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Pat Broeske

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  • A new role for a beloved actress

    Issue: July, 2003
    In a one-woman show that she frequently performs, Olympia Dukakis utters the line, "Maybe there's a joy in not belonging." This sentiment seems far-removed from Dukakis's own image. Read more »
  • A wartime classic

    Issue: July, 1998
    ER's handsome star, George Clooney is part of an all-star cast, including Sean Penn, Woody Harrelson, John Cusack, Nick Nolte, and John Travolta (who seems to be in everything), that will be seen i Read more »
  • Everybody's favorite redhead

    <B>Everybody's favorite redhead</B> Three years ago, Stefan Kanfer authored a critically acclaimed Groucho Marx biography. Read more »
  • From the Hollywood desk

    Issue: May, 1998
    He's made his mark in the Hollywood mainstream -- as a popular leading man and an Academy Award-winning director -- as well as in the maverick world of independent filmmaking, where he presides ove Read more »
  • Getting under Sammy's skin

    <B>Getting under Sammy's skin</B> Toward the end of his life, Sammy Davis Jr. became a kitschy cultural caricature. Read more »
  • Review

    Issue: May, 1998
    He's made his mark in the Hollywood mainstream as a popular leading man and an Academy Award-winning director as well as in the maverick world of independent filmmaking, where he presides over Utah's Read more »
  • Review

    Issue: July, 1998
    Plenty of war stories are finding their inspiration in novels, such as James Dickey's riveting To the White Sea, currently in development at Universal Pictures. Read more »
  • Review

    Issue: May, 1999
    Catch a rising star For a warp-speed career leap, it's hard to surpass what's happened to Ewan McGregor. He was known for his performances in iconoclastic cult films. Read more »
  • Review

    Issue: May, 2001
    A driven perfectionist, choreographer-director Jerome Robbins was startlingly prolific. Read more »
  • To the tune of Travolta

    When it was first published, the anonymously-authored Primary Colors--an obvious roman a clef about the Clintons--triggered a national guessing-game about the author's true ide Read more »