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☆ Violett Beane Doesn’t Mind Some Uncomfortable Silence
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Kathryn Shattuck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Violett Beane doesn’t know if she believes in ghosts. “Our hair artist at the time said that she felt, like, a hand come across her and wind on her neck,” Beane said. “She ran out of the room and just freaked out.”There’s no freaking-out onscreen when Beane’s character, Imogene Scott, is thrown together with Rufus Cotesworth, once the world’s greatest detective, played by Mandy Patinkin. “He’s a legend,” Beane said of Patinkin. “He brings this sort of magnitude with him, and he never misses.

Persons: Violett Beane doesn’t, Queen Mary —, ” Beane, “, ”, Imogene Scott, Rufus Cotesworth, Mandy Patinkin, Patinkin Organizations: British

☆ 19 people who have won an EGOT, the most coveted award in Hollywood
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Olivia Singh | Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Mel Brooks got his EGOT by acting, writing for TV, and writing a musical. Mel Brooks is known for the musical "The Producers." REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniEmmy AwardsOutstanding writing achievement in variety, "The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special" (1967)Outstanding guest actor in a comedy series, "Mad About You" (1997)Outstanding guest actor in a comedy series, "Mad About You" (1998)Outstanding guest actor in a comedy series, "Mad About You" (1999)Grammy AwardsBest spoken comedy album, "The 2000 Year Old Man In The Year 2000" (1998)Best long form music video, "Recording The Producers – A Musical Romp With Mel Brooks" (2001)Best musical show album, "The Producers" (2001)Academy AwardBest writing, story and screenplay – written directly for the screen, "The Producers" (1969)Tony AwardsBest book of a musical, "The Producers" (2001)Best musical, "The Producers" (2001)Best original score, "The Producers" (2001)

Persons: Mel Brooks, Mario Anzuoni, Sid Caesar, Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Tony Awards

☆ The best and worst parts of being an NBC page: In the 70s, I worked with stars like Regis Philbin and Johnny Carson and was paid $1.90 an hour
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Shelley Herman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

I was an NBC page two weeks laterIt was 1976 and I was 20, still in college and clueless. Now in its 90th year, the NBC Page program is one of the most prestigious entry-level positions in the entertainment industry. I wish I could tell you there was one straight, surefire way to becoming an NBC page, but there isn't. My other friend Al got his NBC page job when the women who worked behind the scenes on "Wheel of Fortune" spotted him as a contestant on the show. She is the author of "My Peacock Tale: Secrets of an NBC Page."

Persons: Shelley Herman, Elvis Presley, pagedom, Janus, Jim Croce, Alice, Regis Philbin, Gene Rayburn, Chuck Barris, Peter Marshall, Neil, Al, Sandy, Johnny Carson, Pete, Julian Goodman, Chance, Hawkins, Roxanne, Don Rickles, Peter Isackson, C.P.O, Sharkey, Dinah, Johnny, Sid Caesar, Imogene, Sid, John Travolta, Diana Hyland, Jeff, Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock, Redd Foxx, Sanford, Son, Dick Clark, Freddie Prinze, Johnny Carson's, Harry Chapin, I've Organizations: NBC Studios, Service, Sears, Toyota, NBC Burbank, NBC, USC, Pasadena Civic Locations: Wall, Silicon, Burbank , California, Las Vegas, California, Pasadena

☆ Robin Wagner, Visionary Set Designer of Broadway Hits, Dies at 89
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Robin Wagner, the inventive Tony Award-winning set designer of more than 50 Broadway shows, including the 1978 musical “On the Twentieth Century,” in which a locomotive appeared to be racing toward the audience with the actress Imogene Coca strapped to the front of it, died on Monday at his home in New York City. His daughter Christie Wagner Lee confirmed the death but said she did not yet know the specific cause. She did not say in what borough he lived. Mr. Wagner designed sets on Broadway, Off Broadway and for regional theater, for operas and ballets, and, in 1975, for the Rolling Stones’ Tour of the Americas. His stage for those concerts was shaped like a six-pointed lotus flower that was raked upward to the back in a delicate curve.

Persons: Robin Wagner, Coca, Christie Wagner Lee, Wagner, Clive Barnes, ”, Christ, ” “ Young, Tony Kushner’s Organizations: Broadway, Americas, The New York Times Locations: New York City, The, America

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