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12 articles from 2009
Review: 'Little House on the Prairie, The Musical' at Tpac
28 October 2009 11:58 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Even the presence of Melissa Gilbert - who so memorably played "Half-Pint" in the Little House TV series of the 1970s and '80s and now is cast as Caroline Ingalls - can't save this musical from mediocrity. Try as they might, Gilbert and her castmates unfortunately just can't get past Sheinkin's overly earnest and plodding book, Portman's completely unmemorable score or Di Novelli's clumsily crafted lyrics. Sheinkin's book does offer some glimmer of hope: There are some lovely moments to be found in the script, but they are too few and far between. Portman's score fares worse, since there is not one melody that can be recalled and all the musical numbers sound alike. Di Novelli's lyrics are even worse. When "I'm sick with wind sickness" is the only lyric you can remember, you know the show's in trouble. And, clearly, the material is not served well by director »
'Little House On Prairie' & Habitat For Humanity Continue Partnership With South Bronx Big Co-Op Building
22 August 2009 3:17 AM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
The producers of the upcoming national tour of Little House On The Prairie: The Musical, with Melissa Gilbert as Ma, recently announced a national partnership with Habitat for Humanity, the non-profit international organization dedicated to providing affordable housing to the poor and needy. The announcement was made at a Habitat build-site in the South Bronx at which Melissa Gilbert and fellow cast members helped Habitat volunteers build the seven-story complex which will house 12 families. »
Habitat For Humanity & Little House On Prairie Tour Announce Partnership
3 August 2009 10:07 AM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
The producers of the upcoming national tour of Little House On The Prairie: The Musical, with Melissa Gilbert as Ma, today announced a national partnership with Habitat for Humanity, the non-profit international organization dedicated to providing affordable housing to the poor and needy. The announcement was made at a Habitat build-site in the South Bronx at which Melissa Gilbert and fellow cast members helped Habitat volunteers build the seven-story complex which will house 12 families. »
Gilbert Led Screen Actors Guild As An Alcoholic
22 June 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Former Little House On The Prairie child star Melissa Gilbert served as president of Hollywood union the Screen Actors Guild while hiding an alcoholism secret.
The actress reveals she used to drink heavily in an effort to sleep at night - and block out the pain of her father and grandfathers' deaths and the pressure of leading Tinseltown's stars.
Now sober, Gilbert reveals all about her alcohol problems in her new memoir Prairie Tales, and tells website MomLogic.com, "I was a wife and mother... when my alcoholism really blossomed. It was about 10 years ago, after my grandfather passed away. I felt stuff that I had stuffed away for decades, since my own father passed away.
"I couldn't get my brain to shut off at the end of the day between the kids, having lists of things to do, my job, working, I was president of SAG, etc. I would numb things so I could relax and sleep.
"I started having one glass of wine each night, then three and four glasses, then one bottle, two bottles, and three, just to go to bed at night."
Her then-eight-year-old son Michael made her realise she had a problem when he questioned her drinking.
She recalls, "About five years ago, I was standing in the kitchen and drinking my customary glass of wine while making dinner. He said, 'Mommy, you're not going to drink more wine, are you?' It was just like getting punched in the stomach. I realised this was not the mother, wife, or person I wanted to be. I had to change and fix it."
Gilbert immediately signed up to attend women's-only Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and slowly kicked her boozing habit.
She adds, "It was great for me to be in rooms full of women who were in various stages or far ahead of me in their sobriety, or even women who had less time than me. I learned to gather my strength and move on." »
Gilbert Reveals All About Lowe Split, Miscarriage
4 June 2009 6:35 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Former Little House On The Prairie star Melissa Gilbert has opened up about losing Rob Lowe's baby and the actor himself in a new tell-all book.
The actress met the ageing hunk when she was just 14 and fell "hopelessly and stupidly in love", and agreed to marry the actor when he proposed in 1986.
But, in Prairie Tales, Gilbert talks about her heartache when she suffered a miscarriage after a nervous Lowe called off their romance.
After telling Lowe she was pregnant with his child, she tells People magazine, "He said very softly, 'I can't be a father.' Before I could respond, he said, 'I can't be a husband. I'm so sorry.'"
But the worst was yet to come - when Gilbert lost the child.
She adds, "I had lost my baby and my relationship with Rob... and it hurt like hell." »
SAG-aftra Ratify Advertising Agreement; SAG Townhall Features Fireworks
22 May 2009 10:36 AM, PDT | Digital Media Law | See recent Digital Media Law news »
SAG and AFTRA announced yesterday that their combined paid-up membership, about 132,000 members, overwhelmingly ratified the contracts between the unions and the advertising industry. The result was expected, as there was no organized opposition. About 28% returned their ballots, about typical. Of those voting, about 94% voted yes. The deals expire March 31, 2012.
The news from the TV/theatrical side is nowhere near as placid. The ballots went out a few days ago—they’re due back June 9—and SAG’s conducting a series of town hall meetings across the country. The first was last night in Hollywood, and the fur flew. About 600 people attended according to a staff count; although the crowd was reportedly 70% composed of hardline Membership First partisans, they didn’t manage to fill the room. That’s a bit surprising. I’d expected an overflow crowd, given their (apparent?) strength in Hollywood.
What they slightly lacked in numbers, they made up in volume and conviction, »
- jhandel@att.net (Jonathan Handel)
Little House On The Prairie Play Heads Out On Tour
17 March 2009 5:15 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
A theatre production of 1980s TV hit Little House On The Prairie will tour the U.S. this autumn.
The play, set in late 19th century America, sold out all 12 weeks of its run in Minneapolis, Minnesota last year - prompting theatre bosses to plan a 30-city nationwide tour.
The production, which will start its run in New Jersey in September, features Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls in the original show. »
Gilbert Led 'Little House On The Prairie' Plays Paper Mill in Sept., Nat Tour to Follow
13 March 2009 12:04 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Little House On The Prairie, a new musical based on the beloved Laura Ingalls Wilder series of classic American books, will launch a national tour in October at The Ordway Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota, following a five-week engagement beginning September 10 at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J. Melissa Gilbert, who rose to fame as a child playing ?Laura' in the hugely successful NBC television series "Little House on the Prairie" during the 1970's, now continues her legacy ?on the prairie' by taking on the role of Ma. Little House On The Prairie will also star Steve Blanchard as Pa and Kara Lindsay as Laura. »
DVD Playhouse--March 2009
10 March 2009 11:25 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—March 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Let The Right One In (Magnolia) An awkward 12 year-old boy, ignored by his mother and the target of bullies, finds himself drawn to his new neighbor: a girl his own age who only appears at night, and seems herself to be as lonely an outcast as he. Haunting film from Sweden is best described as The 400 Blows meets Nosferatu, and contains some of the most haunting imagery of any film in recent memory. Truly a unique and memorable work. Bonuses: Deleted scenes; Featurette; Photo and poster gallery. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount offers two more classic titles, restored, remastered and loaded with extras. Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief stars Cary Grant as a retired jewel thief trying to enjoy his sunset years on the French Riviera with a minimum of drama, until he catches the eye of a high-maintenance heiress (Grace Kelly, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
SAG Email Imbroglio
28 January 2009 10:13 AM, PST | Digital Media Law | See recent Digital Media Law news »
Yesterday, the Screen Actor’s Guild’s new Interim National Executive Director, David White, sent an email to members, setting a tone of unity and moving forward. It was a very hopeful sign of the new era in place at SAG headquarters. The message was calm, eloquent and forward-looking—in other words, something entirely new from SAG HQ.
Hours later, SAG President Alan Rosenberg sent out his own email to members, and we were reminded yet again how tough the road to a ratified deal will be for SAG, let alone the road to unity. That email reads like a dispatch from an alternate reality, starting as it does with the disingenuous complaint that fired Ned Doug Allen was terminated by a written document called an assent rather than in “a face-to-face Board meeting, where the significant minority would have had an opportunity to voice its opinion.” There was a Board meeting, »
- noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Handel)
SAG – Msg from New National Executive Director
27 January 2009 12:58 PM, PST | Digital Media Law | See recent Digital Media Law news »
SAG’s new Interim National Executive Director just sent to members, and posted on SAG.org, a message setting a tone of unity and moving forward. I’ve included a copy below.
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A Message from Interim National Executive Director David White
Dear Screen Actors Guild member,
As I enter my first full day today as your new Interim National Executive Director, I have reflected on a Los Angeles Examiner story from 1937 that once hung on the wall of my Screen Actors Guild office when I served as General Counsel.
The article chronicled the moment when the studios had finally recognized the Guild as the labor representative for actors in the motion picture industry. »
- noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Handel)
Sigourney Weaver delivers an Emmy-worthy performance on Lifetime
22 January 2009 11:00 AM, PST | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
Sigourney Weaver has been making the talk show circuit this week to promote her Lifetime movie, Prayers for Bobby.
Wait — Sigourney Weaver in a Lifetime movie? Was Melissa Gilbert unavailable?
True, the fact that Weaver’s TV movie debut is on Lifetime made me cringe a little. Not because I don’t like Lifetime — I’ve spent my share of rainy Sunday afternoons glued to the Lifetime Movie Channel for reasons I can’t explain. But the usual my-husband-beats-me-so-i-killed-him-and-got-amnesia-and-married-the-brother-i-never-knew-i-had formula just doesn’t seem to fit our favorite alien fighter.
Weaver, however, isn’t concerned about where the movie airs. “Wherever these compelling stories are told,” she said, “I’ll be glad to work.”
Compelling, the story definitely is. In Prayers for Bobby, Weaver plays Mary Griffith, a devout fundamentalist Christian who believes that her gay son Bobby (Ryan Kelley) can, with God’s help, overcome his gaiety sin.
At age 20, Bobby commits suicide, »
- thelinster
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