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Elaine Stritch died two years ago this summer at the age of 89. My wife and I were fortunate enough to see her in New York in the 1997 Tony Award-winning revival of Edward Albee’s […]
Waiting for Guffman (1996), written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy and directed by Guest (known to some as Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest, and husband of actor Jamie Lee Curtis), should be required viewing […]
Woman in Gold (2015) received somewhat tepid reviews and, in some cases, actual dismissiveness. Some of us may have gone to see it for Helen Mirren, hoping that she would be enough to raise it […]
I remember when The Birdcage came out 20 years ago that its arrival on the scene seemed a little off, a bit out of synch with the tenor of the times. It somehow seemed a […]