Word: juliets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...paid the bellhop to let me in. If I don't meet Frank Sinatra tonight, I'm going to jump.' I said, 'Honey, just give me a chance.' I ran over to his suite. Joe DiMaggio and somebody else were playing cards. At the time, Frank was going with Juliet Prowse, and they were already in bed. So I said to Joe and the other guy, 'I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but there's a broad who's going to jump off my balcony if she doesn't meet Sinatra.' They didn't want to wake...
...Washington's Kennedy Center--where its no-star production of Hamlet just set a house record. Helen Hunt, fresh from her Oscar, will star as Viola in Twelfth Night, opening in mid-July at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. R&J, a quirky, all-male version of Romeo and Juliet, is creating buzz off-Broadway. And just arrived in New York, following a nationwide tour and a stint in London, is Love's Fire, an evening of seven short plays inspired by Shakespeare's sonnets...
Shakespeare gets a more radical shakeup in R&J, adapted and directed by Joe Calarco. The setting is a regimented boys' school, where four students march onstage, recite their Latin and math lessons and then embark on an impromptu performance of Romeo and Juliet. They play all the parts, provide the sound effects (pounding fists, stomping feet, a slow hiss when a character dies), and manipulate the show's single prop: a red silken fabric that serves as, among other things, a shawl, a sword and a vial of poison...
...clever, speedy but dead serious reading of the play. As Juliet, Daniel J. Shore softens his features and gestures, but doesn't camp it up, and when he kisses Romeo (Greg Shamie) full on the lips, you are forced to see their love not as the linking of two particular people, or even two particular genders, but as love in the abstract, the essence of all-consuming passion...
...golden five.) They wrote one film musical, State Fair, and the TV special Cinderella, starring Julie Andrews. They were also hugely canny producers. Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun was but one of the works they produced that was not their own. Their flops--Allegro, Me and Juliet and Pipe Dream--were probably a result, as much as anything, of their trying too consciously to be innovative...