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Worlds collide ... 'House' ends ... glamour prevails ... our hearts are unbound
Chicago Tribune
Every episode is the same -- somebody gets sick, misdiagnosed, tortured, misdiagnosed again, tortured again and finally (usually) they are saved. Dr. House is as mean as a snake to everybody. Hugh Laurie has been brilliant in this series, ...


 
OFFBEAT: Drury Lane Theatre's 'Gypsy' a show biz sensation
nwitimes.com
In 1978, she told AP: "I earned $1500 a week when I was 6, and I knew exactly how I got the laughs and applause." Watching the new Drury Lane Theatre production of the six-time Tony Award-winning musical "Gypsy," playing through April 1, it's even more ...

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ChicagoPride.com
Jeffery Roberson on his drag performing persona, Varla Jean Merman
ChicagoPride.com
Jeffery Roberson's alter ego Varla Jean Merman, a tall and shapely redhead, is the self-described love child of of Ethel Meran and Ernest Borgnine. Standing 6-foot, 2-inches, Verla Jean Merman is best known for her role in the 2003 independent film ...


 
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
CLO Cabaret's 'Ruthless' skewers film divas, demons
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
I saw this little girl on 'The Mike Douglas Show,' and she was, like, 11 years old and she sang like Ethel Merman. I thought, 'That is so creepy,' so between that and 'The Bad Seed,' I wrote this review and put it in the show, and now it was in my ...

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Channeling a Legend
Metro Weekly
by Doug Rule ''Growing up I wasn't a big fan of Ethel Merman,'' says Rita McKenzie. ''It wasn't that I didn't like her. I just thought, 'Wow, she's loud, you know? I liked Julie Andrews [more].'' The irony is that McKenzie is far more like Merman than ...


 
The Guardian
'I Will Survive': the ridiculous and the sublime
The Guardian
She's not a Gloria Gaynor type, exactly – more like a midget Ethel Merman. A real belter, this kid. When she finally got to perform what she'd been rehearsing, at her grade-school variety show, 400 grownups reacted in the first half-dozen bars as if ...

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Christine Ebersole Sings the Apocalypse
New York Observer
She does it with such panache that the swinging Matt Dennis evergreen “Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World” has never been more relevant. When she shakes her saffron yellow curls and smiles her survival grin in Technicolor, she makes the end of ...

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