How strange it must be for any cellist to play the Elgar or the Dvorak -- the Dvorak! -- with Daniel Barenboim, knowing that the memory, the sound of Jacqueline du Pre lives within him!
John Cleese and Terry Gilliam met while appearing in a West End production of the musical Half a Sixpence, starring Tommy Steele. It was in the same production that Cleese met his future wife Connie Booth. The book for Half a Sixpence was written by Beverley Cross, later married to Maggie Smith.
On the Bob Newhart Show, Howard Borden's brother Gordon Borden, the warden from Jordan, was played by William Redfield, the author of Letters from an Actor, an account of rehearsals for the role of Guildenstern in the 1964 Richard Burton/John Gielgud Hamlet.
If you look up Medea in Wikipedia, you get this helpful clarification: " For the 21st-century comedy film character created by Tyler Perry, see Madea ."
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