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"Nicky and I are different in this crucial way: She's better at shopping than I am."
Nov. 19 "Finding Neverland," the first "Peter Pan" adaptation to center on its author, J.M. Barrie, opens. 2004 Cathy Rigby, the first American woman to win an Olympic medal for gymastics, is currently performing as Peter Pan in Los Angeles with the national stage production tour. Rigby played the part on Broadway in 1991. 2003 The most recent film version of "Peter Pan" was a critical success, a live-action special-effects romp starring Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook. This version focused more on the underlying themes of regret and loss in Barrie's story. 2002 "Return to Neverland," an almost direct-to-video animated comedy, fast forwards to World War II London during the Blitz, when Wendy has a daughter named Jane who must be rescued from Hook. 1991 Steven Spielberg and Robin Williams teamed up to make "Hook" under the premise of "What if Peter Pan grew up?" The all-star cast featured cameos by Glenn Close, Jimmy Buffett, Carrie Fisher and George Lucas. Dustin Hoffman, who plays theater impresario Charles Frohman in "Finding Neverland," plays Hook in this version. 1990 "Peter Pan and the Pirates" debuted on television and was a short-lived animated series featuring Tim Curry as the voice of Hook. 1980 Sandy Duncan tackled the role of Peter Pan in the second Broadway incarnation. 1955 & 1960 Mary Martin won a Tony for originating the role of Pan in the Broadway premiere. After a limited run, Martin and the original cast performed the show on live TV and again for taping five years later. The TV version created a sensation and became one of the top-rated shows of the time. 1953 The original Disney animated film "Peter Pan" debuted. It is the only incarnation of Barrie's story to not use any of the author's original dialogue. 1924 In this silent film version, actress Betty Bronson was selected for the part of Peter by Barrie himself, beating out Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford. 1911 Barrie adapted the play into a novel titled "Peter and Wendy." 1904 "Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" opened in London at the Duke of York's Theatre and became an instant cultural phenomenon, due in part to its staging that involved audience interaction. (Source: The Internet Movie Database)
"There is so much change going on right now ... not only with me, but in the world, as well."
pre"Have we decided how much groping we're going to have in the show?"
Has an American film renaissance started with David Gordon Green? Sure, there have been high-profile road signs in that direction over the past 10 years - Tarantino, Charlie Kaufman - but who but Green has shown such invention and versatility at such a young age? His "George Washington" and "All the Real Girls" were bellwethers. Now the 30-year-old has made "Undertow," a gothic Southern drama that shakes off the dead skin of current cinema.
Miles is a guy who talks wine like any other guy would talk cars - the '95 Pinot, the '61 Chableau, the color, the rarity, the finish. But there is a reason he prefers to make a hobby of vintages. You can't get drunk on Camaros.
It was the Sunday of Columbus Day weekend 1982, and several hundred Washington staffers were packed in at Garvin's Laugh-Inn on Connecticut Avenue in Woodley Park. They had come to see headliner Rita Rudner, but were treated to an opening act by stand-up rookie Richard Paul, who killed, as they say. A recent graduate of AU, Paul would parlay this auspicious debut in the professional comedy world into a long tenure with the Capitol Steps and D.C.-area radio.
Ernest Thompson, one of AU's quietly successful alumni, sat in a folding chair in the basement of the Kreeger Music Building as theater students got themselves into character. The students of PERF-350, Fundamentals of Acting 3, were playing parts in Thompson's new work "Ax of Love," a decades-spanning story that starts when the characters are young, impressionable and in college.
"I own a timber company? That's news to me ... Need some wood?"
On the east face of Dupont Circle in rush hour, as the sun sets down P Street, kings and queendoms are falling.
As a text, Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond" is an exercise in restraint, about the subtleties of interaction between husband and wife and parents and children. As a theatrical production at the Kennedy Center, it is an exercise in using comedy to galvanize that restraint, which lends tenderness to some scenes and triviality to others.
It was the hippest wake in Washington.
This might be the only time AU competes in the same league as Dartmouth, Penn and Cornell. In a special report on the American Jackass in this month's GQ magazine, AU is lumped with these Ivy Leaguers as one of America's Top 10 Jackass Incubator Schools.
TELLURIDE, Colo. --
Over the weekend, blonde bombshell swordfighters bested buff shirtless nomads. As predicted by over 70 percent of the 50 students polled last issue, "Kill Bill: Vol. 2" thrust its financial Hanzo sword deep into "The Punisher" - helmer Quentin Tarantino's martial arts movie made $25.6 million and the Thomas Jane adaptation of the famous comic book made $14 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter online. About 70 percent of students also said they would see "Vol. 2" before "The Punisher." Now, the question remains: Which will make more money in the long run?
Like the title stone of his encore song, Bob Dylan and His Band rolled through Bender Arena Saturday night and played a two-hour set to an age-diverse, hip-swaying, sold-out crowd of 5,000 people.
The question is not why did they do it, but why didn't they do it sooner? After all, it seems like a perfect fit. The elastic comic star of Hollywood plays the lead role in a film by the resident genius screenwriter of un-Hollywood fare. Charlie Kaufman has created memorable roles which have drawn masterful, divergent performances from Cage and Cusack, so why not from Carrey?
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" won all of the 11 Oscars for which it was nominated at the Academy Awards last night in Hollywood, Calif., tying the record for most awards won set by "Ben-Hur" in 1970 and equaled by "Titanic" in 1998. Director Peter Jackson (left) was one of the most honored individuals of the night, taking three of his film's awards, as producer, director and screenwriter. "Mystic River" and "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" won two awards each.
'The Passion of the Christ' * * * with James Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern and Monica Bellucci. directed by Mel Gibson.
"Don't look for me on Sunday because I'm not going to be there," said Professor Russell Williams II about the Academy Awards after giving an informal talk about them Wednesday evening in the Wechsler Theatre.