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...Sheldon Keller, 85, was one of the crazy-gifted kids who wrote for Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows; later he won a Writers Guild Award for the Hollywood parody Movie Movie and co-authored the movie Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, remade with ABBA songs as Mamma Mia! Many a memorable MGM musical - Meet Me in St. Louis, Yolanda and the Thief, Ziegfeld Follies and (uncredited) The Wizard of Oz - sprang from the typewriter of Irving Brecher, 94. After writing the Bye Bye Birdie screenplay, Brecher began a retirement that lasted 45 years. I wish the same...
...mint could be a struggle. The other big film musicals of this decade--Chicago, Dreamgirls and Hairspray--had casts of mostly young actors. The Mamma Mia! contingent is different, as will now be proved with a précis of the movie's plot (a knockoff of the 1968 comedy Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell) and a few actuarial stats...
...Department of State Mission to Italy http://olympics.usembassy.it/ Che buona fortuna! With this site, you can now access news and information straight from the U.S. embassy in Italy. Its info on visas, travel safety and security makes this a must-see for all fans heading to Torino for the games...
...form of therapy. Indeed, one student suffering "a late 20s crisis" was actually referred to the school by her psychiatrist. A young real estate man, Steve Wittmann, became interested in sauces when he was living and studying in Florence and has been an ardent admirer of la buona cucina ever since. One tyro, the sixtyish wife of a retired surgeon, confesses that she had never eaten an artichoke before signing up with Rosbottom...
Musicals date even faster than plays, and if one pilfers the formulas of the past, as the fashioners of Carmelina have, one has to be lucky enough to find a fossil audience to match. Based on the 1968 film Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, Carmelina tells the tale of Signora Carmelina Campbell, a Southern Italian beauty winningly played by Georgia Brown. During World War II, she made love to three G.I.s and, to one of them, bore a daughter now 17 and ascribed to a dead hero ingeniously named for a soup can. A postwar reunion of the U.S. liberators...