Tennessee Williams
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Dylan Jones: Young is better than old, pretty is better than ugly, movies are better than music, and anything is better than politics...his beloved Polaroid: George Plimpton POP! Bianca Jagger POP! Baby Jane Holzer POP! Ossie Clark POP! Liza Minnelli POP! Tennessee Williams et al POP! Warhol even captured himself, in words as well as pictures: "The affectless gaze, the... In this article: Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello, Dylan Jones, People Magazine, Interview, Polaroid, Tennessee Williams, and Gina Lollobrigida |
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New York Times | 1 day ago
Movie Review 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans': A New Orleans Mystery: A Cop So Bad, He's Good
...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...
In this article: Nicolas Cage, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Werner Herzog, Eva Mendes, Rescue Dawn, Bad Lieutenant, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, and Dog
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thestar.com | 1 day ago
What's On: Stage
...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...
In this article: Yonge St., Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, William Shakespeare, George Elliott Clarke, and Purgatory
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Clarion Ledger | 2 days ago
Hinds sheriff victim of auto burglary
...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...
In this article: Ford Expedition and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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L.A. Times - The Envelope - Ultimate Awards Site | 2 days ago
Gold Derby nuggets: Peter Jackson ups ending in 'Lovely Bones'
...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...
In this article: Peter Jackson, Oscar, District 9, Grammys, Paul McCartney, Rob Pattinson, Winnie Mandela, and The Lovely Bones
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L.A. Times - The Envelope - Ultimate Awards Site | 3 days ago
Could Tennessee Williams win an Oscar in 2010?
...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...
In this article: Oscar, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Taylor, New York City, Suddenly Last Summer, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Times Online | 3 days ago
Will this black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof be lucky in London?
...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...
In this article: Debbie Allen, James Earl Jones, Maggie, London, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Hamlet
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nymag.com: Theater | 5 days ago
The Kindness of Strangers
...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...
In this article: Liv Ullmann, Cate Blanchett, Blanche DuBois, Sydney Theatre Company, A Streetcar Named Desire, Elizabeth I, Ingmar Bergman, Bob Dylan, and Katharine Hepburn
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 12, 2009
Gore Vidal: a life in pictures
...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...
In this article: Gore Vidal, Andy Warhol, Jackie Kennedy, Truman Capote, JFK, and Norman Mailer
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The Huffington Post | November 07, 2009
Regina Weinreich: Remembering Tennessee Williams
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...
In this article: Blanche DuBois, Eli Wallach, Orpheus Descending, Not about Nightingales, Vieux Carre, Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and Emily Dickinson
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L.A. Times - Entertainment News | October 28, 2009
Back from the dead: Tennessee Williams, Orson Welles in Oscar race?
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...
In this article: Oscar, Orson Welles, Blanche DuBois, Me and Orson Welles, The Glass Menagerie, Zac Efron, and Bryce Dallas Howard
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Tennessee Lanier Williams (born March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), né Thomas Lanier Williams, was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the state of his father's birth.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. In addition, The Glass Menagerie (1945) and The Night of the Iguana (1961) received New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. His 1952 play The Rose Tattoo received the Tony Award for best play.
- Birth Date:
- March 26, 1911
- Birthplace:
- Columbus, Mississippi, U.S.A.
- Death Date:
- February 25, 1983
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