Resultados para "Jane" en Entretenimiento y artes escénicas

Jane Austen was born in Steventon, England, in 1775, where she lived for the first 25 years of her life. Her father, George Austen, was the rector of the local parish, and provided most of her education in their home. She began to write while in her teens and completed the original manuscript of Pride and Prejudice First Impressions, between 1796 and 1797. Pride and Prejudice was published in January 1813, two years after Sense and Sensibility, her first novel.

In 1978, while working as a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine, Audible founder and CEO Don Katz wrote a cover story about Jane Fonda. In the article, Don Katz wrote, "No actor in Hollywood had stepped out to the beat of so many drummers and still had a career." Jane Fonda has quoted this line many times since then. Now, she has a new memoir, My Life So Far, and it has provided Don Katz and Jane Fonda a chance to sit down again to talk about her life.

In "Kützel & Röppen" erzählen sich Anja Rützel und Jan Köppen, was gerade schon wieder passiert ist in ihrem Leben: reichlich ulkige, überraschende, manchmal auch rührende Dinge nämlich. Ein Original Podcast wie das zufällig mitgehörte, schräg-unterhaltsame Gespräch am Nebentisch, bei dem man sich am liebsten dazu setzen würde, um keinen schrulligen Schnörkel zu verpassen. Die Journalistin und der Moderator diskutieren über Kostümpartys, Ameisenbären und japanische Performance-Kunst, über Rapperhosen und Datingshow-Mimosen.

Center of the YOUniverse is an out-of-this-world spectacle starring Tituss Burgess and Jane Krakowski with music, laughter, and (probably) the salvation of humanity from its self-inflicted doom. Unaware of just how brightly the other one shines, Tituss and Jane will attempt the impossible: a double-booking. In a unique blend of song and storytelling, they’ll stop at nothing to upstage each other and steal the spotlight…until they realize the true purpose of being ridiculously attractive and having immeasureble talent: to unite and heal the world.

Inspired by released American hostages, Hotel Oubliette is a darkly comedic play that explores what happens when two emotionally disconnected men are chained to a post with an endless amount of time stretching before them.

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director Jane Anderson presents four one-act plays: A Seminar For Responsible Living; The Last Time I Saw Her; Earthquake Preparedness; Lynette Has PMS. With unforgettable characters and scathing humor, the stories explore the challenges of life in Los Angeles, from gun violence to earthquakes. These short pieces ask us to consider what we need to take with us into the next hundred years, and what is best left behind.

Karen Joy Fowler, author of the best-selling The Jane Austen Book Club, joins other Austen enthusiasts including novelists Siri Hustvedt and Jennifer Egan to celebrate the work of one of English literature's best-loved authors. In connection with Penguin Classics' 60th Anniversary release of Jane Austen: The Complete Novels: Classic Deluxe Edition, this lively discussion will span the vivid characters, biting satire, and delicious romance of Austen's six novels. Selections read by Hope Davis.

In April of 2010, British Petroleum gave orders to speed up production on its colossal drilling rig, the Deepwater Horizon. Despite the objections of many on the rig, safety measures were ignored or overlooked. On April 20th, the Deepwater Horizon exploded. Eleven men paid the ultimate price and countless thousands who call the Gulf Coast home found their lives irrevocably altered.

Beware the gossips! Lady Sneerwell and her hireling, Snake, are certainly up to no good in this timeless send-up of hypocritical manners. Thanks to their scandal-mongering, the comely Lady Teazle must fend off the slanderous barbs that have caught the ear of her elderly husband - as well as every other gossip in London! What follows is a torrent of mistaken identities and sex-crazed scheming in which the upper classes have never looked so low class.

From age 11, in 1974, until she left the show, in 1981, Melissa Anderson literally grew up before the viewers of Little House on the Prairie. Melissa, as Mary, is remembered by many as the blind sister - and she was the only actor in the series to be nominated for an Emmy. In The Way I See It, she takes listeners onto the set and inside the world of the iconic series created by Michael Landon, who, Melissa discovered, was not perfect, as much as he tried to be. In this memoir she also shares her memories of working with guest stars like Todd Bridges, Mariette Hartley, Sean Penn, Patricia Neal, and Johnny Cash.

"Medicine Woman Dr. Quinn" and the former "Bond Girl" remembers the most embarrassing moments of her life and why Richard Chamberlain never wanted to make any movie with her again.

Diskutier + Lamentier + Kommentier + Boykottier = Pubertier. Wenn es erst einmal wach ist, hält es die Welt in Atem: Das Pubertier. Und inzwischen hat sich Nick zu einem Parade-Exemplar entwickelt. Als männliches Pubertier besticht auch er durch faszinierende Einlassungen zu den Themen Mädchen, Umwelt und Politik sowie durch seine anhaltende Begeisterungsfähigkeit für ganz schlechtes Essen und seltsame Musik. Er wächst wie Chinagras und trägt T-Shirts und Frisuren, die uns dringend etwas sagen wollen.

"Das Leben ist hart wie Butter." Inzwischen hat es der Vater nicht mehr nur mit einem weiblichen, sondern auch mit einem männlichen Exemplar der Gattung Pubertier zu tun. Zu einigen Einsichten ist er bereits gekommen: Pubertiere bewohnen am liebsten schlecht belüftete Räume, in denen sich Müllberge türmen.

Christina Rice offers the first biography of the actress and activist perhaps most well-known for her role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). Despite the fact that her movie career was stalled for nearly a decade, Jane Russell's filmography is respectable. She worked with some of Hollywood's most talented directors—including Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, Nicholas Ray, and Josef von Sternberg—and held her own alongside costars such as Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, Clark Gable, Vincent Price, and Bob Hope.

Jan Philipp Zymny präsentiert in seinem Programm "surREALITÄT" Betrachtung, Kritik und Verbesserungsvorschlag der Wirklichkeit, wobei er Stand Up, Kurzgeschichten, philosophische Überlegungen und surreale Absurditäten der Bauart Nonsens wild, aber keines Falls planlos durchmischt. Klassischer Zymny eben. Für alle, denen gewöhnliche Comedy zu doof, Philosophie zu anstrengend und die Realität zu langweilig ist.

Der Meister des Absurden ist zurück! Unter dem Titel "HOW TO HUMAN?" präsentiert Jan Philipp Zymny sein drittes Comedy-Programm. Im Format der Soloshow läuft der zweifache Sieger der deutschsprachigen Meisterschaften im Poetry Slam und Gewinner des Jury-Preises des Prix Pantheon zu seiner Bestform auf. "HOW TO HUMAN?" geht über eine bloße Aneinanderreihung einzelner Nummern oder Texte hinaus, genau wie auch Zymnys Komik über konventionelle, deutsche Comedy hinaus geht.

Mit ihrem 65-minütigen Eventhörspiel Förderschulklassenfahrt nehmen Fernsehstar und Entertainmentguru Klaas Heufer-Umlauf...

Von Ambach bis Wyk auf Föhr, von Berlin bis Frankfurt -seit drei Jahren tourt Jan Weiler als Vorleser durch die Republik und füllt Kursäle und Konzerthallen...

Bill and Faith are both divorcees, late in love but new to each other. As they battle to forge a relationship together, they discover that the course of true love doesn’t always run smoothly. In these 31 episodes, they move in together, plan a wedding and deal with the challenges of married life – all the while trying to balance the demands of Bill’s ex-wife, Liza, and her teenage children, Hannah and Joe.

Julian Rhind-Tutt stars as Travis, the ‘other man’ in love with a married woman, in this six-part romantic comedy Travis meets Grace, the woman of his dreams. But she has one fatal flaw – a husband. And Travis and Grace aren’t the only people with complicated love lives – there’s...