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Theater review: a sentimental journey.

Away from her bright and breezy film and television image, the often troubled life of Doris Day offers plenty of drama for a show, and Adam Rolston's "A Sentimental Journey" makes a creditable stab at it.

By Ray Bennett , The Associated Press March 5, 2009 2:47pm

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Theater Review: Sentimental Journey

Away from her bright and breezy film and television image, the often troubled life of Doris Day offers plenty of drama for a show, and Adam Rolston’s “A Sentimental Journey” makes a creditable stab at it.

Presented as an informal tale related by Day’s son Terry Melcher and Day herself, the show takes the star from her earliest days in Cincinnati, when a car-train wreck ended her ambitions to be a dancer, to success as a big band singer to her time as the No. 1 movie star in the world.

Her several difficult marriages — including one that left her broke, in debt and committed to doing record albums and a TV series she didn’t know about — also are dealt with.

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Dotted along the way, though not in chronological order, are a couple of dozen hit songs from the Doris Day songbook, and thanks to a talented cast topped by Sally Hughes, it makes for an entertaining evening.

First-time playwright Rolston is aided by having veteran TV helmer Alvin Rakoff (“A Dance to the Music of Time,” “A Voyage Round My Father”), a Canadian who has been based in the U.K. for most of his career, direct the piece.

The small stage at the Mill at Sonning, an acclaimed and always sold-out dinner theater west of London, has to make room for a four-piece band, so there’s not much space for the players to move around.

Still, Hughes and Ian McLarnon, who plays Day’s son, along with Tom Wallers, Carol Ball and Glyn Kerslake — who play assorted roles ranging from Day’s mother and father to Frank Sinatra to Day’s notorious agent-husband Marty Melcher — make the best of it.

The acting is spot-on, but it’s the singing that resonates. All the cast members have appealing voices, but Hughes, who also is artistic director at the theater, often is uncanny in replicating Day’s tone and phrasing. Pretty, blond and youthful enough to impersonate the star at all ages, Hughes really nails some of the more demanding songs such as Gordon & Warren’s “At Last,” Fain & Webster’s “Secret Love” and Styne & Cahn’s “It’s Magic.”

Whether the production will have a life beyond the Mill at Sonning remains to be seen. It would need some development, but given Day’s dramatic story and those wonderful songs, it wouldn’t come as a surprise.

Venue: The Mill at Sonning, Oxfordshire, England (Through April 19) Cast: Sally Hughes, Ian McLarnon, Tim Wallers, Carol Ball, Glyn Kerslake Book: Adam Rolston Director: Alvin Rakoff Choreographer: Joseph Pitcher Set designer: Eileen Diss Lighting designer: Matthew Biss Costume designer: Jane Kidd Musical director: Jo Stewart

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Theatrical director William O. Weatherly is deeply in love with his beautiful wife, Julie Beck, who stars in his plays and devotes herself to fulfilling his every whim. Unknown to Bill, Julie has a serious heart condition, and one day, while they are rehearsing their new play at their Long Island country home, Julie has a dizzy spell. Family friend and physician Jim Miller warns Julie that the consequences will be dire if she does not relax the busy pace of her life, and suggests adoption when Julie confides her wish that she and Bill could have a child. Julie hopes that a child will give Bill the strength to continue living if she should pass away, and soon after, she finds the perfect child while strolling along the seashore. A group of orphans from the city happily plays on the beach, but one of them, a ten-year-old girl named Mehitabel, who is called "Hitty," sits alone and watches for seahorses. Hitty imagines that Julie is the "Lady of Shalott," from Tennyson's poem, and Hitty's daydreaming reminds Julie of her own childhood fancies. After they part, Julie returns to Bill and asks him about adopting a child. Distracted by a new playscript, Bill agrees to Julie's plan, and later, after the play has opened successfully, Julie takes Bill to the orphanage to meet Hitty. Bill clumsily tries to charm Hitty, who shyly responds to his overtures. After a while, the adoption proceedings are underway and Hitty moves into Bill and Julie's elegant New York City apartment. Bill is baffled by Hitty's talk of unicorns and poetry, but the girl's relationship with Julie deepens as Julie teaches her how to pamper Bill. During a visit to the zoo, Bill buys Hitty a toy horse, which she dubs "No Name," and later, she clutches it to her as she suffers from a slight fever. Bill storms off when Julie refuses to accompany him to a party because she wants to look after Hitty, and Jim advises Julie to send Hitty back to the orphanage, as he believes that Bill will never be mature enough to welcome Hitty into the family. Soon after, Julie is trying to break the bad news to Hitty when she suffers a fatal heart attack, but before she dies, she urges Hitty to take care of Bill. Time passes as the grief-stricken Bill visits Julie's grave every day and stays with his business manager, Donnelly. Hitty's own pain and loneliness increase as she waits for Bill to come home, but one day she sees Julie's ghost, who encourages her to be cheerful for Bill upon his return. Donnelly finally persuades Bill to go home, and Hitty tenderly looks after him. The pressure is too much for Bill, and he rebuffs Hitty's attempt to serve him breakfast in the same fashion that Julie had always done. While Bill struggles to cope with Julie's death, Donnelly buys a book on child psychology and attempts to help Hitty accept Bill's decision that she be sent to boarding school. Hitty tearfully tells Bill about Julie's admonition that she should care for him, and Bill agrees to let her stay. Hitty continues to be comforted by Julie's ghost and arranges for a Sunday afternoon party at the country house, just as Bill and Julie used to do. Bill cannot enjoy himself, however, and tells his friends to leave when Hitty describes her latest visitation from Julie. Bill remains at the house while Donnelly takes Hitty back to New York, but later that evening, Hitty runs away and a frantic Bill returns to the apartment. There, he discovers a recording left for him by Julie, in which she describes Hitty as the "living link" that will always bind them. Finally realizing how much Julie loved Hitty, and how much he cares for her himself, Bill goes to the seashore to search for the girl. As Bill had suspected, Hitty has gone to the place where she first met Julie, and he rescues her as the tide comes crashing in. Back at the apartment, Bill tucks Hitty into bed and tells Donnelly that he must return to work because he now has a daughter to support.

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The working title of this film was The Little Horse . The picture's release title was taken from the popular song "Sentimental Journey," which is heard several times throughout the film. The song, which was the theme song of band leader Les Brown, was popularized by Doris Day, Brown's singer, although her version is not heard in the film. According to information in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department, located at the UCLA Arts-Special Collections Library, and Hollywood Reporter news items, Paramount was the first studio to register the title with the MPAA, but eventually relinquished it to Twentieth Century-Fox, which paid $10,000 for unlimited use of the song in the picture. Although contemporary sources refer to Mischa Auer's character as "Lawrence Ayres," he is called "Gregory Petrovich Rogozhin" in the picture. Studio records indicate that Eleanore Griffin worked on an early version of the screenplay, but the extent of her contribution to the completed film has not been determined. A mid-August 1945 memo in the legal records indicates that Bruce Humberstone was originally set to direct the picture, and a June 1944 Hollywood Reporter news item announced that Peggy Ann Garner would be the film's star. Although Hollywood Reporter production charts include Charles Russell in the cast, his appearance in the completed film has not been confirmed. A contemporary production source lists Ernest Palmer as the film's director of photography, but all other sources credit Norbert Brodine, including the onscreen credits. The studio records note that the beach sequences were shot on location at Laguna Beach, CA.        Although the Variety review stated that Sentimental Journey marked child actress Connie Marshall's first screen appearance, she had previously appeared in the 1944 Twentieth Century-Fox production Sunday Dinner for a Soldier . On September 23, 1946, John Payne, Lynn Bari and Gloria McMillan starred in a Lux Radio Theatre broadcast of the story. In 1958, Twentieth Century-Fox remade the picture as The Gift of Love , which was directed by Jean Negulesco and starred Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and Evelyn Rudie.

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An English priest named Yorick , deciding to travel to France, packs and sails for Calais. In Calais, a Franciscan monk begs Yorick for alms. Yorick cruelly rebuffs him. After the monk leaves, Yorick regrets his cruelty and resolves to let his trip teach him to be a better person.

Yorick visits a carriage-yard to buy a carriage. There, he sees the monk speaking to a lady (later revealed to be Madame L— ). Retreating, Yorick crosses paths with Monsieur Dessein , a hotel-owner and proprietor of the carriage-yard, who offers to show him some carriages. Shortly after, Yorick bumps into Madame L—, offers her his hand, and follows Monsieur Dessein to the carriage-house with her. Believing he sees suffering on her face, Yorick develops a crush on Madame L— and wishes to do something good for her. When they reach the carriage-house, Monsieur Dessein realizes he has the wrong key and goes to fetch the right one, leaving Yorick and Madame L— alone. The monk approaches them. Yorick apologizes for his earlier behavior and offers the monk his snuff-box . The monk and Yorick exchange snuff-boxes as a gesture of friendship, and the monk departs.

Yorick wants to offer to travel with Madame L— in a two-person carriage, but he worries people may infer an inappropriate sexual relationship between them. Monsieur Dessein returns with the right key, but a servant calls him away. Alone again, Yorick and Madame L— chat awkwardly about French men and flirtation. Then Monsieur Dessein comes back and tells Madame L— her brother has arrived at the hotel. As Madame L— is leaving, Yorick mentions that her brother’s arrival has spoiled a proposal he wanted to make her; she replies that she guesses what the proposal is and that if her brother had not arrived, she would have accepted.

Yorick buys a carriage and rides to Montriul, where he hires a servant, a young man named La Fleur with no useful skills. Yorick and La Fleur travel on to Amiens, where Yorick sees Madame L— riding by in her brother’s coach. Later, Madame L— sends Yorick a letter asking him to deliver another letter to Madame de R— in Paris and inviting him to visit her sometime in Brussels. Recalling that he has sworn faithfulness to Eliza back in England, Yorick vows not to visit Brussels without her. By a series of coincidences, La Fleur ends up running into Madame L—, who asks him whether he has a letter from Yorick for her. La Fleur, embarrassed, runs back to Yorick and convinces him to copy a love letter La Fleur has on hand so that La Fleur can give something to Madame L—. Unable to think up a letter of his own on the spot, Yorick goes along with La Fleur’s plan and copies the letter. Then he and La Fleur leave for Paris.

In Paris, Yorick decides to visit the Opera comique and enters a shop to ask an attractive grisset (a term for a young French woman, generally of the working class) for directions. Though she repeats the directions several times, Yorick forgets them as soon as he leaves and returns to ask again. While there, Yorick mentions that the grisset must have an excellent pulse, since she has a good heart, and he lays his fingers on her wrist. The grisset’s husband walks in, bows to Yorick, and leaves. Yorick is shocked by his behavior. A little later, he buys some gloves from the grisset and departs.

Yorick finds the Opera comique, where he shares a box with an old French soldier . In the standing section, they see a tall German man blocking the view of a dwarf and refusing to move. The old French soldier summons an opera employee to deal with the German. Yorick applauds him. Later, they chat; the soldier tells Yorick that all nations have good and bad aspects and that travel is good because it helps people learn about and love one another. Yorick heartily approves of the sentiment.

Walking home from the Opera, Yorick pops into a bookstore to buy some Shakespeare. The bookseller refuses to sell him the Shakespeare in the store, which belongs to Count de B**** , who is having it bound. The bookseller mentions that Count de B**** is an Anglophile. A chambermaid comes into the store to buy a book; Yorick leaves the store with her, advises her against falling in love, and gives her a crown coin. When she mentions she works for Madame de R—, Yorick tells her he has a letter for her employer and says he'll visit the next day.

When Yorick returns to his hotel, La Fleur tells him the French police have come looking for him because he doesn’t have a passport. Initially, Yorick blows off his potential trouble with the law. Then he overhears a caged starling in a hotel hallway repeating the phrase “I can’t get out,” which reminds Yorick of the horrors of incarceration and slavery. The next morning, Yorick rides to Versailles to visit a French official who could get him a passport. As the official is busy, Yorick decides to visit and beg for help from Count de B**** instead.

Yorick finds Count de B**** reading Shakespeare. He tells Count de B**** that, although they don’t know each other, Yorick is relying on his fellow Englishman, Shakespeare, to introduce them. Count de B**** asks Yorick’s name, and Yorick points to the name Yorick (the former king’s dead jester) in Hamlet . Count de B**** pockets the play and leaves the room. A few hours later, Count de B**** returns with a passport. He tells Yorick that he could only have gotten a passport so quickly for a jester.

Yorick goes back to his hotel room, where the chambermaid is waiting for him to ask whether he has a letter for Madame de R—. He and the chambermaid end up sitting on the bed; helping her with a loose shoe strap, Yorick knocks her over and feels extreme sexual temptation, but he hustles her out of his room before anything happens.

Count de B**** introduces Yorick to various important people in Parisian society. After three weeks, Yorick gets sick of hobnobbing with them and decides to leave France for Italy. On the way, he decides to stop in Moulines to visit Maria , a young madwoman he heard about from a friend. He finds Maria in the countryside, cries with her, and walks her to Moulines; when they part, he thinks that if it weren’t for his beloved Eliza, he would marry her.

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Barbra Streisand accepted the SAG Life Achievement Award with a speech that brought her fellow actors to tears.

At the 2024 SAG Awards on Saturday, Jennifer Aniston and Bradley Cooper , the star of 2018's A Star Is Born (Streisand starred in the 1976 version), took the stage to introduce Streisand, 81, and give her flowers.

Following Aniston and Cooper's introductions, the Funny Girl star took the stage, and she was met with a standing ovation and emotional responses from several audience members, including Anne Hathaway , Emma Stone and later, Joey King, all of whom had teary eyes.

After joking this is the best award to get "because you know in advance you're going to get it," Streisand began, "Thank you SAG-AFTRA. I'm very proud to be a member for over 60 years. I can't quite believe it."

The icon went on to recall her love of films, specifically black-and-white foreign films, as a teenager in Brooklyn, as well as seeing "the most beautiful actor," Marlon Brando on the big screen for the first time.

"That make-believe world was much more pleasant than anything I was experiencing. I didn't like reality," Streisand said. "I wanted to be in the movies, even though I knew I didn't look like any of the other women on the screen. My mother said, 'You better learn to type,' but I didn't listen. And somehow, someway — thank you, God — it all came true."

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Streisand also thanked Funny Girl director William Wyler and cinematographer Harry Stradling, noting that they were "extraordinary" and "had no problem with a young woman who had opinions."

She also noted that she "never went to college," and "always thought acting was my education."

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"It's really a privilege to be part of this profession," she continued. "For a couple of hours, people consider the theater to escape their own troubles. What an idea! Moving pictures on a screen. And I can't help but think back to the people who built this industry. Ironically, they were also escaping their own troubles."

The star went on to name several Jewish pioneers in the film industry who changed their names to avoid discrimination, including Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer and the Warner Brothers.

"They were all fleeing the prejudice they faced in eastern Europe, simply because of their religion. And they were dreamers to like all of us here tonight. And now I dream of a world where such prejudice is a thing of the past," Streisand said.

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Streisand went on to discuss a recent experience with a film that not only left her in tears but also showed her "how you can make a profound connection with someone simply by telling the truth."

"It reminded me all over again how much I love film, and why we all strive to make the best movies we can," she continued. "So many people who have done that are sitting right here tonight in this room. So once again, I would like to thank SAG-AFTRA for this fabulous honor, and to say to my fellow actors and directors, I've loved working with you, playing with you and inhabiting that magical world of the movies with you."

"And most of all, I want to thank you for giving me so much joy just watching all of you on the screen," she finished. "Thank you for that."

SAG-AFTRA announced Streisand was the 59th recipient of its Life Achievement Award in December, describing the EGOT honoree as "one of the greatest entertainers of all time.”

“Ever since I was a young girl sitting in the Loew’s Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, I dreamed of being one of those actresses I saw on the screen," Streisand said in a statement at the time. "The movies were a portal to a world I could only imagine. Even though I was an unlikely candidate, somehow my dream came true.”

“This award is especially meaningful to me because it comes from my fellow actors, whom I so admire,” she added.

Fran Drescher , SAG-AFTRA’s president, also released a statement, calling Streisand "an icon and unparalleled talent, a force of nature who has seamlessly woven her brilliance through the fabric of our industry.”

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"From her earliest days captivating audiences on Broadway to her unforgettable roles in cinematic classics like Funny Girl , The Way We Were and A Star Is Born , Barbra's ability to inhabit her characters with authenticity is nothing short of extraordinary," said Drescher.

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Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell Fantasy Romance ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ Sells to Sony Pictures

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Sony Pictures has acquired the worldwide rights to “ A Big Bold Beautiful Journey ,” a fantasy romance starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell , in the first major deal of the European Film Market in Berlin.

The film will be directed by Kogonada, who also helmed the TV series “Pachinko” and the sci-fi drama “After Yang.” “The Menu” scribe Seth Reiss penned the script.

Imperative Entertainment’s Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas and Ryan Friedkin will produce “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” alongside Reiss and Youree Henley. Executive producers include Kogonada, Ilene Feldman and Original Films’ Ori Eisen. The film is financed by 30West.

“Every once in a great while in this job you read a script so special and original, that you fly to the last page, inspired and uplifted,” Tom Rothman, chairman and CEo of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group, said in a statement. “‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,’ by Seth Reiss, is such a script and together with the superb director Kogonada, the perfect cast of Colin and Margot, and top flight producers Bradley Thomas, Dan Friedkin and Ryan Friedkin, it is a project from heaven. We believe the audience is desperate for originality and we feel honored and grateful to all involved to have won out for it.”

Added Imperative Entertainment, “We are thrilled to partner again with our good friend, Tom Rothman, and the great team at Sony. We are big believers in the theatrical experience, which is Sony’s specialty, and we’re excited Kogonada’s creation will be enjoyed on the big screen.”

The package was brought to the studio by Sony Pictures president of worldwide acquisitions Joe Matukewicz along with Virginia Longmuir, EVP of business affairs; Katie Anderson, VP of worldwide acquisitions; Elan Kovo, VP of business development. The team also made the deal in Berlin. CAA Media Finance and 30West negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.

Deadline Hollywood was the first to report news of the sale.

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A precocious child has a profound effect on the lives of a successful Broadway producer and her husband. A precocious child has a profound effect on the lives of a successful Broadway producer and her husband. A precocious child has a profound effect on the lives of a successful Broadway producer and her husband.

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‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’: Been There, Saved That

Netflix’s latest attempt to capture the magic of a beloved animated series has some strong performances but falls well short of the original.

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Nickelodeon’s 2005 series “Avatar: The Last Airbender” was a sprawling odyssey that combined intricate world-building, meticulous references to Asian and Native cultures, lively humor and sharply plotted drama, all animated in a charming, anime-inspired style. It was an unqualified success, attracting millions of viewers and heaps of critical praise. The series introduced a world so rich, complete and full of its own histories and myths and traditions that it never needed a follow-up.

But we know that’s not how things work.

In 2010 there was the famously whitewashed live-action film “The Last Airbender,” which was, deservedly, met with a ferocious torrent of fan-fury. The sequel series, “Avatar: The Legend of Korra,” was more in touch with the original, but still unnecessary. And the same can be said for Netflix’s “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” the streamer’s latest big money, live-action adaptation that proves just how difficult it is to capture the magic of a beloved original.

Like the original series, Netflix’s “Avatar: The Last Airbender” also takes place in a fictional Eastern world of four nations: Air Nomads, Water Tribe, Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation. In this world a select group of people from each nation are “benders,” able to manipulate their element. For a century the Fire Nation has waged a winning war against the others — during which time the only hope for peace, the avatar, the sole master of all four elements, disappeared. When two Water Tribe siblings, Katara (Kiawentiio) and Sokka (Ian Ousley), discover the prodigal avatar, a 12-year-old Air Nomad named Aang (Gordon Cormier), the three embark on a journey to complete Aang’s training so they can save the world from the threat of the Fire Nation.

This “Avatar” attempts to condense several story lines, many of which are spread out across dozens of episodes in the robust sprawl of the original, into a tight eight episodes. Some of the economies the adaptation uses in fusing certain narratives — making new connections and throughlines among stories that were originally set in different locales, for example — are neatly done. And thanks to the involvement of the creators, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, each subplot, even when moved or modified, remains faithful, if not exactly in detail then absolutely in spirit, to that of its animated counterpart. The show is also full of carefully placed Easter eggs from the original. Something as minor as a background character’s passing mention of the Avatar encountering some “canyon crawlers” in an episode will immediately clue fans in to the dangerous beasts Team Avatar faced in Episode 11 of the Nickelodeon version.

But “Avatar” also tries so desperately to rework its stories that the pacing often suffers; adventures become a bit too convoluted, and there’s so much stacked action that it’s easy to lose track of the stakes and sense of urgency in any one plotline.

As with “ One Piece, ” another of Netflix’s live-action adaptations, much of the casting here is inspired. This is especially true of the villains: Dallas Liu provides the perfect balance of rage and vulnerability to Aang’s enemy, Zuko, the emo prince of the Fire Nation. Elizabeth Yu, as Zuko’s twisted sister Azula, is just as ruthless but more grounded than the crazed character in the cartoon, and Daniel Dae Kim gives the appropriate arch-villain gravitas to Zuko and Azula’s father, the heartless Fire Lord Ozai. And Ken Leung’s sleazy, self-serving Fire Nation Commander Zhao often steals the spotlight even as a secondary villain.

Ousley’s casting as Sokka is also a thing of beauty; somehow Ousley exactly captures the speaking cadence, facial expressions and even comedic timing of his animated equivalent. The showing for the rest of Team Avatar, however, isn’t as strong. Kiawentiio’s Katara feels overly sentimental yet shallow. Similarly, Cormier’s performance as Aang is so belabored, so strained in an attempt to seem natural, that he can’t command the screen in the way his character is meant to.

Perhaps the largest issue with this adaptation is how much of the playful humor has been lost in translation. The 2005 “Avatar” used all the reliable comedy tools of animated children’s shows: visual gags, joke callbacks, loopy sound effects, wild expressions. The latest “Avatar” can’t use exactly the same brand of comedy that the original did, but also can’t figure out how to build its own new comedic language that will work better for this live-action form. The art also leaves much to be desired, with distractingly clunky, unrealistic C.G.I. backgrounds and visual effects. Add transparent-looking stunts filmed with too much slo-mo, and you get a show that often appears just plain silly. (Two notable exceptions are the prop details and the elegant costume design, by Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh.)

Ultimately “Avatar: The Last Airbender” lands in much the same way Netflix’s other recent live-action anime adaptations have: Even at its best, the show just serves as a reminder that a much better “Avatar” already exists. And he’s already saved the world.

Maya Phillips is an arts and culture critic for The Times.  More about Maya Phillips

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