Word: impresario
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...recently buried a son, the Kellaway parents hope that the urban milieu will provide a respite from sorrowful memories and crushing rural poverty for their surviving children, 12-year-old Jem and his 14-year-old sister Maisie.Jem’s father finds steady carpentry work at circus impresario Philip Astley’s amphitheater on the outskirts of London. Jem and Maisie, having grown up in a community of thirty families, thus find themselves loosed on the raucous streets of the burgeoning metropolis.The street-smart and scrappy Maggie Butterfield takes Jem under her wing...
...Ever the showman, (Why does this remind me of the impresario in another movie, "King Kong", whose hubris blinds him to the dangers of an angry and very large ape?) Cameron is holding a New York press conference on Monday at which he will reveal three coffins, supposedly those of Jesus of Nazareth, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene. News about the film, which will be shown soon on Discovery Channel, Britain's Channel 4, Canada's Vision, and Israel's Channel 8, has been a hot blog topic in the Middle East (check out a personal favorite: Israelity Bites...
...British Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief fund raiser, former music business impresario Lord Levy, was arrested - for a second time - by police investigating allegations that seats in the House of Lords were sold for political donations. Levy has denied any wrongdoing. A guide to the inquiry that has all the British classes chattering...
After winning 26 Grammy awards and garnering seven Oscar nominations, music impresario Quincy D. Jones was given a different kind of honor by the School of Public Health this week. Jones, who has also had a long career in humanitarian work, was selected as “Mentor of the Year” for January’s sixth annual National Mentoring Month campaign. “I am humbled and honored to have this title bestowed upon me,” Jones told The Crimson in an e-mail through his publicist, Arnold Robinson. “Throughout...
That it took Mary Poppins--the 1964 film starring Julie Andrews and based on P.L. Travers' stories--so long to make the leap from screen to stage has to do mainly with boring adult things like copyrights. In 1993 London theater impresario Cameron Mackintosh bought the rights to the Mary Poppins stories from their nonagenarian author (who was never happy with the Disney movie, which she felt prettified her material). But Disney had the rights to the film, including the all-important songs. The two eventually got together in a collaboration for the theater history books: Disney, the studio that...