No sooner than Masterworks Broadway's new release of Seven Come Eleven A Gaming Gambol starts playing, listeners will find themselves transported to the intimacy of The Upstairs Room, lined with lavish, red fabric and soft light emanating from antique globes. We easily picture ourselves sitting at a small table amidst New Yorkers enjoying a night out on the town. As Julius Monk greets his live audience and us listeners, in our mind's eye we can see the lights dimming and we get lost in the enthusiastic performances of Philip Bruns the father on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, the original Morty Seinfeld on Seinfeld, Ceil Cabot, Rex Robbins 1974 Gypsy Revival, Steve Roland, Donna Sanders, and Mary Louise Wilson 1998 Cabaret revival, Grey Gardens, who are accompanied by William Roy and Carl Norman at the plural pianos.
- 7/16/2013
- by David Clarke
- BroadwayWorld.com
Anyone who has seen the trailer for Searching For Sugar Man knows that the title character has indeed been found (but there’s much more to his unbelievable life story than that). If you’d prefer to keep Sugar Man a mystery until after you see the film, please bookmark this interview to refer back to after you’ve had your own discovery of this man’s unbelievable story.
In our age of instant music sharing, it seems like any artist can get recognition with a hip enough music video or high amount of followers on Twitter. Searching for Sugar Man, directed by Malik Bendjelloul, is a documentary about Sixto Rodriguez, a great talent from the early 70s (think poppier Bob Dylan) who slipped through the cracks of notoriety (at least in America). It is the story of a man’s disappearance, as well as it is his unbelievable return.
In our age of instant music sharing, it seems like any artist can get recognition with a hip enough music video or high amount of followers on Twitter. Searching for Sugar Man, directed by Malik Bendjelloul, is a documentary about Sixto Rodriguez, a great talent from the early 70s (think poppier Bob Dylan) who slipped through the cracks of notoriety (at least in America). It is the story of a man’s disappearance, as well as it is his unbelievable return.
- 8/10/2012
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
By Rhett Bartlett
Steve Rowland has had a full life: great-nephew of Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood actor from the 1950s and 1960s, partner of the late Judy Lewis, friend of James Dean and Elvis Presley, and career as one of the great record producers, discovering talents such as Peter Frampton and The Cure. In 1970 he produced an album called ‘Coming from Reality’ for the enigmatic rock ‘n’ roller Rodriguez, who is now the subject of a critically-acclaimed documentary called Searching for Sugar Man. Here are three excerpts from a phone interview with Rowland that I conducted late last month.
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Steve Rowland has had a full life: great-nephew of Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood actor from the 1950s and 1960s, partner of the late Judy Lewis, friend of James Dean and Elvis Presley, and career as one of the great record producers, discovering talents such as Peter Frampton and The Cure. In 1970 he produced an album called ‘Coming from Reality’ for the enigmatic rock ‘n’ roller Rodriguez, who is now the subject of a critically-acclaimed documentary called Searching for Sugar Man. Here are three excerpts from a phone interview with Rowland that I conducted late last month.
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- 7/3/2012
- by Scott Feinberg
- Scott Feinberg
Philadelphia — For decades, the identity of Judy Lewis' parents was one of the best-kept secrets in Hollywood.
Not until Lewis acknowledged her story in the 1994 autobiography "Uncommon Knowledge" did the general public know the truth: Lewis was not the adopted daughter of Hollywood starlet Loretta Young, but had been conceived out of wedlock by Young and Clark Gable while the two filmed "Call of the Wild" in the 1930s.
Lewis died Friday in the Philadelphia suburb of Gladwyne, said Rodger McKinney, owner of the Chadwick & McKinney Funeral Home. Services will be held Saturday.
Lewis, of Palm Springs, Calif., was raised in Los Angeles by Young as her adopted daughter. She was an adult when she learned that Young, a devout Roman Catholic, conceived her during an affair with Gable in the 1930s.
"At the time, what Loretta Young did was completely successful," said Leonard Maltin, a film critic and Hollywood historian.
Not until Lewis acknowledged her story in the 1994 autobiography "Uncommon Knowledge" did the general public know the truth: Lewis was not the adopted daughter of Hollywood starlet Loretta Young, but had been conceived out of wedlock by Young and Clark Gable while the two filmed "Call of the Wild" in the 1930s.
Lewis died Friday in the Philadelphia suburb of Gladwyne, said Rodger McKinney, owner of the Chadwick & McKinney Funeral Home. Services will be held Saturday.
Lewis, of Palm Springs, Calif., was raised in Los Angeles by Young as her adopted daughter. She was an adult when she learned that Young, a devout Roman Catholic, conceived her during an affair with Gable in the 1930s.
"At the time, what Loretta Young did was completely successful," said Leonard Maltin, a film critic and Hollywood historian.
- 12/1/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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