Word: oscared
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There is a connection, though, between the panoramic prettiness of Show Boat and the searchlight grittiness of Smokey Joe's Cafe. Whether or not they realized it, Leiber and Stoller were accomplishing in the '50s what Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein did in the '20s: translating the black music of church halls and barrooms into sophisticated songs that were at once true to the original spirit and acceptable to a mainstream audience. For L&S, that acceptability was a fluky byproduct of their urge to write rhythm and blues for the "race music" market. They didn't need to dilute...
...Ideal Husband. Through March 12. Lyric Stage, 140 Clarendon St., Boston. 437-7172. A rarely produced farce by Oscar Wilde, the play was dedicated to Victorian publisher and pornographer Frank Harris...
DIED. ART KANE, 69, photographer whose famous 1958 portrait of dozens of living jazz legends for Esquire is the subject of a new documentary; of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Lancaster, Kentucky. The film, A Great Day in Harlem, has been nominated for an Oscar...
...years of declining health; in southern England. The theme of an individual's struggle for moral equilibrium in the face of world-shattering historical events runs through much of Bolt's work, from his career-making play, 1960's A Man for All Seasons, which he fashioned into an Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1966 movie version, to his scripts for the David Lean epics Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Dr. Zhivago (1965)-the latter earning Bolt an Oscar...
...with sympathy and, for its time, compelling realism. The work enjoyed a second life as a praised film in 1957. Gazzo's screenplays included the Elvis Presley vehicle King Creole. Gazzo also made his mark in front of the cameras, portraying a succession of screen heavies and winning an Oscar nomination in 1974 for his appearance as the turncoat mobster Frank Pentangeli in The Godfather, Part...