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By Rich Heldenfels
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 03:48 p.m. EDT, Mar 31, 2009
Ann Rutherford Due. Remember Polly Benedict from the Andy Hardy movies? That was Rutherford, who will give a lecture in the Kent State University Museum's Murphy Auditorium on April 30 at 7 p.m. A reception with Rutherford will follow.
Rutherford also co-starred in Westerns with Gene Autry and John Wayne, succeeded Penny Singleton as Blondie on the radio, co-starred with Red Skelton in a series of movies and was Carreen O'Hara — one of Scarlett's younger sisters — in Gone With the Wind.
Tickets for the lecture and the reception are $25. Reservations must be made by April 23. Call 330-672-3450.
Following her appearance at KSU, Rutherford will go to Cadiz, where the Clark Gable Foundation will celebrate the 70th anniversary of both Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. Celebrity guests will include Rutherford and three of the Oz Munchkins.
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George Takei in Area. The Star Trek actor — currently in theaters in The Great Buck Howard — will speak about his life at 8 tonight in the Players Guild Theatre in Canton.
Tickets are $30 at the guild box office, by calling 330-453-7617 or online at http://www.playersguildtheatre.com.
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Last Mars. ABC's Life on Mars, about a modern detective who finds himself working in the '70s, will end its run with a series finale tonight at 10. The show's makers were warned that they would not be renewed so they could prepare a conclusion. Seventeen episodes in all aired on ABC, which is actually more than were made of the original British version, which consisted of two eight-episode seasons.
But the British version was considered a hit and even inspired a sequel, Ashes to Ashes, where a present-day detective landed in 1981. That series is airing on BBC America on Saturday nights; you can catch the first five episodes from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday.
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We All Make Mistakes. And this one is mine. In my DVD column on Sunday, I referred to Simon Beaufoy as author of the book on which Slumdog Millionaire was based. Beaufoy wrote the screenplay for the film, but it was based on the book Q&A by Vikas Swarup.•
Baby Talk. It's a girl for Alyson Hannigan, currently seen hiding her baby bump on How I Met Your Mother (where co-star Cobie Smulders is also pregnant).
People.com says Hannigan and actor hubby Alexis Denisof named the baby Satyana Denisof. Date of birth was March 24, which is also Hannigan's birthday.
It's the couple's first child. They met on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and wed in '03, says People.com.
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Wedding Bell Blues. ''The Real Housewives of New York City star Countess Luann de Lesseps has split from her husband, Count de Lesseps,'' says Usmagazine.com. They've been married 16 years and have two children.
The New York Post says the countess took a fast train to Splitsville after she ''got wind he was seeing somebody and he didn't answer her when she called. He finally sent her an e-mail saying he was with an Ethiopian woman in Geneva and he was serious with her.''
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Signs of Our (Tough) Times. Ray Sanchez, the only U.S. newspaper reporter based in Havana, is coming home. South Florida's Sun-Sentinel newspaper is closing its bureau in Cuba, says Broward-Palm Beach New Times.
The reason: cost-cutting by the Sun-Sentinel and the Chicago Tribune, which helped fund the bureau.
Ann Rutherford Due. Remember Polly Benedict from the Andy Hardy movies? That was Rutherford, who will give a lecture in the Kent State University Museum's Murphy Auditorium on April 30 at 7 p.m. A reception with Rutherford will follow.
Rutherford also co-starred in Westerns with Gene Autry and John Wayne, succeeded Penny Singleton as Blondie on the radio, co-starred with Red Skelton in a series of movies and was Carreen O'Hara — one of Scarlett's younger sisters — in Gone With the Wind.
Tickets for the lecture and the reception are $25. Reservations must be made by April 23. Call 330-672-3450.
Following her appearance at KSU, Rutherford will go to Cadiz, where the Clark Gable Foundation will celebrate the 70th anniversary of both Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. Celebrity guests will include Rutherford and three of the Oz Munchkins.
•
George Takei in Area. The Star Trek actor — currently in theaters in The Great Buck Howard — will speak about his life at 8 tonight in the Players Guild Theatre in Canton.
Tickets are $30 at the guild box office, by calling 330-453-7617 or online at http://www.playersguildtheatre.com.
/> •
Last Mars. ABC's Life on Mars, about a modern detective who finds himself working in the '70s, will end its run with a series finale tonight at 10. The show's makers were warned that they would not be renewed so they could prepare a conclusion. Seventeen episodes in all aired on ABC, which is actually more than were made of the original British version, which consisted of two eight-episode seasons.
But the British version was considered a hit and even inspired a sequel, Ashes to Ashes, where a present-day detective landed in 1981. That series is airing on BBC America on Saturday nights; you can catch the first five episodes from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday.
•
We All Make Mistakes. And this one is mine. In my DVD column on Sunday, I referred to Simon Beaufoy as author of the book on which Slumdog Millionaire was based. Beaufoy wrote the screenplay for the film, but it was based on the book Q&A by Vikas Swarup.•
Baby Talk. It's a girl for Alyson Hannigan, currently seen hiding her baby bump on How I Met Your Mother (where co-star Cobie Smulders is also pregnant).
People.com says Hannigan and actor hubby Alexis Denisof named the baby Satyana Denisof. Date of birth was March 24, which is also Hannigan's birthday.
It's the couple's first child. They met on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and wed in '03, says People.com.
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Wedding Bell Blues. ''The Real Housewives of New York City star Countess Luann de Lesseps has split from her husband, Count de Lesseps,'' says Usmagazine.com. They've been married 16 years and have two children.
The New York Post says the countess took a fast train to Splitsville after she ''got wind he was seeing somebody and he didn't answer her when she called. He finally sent her an e-mail saying he was with an Ethiopian woman in Geneva and he was serious with her.''
•
Signs of Our (Tough) Times. Ray Sanchez, the only U.S. newspaper reporter based in Havana, is coming home. South Florida's Sun-Sentinel newspaper is closing its bureau in Cuba, says Broward-Palm Beach New Times.
The reason: cost-cutting by the Sun-Sentinel and the Chicago Tribune, which helped fund the bureau.
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Posted 08:26 AM, 04/01/2009
Wonderful to know that Ann Rutherford, who according to Wikipedia is now 88 years old, is still active and healthy! The living connections to classic Hollywood are getting so thin as the years pass -- I hope attendance is good both in Kent and Cadiz!
Posted 09:29 AM, 04/01/2009
I will miss Life on Mars. I watched both the British version and the ABC version. Liked the ABC characters better. Also, I am watching Ashes to Ashes. It is enjoyable and the English subtitles are very helpful.
