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Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-Fullerton) Chair of the Assembly Committee for Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media is delighted to welcome Dee Dee Myers as the newest Senior Advisor and Director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz). Margaret Jane “Dee Dee” Myers, was the first female White House Press Secretary in history and a top executive for Warner Bros. Studios. She has recently been named the chief economic and business adv...

Pose, making him a sought-after director to work with. But The Prom was also a successful Broadway musical long before Streep stepped into the glittering shoes of Dee Dee Allen. The story follows a troupe of Broadway actors who, after a catastrophic review tanks one of their productions, decide to indulge in a little reputation-building activism. They take on the case of Emma Nolan, whose small Indiana town has decided she cant go to prom with her girlfriend. Sure, perhaps The Prom paints Mid...

Musicals as peppy as The Prom should make you happy, but theres something about this one in particular that feels off, and leaves you cringing, if not actually full of rage. I saw The Prom on Broadway and it frustrated me then, too, so my expectations were so low that I actually didn’t hate Ryan Murphy’s adaptation as much as I expected to, weirdly… but there are still so many upsetting things going on in this musical from little moments to the plot itself. Who is The Prom for? Is th...

The Prom, Ryan Murphys splashy musical on Netflix, upholds a utopian idea of American unity Ryan Murphys The Prom, with its canny mix of nostalgia and idealism, old-fashioned conservatism and new-age liberalism will hit the spot for some, even if its vision of American unity is hard to recognise in 2020. Early in Ryan Murphy’s The Prom, a Broadway flack starts reading the reviews of a newly opened show about Eleanor Roosevelt, “Eleanor!” The gang ...

By City News Service Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit - Day 2 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles native Dee Dee Myers will become the chief economic and business adviser for California Gov. Gavin Newsom, it was announced today. Myers was the White House press secretary during President Bill Clintons first term -- the first woman to hold the position -- and was recently a top executive for Warner Bros. Her $200,000 per year position with Newsom does not require Senate confirmation. "California...

We spoke to the hair and makeup artists behind Netflix's The Prom on what went into transforming each actor.

Many modern moviegoers find it impossible to tolerate spontaneous breakings into song. Once, back in the 1950s, movie actors did it all the time, but these days, the seats flip up as soon as someone clears their throat.

CATS last year. It is, until now, his only film review. If you aren’t familiar with his work, let me give you a brief introduction. He is a fan of movie musicals. He turns 60 next month, and he has a beard about a foot long. He has killed six deer so far this year, but he also has an encyclopedic knowledge of Meg Ryan’s filmography. His range is aspirational. Because he still lives in Tennessee and I live in Brooklyn, we had to do our viewing remotely. This was surprisingly comforting bec...

Can one movie make up for a year without musical theater, without jazz hands? Ryan Murphys “The Prom” tries its damnedest to, but despite a promising opening and a spiritedness

Copy to Clipboard (Netflix) Ryan Murphy is set to direct Netflixs upcoming musical feature film The Prom, which is loosely based on an incident that occurred in 2010 to high school student Constance McMillen. The young woman who was a student at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Mississippi wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom and also wear a tuxedo but things didnt go as smoothly for her as it would have gone for her peers. According to reports, McMillens school said that "same-...