Ergebnis für "Phoenix" in Unterhaltung & Darstellende Künste

Hollywood was built on beautiful and complicated matinee idols: James Dean and Marlon Brando are classic examples, but in the 1990s, the actor who embodied that archetype was River Phoenix. As the brightly colored 1980s wound down, a new crew of leading men began to appear on movie screens...

The attraction of opera is in its scale, in the fact that it is larger than real life in actions and emotions, more magnificent in sound and in sight. And in the world of opera, no figure in our time loomed larger than the late Luciano Pavarotti. Especially in his triumphant collaborations with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras, he captured the imagination of an audience breadth and depth is remarkable even in the grand context of classical opera.

This laugh-out-loud memoir takes listeners backstage and inside the writers' room of one of America's best-loved shows. With more than 17 million viewers and more than seventy Emmy nominations — including two wins for best comedy — Everybody Loves Raymond reigned supreme in television comedy for almost a decade. Phil Rosenthal was there at the beginning. United by a shared lifetime of family dysfunction, he and Ray Romano found endless material to keep the show fresh and funny for its entire run.

One night in 1995, author Douglas Adams kidnapped an audience and held them hostage for 70 minutes at London's Almeida Theatre. The audience members were subjected to Adams's dramatic solo performances of excerpts and scenes from his wildly funny, wildly popular books The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Life, the Universe and Everything. LEARN how to fly! HEAR about Arthur and the Irrational Sofa! GROAN at Marvin's escapade with the Frogstar Battle Robot! Just keep laughing and nobody will get hurt!

In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, the most famous male dancer in the Western world, moved into a Swiss villa with his wife and three-year-old daughter and began to go mad. A prodigy from his youth in Russia, Nijinsky came to international fame as a principal dancer in Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. When psychosis struck, he began to imagine himself as married to God. Although he lived another 30 years, he never regained his sanity. This diary is Nijinsky's confession and his prophecy, the only sustained, on-the-spot account we have by a major artist of entering psychosis.

Shakespeare knew more about the art of acting and the art of theater than any other playwright—but there is no general consensus about how Shakespeare should be played. There are no rules. In A Shakespearean Actor Prepares, actor, director, and teacher Adrian Brine teams up with celebrated actor Michael York to reveal these keys. In pointing out sources of energy in Shakespeare's plays, they make it possible for actors to galvanize their fantasy and liberate their talents.

By “assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. From activists and artists to international leaders—both famous and infamous—these conversations are unfailingly witty, thought-provoking, and genuinely entertaining. The panelists featured in this volume are President Theodore Roosevelt, Queen Cleopatra, theologian Thomas Aquinas, and American revolutionary Thomas Paine.

Joaquin Rafael Phoenix was born on October 28, 1974, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to a family immersed in the arts and activism. His parents, Arlyn (née Dunetz) and John Bottom, were members of the religious group Children of God, which led them to travel extensively through South America before eventually settling in the United States. Joaquin was one of five siblings, all of whom were encouraged to explore their artistic talents from a young age. His older brother, River Phoenix, became a celebrated actor before his tragic death in 1993, an event that had a profound impact on Joaquin. The ...

Terrify your friends and the neighborhood trick-or-treaters with these terrifying screams, horrifying moans, and bloodcurdling shrieks all backed by the sounds of an eerie organ during a thunderous storm and narrated by the chilling voice of a demonic monster.

Welcome to Night at the Drive-In, I’m your host CJ, and I’m here to bring that feeling back—one story at a time. Each episode, we’ll present original audio tales as well classic drive-in style films adapted for your ears, all in a PG format that sparks the imagination and brings listeners of all age together.We’ve even got vintage previews, old-school intermission ads, and more to make you feel like you’re really there, parked in that gravel lot, radio dialed in, ready for the show. Got a story about a drive-in you remember—or maybe one still lighting up the night today? We’d...

Variety of my poems read aloud accompanied by music and sound vistas.

In an underground laboratory, somewhere in Arizona in the not-too-distant future, Cameron and Marie race to find a cure for a super-flu that's already killed most of the world. Will they get the serum to the President in time? Or will they all perish? Tune in to find out.

Featuring eight episodes of seven classic radio programs, this compelling collection of nostalgia will entertain listeners of all eras. Featured in this set are a live quiz show—You Bet Your Life, hosted by comic legend Groucho Marx—a thrilling segment of X-Minus One ("The C-Chute" ) written by science fiction icon Isaac Asimov, and the true crime program Gangbusters, hosted by former heavyweight champion boxer Jim Braddock, a friend of one of the detectives who investigated the case.

It was the triumph and the tragedy of his life. As a producer, he had reached the pinnacle of success; there was nowhere else to go. In this biography, noted Hollywood chronicler Bob Thomas reveals the stormy career of a shrewd, self-confident intellectual whiz kid who today personifies the image of a studio head during the Golden Age of movies. It tells of the women Selznick loved and the fortunes he amassed and lost; of the great stars he made and the magnificent motion pictures he created— the man who was an entrepreneurial genius, a driven perfectionist, and the author of endless memos.

For more than fifteen years Moe Moskowitz and the Punsters were the court jesters of National Public Radio, performing the funniest songs and nonsense that NPR has to offer. Here, Moe and the Punsters are joined by NPR's Bob Edwards, Alex Chadwick, Terry Gross, Cokie Roberts, Susan Stamberg, Robert Siegel, Carl Kasell, and Frank Tavares, among others. These are all those voices we know and love, but they're actually being funny and satirical and spontaneous!

Loitering In Wonderland Studios has covered The Twilight Zone, Tales From The Crypt, The Walking Dead, American Horror Story and Westworld so it’s about time we got around to John Carpenter movies. Doesn’t make sense? Oh well. This is the podcast we are doing now. Join comedian Phoenix West as he and his guests tackle Carpenter movies in random order.

Phonic Phoenix Productions creates audio entertainment programs. Episodes include short and long form sketch comedy and feature length graphic audio fiction. We raise the bar by setting a new standard in podcasting production value. We add brand new evergreen content every week - Enjoy! PhonicPhoenix.com If you like to be entertained then you’ll love Phonic Phoenix.

From one of the most successful and influential producers in the entertainment industry—responsible for such classics as Roots, The Thorn Birds, and L.A. Confidential—comes a fascinating memoir of life at the very hub of Hollywood. Wolper enjoyed staggering success yet remained down-to-earth. By combining flexibility, resourcefulness, and determination, Wolper produced landmark documentaries, films, miniseries, and other cultural touchstones of the twentieth century. Producer is the engaging and inspiring memoir of a true entertainment pioneer.

While TV is prevalent in most of our lives, few of us have much knowledge of its behind-the-scenes operations. In this riveting expose, veteran writer and producer Ian Gurvitz illuminates a side of the business few people get to see. Drawing on notes from his personal journal, Gurvitz details two years in the dizzying ups-and-downs life of a Hollywood television writer— the pitch meetings, the table readings, the rewrites, the studios, the networks, and the executives who make all the decisions.

Seldom has the world seen a man with the grace, style, intellect, and success of journalist, author, publisher, Broadway and film producer, and husband to long-time Cosmopolitan head Helen Gurley Brown, David Brown. Throughout his remarkable life, he was a friend, acquaintance, and confidant of the world's most powerful, most famous, and most notorious.