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Beatty Biographer Peter Biskind Talks Shop With Fellow-Author Sheila Weller

Last week—vying with the latest economic, Tiger Woodsian, and failed-Northwest-Airlines-terrorist-bombing-blame-game news that was zinging around the web—was a certain number: 12,775. Specifically, it was the cool surmisal that, if you did "simple arithmetic," Warren Beatty has likely bedded a total 12,755 women, "give

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Seth Rogovoy Sees Dylan's Jewish Spirit Blowin' in the Wind

It's not hyperbole to say that Seth Rogovoy considers listening to—and performing—the music of Bob Dylan a spiritual experience. Rogovoy, the editor in chief of Berkshire Living who was the rock critic for the Berkshire Eagle for nearly two decades, has been a die-hard Dylan fan

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Dan's Diary: Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall . . .

Even in the off season, Tanglewood dominates the cultural and economic life of the Berkshires. "For the Berkshires to thrive, we need Tanglewood to survive," says BSO trustee Nancy Fitzpatrick, the owner of the Red Lion Inn, who is head of the Tanglewood Business Partners.  According to the

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Norman Rockwell's American Dream: The Auteur Theory

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Williamstown Film Festival Tickets on Sale

Suitably enough, the highlight of the first weekend of the 11th Annual Williamstown Film Festival (October 23 - 25; second weekend, October 29 - November 1), will be dinner and a movie on Saturday night.  The annual benefit dinner is being held this year at Mezze's new catering

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FilmColumbia Celebrates its 10th Year

The four-day movie marathon known as FilmColumbia, which was founded in 1999, comes to the village of Chatham from October 22 - 25.  A star-studded lineup of more than 30 international screenings, plus panel discussions, script readings, parties, and more, the festival “has something for everyone,” according to Peter Biskind,

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Dan's Diary: Barrington Stage is the Stepping Stone to Broadway

For songwriters who yearn to hear their songs on a Broadway stage someday, you can't get any luckier than knowing  Bill Finn, the musical theater guru of Barrington Stage Company. For the fourth year in a row, Finn has put together an evening of Songs By Ridiculously Talented

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"Radio Deluxe" Comes to the Tanglewood Jazz Festival

The New York Times cabaret critic Stephen Holden has flipped his lid for John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, who host Radio Deluxe, which will tape at Ozawa Hall on Saturday, September 5 as part of the Tanglewood Jazz Festival.  "The wittiest, most musically savvy husband-and-wife team in pop-jazz, they

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Dan's Diary: "A Streetcar Named Desire" Is A Great Ride

You don't see Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire produced very often because it is almost impossible to cast. (ReadThe New York Times' Ben Brantley on the 2005 New York production with John C. Reilly.) After all these years, it still needs an actor who

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Dan's Diary: WTF Lights A Fire Under "The Torch-Bearers"

You might consider The Torch-Bearers at Williamstown Theatre Festival theater-for-theater's sake. The play itself—a 1922 chestnut by George Kelly that has been "adapted" by director Dylan Baker—seems like an excuse for artistic director Nicky Martin to fill the Main Stage with a dozen accomplished

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Dan's Diary: Lightning Strikes Williamstown Theatre Festival

What's going on with the stagehands at Williamstown Theatre Festival? At both True West and What Is the Cause of Thunder?, the stagehands, who are dressed like bellhops at chic boutique hotels, take a bow at the curtain call. The sets, lighting and sound for both productions are

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Berkshire Fringe Festival Grows Up

Fringe founders Peter Wise, Sara Katzoff & Timothy Ryan Olson The Berkshire Fringe Festival operates in the spirit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which started in Scotland in 1947, when eight theater troupes turned up uninvited at Edinburgh International Fesitval and had to perform on the outskirts of the city.

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