The invention of limelight may not have been welcomed by all theater directors in the 1800s. Suddenly, their actors began competing for the most desirable area of the stage--the front and center, which could be brightly illuminated for the first time...

Limelight is a type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls. Although it has long since been replaced by electric lighting, the term has nonetheless survived, as someone in the public eye is still said to be "in the limelight". An...

Limelight 107 Loudoun St. SW Leesburg (703) 777-7492 Hours: Lunch, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Dinner, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. Closed Monday. Prices: Lunch, $3.75 to...

Tuxedo-clad waiters greeted 50 special guests for a progressive dinner on St. Armands Circle that benefited Ave Maria Preparatory School for kids with learning disabilities. Restaurants participating included Tommy Bahama's, Hemingway's, the Columbia and Cafe L'Europe. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fans of both...

Hank Aaron is happy he stayed away from Barry Bonds' home run chase. Speaking before Game 4 of the World Series on Sunday night, the former home run king said he avoided ballparks last summer because he didn't want to deal with daily questions about...

He refuses to own a TV, doesn't read newspapers, hates stories about himself and talksthisfast on the rare occasions he does speak to reporters. Jamie Thomson, Wisconsin's stem cell pioneer, does not suffer fools lightly, so you'd better get to the point and avoid personal...

I think that [Limelight] is to be considered a mea culpa: an expression by the comedian that is more than art or entertainment; in brief, a moral credo that was designed to set everyone straight about its creator's positive and enduring convictions as a member of human society. It would be foolish to pretend such an assumption is irrelevant; that a work of art or a piece of entertainment is that and no more, has no moral value, and is not to be construed as an expression of private opinion, and so on...

Thirty years ago Chaplin had encompassed tragi-comedy with a purity of form and feeling unique in the cinema, and from a historical point of view the qualities of Limelight are beautifully logical; what is less logical, perhaps, is the intense success with which they have been realised. At 63 Chaplin has executed an imaginative portrait of the artist as an old man and shown his creative powers to be at their height. The cinema is apt to exhaust its great talents early, but Limelight has all the vitality and...

"Limelight's" scenario unquestionably sounds melodramatic. Various critics have expressed the opinion that it is poorly done. Its very construction involves instances of ineptness: the entire first part of the film is broken up by long monologues on the part of Calvero, and the dramatic action takes too long to get under way. Finally although it is fictitious the film has a number of sequences that sound a personal and autobiographical note which may strike some people as discordant. Bu...