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Speakaboos: Digital Content for Kids That’s FREE!

There are two things that my preschooler is totally into right now — computers and audio books. Put the two together and you get Speakaboos, an online publisher that celebrates kid’s stories, songs, games and educational activities for children — for free! To put it lightly, my daughter has fallen madly in love with this site. [...]

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Deconstructing Woody - Which Actor Does It Best?

No one plays Woody Allen better than Woody Allen, but that hasn't stopped actors like John Cusack, Larry David, and Kenneth Branagh from trying. Which Allen impersonators have come the closest to success?

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Chazz Palminteri tells his own coming-of-age story in A Bronx Tale

It's funny how all discussion of the Mafia these days references The Sopranos — that distinctive accent; Carmela's American-Italian cooking with its thick red sauces; the racism and homophobia; the women who were either protected and indulged family members or whores; the vivid energ...

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Review: Palminteri at work: He's a made man. ***1/2

Review: When it comes to performing his signature one-man play, Chazz Palminteri is a made man. After 800 performances of "A Bronx Tale," this genial yet imposing showbiz icon has every word, every stride, every gunshot and dramatic handclap down cold. Rating: ***1/2

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This weekend's theater openings

Font Resizetheater This weekend's theater openingsPosted: 06/12/2009 01:00:00 AM MDTPhotos of every currently running theater production in ColoradoThis weekend's Best Bet: Parlando's "The Secret Garden" Boulder's Parlando School for the Arts is producing its first full-scale musical for young actors, with 30 students from 19 colleges, high schools and middle schools around the country. The...

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Palminteri's "Bronx" familias: Crime and blood

Chazz Palminteri grew up in the 1950s amid crime lords clashing with old-fashioned values at home. He turned those experiences into a hit one-man play that changed his life. Well, that and Robert De Niro.

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Family Men

In a culture lacking traditional steps toward adulthood, it's up to each person to define his own coming of age. Of course, some coming-of-age experiences are naturally more interesting than others — and then there's Chazz Palminteri's A Bronx Tale , which is off the charts. "...

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C.J.: A snarky remark from Anna Wintour, charm from Chazz

A "Senator Coleman" I am now following on wrote this May 15: "A 'little' knee surgery today. It's the perfect vehicle for taking your mind off politics, recounts and appellate briefs."I started following Coleman after getting an e-mail Friday about a sighting of him on crutches at D.C.'s National Airport.Tom Erickson, Coleman's spokesman, confirmed that Norm is recovering from surgery....

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Yonkers Joe

Rent It The Movie: Robert Celestino's Yonkers Joe has enough material for two movies, and that's the problem: one of them is fascinating and one of them isn't, and the bad one keeps muscling the good one out of screen time. The good movie is about Chazz Palminteri's titular character, a card and dice "mechanic" (a slick operator who uses quick moves and magician-style sleight of hand) working...

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Celebrity birthdays on May 15

Actor Joseph Wiseman is 91. Actress-singer Anna Maria Alberghetti is 73. Singer Lenny Welch is 71. Actress-singer Lainie Kazan is 69. Country singer K.T. Oslin is 67. Musician Brian Eno is 61. Actor Nicholas Hammond (The Sound of Music) is 59. Actor Chazz Palminteri is 57. Actor Lee Horsley is 54. Singer Prince Be of PM Dawn is 39. Actor David Charvet (Melrose Place) is 37. Actor David Krumholtz (Numb3rs)...

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Marketing superstar has a new project: an interactive song-and-dance movie for kids

DETROIT - After climbing the spiral staircase to his office and greeting his dog, a big, friendly Goldendoodle named Jacamo, Kenn Viselman grabs a chair next to a window overlooking a huge indoor set containing a painted backdrop of blue skies and puffy clouds.

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Chazz Palminteri: The Bard of the Bronx

The writer's enduring father-and-son saga 'A Bronx Tale' is equal parts Shakespeare and Sopranos C hazz Palminteri and his bus-driver dad, Lorenzo, became expert at keeping secrets. They could be gregarious, even expansive, but they knew when to shut their traps.

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The Bard of the Bronx

The writer's enduring father-and-son saga 'A Bronx Tale' is equal parts Shakespeare and Sopranos Chazz Palminteri's semi-autobiographical A Bronx Tale comes to the Hippodrome Theatre on Tuesday for a two-week run. The story behind A Bronx Tale is Shakespearean in scope. The show isn't really about the Mafia. Like Henry IV , it's about a son torn between two fathers. A Bronx Tale has the charismatic...

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Characters welcome

Sonny, Jimmy 10 to 2, Eddie Mush, Frankie Coffee Cake, and Bobo are a few of the colorful characters inhabited by Chazz Palminteri in his one-man show, "A Bronx Tale . " Based on his '60s Bronx childhood, the Oscar-nominated actor wrote and first performed the play in 1989. The film followed in 1993, and Palminteri brought the hood to ...

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Body Armour (R2) in April

News: Momentum Pictures have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Body Armour on 6th April 2009 priced at £12.99 RRP. In this action thriller a burned out bodyguard (Till Schweiger) is hired to protect the man he hates the most (Chazz Palminteri), an i...