Actor Rita Moreno sits on the Tilden Park carousel during a break between shooting scenes for Remember Me, on July 6,2015. She plays a recently widowed woman whose grandchildren have come to put her in a senior home. Photo: David Yee, on July 6,2015. She plays a recently widowed woman whose grandchildren have come to put […]
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The Oscars come to Berkeley at film foundation benefit
12 Years a Slave, one of the movies nominated for an Academy Award this year. The ceremony will be screened on Sunday, March 2, at Berkeleywood, a benefit for the Berkeley Film Foundation. Photo: oscar.go.com The Oscars are coming to downtown Berkeley this year for the first time with a glitzy new event at the […]
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Rita Moreno’s life laid bare in ‘Life without Makeup’
Rita Moreno with Salvatore Vassallo (left) and Ray Garcia in Life Without Makeup. Photo by Kevin Berne via Berkeley Rep When audiences entered Berkeley Rep’s Roda theater on Wednesday night, they passed by a table with a shiny display: an Oscar, a Grammy, two Emmy awards, a National Medal of the Arts, and the Presidential […]
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A Berkeley celebration of Mark Twain
There were no jumping frogs but there was a lot of celebratory cheer Wednesday evening at the official book launch of Mark Twain’s autobiography. Since the esteemed humorist died 100 years ago and couldn’t read from his own text, other authors, poets, actors, and filmmakers did the honors. Under a carved wooden ceiling in the […]
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Berkeley Rep ‘roasts’ Susie Medak
Susie Medak has served as Berkeley Rep‘s Managing Director for 20 years. In this video produced by the theater company — more of a roast than a celebration — artistic director Tony Taccone compares his relationship with Medak as akin to the one between Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton from The Honeymooners. They were famously […]
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Top honor for Rita Moreno
Berkeley’s own Rita Moreno yesterday received the nation’s top cultural honor, the National Medal of Arts. President Obama presented the award to the star of stage and screen after spending the day in healthcare lock-down mode. Moreno is the only Latina actress to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony for her dance and acting […]
