ENTERTAINMENT
June 18, 1995 | Charles Champlin, Charles Champlin is a regular contributor to Calendar.
The East was made for spring, and it is a supremely glorious spring day in Connecticut, almost cloudless, briskly breezy. The four dogwood trees along the drive--pink, white, pink, white--are in bud. In a week, Hume Cronyn says, taking a visitor for a stroll around the grounds, "they'll be magnificent." Forsythia are blooming along a stone wall behind the house, a two-story Dutch Colonial, and there are clusters of daffodils here and there. Workers are mulching the flower beds.
ENTERTAINMENT
December 16, 1994 | KEVIN THOMAS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
"Camilla" affords the late Jessica Tandy with a delightful final starring role and also a final teaming with her husband, Hume Cronyn. Although the film has considerable charm, the Cronyns and Tandy's co-star Bridget Fonda are much better than it is. Beautiful and elegant in the title role, Tandy and Fonda's Freda meet while the younger woman and her husband Vince (Elias Koteas), who live in Toronto, are vacationing on Peabo Island along Georgia's coast.
ENTERTAINMENT
November 24, 1994 | ART BERMAN, Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press
Voodoo Economics?: Mick Jagger proved a Rolling Stone can gather some votes. He was elected honorary president of the London School of Economics student union Tuesday. Jagger attended the school in the early '60s before leaving to pursue a different breed of economics. Well behind Jagger in the student balloting as runner-up was suspected terrorist Carlos the Jackal. "This is an honorary office of the students' union, not a college position," said a spokesman for the prestigious school.
ENTERTAINMENT
September 17, 1994
Kandis Chappell is as fragile, as delicate, as fine-boned, as feminine, as achingly convincing a Blanche DuBois as I have ever seen ("Some Strong Performances Power This 'Streetcar,' " Sept. 12). I saw Jessica Tandy and Vivien Leigh in the role, and Chappell gives both a run for their money. I believe Tennessee Williams, whom I have studied for more than 35 years, would thrill to her performance as I did. The South Coast Repertory production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" is flawless.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 13, 1994
The strange and wonderful are too much with us . The protea of the antipodes--a great, globed, blazing honeybee of a bloom-- for sale in the supermarket! We are in our decadence, we are not entitled . In "Nothing Stays Put," Amy Clampitt describes, obviously, the exotic flowers and plants that spill out from Manhattan's greengroceries.
NEWS
September 12, 1994 | From a Times Staff Writer
Jessica Tandy, the versatile dramatic actress who electrified Broadway audiences as the original Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' classic "A Streetcar Named Desire," and went on to wider fame decades later as the Oscar-winning heroine of the film "Driving Miss Daisy," died Sunday. She was 85. She died at the Connecticut home she shared with her actor husband Hume Cronyn after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer.