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Tantalizing Tunes: A Fall Handful of Hit Performances

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: My Fair Lady, Shalom-Aleichem, Musical Theater, Opera, Oklahoma!, Broadway, Madama Butterfly, Orchestra, Camelot, Yiddish, Musicals, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The Sound of Music, Roy Thomson Hall, Opera Singing, Canadian Opera Company, Tchaikovsky, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Canada, Entertainment News
Marissa Bronfman

From Tchaikovsky to Broadway, Butterfly to Frankie Valli and Shalom, Toronto is truly alive with The Sound of Music!

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If This is Monday and Opera in Central Park, Why the Microphones?

David Finkle | Posted 08.14.2009 | New York

Read More: The Metropolitan Opera, Il Barbiere Di Siviglia, Lisette Oroposa, South Pacific, Carmen, My Fair Lady, Les Pecheurs Des Perles, Don Pasquale, Opera, Summer Recital Series, Paolo Szot, Camelot, West Side Story, Entertainment, Don Giovanni, La Fille Du Regiment, Alek Shrader, Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail, Rigoletto, New York News
David Finkle

My question, then, is: Whom are the presenters doing a favor by offering these recitals? Opera lovers will know they aren't hearing singing done under the proper conditions.

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Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 03.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, The English Patient, The Exorcist, Tom Hanks, History of the Academy Awards, Julie Andrews, Milk, Fred MacMurray, John Wayne, The Wrestler Stanley Kubrick, As Good as It Gets, Capote, The Great Ziegfeld, Traffic, L.A. Confidential, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, High Noon, Million Dollar Baby, Joan Allen, My Left Foot, Around the World in Eighty Days, Slumdog Millionaire, The Academy Awards, The Sting, Rocky Balboa, Letters From Iwo Jima, Double Indemnity, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Little Miss Sunshine, Ed Harris, Life Is Beautiful, Peter Finch, Shakespeare in Love, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, Giant, Crash, My Man Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, The Contender, Network, Imelda Staunton, Academy Awards, Titanic, Louis B. Mayer; Daryl Zanuck; Samuel L Goldwyn, Hotel Rwanda, The Apartment, The Departed, Peter Sellers, Pulp Fiction, Burt Lancaster, Gladiator, Vera Drake, Sean Penn, Modern Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago, Field of Dreams, Billy Wilder, Pollock, Al Jolson, Forrest Gump, William Powell, John Travolta, Carole Lombard, Singin' in the Rain, Taxi Driver, Cecil B. DeMille, My Fair Lady, Jack Lemmon, The Searchers, The Hours, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News
John Farr

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

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Keira Knightley In Talks For "My Fair Lady" Redo

Variety | Tatiana Siegel | Posted 06.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: My Fair Lady Remake, Keira Knightley My Fair Lady, Keira Knightley, My Fair Lady, Entertainment News

Eliza Doolittle is set for another bigscreen makeover. Columbia Pictures is tuning up a "My Fair Lady" redo, with Keira Knightley in talks to star as...

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