tennessee Williams, who died in 1983, be the next? For half a century, his original screenplay "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond" has remained...

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