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April 29, 2013
11:54 pm

Bette Midler plays talent agent Sue Mengers in her new one-woman show "Ill Eat You Last" (image capture: YouTube)

Bette Midler gets to make fun of Hollywood

In Broadway’s ‘I’ll Eat You Last,’ which charts the transition of a chubby Jewish girl into a top Tinseltown talent agent, the Divine Miss M swears a blue streak and never has to stand up

By Mark Kennedy

July 20, 2012
8:46 pm

Woody Harrelson, left, and Frankie Hyman pose at the 'Bullet for Proof' media availability in New York. The play, co-written by Harrelson and Hyman, opens off-Broadway next month at New World Stages. Harrelson also directs. (photo credit: AP Photo/The O and M Co., Jenny Anderson)

Woody Harrelson’s new play is about an old friend

In ‘Bullet for Adolf,’ a gun once used in an attempt to kill Hitler is woven into the tale of unlikely friends bonding in Houston in 1983

By Mark Kennedy

March 10, 2012
1:52 pm

Robert B. Sherman at the Western Marble Arch Synagogue in London in 2004, dedicating his painting 'Sacrifice'. (photo credit: courtesy)

Farewell to the composer who gave us ‘Supercalifragilistic-expialidocious’

Robert Sherman, one of the first US soldiers in Dachau, and his brother Richard composed scores for films including ‘The Jungle Book’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’

By Jill Lawless and Mark Kennedy