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...DIED. Katherine Dunham, 96, anthropologist and choreographer who founded the first black modern-dance company and influenced artists from Alvin Ailey to James Dean with her Dunham Technique, a blend of Afro-Caribbean folk, classical and modern movement; in New York City. The exacting "Miss D" worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, and staged sensual, often political pieces?1951's Southland depicted a lynching?that delighted and jarred audiences. The National Medal of Arts recipient was equally ardent about the world in which her art was received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where...
DIED. Katherine Dunham, 96, anthropologist and choreographer who founded the first black modern-dance company and influenced artists from Alvin Ailey to James Dean with her Dunham Technique, a blend of Afro-Caribbean folk, classical and modern movement; in New York City. The exacting "Miss D" worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, and staged sensual, often political pieces--1951's Southland depicted a lynching--that delighted and jarred audiences. The National Medal of Arts recipient was equally ardent about the world in which her art was received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where...
...This Mitchell was the author, lyricist and star of the off-Broadway hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Here, his structuring of the material is less like a hard-core film, more like a musical. There are songs throughout, though Mitchell didn't write them, and the production numbers have a geometrical elegance and absurdity that suggests a porno Busby Berkeley. And when the movie finally ends (it has more tie-up-the-plot scenes than The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), everybody's back at the salon, singing the anthemic...
...DIED. Cy Feuer, 95, legendary producer, with partner Ernest Martin, of Broadway musicals that defined the genre, including Guys and Dolls and the Tony Award-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; in New York City. Known during the musical's golden age as the creative half of "The King and Cy," Feuer oversaw every detail of his shows, sometimes taking the director's seat. Famously tough?he feuded with George S. Kaufman, Bob Fosse and Frank Loesser?he discovered Julie Andrews, whose career he launched with 1954's The Boy Friend, and helped turn I Love Paris...
...seriously, how does an actor escape being buried alive? Grammer's non-Frasier forays to date have ranged from the unspectacular (Down Periscope) to--well, his Macbeth on Broadway closed after 10 performances. So he has buried himself anew, this time in fake ears, fake teeth, six hairpieces and lots and lots of blue makeup. This summer he becomes Beast, a hairy, brainy, inwardly tortured mutant scientist in X-Men: The Last Stand. To borrow Beast's signature exclamation: Oh, my stars and garters...