Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... The “Wizard of Oz” was first televised on CBS-TV …lions, and tigers and bears, oh my! 1960 – The “Unsinkable Molly Brown” opened in NYC …and ran for over 500 performances. 1971 – The movie “Play Misty for Me”, starring and directed by Clint Eastwood, opened. 1973 – “Good Morning America” premiered on ABC-TV. 1980 – Playwright Lanford Wilson’s “Fifth of July” premiered in NYC....
San Francisco Sentinel (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... “Lucia di Lammermoor”, Diana Damrau’s tomboy bravura had all the swagger and gruffness of an “Unsinkable Molly Brown” gone à la française. Diana Damrau (Marie). Photo, Cory Weaver The Daughter of the Regiment has always been appealing to lyric and coloratura sopranos including Lily Pons (who made her entrance on a white horse), Mirella Freni, Anna Moffo, Joan Sutherland, Beverly...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
"[B]lessed with an elegant bone structure, an endless supply of airy bons mots and an Unsinkable Molly Brown attitude, [she] broke into the movies in the early 1980s with small roles [in low-budget films] … From this less than promising debut she built an idiosyncratic career, appearing in advertisements for Louis Vuitton and Nike" and in numerous mainstream movies...
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Carrie Fisher was cheered by the critics for her one-woman show "Wishful Drinking," which opened on Broadway on Sunday night. Long before "Star Wars" launched her career, Carrie Fisher knew the highs and lows of fame second-hand via the experiences of her mother -- Oscar nominee Debbie Reynolds ("The Unsinkable Mollie Brown") -- and crooner father...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... Weddell, blessed with an elegant bone structure, an endless supply of airy bons mots and an Unsinkable Molly Brown attitude, broke into the movies in the early 1980s with small roles in the low-budget and the horror spoof In her mind these ranked as major motion pictures. “I love illusion,” she declared in “Hats Off,” in a rare display of understatement. From this less than...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... Weddell, blessed with an elegant bone structure, an endless supply of airy bons mots and an Unsinkable Molly Brown attitude, broke into the movies in the early 1980s with small roles in the low-budget and the horror spoof In her mind these ranked as major motion pictures. “I love illusion,” she declared in “Hats Off,” in a rare display of understatement. From this less than...
