Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Every living wordmonger of sacred theatrical cliches would swear that no one could make musi cal entertainment out of the spilled blood, blind gallantry, and stupefying idiocy of World War I. Joan Littlewood and her adroit London Theater Workshop company have done it. The result is hilarious, ironic, heartwarming and heartbreaking...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Every living wordmonger of sacred theatrical cliches would swear that no one could make musical entertainment out of the spilled blood, blind gallantry, and stupefying idiocy of World War I. Joan Littlewood and her amazingly adroit London Theater Workshop company have done it. The result is hilarious, ironic, heart-warming and heartbreaking...
...feet for Christmas, swore the junior Senator from Massachusetts. And out of New England Baptist Hospital he stiffly strode with his wife Joan. In a bracing (20°) Boston breeze, Teddy Kennedy, 32, cracked brittle jokes ("I just happen to have with me a speech that I didn't get to make at the Democratic convention in West Springfield last June"), then carefully eased into a convertible for a rootin'-tootin' motorcade to the airport. A commercial jet took him to Miami, and the family Caroline on the last leg of his odyssey to his two children...
...George Burns stuck to traditional toys, trees and reindeer, avoided writer's cramp by having their signatures engraved within. Playwright Edward Albee, who selected a 16th century woodcut, signed his cards by hand, as did New York Herald Tribune Publisher John H. Whitney, Newsman Chet Huntley and Actress Joan Crawford. Hedda Hopper was even more personal about it all, sent cards bearing her own portrait. Mother Jolie Gabor sent photographs of herself and her daughters, included a lengthy message: "Come and have a glass of champagne with me at my fabulous pearl salon . . . my charming girls will be more...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. For this music-hall documentary, Joan Littlewood uses laughter to hit where it hurts, blending sentimentality, song and satire. An adroit cast led by Victor Spinetti plays the men and women who lived, joked and suffered through World...