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| Bette Midler to play Mae West in HBO biopic Posted: 10 Dec 2013 09:42 PM PST Born in Brooklyn in 1893, West saw her career take off in the 1920s, when she wrote, directed and produced the play "Sex". The show scandalised authorities to such an extent that West was sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity. For the forthcoming biopic, HBO has chosen to focus on this very period in the sex symbol's career, when in spite of the commotion caused by her previous play, she continued down the path of provocation. Her next plays dealt with taboos such as homosexuality and proved successful with audiences. Savvy as well as sexy, West eventually became one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood through her contract with Paramount, signed in the 1930s. Bette Midler, who also got her start in show business through the New York theatre scene, will play the ambitious star in a TV movie directed by William Friedkin, who received an Oscar in 1972 for his film "The French Connection". Screenwriter Harvey Fierstein will base the screenplay for the feature on West's autobiography, "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It", a title that references one of the actress's lines from the 1932 film "Night After Night". - AFP/Relaxnews, December 11, 2013. |
| Newly-found Johnny Cash recordings to be released — 30 years later Posted: 10 Dec 2013 04:12 PM PST "Out Among the Stars" will be released on March 25, the record label said, marking the first time the recordings will be available to the public. The 12 songs, which include two written by Cash, were recorded for Columbia Records in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1981 and in 1984, but the record company passed on releasing them before dropping Cash from the label in 1986. The recordings were found in 2012 when Cash's son, John Carter Cash, and Cash experts were cataloging the "Folsom Prison Blues" singer's song archive. The album will feature three duets, two with his wife June Carter Cash and one with Waylon Jennings. Cash, who died in 2003 at the age of 71, became an American folk figure over the course of his 49-year career by cultivating an outlaw persona and famously performing at US prisons. - Reuters, December 11, 2013. |
A dozen newly-discovered recordings made by late American country singer Johnny Cash (pic) three decades ago will be released next year as an album, Sony Music's Legacy Recordings said yesterday.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider : Showbiz To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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