Oscar Clendenning Hammerstein II (1895-1960) was perhaps the most influential lyricist and librettist of the American theater. Major musicals for which he wrote the lyrics include Showboat, South Paci...
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Oscar Hammerstein 2nd was one of the most prolific lyricist-librettists ever to have been a part of the American musical theater. His landmark collaborations with Richard Rodgers--Oklahoma! (1943), Ca...
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Today is Saturday, Dec. 27, the 362nd day of 2008. There are four days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 27, 1968, Apollo 8 and its three astronauts made a safe, nighttime splas...
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Today is Thursday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2007. There are 130 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 23, 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti we...
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Today is Thursday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2007. There are four days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 27, 1932, Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City.On this date:In ...
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They gave the Oscar to the wrong Truman Capote. I do not begrudge the versatile, popular Philip Seymour Hoffman his Oscar for playing the tiny terror in Capote, but he was doing an impression. In I...
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They gave the Oscar to the wrong Truman Capote. I do not begrudge the versatile, popular Philip Seymour Hoffman his Oscar for playing the tiny terror in Capote, but he was doing an impression. In I...
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They gave the Oscar to the wrong Truman Capote. I do not begrudge the versatile, popular Philip Seymour Hoffman his Oscar for playing the tiny terror in Capote, but he was doing an impression. In I...
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They gave the Oscar to the wrong Truman Capote. I do not begrudge the versatile, popular Philip Seymour Hoffman his Oscar for playing the tiny terror in Capote, but he was doing an impression. In I...
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