Charmian Carr, best known for her role as Liesl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music has died, her family confirmed in a statement. She was 73. According to a family statement Carr died on Saturday from complications from a rare form of dementia. In a note on her official website, a man identified as Steve Hughes announced that Carr had died. "My name is Steve Hughes, and my Company has been managing Charmian Carr's website for many, many years," he wrote. "Me and my family are so sad to have to post this message and will miss her dearly.
- 9/18/2016
- by Maria Mercedes Lara, @maria_mercedes
- PEOPLE.com
Charmian Carr, best known for her role as Liesl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music has died, her family confirmed in a statement. She was 73. According to a family statement Carr died on Saturday from complications from a rare form of dementia. In a note on her official website, a man identified as Steve Hughes announced that Carr had died. "My name is Steve Hughes, and my Company has been managing Charmian Carr's website for many, many years," he wrote. "Me and my family are so sad to have to post this message and will miss her dearly.
- 9/18/2016
- by Maria Mercedes Lara, @maria_mercedes
- PEOPLE.com
If you're as fond as I am of Stephen Sondheim's much celebrated stage musical Sweeney Todd (and I consider it to be his greatest achievement), then you owe it to yourself to check out Sondheim's first succesful foray into the macabre, Evening Primrose. Based on the short story of the same name by the underrated (at least these days) John Collier (it can be found in the author's seminal 1951 collection Fancies and Goodnights), Evening Primrose is the tale of a young poet named Charles Snell (played by Norman Bates himself, actor Anthony Perkins). Tired of dealing with real life, he retreats into a secret world of gray-haired similarly eccentric drop-outs in a New York City department store, in order to devote all of his...
- 6/13/2012
- FEARnet
In 1966, composer Stephen Sondheim collaborated with playwright James Goldman on a musical adaptation of a John Collier short story about a community of outsiders who pose as department-store mannequins by day and follow their own eccentric rules by night. The show, Evening Primrose, aired on the experimental anthology series ABC’s Stage 67, with Anthony Perkins playing a young poet who learns he isn’t the first to have the bright idea of retreating from the real world, while Charmian Carr (a.k.a. Liesl von Trapp in The Sound Of Music) plays a woman who’s been lost ...
- 12/15/2010
- avclub.com
<p><img src="http://www.justpressplay.net/images/stories/theothershelf.jpg" alt="theothershelf" width="590" height="150" /></p> <p>Witness the origin of Santa Claus, spend a night in a department store with a psycho and let some frogs teach you how to count, while Sam Rockwell teaches high school girls how to handle balls. Here are some titles you may have missed recently.</p> <p style="text-align: center;">• • •</p> <p> </p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><img class="Image-Left" src="http://www.justpressplay.net/images/stories/DVDcovers/santaclaus.jpg" alt="santaclaus" width="150" height="205" />Santa Claus</span></strong><br />by Marissa Quenqua</p> <p>{amazon}B003YCIE68{/amazon}</p> <p>In <em>Santa Claus</em>, we are privy to the process in which an elderly man who was beloved by his neighborhood for going out every Christmas Eve in snow, sleet, or blizzard with a sleigh full of toys eventually becomes <em>Santa Claus</em>. Hundreds of years ago, this man and his wife went out in a particularly severe blizzard, claiming that their reindeer can "handle anything," only to be blown off course and nearly freeze to death before being rescued by immortal elves. They are taken miraculously to the North Pole, where he is given immortality and bestowed...
- 12/2/2010
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
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By Allen Gardner
Paths Of Glory (Criterion) Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 antiwar classic put him on the map as a major filmmaker. Kirk Douglas stars in a true story about a French officer in Ww I who locks horns with the military’s top brass after his men are court-martialed for failing to carry out an obvious suicide mission. A perfect film, across the board, with fine support from George Macready as one of the most despicable martinet’s ever captured on film, Ralph Meeker, and Adolphe Menjou, all oily charm as a conniving General. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Audio commentary by critic Gary Giddins; Excerpt from 1966 audio interview with Kubrick; 1979 interview with Douglas; New interviews with Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, and producer James B. Harris; French television documentary on real-life case which inspired the film; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
Winter’S Bone (Lionsgate) After her deadbeat father disappears,...
By Allen Gardner
Paths Of Glory (Criterion) Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 antiwar classic put him on the map as a major filmmaker. Kirk Douglas stars in a true story about a French officer in Ww I who locks horns with the military’s top brass after his men are court-martialed for failing to carry out an obvious suicide mission. A perfect film, across the board, with fine support from George Macready as one of the most despicable martinet’s ever captured on film, Ralph Meeker, and Adolphe Menjou, all oily charm as a conniving General. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Audio commentary by critic Gary Giddins; Excerpt from 1966 audio interview with Kubrick; 1979 interview with Douglas; New interviews with Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, and producer James B. Harris; French television documentary on real-life case which inspired the film; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
Winter’S Bone (Lionsgate) After her deadbeat father disappears,...
- 11/6/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Alan Cumming, whose online blog has accused President Obama of doing ‘’diddly squat’’ for gay rights, now says, ‘’I was a bit dismayed at the way [my words were] turned about. I would still vote for Obama. Always. I would exhort anyone to vote Democratic again and again. But it’s sad. During his campaign, Obama talked so much about what he’d do: [repeal] Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the Defense of Marriage Act. Just equality. We’ve given him a lot of support, a lot of money, and he’s not paying back. I really don’t believe he’s not a man of his word. I really don’t believe he’s homophobic. But he needs to throw us a bone.’’
Cumming, who was attending a concert of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Evening Primrose Monday in New York City, added: ‘’There’s been such a lot of bad P.
Cumming, who was attending a concert of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Evening Primrose Monday in New York City, added: ‘’There’s been such a lot of bad P.
- 10/26/2010
- by Wayman Wong
- The Backlot
The 1966 television musical Evening Primrose is not a lost masterpiece, but it certainly hasn't deserved its four and a half decades of obscurity, either. Presented as part of the short-lived ABC anthology series ABC Stage 67, this adaptation of a John Collier short story hasn't been available for viewing outside of bootlegs or museums since its initial broadcast. ABC never presented it again. It was never syndicated nor released on VHS, much less Blu-Ray or DVD. That hasn't stopped legions of curious fans from being eager to see what it was like. Much of the fascination is due to the fact that Evening Primrose features four vintage tunes from Broadway songwriter Stephen Sondheim (Sweeny Todd, Assassins) and was adapted by playwright and screenwriter James Goldman (They Might Be Giants, The Lion in Winter). The two later collaborated on Follies. It...
- 10/26/2010
- by Dan Lybarger
- Huffington Post
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