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In this weeks "Looking at Life" column, Shawn Sullivan has his usual annual rant about winter, but this time includes the challenges of the pandemic.

Isak Tiner Ben Vereen is on a short list of artists who’ve left their distinctive mark on Broadway. Known for a sly intensity and charisma, the actor reigned over the 1970s stage in the original productions of Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Pippin, for which he won a Tony Award. On screen, he appeared with Jessica Lange and Ann Reinking in Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz, and earned an Emmy nod for his performance as Chicken George in Roots. In the hybrid medium of stage and screen uniq...

What It Was Like to Film the Shark Sequences for "Jaws" Charles Thorp, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Valerie Taylor is one of the first to capture great white sharks on film and dive with them without a cage. Along with her husband Ron, she was involved with the world’s first documentaries on great whites, and was called upon by Steven Spielberg to capture the shark footage seen in the 1975 blockbuster Jaws. These days, Taylor is trying to secure protections for great whites and the rest...

Martha Reeves got her final letter from Mary Wilson two weeks ago. She didn’t realize that’s what it would be. But Reeves now cherishes the note from her “dear angel friend” and fellow Motown star, who was home in Las Vegas, eager to get through the pandemic and back onto the road. Someday, they’d be together, Wilson vowed to Reeves, sharing stages again, just as they’d done for decades. Reeves and others in Motown’s tight-knit family were reeling Tuesday at news of Wilson’s u...

100 Actors Who Served in the Military By Andrew Lisa, Stacker News On 2/3/21 at 6:30 PM EST Actors have long tried to give audiences a taste of the realities of war and military service since the earliest days of the motion picture industry. But if called upon to portray a member of the Armed Forces on screen, many actors could draw from their own life experience. Some of historys biggest stars served their countries in times of war and peace. Some experienced combat, while others were stati...

Died: December 12, 2020. ANN Reinking, who has died aged 71, was a dancer and choreographer who lit up the stage with unbridled sensuality. While she will forever be associated with the seminal American choreographer Bob Fosse, she brought her own style and personality to her uninhibited moves. As a choreographer, she won a Tony award for her 1996 revival of Chicago, which she had first appeared in as a dancer almost 20 years earlier. With a nod to the show’s original director, Reinking...

Died: February 2, 2021. THE WORLD loves an unlikely hero; climate activist Greta Thunberg and the women’s education activist Malala Yousafzai are recent examples. But who would have figured that the face of defiance against the deadly coronavirus would be a 100-year-old former soldier, reliant upon a wheeled walking frame to get around? Captain Sir Tom Moore, a little moustachioed giant in a gold-buttoned blazer, paced up and down his garden last year with the hope of raising £1,000 �...

Now streaming on: "Sharks 3D": This time, its three-dimensional. Jean-Michael Cousteau presents a 42-minute 3D IMAX film about those evolutionary masters of the undersea food-chain, sharks. Or, as the ads say, "the lions and tigers of the ocean" -- except they dont have claws or fur and are not feline and they like the water. At any rate, one is bound to recall the immortal words of Roy Scheider: "Were gonna need a bigger boat." -- je Advertisement

Miranda as Alexander Hamilton. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images Miranda began working on "Hamilton" in 2009. He was inspired to write a hip-hop musical about founding father Alexander Hamilton after reading the 2004 biography "Alexander Hamilton" by historian Ron Chernow.  He "saw Hamiltons relentlessness, brilliance, linguistic dexterity, and self-destructive stubbornness through his own idiosync...

For cinephiles, there is an undeniable mystique surrounding “lost” films. How does a film vanish? How could those involved in making it — the producers, the director, the cast and the crew — allow the culmination of their blood, sweat and tears to fade into obscurity? Yet, it has happened again and again over the years: All copies of certain feature films and short films cease to exist in any studio archives, private collections, or public archives, such as the U.S. Library ...