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Candy (released internationally as Candy: A Death in Texas) is an American biographical crime drama television miniseries created by Nick Antosca and Robin Veith. [1] The series stars Jessica Biel as the real-life Candy Montgomery , who was accused of the axe murder of her neighbor, Betty Gore (played by Melanie Lynskey ) in 1980, in Texas . [ 2 ]
Reruns of Texas episodes began with the show's first episode from August 4, 1980. As of January 1, 2009, Procter and Gamble announced that Texas and three other of its cancelled soap operas would no longer be streamed on AOL Video. [10] The notice referred to exploring other options to make the shows available for viewing.
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is a 1982 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Altman.An adaptation of Ed Graczyk's 1976 play of the same name, the film stars Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, Sudie Bond, Mark Patton, and Kathy Bates, all of whom reprise their roles from the 1982 Broadway production of the play which Altman also directed.
The musical drama is about ranchers and farmers in the early days of Texas' settlement in the 1880s. [1] [2] The major themes of the play are love, romance, and people's struggle against the environment. [3] The story's protagonist is Calvin Armstrong, a young homesteader from the East who seeks to make a living as a farmer in the Texas ...
The plays are notable in that two men play the entire cast of over twenty eccentric characters of both genders and various ages. Greater Tuna debuted in Austin, Texas, in the fall of 1981, and had its off-Broadway premiere in 1982. St. Vincent Summer Theatre produced the play in 2000, [1] and No Name Players produced it in 2002. [2]
Ava DuVernay's new film, 'Origin,' is based on Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 book 'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.'
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
Still, in the early years, most of the plays produced came from Europe; only with Godfrey's The Prince of Parthia in 1767 do we get a professionally produced play written by an American, although it was a last-minute substitute for Thomas Forrest's comic opera The Disappointment; or, The Force of Credulity, and although the first play to treat ...