Category Archives: Acting
Angela Lansbury’s Final Tour: “Blithe Spirit”
The fabulous Angela Lansbury, 89, will retire from the road after her current tour as the charming and disarming medium, Madame Arcati, in Nöel Coward’s ghost-haunted 1941 comedy, “Blithe Spirit.” Read more here and enjoy the slide show of her … Continue reading
Channel 22: In-House TV at the MPTF Wasserman Campus for Seniors
EngAGE loves the creative activities offered by the Wasserman Campus of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, a retirement home for people who worked in the entertainment industry. Our favorite: the in-house TV station that airs exclusively in the retirement … Continue reading
Ricky Jay’s Magical Life
Here’s a fascinating in-depth story from The New Yorker about magician Ricky Jay, 66, who is a brilliant sleight-of-hand performer as well as an actor who has appeared in such films Heist, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia, as well as on the … Continue reading
“Peanuts” Voice Over Actors Share Memories
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” is a classic musical animated television special based on the comic strip, “Peanuts,” by Charles M. Schulz. The kids who performed the voices for this and the other “Peanuts” holiday specials are grown now, with children … Continue reading
Bill Murray: Free Spirit
“Many of us have random impulses, but Bill Murray [64] is the man who acts on them, for all of us. Consider, for example, the time a couple of years ago when he caught a cab late at night in … Continue reading
Frances McDormand on Red Alert
Francis McDormand, 57, takes on another idiosynchratic character in a four-part mini-series for HBO next month: “Adapted from Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories, ‘Olive’ is set in an unremarkable Maine town and traces several decades in the emphatically … Continue reading
NASA Recruiter Nichelle Nichols
From the late 1970’s until the late 1980’s, NASA employed “Star Trek” actor Nichelle Nichols to recruit new astronaut candidates. Many of her new recruits were women or members of racial and ethnic minorities. And now, she’s back with NASA … Continue reading
