Meet the Press: Night Music’s Peters and Stritch

Tony Award-winning leading ladies Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch, soon to step into the Broadway revival of A Little Night Music, greeted the press for a photo op and interview session June 24.

They replace Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, who concluded their runs  June 20. Peters will take on the role of the captivating actress Desirée Armfeldt, with Stritch as her worldly-wise mother Madame Armfeldt, when the show resumes performances July 13.

Here is a look at the new cast members, posing for photos at the Cafe Carlyle.

A Little Night Music's Hunter Ryan Herdlicka.

Hunter Ryan Herdlicka

We are happy to welcome guest celebrity blogger Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, who plays Henrik in the Tony-nominated revival of A Little Night Music, which will reopen after a brief hiatus July 13 with two new stars, Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch. Herdlicka, who will make his solo cabaret concert debut June 27 at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, is blogging for Playbill.com all week; his final entry follows: Hey everyone....
I can’t believe a week has already gone by and it’s time to end my blog on Playbill. I have gotten such amazing feedback from readers, and I thank you all for reading...
So, it’s Friday – the end of a work week for many, and the start of a busy weekend for many actors two show days can be grueling. It has been such a gift that Night Music has been on hiatus while I’m rehearsing for my solo concert at Feinstein’s, which is this Sunday at 8 PM! Tickets are nearly sold out, and I’m glad to hear that many of you will be there.

Today is a busy day. I’m up early so that I can get all of my errands out of the way before my entire family gets into town (my parents and grandparents). For now, I’m off to get my haircut then to Ripley Grier for a two-hour rehearsal for my concert, then off to see Promises, Promises with my family. I’ve already seen the show, but wanted to go back because I knew my family would love it and I am obsessed with Katie’s owl noises. Katie Finneran is truly incredible and completely steals the show – her performance is worth the price of admission.

Since this is my last blog, I wanted to share with you all a quote I keep in my dressing room. It’s one that was given to me by Michael Cerveris, who is one of the best actors I’ve known.

The quote was written by Martha Graham to Agnes DeMille:

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you…..no artist is pleased…there is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than others.

I think this sums up what it means to be an artist. Ms. Graham demands that you not judge yourself, but that you recognize the “divine dissatisfaction” that keeps you working and striving for your dreams. It reminds you that being an artist is a very special gift that not everyone has been given; you must not take it for granted.

Thank you all reading this week and please check out my website so that we can stay in touch...

All the best,
Hunter

Enjoy Fifa World Cup Highlights 2010

FIFA World Cup 2010 Qualifier USA v/s Honduras

FIFA World Cup 2010 France vs Uruguay Highlights

Maria Sharapova Settles for Second Classic

Maria Sharapova Settles for Second at AEGON Classic

Unable to attain the goal in which she was shooting for, Maria Sharapova had to settle for second place in Birmingham on Sunday June-13.

The 23-year-old Russian tennis ace made it to the final match at the AEGON Classic grass-court tournament, but ended up losing to Li Na in straight sets, 7-5, 6-1.

And while she didn't end up winning, Miss Sharapova voiced her pleasure in being able to get in a few good matches before Wimbledon, which kicks off on June 21st.

Talking to press after the match, Maria said, "I came here to get as many matches as I could, and I did. It's nice to win the tournament, but sometimes it doesn't happen."

Enjoy Favorite Arabic Video Song

Arabic Songs - Nancy Ajram- Tal Ye ye.

its my Favorite Arabic Concert..

Enjoy Favorite Arabic Video Song.

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Enjoy The official theme Song of the South African World Cup 2010

This is very nice and sweet song...........Enjoy The official theme Song,

FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 Official Theme Song..................

Enjoy The official theme Song of the South African World Cup 2010
FIFA  World  Cup  South  Africa  2010  Official  Theme  Song ....

Enjoy Shakira FIFA World Cup 2010 Celebration Concert

Enjoy Shakira FIFA World Cup 2010 Celebration Concert

Shakira..Hips Don't Lie...FIFA World Cup 2010 Celebration -- 

Opening Ceremony: Live Concert in South Africa..

Enjoy Shakira-WAKA WAKA-FIFA World Cup-2010 Celebration

 FIFA World Cup 2010 Opening Ceremony:Shakira -WAKA WAKA -FIFA World Cup 2010 Celebration concert, Blazing lights, lush green field, rocking music, jaw-dropping football squad and prominent stars - the sweltering, breathtaking extravaganza of football is good to go! Add to this a larger-than-life opening ceremony and audience is sure to get a taste of the most magnificent sporting event of the year. FIFA World Cup 2010 carnival is all set to put the stage on fire, with Johannesburg acting as the key host city. The World Cup opening ceremony is anticipated to be a real treat to the soccer-loving souls.


This year, FIFA World Cup will have an extraordinary feat with players and audience enjoying a "2-day opening" that would start on Thursday night. Tonight, witness the biggest pop extravaganza in the continent's history with 1,581 performers across the globe. Shakira will perform the official 2010 World Cup song, "Waka Waka This Time for Africa". She will team up with a local South African group, Freshlyground, to sway the spectators with a heart-throbbing performance.

Also, rocking the stage in the grand ceremony will be distinguished artists, John Legend, Alicia Keys, the Black Eyed Peas, and Colombian heart-throb rocker Juanes. Top African musicians such as Amadou and Mariam, The Parlotones and Angelique Kidjo, will also be performing. Best part of the Thursday night concert is that the profit earned will be donated to "20 Centers for 2010", a charity campaign dedicated to enhancing public health, education and development across Africa. FIFA opted to keep the Friday's actual opening ceremony, before the game between the hosts and Mexico, performances somewhat a secret. This is mainly done to sustain the pinnacle of expectations and excitement.............

Historical Births Historical Birth of Famous People

Tuesday, June 8, 2010.............
..............Famous Births on 9 Jun

Historical Births
Historical Birth of Famous People

1508 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
1580 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
1588 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d. 1666)
1595 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
1672 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
1686 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
1768 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
1781 - George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d.1848)
1810 - Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
1843 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)
1845 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)
1849 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
1851 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
1865 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (d. 1914)
1865 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931)
1875 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1968)
1882 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
1890 - Leslie Banks, British actor (d. 1952)
1891 - Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964)
1893 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1898 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
1900 - Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)
1911 - George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
1912 - Ingolf Dahl, American composer (d. 1970)
1915 - Les Paul, American guitarist
1916 - Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank
1921 - Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
1922 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
1922 - Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist - Radio and TV animator (d. 1988)
1922 - George Axelrod, American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director (d. 2003)
1925 - Keith Laumer, science fiction writer (d. 1993)
1929 - Johnny Ace, American singer (d. 1954)
1930 - Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
1931 - Jackie Mason, American comedian
1931 - Joe Santos, American actor
1931 - Bill Virdon, American baseball player and manager
1934 - Jackie Wilson, American singer (d. 1984)
1936 - Mick O'Dwyer, Gaelic footballer and manager
1937 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
1938 - Charles Wuorinen, American composer
1939 - Ileana CotrubaÅŸ, Romanian soprano
1939 - David Hobbs, English race car driver and personality on American TV
1939 - Dick Vitale, American sportscaster
1939 - Charles Webb, author
1941 - Jon Lord, organist in Deep Purple
1943 - Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer
1945 - Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
1945 - Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater
1947 - Kiran Bedi, Indian Police Service Officer
1947 - John Gurda, American historian
1948 - Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
1951 - James Newton Howard, American film composer
1951 - Dave Parker, American baseball player
1952 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (d. 2004)
1954 - George Pérez, American comic book artist
1954 - Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer
1956 - Patricia Cornwell, American author
1959 - Christian Wulff, German politician, currently prime minister of Lower Saxony.
1960 - Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist
1961 - Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
1961 - Aaron Sorkin, American writer
1963 - Johnny Depp, American actor
1963 - Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author
1963 - David Koepp, American screenwriter and director
1964 - Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
1964 - Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
1968 - Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper
1969 - Eric Wynalda, American footballer
1971 - Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer
1971 - John McKeown, Scottish musician (Yummy Fur, 1990s)
1971 - Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
1972 - Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
1973 - Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director
1973 - Laura Ponte, Spanish model and royal
1973 - Tedy Bruschi, American football player
1974 - Samoth, Norwegian guitarist (Emperor, Zyklon)
1974 - Tim Shaw, British radio personality
1974 - Randy Winn, American baseball player
1975 - Jeff Saturday, American football player
1975 - Otto Addo, Ghanaian footballer
1975 - Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
1977 - Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
1977 - Amisha Patel, Indian actress
1977 - Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
1978 - Michaela Conlin, American actress
1978 - Miroslav Klose, German footballer
1978 - Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
1978 - Shandi Finnessey, game hostess
1979 - Andrew Walker, Canadian actor
1980 - Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
1980 - Lehlohonolo Seema, Lesotho footballer
1980 - Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
1981 - Anoushka Shankar, Famous sitarist and daughter of Ravi Shankar
1981 - Vic Zhou, JVKV band member, Taiwanese actor, singer and model.
1981 - Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
1982 - Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
1983 - Alektra Blue, American porn star
1983 - Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
1984 - Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
1984 - Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1984 - Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
1985 - Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress
1985 - Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
1986 - Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
1986 - Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
1988 - Mae Whitman, American Actress
1993 - Danielle Chuchran, American actress

World Famous Deaths News

Tuesday, June 8, 2010
.......Famous Deaths on 9 Jun......

1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1656 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
1716 - Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)
1717 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
1834 - William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
1892 - Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist
1892 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
1912 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writter (b. 1852)
1946 - Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925)
1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
1958 - Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
1961 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
1973 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
1974 - Miguel �ngel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1979 - Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
1981 - Allen Ludden, TV game show host (b. 1917)
1989 - Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
1989 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
1993 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
1994 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1997 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
2000 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
2004 - Brian Williamson, Jamaican Gay Activist (b. 1945)
2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
2007 - Frankie Abernathy, Former The Real World: San Diego castmate (b. 1981)
2008 - Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)
373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
597 - St. Columba, Christian missionary (b. 521)
62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia
68 - Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)

Enjoy Opera Winfrey photo Album

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Enjoy Hot and sexy 1000 Girls in Bikinis Shows

1000 Girls in Bikinis + me doing the robot....................

Coming Soon to Theaters list

               Coming Soon to Theaters, Opening Date June 11, 2010

A colorful team of former Special Forces soldiers were set up for a crime they did not commit. Going "rogue," they utilize their unique talents to try and clear their names and find the true culprit.

 

Also Known As: The A Team
Production Status:     In Production/Awaiting Release
Genres:     Action/Adventure and Comedy
Running Time:     1 hr. 57 min.
Release Date:     June 11th, 2010 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence throughout, language and smoking.
Distributors:   20th Century Fox Distribution
Production Co.:  Stephen J Cannell Productions, Scott Free Productions
Studios:   20th Century Fox
Filming Locations: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Produced in:  United States

The Karate Kid 

Jackie Chan stars as the martial arts mentor who teaches new kid Jaden Smith to stand up for himself against Beijing bullies.

 

 Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
At the Theatre Des Champs-Elysees, Igor Stravinsky premieres his The Rite Of Spring. Coco Chanel attends the premiere and is mesmerized. But the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical. The enraged audience boos and jeers. A near riot ensues. Stravinsky is inconsolable. Seven years later, now rich, respected and successful, Coco Chanel meets Stravinsky again - a penniless refugee living in exile in Paris after the Russian Revolution. The attraction between them is immediate and electric. Coco offers Stravinsky the use of her villa in Garches so that he will be able to work, and he moves in straight away, with his children and consumptive wife. And so a passionate, intense love affair between two creative giants begins.
Also Known As: Chanel & Stavinsky, l'histoire secrete
Chanel & Stavinsky: The Secret Story
Chanel and Stavinsky: The Secret Story
Coco & Igor
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky
Coco Et Igor
Coco and Igor
Production Status:In Production/Awaiting Release
Logline: Focuses on the love affair between pioneering French fashion designer Coco Chanel and avant-garde Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
Genres: Art/Foreign, Romance, Adaptation and Biopic
Running Time:1 hr. 58 min.
Release Date: June 11th, 2010 (limited)
MPAA Rating: R for some strong sexuality and nudity.
Distributors: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co.: Eurowide Film Production
Financiers:  Cinemage, Wild Bunch, TPS Star, Studio Canal, Hexagon Pictures
Produced in:     France

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work 

 A glimpse into the private dramas of comedian and pop icon Joan Rivers as she fights to keep her American dream alive.

Winter's Bone  
A teenager sets out to track down her father, who put their family's house up for his bail bond and then disappeared.