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**** THE GLORIOUS CORNER Story By: G. H. HARDING **** Anthony Hopkins MONSTER MASH --- Writers Alex Kurtzman and writer Chris Morgan have been tapped to reboot Universal’s classic monster movie franchises. Before the Fast and the Furious, Jurassic Park and the Bourne franchises became what Universal was known for, they had a Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, The Mummy, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man and Bride of Frankenstein. Now the studio is committing to rebooting these franchises. Kurtzman has been part of the Transformers, Star Trek and Amazing Spider-Man franchises while Morgan has been the writing force behind Universal’s more reliable franchise, The Fast and the Furious. Universal has tapped into these characters over the years for movies like Van Helsing, The Mummy, The Wolfman and the upcoming Dracula Untold, but this is the first time they’ve tried to revive all of the characters in a cohesive, connected wo...

**** THE LADY OF BROADWAY **** Broadway's Elaine Stritch Elaine Stritch Elaine Stritch with Rob Bowman at the Piano performing 'Movin' Over And Out' her final engagement ever at the Cafe Carlyle in New York City. The Broadway superstar is leaving the Big Apple after 71 years to return to her home state of Michigan. Joining Stritch to celebrate her Carlyle engagement included Broadway friends, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli, Tony Bennett, Martin Short, Tom Hanks, and Michael Feinstein. Photos By: Walter McBride/WM Photography

**** WALTER MCBRIDE ON BROADWAY **** Elaine Stritch Bernadette Peters Elaine Stritch And Bernadette Peters Tony, Grammy & Golden Globe Award winner Bernadette Peters along with Tony & Emmy Award winner Elaine Stritch return to Broadway in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's winning masterpiece A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, directed by Trevor Nunn at the Walter Kerr Theatre, in New York City. Photos By: Walter McBride / Retna Ltd.

**** The Pretty Trap by Tennessee Williams Starring Elaine Stritch Directed by Antony Marsellis Food for Thought Productions **** Anthony Leitner With Elaine Stritch And Jennifer Leitner Michael Citriniti With Elaine Stritch, Jeremy Hollingworth And Tasha Lawrence Tony and Emmy Award winner Elaine Stritch shined on the SOPAC stage for the season's opening theater event. Ms. Stritch's career spans over six decades, with some of the most memorable performances on Broadway, recently culminating in the critically acclaimed one-woman cabaret show at the Hotel Carlyle. She, along with other Broadway actors, participated in Food for Thought's award-winning one-act series, which met with great success during Season Three. The evening featured Elaine Stritch in the role of Amanda in Tennessee Williams' The Pretty Trap, which Williams called “A Comedy In One Act.” This gem of a play, sometimes referred to as a “spinoff” of The Glass Menagerie with a happy ending, was premiered ...

**** The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' Official New York Oscar Night Party **** Story By: Marcy MacDonald And Ann Watt **** Burt Young Tina Louise Tovah Feldshuh Patricia Neal Lisa Eichhorn With Celia Weston And David Rasche Sylvia Miles Elaine Stritch It was an encore performance at The Carlyle on Oscar night: the famous hotel has been taking bows since Richard Rogers became its first tenant in 1931 (Elaine Stritch came down to the Café Carlyle from her upstairs suite to toast her fellow overachievers in the room Bobby Short made even more famous than muralist Marcel Vertes -- who won two Academy Awards for Moulin Rouge -- did when he decorated the place). Oscar rolled out the red carpet for Patricia Neal (Best Actress for Hud) and the woman who would reprise one of the many roles she made famous, Lisa Eichorn; Rip Torn (Best Supporting Actor for Cross Creek); Sid Ramin (Oscar winner for Music Scoring of West Side Story); Ken Ascher; Richard Barlay (Oscar winning...