The past two years has seen two high-profile baseball-themed movies: one good, 2011’s “Moneyball,” and the other less-than-good, last year’s Clint Eastwood-starring “Trouble With The Curve.” While the latter film was a disappointment for the studio, Warner Brothers is hoping they’ll hit a homerun (see what we did there?) with the Jackie Robinson biopic “42.” [...]
Dee Dee Bridgewater to Play ‘Lady Day’ on Broadway
March 18, 2013 | Posted by
Tony and multiple Grammy Award-winner Dee Dee Bridgewater will star as one of the world’s incomparable and legendary jazz artists — Billie Holiday, in the celebrated musical Lady Day opening Thursday, September 26th (6:30PM) at Times Square’s Little Shubert Theatre (422 West 42nd Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues). Written and directed by Stephen Stahl, [...]
Paying Respects to Billie Holiday Can Be a Journey
July 19, 2012 | Posted by
Fans looking to pay their respects to legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday are surprised when they find out just where they have to go to do so. When Billie Holiday died in 1959, thousands of mourners attended her funeral at St. Paul the Apostle Roman Catholic Church in New York City. The overflow crowd lined [...]
