Comedian Judy Gold chats about the dare that changed her life and pandemic comedy
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Judy Gold will perform at Fairfield Theatre Company on March 13.Astrid Stawiarz / Getty Images for Ms. Foundation for WomenShow MoreShow Less
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Judy Gold will perform at Fairfield Theatre Company on March 13.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Judy Gold published her book “Yes I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians We’re All in Trouble” in 2020.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Comedian Judy Gold has not performed indoors in front of a live audience for a year due to the pandemic. But that’s about to change.
Elizabeth Taylor, Cleopatra Star and Oscar Winner, Was a Pioneering AIDS Activist
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Elizabeth Taylor, who would have turned 89 on Feb. 27, lived multiple lives. She was a movie mega-star, a tabloid mega-celebrity (which are not always the same thing), an innovator in creating herself as a brand and a tireless and effective philanthropist and activist.
She was adored, admired, denounced, scandal-ridden and unpredictable, and the public couldn’t get enough of her.
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On screen, she was at her most breathtakingly beautiful in such 1950s and ‘60s films as “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Suddenly, Last Summer,” “Cleopatra” and “The Taming of the Shrew.” And in the 1966 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” at age 34, she frumped herself up and gave a great performance, winning the second of two Oscars (after the 1960 “Butterfield 8”).
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Dowd: Trump takes leading role in tale of the untamable shrew
Feb. 23, 2021
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Is Shakespeare a misogynist?
Should “The Taming of the Shrew” be retired, given Kate’s archaic speech of surrender at the end, laying out what women “oweth” to their husbands, or sovereigns, and urging wives to put their hands under their husband’s feet?
Can that speech be mitigated if Kate winks at the end, as Mary Pickford did in the 1929 movie with Douglas Fairbanks? Or if Kate poisons the Champagne at the end, the coup de cyanide of Lileana Blain-Cruz’s 2011 Yale School of Drama production with Lupita Nyong’o?