Even More ABOUT EVE, Kirk’s Widow Is 101, Sondheim’s Secret Ending and More — Past & Curious

Links to the past, with relevance today:

NYT: Why you, too, should fall in love again with All About Eve (1950).

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My stepmother Anne Douglas on her 101st birthday, celebrating and saying hello to all of her friends who drove by to wish her a happy birthday! #101 ❤️🎈🎂 📸: @kdougieeee

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INSTAGRAM: Incredible that Kirk Douglas — who died at 103 — has a surviving widow who just celebrated her 101st.

NYT: Steve Dalkowski, who was used as the model for the erratic Bull Durham (1988) pitcher Nuke LaLoosh (played by Tim Robbins), has died at 80.

TWITTER: Birthday boy Stephen Sondheim (he's 90!) just revealed that Company (celebrating its 50th anniversary) had a very different ending originally, and walks through the entire cut scene:

Elaine Stritch jogging and Bobby playing guitar in Central Park?! To celebrate 50 years since Company opened on Broadway #StephenSondheim reveals to Director #MarianneElliott the alternate ending that never made it to Broadway. pic.twitter.com/p28IBqDtoU

— COMPANY (@CompanyBway) April 26, 2020

JUST HISTORY: Fascinating — the story of the medieval creatures (no, they weren't real, conspiracy theorists!) the Blemmys/Blemmyes. They were reported to exists in Guayana by Sir Walter Raleigh, who was only reporting what he was told and never — of course — actually saw one.

TWITTER: Ed Asner is 90, but was still game for a dance challenge to raise money for charity!

Hold on to your hats. @TheGabrielle_C challenged me to The #dorkitoutdancechallenge They are helping to get $100 grocery gift cards to folks in need.
Please donate to #onbeinghuman2020 fund! I challenge. @Tom_Bergeron #peterjason and @bader_diedrich pic.twitter.com/VTS2KjAAbL

— Ed Asner (@TheOnlyEdAsner) April 27, 2020

DREAD CENTRAL: Never-before-seen pics of Stephen King on the set of the 1989 film adaptation of his novel Pet Sematary.

INSTAGRAM: Tidbits about Tom Hanks's early TV movie Mazes and Monsters (1982).

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The answer to that Tom Hanks video quiz was "Mazes and Monsters" (1982), a TV movie in which newcomer Tom Hanks — in his first leading role — plays mentally ill Robbie Wheeling, a college kid (Hanks was 25 during shooting) so tormented by the disappearance of his brother that he becomes fixated on the Dungeons & Dragons-like game Mazes and Monsters. The teleflick has some unbearably cheesy elements — notably a song called "Friends in This World" — and finds Hanks a little green to handle the complexities of let's go with schizophrenia/psychic breaks. Still, it has a ridiculously outstanding case, including Hanks, Chris Makepeace (perfect as a spoiled, ultra-smart nerd), Lloyd Bochner & Vera Miles as Hanks's parents (In his first movie, 1980's "He Knows You're Alone," Hanks's character talks about how "Psycho" kept people from taking a shower; 18 months later, he was filming scenes with a "Psycho" star!), Anne Francis, Peter Donat, Murray Hamilton, Louise Sorel and Susan Strasberg. #tomhanks #psycho #veramiles #heknowsyourealone #mazesandmonsters #tv #tvmovies #horror #suspense #dungeonsanddragons #lloydbochner #louisesorel #murrayhamilton #susanstrasberg #peterdonat #chrismakepeace #mentalhealth #mentalillness #movies #oscarwinner #gr8erdays

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