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...July 1 at age 97, was in the office of the producer of The Streets of San Francisco, the '70s TV show. I had been recommended for a part, and Karl was giving me the once-over. My dad [actor Kirk Douglas] had worked with him on a summer-stock production, and he told me what a hard worker Karl was. That was an understatement. Karl came from the steel mills of Gary, Ind. He taught me just how fortunate I was to be an actor...
LEMONS NEVER LIE RICHARD STARK "GROFIELD opened the closet door and the wrestler smiled up at him with his slit throat." Grofield is a summer-stock actor who moonlights as a usual-suspects-type contract criminal. He's a thief, not a psycho-killer, so when an actual murderous nut job tries to hire him, he walks away. He should have run. Instead, Grofield winds up in this first-rate hard-boiled mystery by Richard Stark (also known to aficionados of the genre by his real name, Donald E. Westlake), which reads like Raymond Chandler with a dark literary whisper...
Interested in theater? Eighty percent of the 85 employees hired by Cape Cod's College Light Opera Co. are college students. The residential summer-stock musical theater pays between $500 and $2,500 for the season for a variety of positions and can be reached at (216) 774-8485. Deadline is March...
...profile of triple-threat comedy star Tim Allen, Ressner -- along with correspondent Patrick Cole -- carried the ball for a touchdown. "I went over to the set where Allen was readying a holiday episode of Home Improvement, and it felt friendly and homey," says Ressner, "more like a Midwestern summer-stock rehearsal than the place where the No. 1 TV show was being prepared." Senior editor James Collins, who supervises TIME's arts and entertainment coverage, wasn't surprised by the unusual candor that Ressner drew from Allen during their interview. "Stars are asked so many questions by so many reporters...
John Kenley's Phantom of the Opera. A play with music (most of it adapted from Gounod, with new songs by David Gooding) that was commissioned by summer-stock impresario John Kenley, it toured...