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Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith (born January 19, 1942), better known as
Michael Crawford, is one of Britain's leading actors, so much so that he was voted into the Top "100 Greatest Britons" in a 2002 poll sponsored by the BBC. Crawford began his acting career as a seven-year-old, appearing in the première of Benjamin Britten's work for children,
Let's Make an Opera. Although he most often appears in musicals, he became known to millions for his role as the hapless Frank Spencer in the television sitcom, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, for which he performed most of his own stunts. It was one of the BBC's most successful series of all time.
Crawford has played leading roles in films such as Hello, Dolly (1968), but more often appears on stage, having starred in West End productions such as
Billy (based on the novel, Billy Liar) (1974), Barnum (1981) (one of the longest runs by a leading man) and, most notably,
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (1986), for which he won an Olivier Award (Best Actor in a Musical), a Tony Award (Best Performance By An Actor In a Lead Role, Musical), a N.Y's Drama Desk Award, and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Achievement in Theatre (Lead Performance). He also performed "Music of the Night" at the Inaugural Gala for President George Bush in Washington DC on Jan 19th 1989. At the gala, Michael was presented with a Birthday cake. He starred in "Dance of the Vampires" on Broadway during late 2002 & early 2003 and was previously appearing in Lloyd Webber's new musical "The Woman in White" which opened at the Palace Theatre, London in September 2004. However, being laid low by illness, he is scheduled to be replaced by Michael Ball until April 4th, when he will take up the role again until May 28th.
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MoviesWALL-E
Starring:
Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Sigourney Weaver, John Ratzenberger,
K...
Review:
First image: the Earth as a garbage dump, a future reduced to
ruins. For the past 700 years, what's left of humanity has been
cruising the skies in a spaceship. Only a tiny robot,
WALL-E (for Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth class),
scoots around on urban terra firma compacting trash into piles that
grow into skyscrapers.
First sound: a voice lifted in song: "Out there/there's a world
outside of Yonkers." The tune is "Put On Your Sunday Clothes," a
merry ditty from the forgotten 1969 movie version of Hello,
Dolly with Barbra Streisand. WALL-E, his eyes like binoculars
(hell, they are binoculars!), watches an old, muddy video tape of
Dolly with the same yearning we see in Michael Crawford, who plays
a young store clerk at the turn of the 20th-century, warbling
about...
Rating:
4 Stars
Published: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:37:40 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the article
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