While I really should be packing for my week in Provincetown, where I’ll be doing a program at the Tennessee Williams Festival and launching my new book, Tennessee Williams and Company, I want to take a moment to acknowledge the 90th birthday (on September 23rd) of Mickey Rooney, the perennial teenager of the Andy Hardy pictures and [...]

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Only two weeks to go before this year’s Tennessee Williams Theater Festival in Provincetown.  I’m delighted to be participating this year, presenting a program titled Laughing in the Dark with Tennessee, custom built for this year’s theme of “Under the Influence.”  Though this is a theatre festival, I’ll (of course) be doing a film program, looking [...]

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On Wednesday, Cammie King died at age 76.  If the name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because she’s far better known as a character she played (rather than as an actress).  At age 5, she appeared as the daughter of Clark Gable’s Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind, the little girl [...]

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