Rosalind Russell News

BRING YOUR SHARP wit, love of gossip, and ready laughter to Butterfield 8's production of "The Women." You'll utilize all three and more as a very talented group of actresses turns the world of high society upside down in Clare Boothe Luce's satirical comedy running through July 11 at Concord's Cue Productions Live.

Recent 2009 Tony Award Honor for Excellence in the Theatre recipient Shirley Herz is featured in a fanatstic article in The New York Times on the bygone days of the theatrical press agent.

This sensationally good novel proposes a solution to a real-life mystery: the disappearance in 1949 of a bit-part actress called Jean Spangler.

As a kid in Philadelphia, Shirley Herz sat in the back row of the Forrest Theatre and watched Katharine Hepburn give such an inspired curtain speech , Herz decided then and there that her future lay among stage-folk. A decade later, she made it to New York, breaking into showbiz while sharing an apartment with a newcomer from Texas named Liz Smith.

With an all-star cast of actresses. Talks of "The Women" going into production began nearly 10 years ago, and now, after its release, it's no wonder it took so long to get off the ground.

Helen Mirren and Russell Crowe star in State of Play. Photograph by: IMDB, IMDB Pen cocked, hat titled to rakish perfection and able to speak faster than a livestock auctioneer in a burning barn, the image of the hard-boiled reporter was once an integral part of Hollywood tradition.

Universal Pictures Russell Crowe, left, and Rachel McAdams are reporters with different approaches.

Reviewed by Katey Rich : 2009-03-18 12:40:27 In the old days Production Code days, when you faded out before the sex and kisses were without tongue, romance and seduction were done with words.

Is March 17th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on March 17th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion? If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

William Holden stars as handsome drifter Hal Carter, who arrives in the hometown of his old college friend Alan on the day of the big local picnic to hit him up for a job.

What's sad is that over the years the romantic comedy has been a genuinely positive genre for women.

If it's Thursday, this must be the mailbag . . . Q: USA Network is saying that ''Monk'' is going to have its final season.

NO TIME FOR COMEDY, which stars James Stewart and Rosalind Russell, suffers from a split personality which curiously mirrors the film's plot.

TAKE A LETTER, DARLING is a delightful comedy starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray.

PROOF is a good example of a typical glossy MGM romantic comedy-drama from the '30s, starring an attractive quartet of actors: Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, and Walter Pidgeon.

DESK JOB Jacobs and Richardson. Unless you're talking a two-minute rendition of Hamlet , it's hard to think of anything more suited to the finger-snapping style of 2nd Story Theatre than a screwball comedy.

The most iconic hangover in film comes in the 1958 movie, Auntie Mame . It starts with nephew Patrick, bounding into an elegantly decorated room with clatter, noise, and a certain amount of joie de vivre.

The 1958 comedy in which an orphan gets an education when he goes to live with his eccentric aunt .