News about Tennessee Williams

Michael Culver, a British actor best known for his cameo appearance in the epic science fiction epic The Empire Strikes Back, has died at the age of 85. Culver's death was announced by his handler on Wednesday, the actor's illness had lasted for a long time. His cause of death has not been identified.

They have rebranded the jacket to match a more #MeToo friendly term as the white A vest resurrects among US-based Gen Z fashion influencers on the site. The name of the nickname is uncertain, but many believe it was first used after Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire was published in which Stanley, a violent character, beats his wife and rapes his sister-in-law (stock photo).

ANN LESLIE: Paul Newman, Sophia Loren, Liza Minnelli, Sean Connery, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Samuel Connery, John Betjeman, Sammy Davis Jnr. .. . There was barely a celebrity in film, books, and theatre, though I didn't interview as a young showbusiness reporter in the 1960s. Simply typing a few of the names at random brings me right back to long chummy chats in plush restaurants or even luxury hotel suites, or in gritty Parisian suburbs. Some of the actors wanted our chats to be more than chummy. David Niven (left), a worldwide symbol of the exemplary English gentleman, was one of many. We'd all meet up in London and he'd regale me with Hollywood tales about what he and his chum Errol Flynn will get up to in, as they christened it, 'Cirrhosis-on-Sea'.

On June 2, students at Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington, Massachusetts, were encouraged to wear rainbow-colored shirts to school to celebrate Pride. Nevertheless, a student-led counter-protest broke out, where they smashed Pride decorations, threw stickers on the ground, and yelled,'my pronouns are from the United States.' Burlington Public Schools also stated in a letter to parents that the district is 'obligated to provide a safe environment for all students to be healthy, seen, and respected without retaliation.' Officials are now pushing for the deantolerance and homophobia boards to be reinstated by the school board, as a result of the display of "intolerance and homophobia." The board dissolved last year after its one-year tenure was up.

By July 1, applications for the shacks will be ready, and tours will be held on June 15. Through a public bidding process, the leases are being sold on 10-year terms. Lessees will be chosen based on their ability to maintain the shacks and occupy them in a way that respects the local climate and the culture of the dunes. Artists such as Tennessee Williams, E.E., have occupied the shacks over the years. Cummings, Harry Kemp, and Jackson Pollock are among Cummings' favorites. During Henry David Thoreau's travels in the mid-1800s, he stayed in shacks in the same dunes.

She has had a long and varied career in Hollywood, which includes fun Eighties films as well as a huge TV show that changed the way women think about fashion and friendship. This adored blonde bombshell posted a snapshot from her past on Instagram on Thursday. And the red carpet queen took it a long time before her big in Hollywood. The beauty in question was seen with curly jet black hair and a straw hat as she gazed at the camera with a calm attitude. The image was taken from the set of a 'period drama' in the 1970s, according to the artist in her caption. Can you guess who she is?

PATRICK MARMION: Tennessee Williams is one of the few things about him that isn't indestructible. His ferocious vigour and sometimes sarcastic humanity of his writing will survive all manner of assault, as his Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in Manchester does. This is the play that's possibly still most well known from Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor's 1958 film. It's the tale of a wealthy Mississippi family having a collective dark night of the soul while celebrating the 65th birthday of terminally ill patriarch and cotton tycoon Big Daddy.

After winning at the Olivier Awards on April 2nd, Paul Mescal showed he's a man after our own heart. In the new stage show of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Royal Albert Hall, the 27-year-old star received the award for best actor for his role as Stanley Kowalski, but we've all loved the down-to-eath demeanour. On the Olivier Awards red carpet, the actor said he was "standing on the shoulders of so many others" who received his award, who appeared dapper in a Gucci suit, shirt, and tie. It was his behavior after the wedding that caught our attention. Rather than cracking open a costly bottle of champagne or rubbing shoulders with A-list celebrities, the Irish singer ended the evening with a good, old McDonald's.

Fans of a booze-up in New Orleans from more than 20 years ago have posted a parody video of Paul O'Grady during a booze-up. The amusing scene was shot during the comedian's filming of Paul O'Grady's America, a hit 2001 travel film. In the video, a friend of O'Grady is attempting to take him back to where he is staying, but he refuses to cooperate and continues drinking, resulting in him stumbling, burping, unable to move, and, at one point, quoting a Tennessee Williams play.

According to a department spokesperson, the New Orleans Police Department retweeted a diversity ad after an hour on Wednesday when it was met with a barrage of negativity on social media. The 30-second clip was taken from the city's social media pages because police officers 'did not want anyone to be offended by the nefarious remarks,' according to Officer Reese Harper.' The ad was created by New Orleans-based designer Crista Rock and features a slew of local characters vibrantly performing along the city's historic streets in a Mardi Gras style festival, with the caption: "Everywhere else is Cleveland." The caption refers to a famous quote from playwright Tennessee Williams, in which he said: "America has only three towns: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans." Cleveland is the most famous city in the United States.' This comes as New Orleans becomes one of the United States' biggest murder capitals, with murder rampant in the Big Easy.

Critics have lauded Paul Mescal's return to the London stage in the Almedia Theatre's production of A Streetcar Named Desire. In a recent revival of Tennessee Williams' 1947 drama, the actor, who has been described as 'fierce' and 'entrancing,' as he takes on the role of Stanley Kowlaski, first made popular by Marlon Brando. Many commentators are lauding the 'gripping' play with four actors and praising Paul as a natural on both'stage and screen.'

PATRICK MARMION: Hardship has never appeared so easily borne at the National Theatre this week, where a handful of plays play off the rigours of discrimination, poverty, and displacement. Pearl Cleage's enchanting Blues For An Alabama Sky, a tribute to Harlem's musical and cultural revival during the 1930s' Great Depression. The other is The Boy With Two Hearts, an oddly saccharine saga of an Afghan family fleeing the Taliban and seeking to assist their eldest son's heart disease in the United Kingdom.

Alice Sedgwick Wohl (inset), 91, has written an unflinching late in life memoir about her sister's luxurious but brutal childhood on a ranch in Santa Barbara and her sister's descent into bulimia and opioid use, which began when she was 13 years old when her father was arrested because she caught him having sex in the family living room with another woman. Sedgwick had spent nine months in a mental hospital where she became pregnant for the first time and had an abortion before she headed to New York and began her brief career as a muse to Andy Warhol. Sedgwick died of a barbiturate overdose at the age of 28 in 1971. Wohl (the eldest of eight Sedgwick siblings) claims she was alienated from her famous sister for the majority of her life. The basis of her latest book, 'As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy,' explores the enduring success of her younger sister, who she once regarded as a "vain, shallow, spoiled child doing silly, meaningless stuff.' "I suppose I missed it then,' she says. I missed it in part because I didn't see it.' "I can say for Andy Warhol-all that I didn't have the eyes to see," she says.