Hal Holbrook

Q&A With Jessica Sherr, Star of
Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies

Joshua Kors | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: NYC Fringe Festival, Hal Holbrook, Academy Awards, Theater, Bette Davis, Broadway, Fruit by the Foot, The Redheads, Dark Victory, Jessica Sherr, Always Actor, 1940s, Gone With the Wind, New York Fringe Festival, Los Angeles Times, Oscars, Vivien Leigh, NY Theater, NY Around Town, New York News
Joshua Kors

Jessica Sherr has been playing the raven-haired 1940s cinema icon Bette Davis for two years. Sherr sat down with me to discuss how an off-hand comment about her bright green eyes sparked a burgeoning career.

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"Wall Street Shuffle": An Uplifting Playlist for the Highs and Lows

David Wild | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: The Rolling Stones, Arcade Fire, Hal Holbrook, Kanye West, Wall Street, Dave Matthews, Standard & Poor's, Barry Manilow, Tom Petty, Entertainment News
David Wild

These are strange times -- on Wall Street and off. One minute you're up, the next you're feeling Standard & Poor's. Here are some songs to help us all through life's highs and lows -- and keep us all out of the emotional abyss.

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Hal Holbrook Honored at Actors Benefit

Cassandra M. Bellantoni | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Martin Sheen, Hal Holbrook, Actors Fund, Tony Awards, Stephanie Powers, Invictus, Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Ginny Carter, Hereafter, Marilu Henner, Dixie Carter, Juliet Mills, Skirball Cultural Center, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Los Angeles News
Cassandra M. Bellantoni

Hal Holbrook was honored with the Julie Harris Award at the Actor's Fund 15th Annual Tony Award Viewing Party in Los Angeles on June 12.

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Redford Honored at AARP Movie Awards for Grownup Films

Jay Weston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 127 Hours, Aarp, Hal Holbrook, Robert Redford, The King's Speech, Movies for Grownups, AARP the Magazine, Phylicia Rashad, Another Year, The Company Men, Colin Firth, Los Angeles News
Jay Weston

Robert Redford looked a bit weather-beaten, but still magnificent, at the AARP The Magazine's Movies for Grownups Award Gala.

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Holbrook Performs Twain On Author's 175th Birthday

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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ELMIRA, N.Y. — The crowd sang happy 175th birthday to Mark Twain before the lights went down at the Clemens Center, then laughed along with the ...

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COMEDY: Is Stand-Up The Reality TV Of Broadway?

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Funny, Reality Television, Billy Crystal, Hal Holbrook, Entertainment, Books, American Theater Wing, Tony Awards, Broadway, Lenny Bruce, Long Story Short, Stephen Sondheim, Steve Martin, Jerry Seinfeld, Stand-Up Comedy, Mario Cantone, Comedy at the Edge, Richard Zoglin, Colin Quinn, Duran Duran, Playbill, Lily Tomlin, Fox, Comedy, Cops, Entertainment News
James Sims

Passing off stand-up comedy as a Broadway show, intentionally or not, does nothing but confuse the terminology of theatrical standards, whatever those might be.

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The Graduate Turns 73: Dustin Hoffman's Top Ten Movies

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman, Sydney Pollack, Hal Holbrook, Tootsie, Alan J. Pakula, Roy Scheider, Best Movies on DVD, Faye Dunaway, Lenny Bruce, Bob Fosse, Best Movies by Farr, Jessica Lange, Thirteen/WNET, Bill Murray, All the President?S Men, John Schlesinger, Charles Durning, Laurence Olivier, Mike Nichols, Meryl Streep, Anne Bancroft, Sam Peckinpah, Katherine Ross, Tom Cruise, Arthur Penn, Robert Benton, Jason Robards, Barry Levinson, Robert Redford, Entertainment News
John Farr

If you hear some young, unschooled person say, "Oh, Dustin Hoffman, he played Ben Stiller's kooky dad", point them towards the other memorable characters that more accurately reflect this performer's invaluable contribution to film.

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Dixie Carter Dead: 'Designing Women' Actress Dies At 70

AP | ANDREW DALTON | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Dixie Carter, who was already a Broadway and television veteran when she found perhaps her perfect part as the wiser and wittier half ...

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Holbrook Shines In Sun Movie

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The South, Hal Holbrook, Aging, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

You have heard it said a thousand times that such and such got better with age. Well in the case of the 84 year old Hal Holbrook in the new film, That Evening Sun it is true.

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American Primitive: The "Why" Behind a Movement (VIDEO)

Tom Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cape Cod, Josh Peck, Hal Holbrook, Adam Pascal, Prop 8, American Primitive, Gwen Wynne, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Tate Donvan, Anne Ramsay, Madeline Goodhart, Cape Cod Films, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Martin Sheen, Susan Anspach, Movies, Video, Entertainment News
Tom Gregory

American Primitive is the "why" that drove early activists like Harvey Milk and the Stonewall demonstrators to demand equality.

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Hal Holbrook: Oscar Nominee Back In The Spotlight

USA Today | William Keck | Posted 05.25.2011

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If there were ever a time for Hal Holbrook to be whistlin' Dixie, it is now. The veteran actor, who turns 83 this month, is enjoying his first Oscar...

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