Coward lives!First there was Oscar Wilde, then Tennessee Williams. [See "Tennessee Waltzes On" on page 89.] Now add Noel Coward Noun 1. Noel Coward - English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973) Sir Noel Pierce Coward, Coward to the "So Cold They're Hot" list of famous dead gays. William Baldwin recently signed to star in a film version of the playwright-poet-songwriter's Relative Values, and Lauren Bacall is bound for a Broadway return in Waiting in the Wings. More imminent is "Mad About the Boy," a hip Coward film retrospective September 17-October 2 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. that includes a rare glimpse of the rapier wit acting in the 1968 film flop Boom! (adapted from, yes, a Tennessee Williams play). Critics dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. the movie--with Coward playing a witch alongside Elizabeth Taylor Noun 1. Elizabeth Taylor - United States film actress (born in England) who was a childhood star; as an adult she often co-starred with Richard Burton (born in 1932) Taylor and Richard Burton--as Bomb! on its release, but director John Waters tells us the flick is at once "genuinely beautiful and awful--therefore perfect!" |
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