Duke captured the imagination of the nation when he won the gold medal swimming the 100 meters for the United States in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.
Andie MacDowell and Bruce Willis in Hudson Hawk
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“Smug Hudson Hawk looks like a turkey,” said the Chicago Tribune on May 24, 1991 – the day that Hudson Hawk opened in the US. Bruce Willis’s comedy caper had been in the firing line since long before it hit cinemas. The accusation of turkey-faced smuggery was fuelled by months’ worth of damning set reports: constant rewrites as the film was shot; the leading lady being mysterious recast; Bruce Willis and producer Joel Silver – pumped up from the Die Hard 2 box office – ganging up on the director Michael Lehmann; and a budget which ballooned to a hefty $65 million – or up to $75 million according to some reports.
Gretna Theatre has been presenting outdoor summer plays and musicals for 94 years in the open-air Mount Gretna Playhouse, which dates back nearly 130 years.
When the theater company had to scrap most of its 2020 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic, its executive producer, Lancaster native Brian Kurtas, was determined to make sure the theater would be back this year to continue the nearly centurylong tradition.
âIn February and March of 2020, we made a commitment that we werenât going anywhere,â Kurtas says. âWe have offered an adaptation of what we would normally be able to serve the community, in terms of both artistic programming and also educational programming.â