"Mamma Mia!" Jul 18, 2008
"Mamma Mia!" is the debut feature film of British stage director Phyllida "Keep Your Day Job" Lloyd, but it feels more like a movie made by a karaoke machine than a human being: We're constantly being reminded what a great time the cast is having, particularly the women, as they cavort and mug before us, swinging their swishy skirts and throwing their heads back as if they truly believed they were channeling Dorothy Dandridge in "Carmen Jones." But it doesn't take long -- about 10 minutes, I'd... (Salon)
"Mamma Mia!" Jul 18, 2008
Universal / Peter Mountain. Pierce Brosnan sings. (Salon)
Book zooms in on cinematic kisses par excellence Jan 29, 2008
Others are less famous but equally dazzling like a radiant Harry Belafonte with Dorothy Dandridge in 1954's Carmen Jones. Ah, reel love. (USA Today -- Life)
Honoring the legacy - CCBC's annual program pays tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Workgroup looks at school traffic solutions ... Homecoming royalty crowned at Prairie Home ... Love Notes is back: Rehearsals underway for Starstruck Diner ... CMU enrollment swells to 877 students at Fayette campus - Spring enrollment sets record. ... Peer pressure 4-Jesus sets tone for 65233 Christian Youth Rally ... ';var marqueewidth="350px";var marqueeheight="25px";var marqueebgcolor="#FFFFFF";////NO NEED TO EDIT BELOW THIS LINE////////////var pauseit=1;var marqueespeed=1 //slow speed down by 1 for NSvar copyspeed=marqueespeedvar pausespeed=(pauseit==0)? copyspeed: 0var iedom=document.all||document.getElementByIdif (iedom)document.write(''+marqueecontent+'')var actualwidth=''var cross_marquee, ns_marqueefunction populate(){if (iedom){cross_marquee=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("iemarquee") : document.all.iemarqueecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"cross_marquee.innerHTML=marqueecontentactualwidth=document.all? temp.offsetWidth : document.getElementById("temp").offsetWidth}else if (document.layers){ns_marquee=document.ns_marquee.document.ns_marquee2ns_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8ns_marquee.document.write(marqueecontent)ns_marquee.document.close()actualwidth=ns_marquee.document.width}lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",20)}window.onload=populate;function scrollmarquee(){if (iedom){if (parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))cross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)-copyspeed+"px"elsecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"}else if (document.layers){if (ns_marquee.left>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))ns_marquee.left-=copyspeedelsens_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8}}if (iedom||document.layers){with (document){document.write('')if (iedom){write('')write('')write('')write('')}else if (document.layers){write('')write('')write('')}document.write('')}}Wednesday, January 23, 2008 The dance group from New Hope Christian Church in Boonville presented a dance at the CCBC’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. program. The dance represented how “we've been through the fire, we’ve been through the flood and we've seen the flashes of lightning from above.” Honoring the legacy - CCBC's annual program pays tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. Jan 23, 2008
Carmen Jones of the CCBC, said that she was speechless; it's just awesome. The presentation was a surprise to the CCBC.. (Boonville Daily News, MO)
Opera diva Marilyn Horne discusses experimental cancer treatment Jan 20, 2008
By 1954, then just 20, she was the voice of Dorothy Dandridge in the movie "Carmen Jones," while making her operatic debut in Los Angeles. She also sang in the chorus for the movie "The King and I.". (North County Times)
A LOOK AT FILMS YOU OTTO KNOW Jan 3, 2008
She stars in the little-seen but fascinating "Carmen Jones" (1954), a musical that transposes Bizet's opera (with new lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II) to North Carolina during World War II.. The retrospective includes several classic noirs ("Angel Face," "Where the Sidewalk Ends," "Whirlpool," "Bunny Lake Is Missing"), a Jerome Kern musical ("Centennial Summer," Fox's answer to "Meet Me in St. Louis"), a Marilyn Monroe Western ("River of No Return") and an ill-fated 1957 adaptation of Shaw's... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
King of Calypso still packs punch Nov 26, 2007
For several years, Belafonte juggled both careers, landing roles in films such as Carmen Jones and Island in the Sun. But by the early fifties, he was focusing on singing, signing with RCA, when his album Calypso made him the first artist in industry history to sell more than one million LPs. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Newsweek: 7,714 movies and counting Oct 24, 2007
At the top of the page, displayed like pennants of college football teams, were my favorite movies of all (12 years') time: "Giant," "Stalag 17," "High Noon," "Picnic," "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Carmen Jones." Two years later, in 1960 (on page seven, entry No. 308, "Sink the Bismarck!"), my cinematic sophistication having expanded, I began adding in parentheses the name of the director (Lewis Gilbert). I've kept up the list my entire life. (MSNBC -- Movies)
The week's best films Oct 20, 2007
Carmen Jones (Otto Preminger, 1954) 10am, C4. Vibrant and clever all-black reworking of Bizet's opera; the music remains, but Oscar Hammerstein II supplies snazzy new lyrics. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi: From Soweto to the Festival Hall Jul 27, 2007
Now, she's set to sizzle and seduce as Carmen Jones ... It's one of several anecdotes always modestly, quietly told about growing up in Soweto under apartheid that make the 28-year-old soprano's London debut in the lead role of Carmen Jones next week all the more remarkable ... She's itching to get on stage and start playing Carmen Jones, the " hip-swinging floozy" with an insatiable appetite for men and an unhealthy interest in "spooky stuff" as Oscar Hammerstein's libretto puts it. (Independent)
York Minster wins 10m grant for restoration Jul 27, 2007
The singer is set to sizzle and seduce as Carmen Jones. The author has renewed her love for Turkey's heritage. (Independent)
DVD watch: Portrayals of famed filmmakers Apr 10, 2007
Its second half concentrates on Dandridge's affair with director Otto Preminger, who guided her to an Oscar nomination for 1954's Carmen Jones. Klaus Maria Brandauer is fleshier than Otto but has the persona down. (USA Today -- Life)
Sidle Up To Carroll In 'Sides' Mar 16, 2007
March 16, 2007 -- 'BOTH Sides Now" is the title of Diahann Carroll's new act at Feinstein's, and it proves apt. This veteran of stage, screen, TV and nightclubs displays both the glamour and imperiousness of a true diva and the self-deprecating humor of a hard-working "girl from The Bronx" who's hit the highs and the lows, including four marriages (one to David Frost). Marriage hardly goes unmentioned in this 80-minute autobiographical show, which touches on such highlights as the Broadway... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
London flexes plexes Mar 11, 2007
To increase the producing side, last year Lynch appointed Jude Kelly as a.d. As part of a boldly diverse program including a festival of music and performance curated by former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker, Kelly will direct a six-week revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Bizet revamp "Carmen Jones" in the remodeled Festival Hall. Both the Barbican and the Southbank Center see themselves as being in benign competition with each other. (Variety)
Progress didn't come overnight Feb 20, 2007
1955: Dorothy Dandridge ("Carmen Jones") becomes the first female African-American to compete for best actress. 1940: Hattie McDaniel ("Gone With the Wind") is the first African-American performer to be nomi. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
$5 - $10 - $20: An entertainment guide for the cash-strapped college student Feb 8, 2007
On Tuesday at 1 p.m., catch "Carmen Jones," also a 1943 musical, this time starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. If you have $10. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Royal Festival Hall to reopen in June Jan 26, 2007
" The Overture Weekend starts at dusk on Friday 8 June and continuing until dusk on Sunday 10 June. Every part of the site will become a platform for music and performance, from the Ballroom floor to the rafters of the and spilling out into the open air onto the splendid riverside terraces. Working with Southbank Centre's programming team, amateur and professional choirs from all over the country will participate with world-class artists in the celebrations. The South Bank's four resident... (London SE1)
Judith Jamison Jan 5, 2007
Again, it was the movies that first introduced her to Ailey: "If you look real hard, he's dancing in 'Carmen Jones.' ". Jamison recently saw Josephine Baker on a DVD of "Princess Tam Tam" and vividly recalls her "singing in a bird cage with white plumes, and sparkling. Those films were fantasy and beauty. The closest they've come to that recently is 'Chicago.' Somebody had the imagination to make something twinkle before our very eyes, yet it was fun. When you went outside into the real world,... (Variety)
