As The World Churns/1112/B
As The World Churns/1112/B
By Bob Nicolaides, e-mail: nicolaidesc@comcast.net
There was a shooting September 14 in NYC, shooting of photographs that is, for Entertainment Weekly, and the subject of the shooting was TV’s Tina Fey duplicating…no, not Sara Palin but what Audrey Hepburn looked like in shots from Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
It must be noted that the ‘do the actress sported was the creation of Samaras. No, not the PM! This was Thanos Samaras of L’Atelier in NYC….
If you ask me, I’d rather see Michael Chiklis in comedies because I think he’s a funny man, but this series is called Vegas and is shown on CBS TV Tuesdays (10-11 pm) Dennis Quaid is his co-star and I’m told that Michael unleashes his Shield charisma as mobster Vincent Savino. I still like him better in comedies….
Meanwhile, with the departure of 20th Century Fox chairman and CEO Tom Rothman, Jim Gianopulos (remember him?) is taking over the number one spot as of next January. About time we’re getting 20th Century back in Greek hands. It’s been a while since Spyro Skouras was king…..
Ali in Wonderland is authored by Ali Wentworth but does anybody know who she is? Sure! She’s the wife of Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos and being that both are TV people, she was asked if we’ll ever see them playing themselves on the little screen.
Her reaction: “We’ll be divorced……”…Comic Zach Galifianakis. had a birthday last month.
He is 43 as of October 1st… The Israeli embassy in Greece, in cooperation with the Athens-based Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, is organizing a tribute to Israeli cinema this month, entitled “Seven Stories from Israel — Israeli Cinema Week. The films will be screened — with Greek subtitles — at the Foundation’s centre from Thursday, Oct. 18 to Wednesday Oct. 24.
The event is under the auspices of the ministry of education, religious affairs and culture…. … Alex Karras, the burly defensive lineman turned actor in the ABC sitcom “Webster,” and the flick Blazing Saddles died October 10th surrounded by his family in their Los Angeles home following a hard-fought battle with kidney disease, heart disease, dementia and stomach cancer, according to a family spokesman. He was 77….
Allow me to introduce the mighty, moody Prospera, the stay-at-home sorcerer played by Olympia Dukakis in Shakespeare & Company’s jolly, quirky and unusually cozy production of “The Tempest,” that played last month in Lenox, MA.
Ms. Dukakis is not the first woman to take on the role of the exiled Duke of Milan, more commonly an angry old man known as Prospero.
But surely no one else has provided the ineffably maternal mixture of fire, ice, earth and just a dash of sea salt with which the 81-year-old Ms. Dukakis endows the part.
…Because Hercules survived death after performing his famous “twelve labors”, Eurystheus wants to kill Hercules’ children believing they pose a threat to his throne. They are political refugees in Athens, along with their mother Alcmena and Iolaus, a relative and friend of Hercules.
Although he is old, Iolaus insists on going to battle against Eurystheus and succeeds in capturing him. Eurystheus now cannot be put to death as a prisoner, but wants to be remembered as a protector of Athens, emphasizing Athens’ democratic and just treatment of foreign nationals.
In its 2,440 year history, this will be the second professional staging of Euripides’ Children of Hercules in America and the first ever to use an ancient setting. Directed and staged by American Thymele Theater Founder Stephen Diacrussi with a cast of 25, , the play was staged at the East River Park Amphitheatre the Naumburg Bandshell and at Theatre 500 in the Times Square Arts Center Bldg through August, with music by Nicholas Sattinger, choreography by David Bushman, costumes designed by Steven Daniel and translation from the original Greek and edited by Ralph Gladstone.
Scotti Rhodes was responsible for the publicity and Tina Santorineou is one of ATT’s honorary associates….
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