A Comparison Of It's 1968 And Judy Garland

The Keswick Theater was graced to host the Cindy Lauper, “She Is So Unusual 30th Anniversary Tour,” this Friday Nov. 15th.. Indeed it was a night where “Fans Just Want to have Fun,” was the operative and we certainly did!

A very interesting movie On Golden Pond. Not only learning as you get older there are a lot of changes as well when exploring your adolescent’s years. Confusing, anxiety, anger, and a lot more feelings that occur throughout the journey to late adulthood. The movie was mainly on the characters Billy, Chelsea, Ethel, and Norman who were viewed dealing with biological, cognitive, sociological experiences while dealing with obstacles of family struggles.

On Oct. 5, 2016 I attended the UTEP Dinner Theatre’s performance of Priscilla Queen of The Desert. Which is based on a book and movie by Stephan Elliott and Allen Scott. The play’s overall theme revolves around the lives of performing show business Drag Queens, and the overall concept of human understanding. The play was produced and directed by Gregory L. Taylor, and performed by a hulled cast of both young and old that really did shine.

Richard Rodgers, composer and Oscar Hammerstein II librettist/lyricist joined forces in 1943 to create the most consistently productive and successful partnership in the American musical theatre. Oklahoma!, the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, was also the first of a new genre, the musical play, blending Rodgers' sophisticated style of musical comedy with Hammerstein's innovations in operetta. A milestone in the development of the American musical, it also marked the beginning of the most successful partnership in Broadway musical history, and was followed by Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, The King and I, Me and Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song and The Sound of Music (Rodgers). Within Rodgers and Hammerstein’s show, South Pacific it has an underlying theme dealing with race. Rodgers and Hammerstein instilled a social change dealing with racism through, insistence on including a message about racial tolerance within South Pacific and how it is directly dealing with miscegenation and its tragic after-effects in the 20th century South.

Any movie can have a romantic plotline, consisting of a picturesque town, a lonely woman, and forbidden love, but only one can narrate societal hypocrisies and social stigmas while paying homage to a classic Hollywood melodrama directed by a German-expressionism-influenced director from the 1950s. Enter stage right, Far from Heaven. Directed by Todd Haynes, this film, set in the 1950s, tells the story of Cathy Whitaker, a suburban housewife who seems to have the perfect life—until it starts to fall apart, and she has to learn how to keep her husband’s homosexuality and her personal infatuation with her gardener, an African American man, from affecting her flawless image and place in society. This movie was heavily influenced by the midcentury melodrama All That Heaven Allows, directed by Douglas Sirk, as suggested by the somewhat similar plotlines, but their similarities are heavily apparent in the cinematography and mise-en-scène. What makes Far from Heaven unique from its predecessor, though, is how it uses modernized topics in its storyline in order to unveil the hypocrisy of society and the Whitakers’ dysfunctional relationship.

The movie began with the 40th ceremony, called the Sarah Siddons awards banquet. One of the main characters, and the individual (patient) who the movie was titled after, Eve Harrington, was receiving an important award for acting. The movie was a flashback from that point, to the events, which had transpired, leading up to Eve positioning herself to launch her acting career. Eve essentially stalked her idol Margo Channing, by attending all of her performances, and eventually convincing Margo 's best friend Karen, to introduce them to each other. Eve was very manipulative and upon meeting Margo she continually lied, played an innocent role, and was as helpful as she could possible be. Eve grew closer to Margo and became somewhat of a second

The storyline centers on the life of the matriarch of the family, Diana. After the traumatizing and unexpected loss of her son Gabe, Diana loses herself. She struggles to accept that her son has passed and it has begun to consume her life. Diana eventually develops Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (which progresses into Bipolar disorder). Stemming from this illness, Diana is unable to normally participate in everyday life and spirals out of control. She has vivid hallucinations about her son and cannot cope. Eventually, after dozens of trial medicines, electro shock therapy seems to be her only hope of a “normal” life. This musical daringly tries to portray the roller-coaster ride she is experiencing.

On September 15th I went to go see Great Theatre’s Singin’ in the Rain at the Paramount Theatre. Singin’ in the Rain is a musical about silent film star Don Lockwood, who while walking the streets one night meets Kathy Selden, an unknown actress whom he becomes infatuated with, and they become unlikely friends. When the Jazz Singer premiered, the first talking picture, Don’s film studio began to go under, so Don, his best friend Cosmo, and Kathy turn the silent film Don is working on into a talking film, the only issue is his film co-star Lina can’t do the film as she has a very unattractive voice. This moment is when Don begins to help Kathy jump start her career, as he suggests she does the vocals for the movie. There are debates and arguments

The movie “Silver Linings Playbook” is about a young man who struggles to recover in the real world from his mental illness. Pat, the main character, began showing signs of a mental disorder early in his life yet was never diagnosed, but later in life, during his marriage, he began to show more detrimental signs of bipolar disorder and mood swings. It started with a delusion of his wife, Nicki, and another teacher at her school plotting against him, when finally, after discovering his wife in the shower with this other teacher, he snapped and nearly beat the man to death. Pat was then in a psychiatric hospital for eight months. When he was released, he struggled to keep his mood swings under control, and he constantly fought the memories of his wife and the need to be with her again. Then enters Tiffany, a young, depressed, and socially unacceptable woman. Tiffany was somewhat of a polar opposite at the time, but they connected over their problems of mental health. They each had their struggles, but along their journeys, they helped one another to “get better” per say. Tiffany, through dance, helped Pat gain discipline, focus, and somewhat of a normal life. In turn, Pat helped Tiffany regain the love she had lost when her husband died, not just for him but for life and herself. As most good movies end, the two fell in love and continued to help each other overcome their mental health problems.

“It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another... for in it are good and evil mixed” (Lloyd Alexander). This quotation describing the internal struggle of man is the very essence of the year 1968. 1968 was a year of major breakthroughs in terms of technological and social norms, but also a year where the United States was spiraling downward in political turmoil; the nation had lost two of its most influential leaders, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., leaving the country in utter despair and confusion, each citizen suspecting one another’s every motive. Tensions from the Cold War continued to exist, along with the arising foreign issues in North Vietnam as well as North Korea. Before 1968, many American citizens

This 1967 film is about a college graduate who has an affair with his dads business partners wife. He then falls for their daughter leading to problems and the climax. With the movie being a little bit older there are many sound, light, editing, and movement effects that could be fixed.

Joe Steven, is reported a continuous and extensive worry about his family responsibilities. The major worry about him is how to meet up with his wife and children needs and his mother’s present health condition. He also worried about his children school fees, and if they will make it in future or not. Mark started worry about how to secure his job position, he completely found himself felt with anxiety. Despite that he has a good job that pays him well. He reported that the worry and the anxiety has been troubling him for the past 12 months. Since then, he started felling tiredness, weakness of the muscles tension, difficult in sleeping, difficult in concentrating and focus on his work. The main worry and anxiety is getting worst whenever he received a mail from his children school. He always thinks that the mail he got is about his children school fees. Even though, the mail is another activities or his children school performance. Due to his sleeping problem, his wife suggested him to take some work leave so that they will go for vacation at Bermuda. She thinks that

One of his initial partners was Phil Springer, and a tune they composed together "I Never Loved Him Anyhow" was recorded by Carmen McRae in 1956. Another melody Ebb composed with Springer was in 1953 "Sorrowful", which was recorded by Judy Garland, the mother of his future student or disciple, Liza Minnelli. Other Springer-Ebb tunes incorporate "Moonlight Gambler" and "By the by I Never Lost the Blues". "Remember", which he composed with Norman Leyden, was recorded by artist Eddy Arnold in 1954.

THE absolutely tremendous and unforgettable display of physically powerful acting that Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke put on in William Gibson's stage play "The Miracle Worker" is repeated by them in the film made from it by the same producer, Fred Coe, and the same director, Arthur Penn. The picture opened at the Astor and the Trans-Lux Fifty-second Street yesterday.

The Digital Divide is a social issue referring to the different amount of information between those who have access to the Internet and those who do not. The term is used to discuss the connectivity gap in distinct regions and demographics. In June, a White House broadband report concluded the divide has split us into two groups, finding that 91% of Americans has to high-speed Internet service, while 71% of Americans are actually subscribed to broadband at home.