AP - Dec 30, 2008
Lark Previn, a daughter of actress Mia Farrow whose sister Soon-Yi Previn was at the center of Farrow s messy breakup with Woody Allen, has died. She was 35. Lark Previn died Christmas Day at New York...
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An audience of almost 3,000 clapped and cheered as Woody Allen and his jazz band gave their first ever concert in Poland on Sunday. The filmmaker, playing the clarinet, was accompanied by his New Orleans...
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An audience of almost 3,000 clapped and cheered as filmmaker Woody Allen and his jazz band gave their first ever concert in Poland on Sunday. Allen, playing the clarinet, was accompanied by his New...
More »AP - May 21, 2008
Europeans get jazz and they get Woody Allen — more so than they do in America, the native land of both the filmmaker and the music form he loves. Allen may prefer to stay home in Manhattan but his...
More »AP - Jun 21, 2007
Woody Allen, directing an opera? In Los Angeles? It will happen in September 2008, according to Placido Domingo, general director of the Los Angeles Opera. The New York filmmaker will make his operatic...
More »Reuters - Mar 26, 2007
David Bowie will bring hot indie band Arcade Fire, English comedian Ricky Gervais, and an 87-year-old spoken-word poet to the inaugural High Line Festival, which will take place in New York in May, organizers...
More »Reuters - Mar 8, 2006
Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band will open this year s Rochester International Jazz Festival in a benefit for musicians thrown out of work by Hurricane Katrina, festival organizers said on Wednesday...
More »AP - Mar 8, 2006
Woody Allen wants to help the birthplace of jazz recover its old rhythm. The 70-year-old filmmaker and clarinet player will open the fifth annual Rochester International Jazz Festival in June with a...
More »AP - Dec 6, 2005
Sidney Bechet s clarinet, soprano saxophone and love letters were scheduled to go on the auction block Wednesday. Among the 32 pieces up for sale at the Hotel Drouot auction house: the fake leopard-...
More »AP - Oct 26, 2005
Imagine the Beatles hailed from another port city, on the other side of the Atlantic — like Newark, N.J. They would be Italian, capisce? Forget Brian Epstein and the Cavern Club; think mob capo in...
More »Reuters - Oct 10, 2005
Writer/director Adam Rifkin ( Detroit Rock City, Small Soldiers ) has started casting on his next feature, Homo Erectus, a comedy set in prehistoric times. Described as being in the vein of Woody Allen...
More »AP - Sep 25, 2005
It s not often that a Nobel laureate, Pulitzer Prize winners, Grammy winners, Academy Award winners and just about every other kind of winner share a single stage. But a benefit for Hurricane Katrina...
More »AP - Sep 8, 2005
Upcoming celebrity benefits to raise money for relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: • Kevin Smith is holding an online auction on his Web site, http: 1/4 1/4http://www.ViewAskew...
More »AP - Jul 20, 2005
After some 20 years playing unconventional heroes, it s surprising to discover that John Cusack looks classically heroic in the flesh. In a hotel promoting the new romantic comedy Must Love Dogs, the...
More »AP - May 27, 2005
Ruth Laredo, the elegant pianist who recorded the entire solo works of Rachmaninoff and the sonatas of Scriabin, has died. She was 67. Laredo died Wednesday in her apartment, said her manager James...
More »Reuters - Mar 11, 2005
Jeff Daniels was in town to do radio and perform at Jim Caruso s popular Cast Party, the Monday night open-mic gathering at Birdland for Broadway show people. (Theaters are traditionally dark Monday...
More »AP - Dec 8, 2004
Matthew, Mark, Luke and Juan. Plus Abraham. They are members of a Christian boy band, characters at the center of Altar Boyz, a new musical arriving March 1 at Dodger Stages, 340 W. 50th St. Preview...
More »AP - Sep 22, 2004
Maxim rocks. And he rolls, and he s about to tango. But first, Beethoven. The great violinist Maxim Vengerov began the New York Philharmonic s 163rd season Tuesday night with Beethoven s sublime violin...
More »Reuters - Jun 15, 2004
Singer-actress Courtney Love , facing mounting legal problems due to drug possession and assault charges in two states, has postponed a summer concert tour just days before it was due to begin, her representative...
More »AP - Apr 19, 2004
Bobby Short , who became an elegant institution with his performances at the swanky Cafe Carlyle for 36 years, will end his run on New Year s Eve. I m not retiring. I intend to keep on working, Short...
More »Reuters - Nov 2, 2003
We ve gotten known in Britain for making the smaller films, British comic and self-described executive transvestite Eddie Izzard has joked, riffing on the difference between U.K. and Hollywood films...
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