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Mike Wallace Memorial: New York City Embraces The Great Journalist One Last Time

Liz Smith | Posted 05.03.2012

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Liz Smith

How I wish that every person in the world who loved, admired, hated, decried my onetime boss, Mike, could have seen what happened in Rose Hall just as I experienced it.

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Hillary Clinton Hosts The Nation's Top Artists

AP | By BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 02.03.2012

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By BRETT ZONGKER, The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama in lauding the actors, musicians and others receiving Kennedy Center Ho...

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President To Host Neil Diamond, Meryl Streep And Other Kennedy Center Honorees

AP | Posted 12.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama hosts the five recipients of the 34th Kennedy Center Honors at a White House reception Sunday before attending th...

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To Preserve and Protect

George Heymont | Posted 06.18.2011

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George Heymont

Many professional musicians who give of their time to conduct master classes for young opera singers have a vested interest in passing on the knowledge they have acquired in the course of their own performing careers.

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New York Celebrity Assistants Organization Celebrates 15th Year Anniversary

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

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Holly Cara Price

Let me set the scene for you. It's the summer of 1999 and I'm sitting in the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, freaking out. Why? Because ...

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Twelve Months Til Christmas

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

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George Heymont

For most people, the holiday season is over and done with. Christmas decorations have been put back into storage and the tree has been disposed of. But for arts entrepreneurs the situation is quite different.

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First Nighter: Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine "Passion" Gives Passion a Bad Name

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Finkle

Passion is a depiction of romantic obsession and the subtly destructive ends to which romantic obsession can lead -- all of it outfitted with somber, totally humorless Sondheim songs.

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My Visit to Venice

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Kaiser

La Fenice in Venice has been one of the most important opera houses for over two centuries. Verdi alone wrote "Attila," "Rigoletto," "La Traviata" and "Simon Boccanegra" for La Fenice!

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Stage Door: Sondheim on Sondheim, Collected Stories

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fern Siegel

In a 1994 New York magazine article, the cover line asks: "Is Stephen Sondheim God?" If you see Sondheim on Sondheim at Studio 54, the answer is yes.

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Actors, Singers, Dancers, Christians and a Republican: The 2010 Tony Awards Show Roasted

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tallulah Morehead

It was a poor decision to hand out the Tony awards on the day of the Gay Pride Parade and Festival in West Hollywood, thereby losing its entire West Coast audience.

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