Thanks to Emily, the late Charles Nelson Reilly lit his pipe in my parents' living room one autumn evening in 1980. Reilly and Julie Harris were in town for the Emily Dickinson Sesquicentennial - her 150th birthday.
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| "Hoodoo" on S&M Krofft's Lidsville |
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| Somers' foil, Rayburn's bain on Match Game |
CNR and Emily Dickinson? The campy character had clowned around on TV sit-coms, kids' shows, game shows & commercials, in film and on stage, yet he emerged as a serious stage director whose crowning achievement I think - among many - was to direct Ms. Harris in The Belle Of Amherst.
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| Enchanting actress, dapper director: Julie Harris & Charles Nelson Reilly convey the world and art of Emily Dickinson in The Belle Of Amherst |
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
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Numerous raves about CNR’s direction of TBOA have been given by Brett Somers & Gene Rayburn in recently aired reruns of Match Game 76. If only there was videotape of what surely was an, “absolutely thrilling, marvellous evening on the theatre,” as Gene said of Ms. Harris’ one-woman tour de force performance!
Numerous raves about CNR’s direction of TBOA have been given by Brett Somers & Gene Rayburn in recently aired reruns of Match Game 76. If only there was videotape of what surely was an, “absolutely thrilling, marvellous evening on the theatre,” as Gene said of Ms. Harris’ one-woman tour de force performance!
Numerous raves about CNR’s direction of TBOA have been given by Brett Somers & Gene Rayburn in recently aired reruns of Match Game 76. If only there was videotape of what surely was an, “absolutely thrilling, marvellous evening on the theatre,” as Gene said of Ms. Harris’ one-woman tour de force performance!
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