A word from the king of torment Aug 22, 2009
So does Geoffrey Rush - and Orlando Bloom is pretty good with him. Holly Throsby, the ARIA winning singer and songwriter, is keen on him, as is her mother, the broadcaster Margaret Throsby. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Indigenous film's world premiere introduces some Bran Nue stars Aug 8, 2009
All smiles: the cast of new film Bran Nue Dae includes (from left) Missy Higgins, Tom Budge, Geoffrey Rush and Ernie Dingo ... He joins a cast that includes Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge, Deborah Mailman and Magda Szubanski, with singers Missy Higgins, Jessica Mauboy and Dan Sultan making their acting debuts ... Geoffrey Rush - who had seen the stage production - brings an idiosyncratic physical energy and an extravagant German accent to the role of a priest at Willy's school, dispensing Cherry Ripes... (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Bran Nue festival fight Aug 5, 2009
Bran Nue Dae, which was partly subsidised by WA Government-funded agency Screen West, is promoted as "a musical road trip about belonging" and stars Ernie Dingo, Missy Higgins and Geoffrey Rush. An adaptation of a 90s stage musical, it was filmed around Broome, in WA's north-west, uses many WA actors and received about $600,000 of its funding from Screen West. (The Age, Australia)
Rush and Armfield to reunite Aug 4, 2009
Geoffrey Rush receives the AFI Raymond Longford Award at the 2009 AFI Outstanding Achievement Dinner in Melbourne ... AFTER sweeping all before them with Exit the King, Geoffrey Rush and the director Neil Armfield are planning a reunion for the Belvoir St stage next year ... Geoffrey Rush receives the AFI Raymond Longford Award at the 2009 AFI Outstanding Achievement Dinner in Melbourne. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Rush gets AFI awards top honour Aug 3, 2009
Geoffrey Rush has been honoured with the AFI's highest honour ... IN HIS early theatre days, in the 70s, when Australian actors were kowtowing to the borrowed traditions from England , Geoffrey Rush recalls a British director complaining that he d never seen white-hot acting on an Australian stage ... Geoffrey Rush has been honoured with the AFI's highest honour. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Tracking black: Aboriginal yarns stand out in local film awards Aug 3, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Garry MaddoxAugust 3, 2009. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Clubs pay out on pokies story Aug 3, 2009
"It beggars belief that reporter Tara Brown and her team didnt realise the danger and sheer stupidity of placing a man that has struggled with a gambling addiction for 15 years in front of a poker machine and asking him to gamble, Costello told the Diary in a statement yesterday, before the episode went to air. According to Clubs Australia, 60 Minutes also provided the gambler with the money to play and asked him to repeatedly play the machine to ensure it had sufficient footage. But 60... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Sport still holds centre stage Aug 2, 2009
Geoffrey Rush in Melbourne last night ... AFTER discovering New Yorkers have "an unashamed love of the arts", Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush returned home to find a country more interested in gossip and celebrities. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Australians in action Jul 19, 2009
Crowe and his compatriots Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett, Naomi Watts, the late Heath Ledger, Hugh Jackman, Eric Bana, Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, Nicole Kidman and Isla Fisher have added a huge boost of style, ruggedness and glamour to Hollywood. In the TV-scape, too, the Australians are proving to be an asset. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Review: '$9.99' weaves 12 lives animatedly Jul 11, 2009
Starring the voices of Samuel Johnson, Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush and Claudia Karvan ... The tone is mostly serious but there are fanciful parts, most notably a chain-smoking guardian angel voiced by Geoffrey Rush ... Starring the voices of Samuel Johnson, Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush and Claudia Karvan. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Jackman and Craig to share stage Jul 10, 2009
Others have included Oscar winners Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon, comic actor Will Ferrell and Sopranos star James Gandolfini. A Steady Rain, by Chicago playwright Keith Huff, was first produced off-Broadway in 2006. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Michael Riedel Jul 5, 2009
June 17, 2009 - TO the parade of great actors who've appeared on Broad way in the last few years -- Patrick Stewart, Frank Langella, Richard Grif fiths, Geoffrey Rush -- we may soon, if we're lucky, be. . (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 5-11 Jul 2, 2009
Actor Geoffrey Rush is 58. Actor Grant Goodeve ("Eight is Enough") is 57. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
For ‘$9.99,’ animated characters and story lines Jun 26, 2009
REGENT RELEASINGAlbert (left; voiced by Barry Otto) and the Angel (Geoffrey Rush) in the Claymation $9 ... Meanwhile Jim, a cynical businessman with single-dad issues, is forever changed by a tense, riveting encounter with a vagrant (Geoffrey Rush) who reappears later as a surly guardian angel ... Featuring the voices of: Geoffrey Rush, Anthony LaPaglia, Samuel Johnson, Ben Mendelsohn, Claudia Karvan, Joel Edgerton, Barry Otto. (Boston Globe)
Fringe-dwellers open their hearts Jun 22, 2009
The film reveals a fascinating character who helped found the first indigenous theatre company in the early 1970s, appeared in such films as The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith, Blackfellas and Tom White, and shared a stage with Geoffrey Rush. But to finance his heroin habit, Charles burgled houses and spent years in and out of prison. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
QUIRKY, INTRIGUING AND FUNNY FOR JUST '$9.99' Jun 19, 2009
Voices include Geoffrey Rush and Anthony LaPaglia. Fans of deadpan comic fantasy writers like Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut are likely to be intrigued by this lively little packet of weird -- then dive like a dolphin into Keret's loopy story volumes. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Stick to leafing through transcripts Jun 18, 2009
Russell Crowe and Geoffrey Rush have been touted to play owner/trainer/taxi driver Joe Janiak, whose dreams came true. Hartnell is said to have been overheard musing, misty eyed, that "nobody on the 6.15 from Hunters Hill has ever had a film made about them". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Kutcher In The Wry Jun 17, 2009
TO the parade of great actors who've appeared on Broad way in the last few years -- Patrick Stewart, Frank Langella, Richard Grif fiths, Geoffrey Rush -- we may soon, if we're lucky, be able to add. Ashton Kutcher. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Billy Elliot dances away with 10 Tony Awards Jun 16, 2009
Seth Wenig / APGeoffrey Rush accepts his Tony award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his role in "Exit the King." ... Geoffrey Rush's extravagant portrait of a dying monarch in "Exit the King" took the top actor prize ... PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY: Geoffrey Rush, Exit the King. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
CRITIC'S CHOICE: Who should, will win 2009 Tonys Jun 5, 2009
Jeff Daniels, God of Carnage Ral Esparza, Speed-the-Plow James Gandolfini, God of Carnage Geoffrey Rush, Exit the King Thomas Sadoski, Reasons to Be Pretty. Should/will win: Esparza and Sadoski were riveting, but Rush had the most central and flamboyant role and managed to make playwright Ionesco accessible to matinee crowds. (USA Today -- Life)
Broadway: Retro style Jun 5, 2009
Throw in a new play starring James Gandolfini and Jeff Daniels ("God of Carnage"), a revival with Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush ("Exit the King"), a new musical that should make a star out of Alice Ripley ("Next to Normal") and the last play from Horton Foote ("Dividing the Estate") and this was definitely a year of diversity on Broadway. A record-setting year. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Enough, Rush Jun 3, 2009
ANDREA Martin ("Young Frankenstein," "Exit the King") got a laugh presenting a Theatre World award yesterday to Aussie legend Geoffrey Rush. "I am honored and really bored to be presenting an award to Mr. Rush -- his 27th this season," she droned. (New York Post -- Gossip)
New generation of black filmmakers Jun 1, 2009
Rachel Perkins, who directed Radiance more than 10 years ago, is in post-production on the Broome musical Bran Nue Dae, which stars Geoffrey Rush, Deborah Mailman and Ernie Dingo. But the next instalment is a Koori comedy - Richard Frankland's Stone Bros, which was warmly received on opening night in Dungog on Thursday. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Spidey guy Raimi says `Dark Knight' has upped ante Jun 1, 2009
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Why the world wants Australia's animators May 29, 2009
He is now working as a matte painter on Guardians Of Ga'hoole, an animated feature about the owl world directed by Zack Snyder and featuring the voices of Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Taylor and David Wenham. "This industry is so much about getting your foot in the door," Walker says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Exit the king of Belvoir St, as an era in theatre closes May 25, 2009
The deeply personal work about a writer's battle with his demons and his search for inspiration and purpose went on to win several accolades at the Sydney Theatre Awards, including the best actor prize for Roxburgh, who narrowly beat Geoffrey Rush in Exit The King. The pain and humour in Toy Symphony was imaginatively realised by Armfield in his familiarly organic, truthful, inquisitive and trusting approach. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Armfield says time for him to leave Belvoir St May 25, 2009
Armfield had mentioned his decision to the company's general manager, Brenna Hobson, the board member Mary Vallentine and the actor Geoffrey Rush, but few others. Armfield said the time was ripe to move on. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Anthony Lane: “Terminator Salvation” and “Jerichow.” May 25, 2009
Geoffrey Rush on Exit the King. An eighteen-year-old high-school junior runs for City Council. (New Yorker)
Sacha Horler puts brains before beauty May 24, 2009
She also voices a fighting owl in the animated Hollywood blockbuster Guardians Of Ga'Hoole, made in Sydney with director Zack Snyder (300) and starring the vocals talents of Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush and David Wenham. Horler is the only child of Ken and Lilian Horler, who co-founded the Nimrod Theatre (now the Stables) in Kings Cross with John Bell and the late Richard Wherrett. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hey, Chris Rock: Shut the [bleep] up May 21, 2009
Admittedly the overall field of winners in music biopics is small to begin with James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy, Sissy Spacek in Coal Miners Daughter, F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus, and Geoffrey Rush in Shine and the last two arent even singers. But Cagney and Spacek did sing as Cohan and Lynn. (MSNBC -- Academy Awards)
US drama awards for Billy musical May 18, 2009
Elsewhere Britain's Janet McTeer was named best actress, while Australian Geoffrey Rush was named best actor. Their awards came for their work in the plays Mary Stuart and Exit the King respectively. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
B'way ticket availability through Sunday, May 24 May 18, 2009
"Exit the King." Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon star in Eugene Ionesco's absurdist comedy about a monarch coming to terms with his own death. Ethel Barrymore. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
NO BALONEY ABOUT THIS YEAR'S TO... May 14, 2009
That leaves either brilliant Geoffrey Rush in "Exit the King" or the almost brillianter Raul Esparza in "Speed-the-Plow." It'll be Geoffrey. Leading Actor in a Musical. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Here comes the Cannes film festival May 12, 2009
"He certainly has leading-man looks, but from 12 Monkeys (Pitt played a mental patient who may end the world) on, you have to say, 'Wow, this guy has unbelievable chops.' He can do the leading-man character, and do what you might call the Geoffrey Rush part," Weinstein says. Penelope Cruz. (USA Today -- Life)
'Billy Elliot,' 'God of Carnage' score Tony noms May 7, 2009
Other actor-play nominees were Raul Esparza, Speed-the-Plow ; Geoffrey Rush, Exit the King ; and Thomas Sadoski, reasons to be pretty. The two royal ladies of Mary Stuart Janet McTeer as Mary, Queen of Scots, and Harriet Walter as Elizabeth I will also battle for the actress nod. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Infotainment May 7, 2009
Billy Elliot, The Musical led the race for US theatres top honours with 15 Tony Award nominations, while Geoffrey Rush, Angela Lansbury, James Gandolfini and Jane Fonda were among the actors up for honors. The Tony Awards winners, voted by about 750 industry professionals, will be announced on June. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Stage stars gather to honor Tony Award nominees May 7, 2009
By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY NEW YORK Jane Fonda, James Gandolfini, Angela Lansbury, Allison Janney, Liza Minnelli and Geoffrey Rush were among the 2008-2009 Tony nominees who showed up for a press reception in midtown Manhattan Wednesday. Jane Fonda, James Gandolfini, Angela Lansbury, Allison Janney, Liza Minnelli and Geoffrey Rush were among the 2008-2009 Tony nominees who showed up for a press reception in midtown Manhattan Wednesday. (USA Today -- Life)
Geoffrey Rush nominated for Tony Award May 6, 2009
Geoffrey Rush in Exit the King ... Australian actor Geoffrey Rush has been nominated for the US's greatest theatrical honour for his Broadway debut in Ionesco's Exit The King ... Other actor-play nominees were Raul Esparza, Speed-the-Plow; Geoffrey Rush, Exit the King; and Thomas Sadoski, reasons to be pretty. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Billy Elliot scores 15 Tony nominations May 6, 2009
Other actor-play nominees were Raul Esparza, a predatory Hollywood producer in Speed-the-Plow; Geoffrey Rush, a dying monarch in Exit the King; and Thomas Sadoski, an inarticulate slacker in reasons to be pretty ... BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY: Jeff Daniels, God of Carnage; Raul Esparza, Speed-the-Plow; James Gandolfini, God of Carnage; Geoffrey Rush, Exit the King; Thomas Sadoski, Reasons to Be Pretty. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Billy Elliot dominates Tony nods May 6, 2009
Geoffrey Rush is nominated for Exit The King. In nominations for plays, Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush and former Sopranos star James Gandolfini are shortlisted for best actor, with Jane Fonda up for best actress. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
'Billy Elliot' tops Tony nomination list May 6, 2009
Other lead actors named are Ral Esparza for "Speed-the-Plow," Geoffrey Rush for "Exit the King," and Thomas Sadoski for "Reasons to Be Pretty"; Jane Fonda for "33 Variations"; and Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter, both for "Mary Stuart," round out the lead-actress list. Besides best musical revival and best director, "Hair" received two nominations for acting: Gavin Creel in the musical-lead category and Will Swenson as featured actor in a musical. (Boston Globe)
Reactions to the 2009 Tony Award nominations May 6, 2009
"I tend to play rat bags at the fringe of society. So it's really wonderful to have found a play where I get to be the king who's still a rat bag." Geoffrey Rush, referring to his Tony-nominated role as the dying monarch in "Exit the King.". . (The Palm Beach Post)
Busy Spring Means Crowded Tony Nomination Field May 5, 2009
" Broadway usually doesn't turn its back on success. Among the actors likely to get serious consideration are names such as Jane Fonda, Daniel Radcliffe, Angela Lansbury, James Gandolfini, Kristin Scott Thomas, Geoffrey Rush, Marcia Gay Harden, Nathan Lane, Janet McTeer, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, Bill Irwin and John Goodman. Let's start, though, with the musical nominations, which are among the most coveted, since they give the finalists valuable airtime on the three-hour CBS telecast on June 7... (KIRO TV, WA)
FILM: Summer 2009 preview May 1, 2009
99 (Geoffrey Rush, Anthony LaPaglia) -- A stop-motion film shows what 9. 99 can buy -- if you act before midnight. (Sioux City Journal)
It and a bit Apr 19, 2009
"Dannii is overseas most of the year, so when she is here she's hot property. The same with Eric and Rebecca Bana and Geoffrey Rush. Jane Turner and Gina Riley don't go out a lot, so if they do attend your event, it's almost as if they're giving their approval. Hamish and Andy are fantastic because they have such a huge following. Rove is quite selective about where he goes and I would consider him to be A list. Warnie makes a great guest because he is so popular and controversial, although... (The Age, Australia)
What's Wrong with This Spring's Broadway Plays? Apr 6, 2009
And while there's the usual spate of revivals from crowd-pleasing chestnuts (Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, starring a blithely ageless Angela Lansbury) to more challenging rediscoveries (Ionesco's Exit the King, with an all-stops-out performance by Geoffrey Rush) what's really striking is the number of new plays that think they've found a home on the Great White Way. (). (Time.com)
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF BILL O'REI... Apr 2, 2009
Geoffrey Rush, now in "Exit the King," will enter immortality. Australia's sticking native son Geoffrey on its 55-cent stamp. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Hilton Als: Battling death, armies, and one’s own preoccupations. Apr 1, 2009
King Berenger the First (Geoffrey Rush) exclaims midway through Exit the King (at the Barrymore). A storm brief but King Lear -like in its intensity has just hit his bare-bones, broken-down kingdom, flooding it with light, and then plunging it into momentary darkness. (New Yorker)
ENTER THE CULTIVATED, RAIN-WASHED M... Mar 30, 2009
GEOFFREY Rush and Susan Saran don opened in "Exit the King" at the Barrymore. Per one savant before curtain: "Even if they disliked it, which they won't, nobody will knock Ionesco. Who'd risk anyone thinking they're unsophisticated?". (New York Post -- Gossip)
The changing face of rugby is proving a tough subject to tackle Mar 28, 2009
Geoffrey Rush has made a triumphant Broadway debut, earning glowing reviews from critics. Indian scientists are looking to develop a curry fit for space. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Rush shines in Broadway debut Mar 28, 2009
Take a bow Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush ... Geoffrey Rush has made a triumphant Broadway debut, earning glowing reviews from critics for his performance as a dying monarch in Exit The King ... Take a bow … Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A mesmerizing Geoffrey Rush sparks 'Exit the King' Mar 28, 2009
Miami News, Fort Lauderdale News, Florida News er Channel 7 Fox Miami WSVN-TV - A mesmerizing Geoffrey Rush sparks 'Exit the King ... A mesmerizing Geoffrey Rush sparks 'Exit the King ... Geoffrey Rush, making his Broadway debut, manages a mesmerizing high-wire act of balancing outrageous comedy and overwhelming tragedy in a fascinating revival of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist "Exit the King.". (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Triumphant Broadway debut for 'virtuoso' Rush Mar 28, 2009
Geoffrey Rush in Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King ... OSCAR-WINNING actor Geoffrey Rush last night gained another crown, King of Broadway, when his Broadway stage debut in a Melbourne-made revival of Exit the King attracted rave reviews. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Broadway acclaim for actor Rush Mar 28, 2009
Actor Geoffrey Rush has earned rave reviews from theatre critics for his first appearance on a Broadway stage ... FROM OTHER NEWS SITES A mesmerizing Geoffrey Rush sparks 'Exit the King' on Broadway - 22 hrs ago Sorry, Your Highness, but Youre So Over - 25 hrs ago A mesmerizing Geoffrey Rush sparks 'Exit the King' - 27 hrs ago Geoffrey Rush makes Broadway debut - 30 hrs ago Broadway's 'Exit the King' is a crowning achievement - 31 hrs ago. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
King Geoffrey Rush declares abnormal the new normal Mar 28, 2009
Adapted by Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush. Starring Geoffrey Rush, Susan Sarandon, Andrea Martin, Lauren Ambrose ... At least it is when Geoffrey Rush is in command, here making an astonishing Broadway debut as Berenger, Eugene Ionesco's impotent potentate who is a little like Bruce Willis's character in The Sixth Sense: He's almost dead; he just doesn't want to accept it yet. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
IT'S RUSH HOUR! Mar 27, 2009
WHILE he's been known as a stage animal for decades in his native Australia, Geoffrey Rush is only now making his Broadway debut. Based on his performance in "Exit the King," a major injustice has finally been rectified. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Broadway's 'Exit the King' is a crowning achievement Mar 27, 2009
Queen Marie (Lauren Ambrose) is the youthful second wife of King Berenger (Geoffrey Rush), who is 400 years old ... This production, which opened Thursday at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, features a new adaptation by director Neil Armfield and leading man Geoffrey Rush; Susan Sarandon co-stars as Queen Marguerite. (USA Today -- Life)
Superman MIA in New Flick Mar 27, 2009
" It worked: after lots of gossip claiming that the "Exit the King" would exit Broadway as soon as it opened, all the wags turned out to be wrong. Sarandon and fellow Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush who s performed the Eugene Ionesco play a couple of times before click like crazy, and the result was an ecstatic opening night audience that included Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Bob and Lynne Balaban, Griffin Dunne, Sarandon s other half, Tim Robbins, Julie Taymor, Miranda Richardson, David Hyde... (Fox News)
Geoffrey Rush's 'nothingness' project Mar 27, 2009
Geoffrey Rush's 'nothingness' project - International Herald Tribune. Geoffrey Rush on stage as King Berenger in "Exit the King" on Broadway ... Geoffrey Rush's 'nothingness' project. (International Herald Tribune)
Still a Box Office Star? Mar 24, 2009
The group included Gandolfini s ex TV wife, Edie Falco, as well as Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, Janet McTeer, Chris Meloni, America Ferrara and Eric Mabius from "Ugly Betty," playwright whoops movie director and Oscar nominated screenwriter John Patrick Shanley, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters, Caroline Rhea, ex Soprano Joey Pantoliano, Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola, David Hyde Pierce, Alan Alda, and what seemed like every Broadway performer who had the night off like Colin Hanks from "33... (Fox News)
Never far from home Mar 21, 2009
" Like many of her acting peers, including Geoffrey Rush, Gillian Jones, Max Cullen, Ralph Cotterill and John Gaden, Walker is essentially a theatre animal with the seemingly effortless knack of drawing the audience's gaze to her. Her laconic, economical and maverick acting has been as much in evidence in the theatre as in film, including such characters as Alice Dalton in Bliss, Aunt Morag in The Piano, Pearl in The Dish and Marie in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge. But it was director Jim... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Actors cooperate to help conjoined Ariz. twins Mar 18, 2009
PHOENIX (AP) -- Oscar-winners Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Rush and Jane Fonda are among a long list of entertainers and celebrities who have signed parasols that will be sold to help an Arizona family defray medical expenses for conjoined twins. Linda Cobb, marketing manager for the Broadway Palm Dinner Theater in Mesa, thought the umbrella idea was a natural tie-in with an upcoming production of "Singin' in the Rain." Then people started getting wind of it. (FOX 11, AZ)
Instant classic to become toast of London Mar 18, 2009
Its Broadway production of Exit The King, starring Geoffrey Rush, opens next week. For Burke, who played Francis Bacon in Stephen Sewell's play Three Furies, When The Rain Stops Falling gives him another chance to step away from the musical roles that have characterised much of his career. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Stars donate autographed umbrellas to help conjoined twins Mar 16, 2009
Oscar-winners, including Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Rush and Jane Fonda joined the long list of umbrella signers along with the Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, Ann Curry and Al Roker of the "Today Show" and the entire casts of such Broadway shows as "Jersey Boys," "Mama Mia," "Chicago," "Young Frankenstein" and "The Lion King.". Kimble said soliciting dozens of agents and celebrities for their charity has been both hectic and fun, but nobody at the theater lost sight of the objective. (AZCentral -- News)
Producer's plans promise top billing Mar 15, 2009
Panter insists that the closed-minded views of well-entrenched British critics hardly matter in the greater scheme of things, which is to produce passionate theatre and star vehicles, such as Geoffrey Rush on Broadway in Exit The King. "I'm not misty-eyed about such things but a hard-headed producer," he says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
