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Edgar Lansbury has sadly passed away.

The Tony Award-winning producer and the younger brother of the late Angela Lansbury died on Thursday (May 3) at 94, according to his family.

Edgar died in New York City at his home in Manhattan, his son, David Lansbury, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

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No cause of death was given.

Edgar Lansbury produced the popular 1974-75 Broadway revival of Gypsy, where his sister Angela won a Tony Award.

He also worked on the Broadway and film versions of Godspell, and won a Tony Award for Best Play in 1964 for his Broadway debut of The Subject Was Roses, via Deadline.

His film and television credits include Blue Sunshine, Squirm and Coronet Blue, and stage credits also include American Buffalo (1977) and Lennon (2005).

In 2007, Edgar Lansbury won the John Houseman Award from The Acting Company to honor his commitment to the development of...

Edgar Lansbury, the Tony-winning producer and younger brother of famed actress Angela Lansbury who guided the Broadway and big-screen versions of The Subject Was Roses and Godspell, has died. He was 94.

He died Thursday at his home in Manhattan, his son David Lansbury told The Hollywood Reporter.

Lansbury also produced the popular 1974-75 Broadway revival of Gypsy that starred his sister in a Tony-winning turn and worked on other films including The Wild Party (1975), directed by James Ivory.

Angela Lansbury, winner of five Tony Awards and star of Murder, She Wrote, died on Oct. 11, 2022, at age 96. His twin brother, TV producer Bruce Lansbury, died in February 2017 at age 87.

Lansbury’s first Broadway production, the intense family drama The Subject Was Roses, opened in 1964, ran for two years, and won a Pulitzer Prize and the Tony for best play. Written by Frank Gilroy and directed by Ulu Grosbard, it starred Martin Sheen...

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Gas, Food Lodging

Blu-ray

Arrow Academy USA

1992 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 101 min. / Street Date November 13, 2018 / Available from Arrow Academy 34.95

Starring: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin, Robert Knepper, David Lansbury, Jacob Varga, Donovan Leitch, Chris Mulkey, Laurie O’Brien, Julie Condra, Adam Biesk, Leigh Hamilton, J. Mascis, Tiffany Anders, Sissy Boyd, Jeffrey McDonald, Nina Belanger, Carlos Rivas.

Cinematography: Dean Lent

Film Editor: Tracy Granger

Original Music: J.

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We give you an update on the lives of the former teen stars of Hughes' classic films.

By Susannah Gora

Matthew Broderick, Macauley Culkin, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Jon Cryer and Anthony Michael Hall

Photo: Mark Ralston/ Afp/ Getty Images

At the touching tribute to John Hughes during the Oscars on Sunday (March 8), the late filmmaker was honored by many of the actors who starred in his unforgettable movies about young people. As Ferris Bueller would say, "Life moves pretty fast," and indeed, decades have passed since these actors' iconic Hughesian roles. Here, a look at what some of Hughes's former protegees are up to now:

Molly Ringwald - Hughes's greatest muse, Ringwald was unforgettable as the lead in his directorial debut "Sixteen Candles," as the popular princess in "The Breakfast Club" and as the noble girl from the wrong side of the tracks in "Pretty in Pink.

Actress Ally Sheedy is divorcing David Lansbury, her husband of 15 years.

The Breakfast Club actress, 45, and Michael Clayton star Lansbury, 47, are planning an amicable split and have already agreed to share custody of their 14-year-old daughter Rebecca.

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NEW YORK -- A tired sci-fi spoof that fails to deliver on its promise of satirical comedy, this feature debut from Barry Strugatz (screenwriter of "Married to the Mob" and "She-Devil") is mainly notable for its authentic Brooklyn locations. Starring Cara Buono as a bored housewife who suspects that she's come into a close encounter with aliens, "From Other Worlds" squanders the cleverness of its concept with a lackluster execution. The film is currently being shown at New York's Cinema Village.

After Joanne imagines that she's been abducted by aliens thanks to some mysterious visions and a strange mark on her body, she attends a support group for fellow U.F.O. fanatics. There she meets Abraham (Isaach De Bankole), an African immigrant who has the same mark. Bonding together, they find themselves attempting to save the world after sharing an encounter with a helpful alien who instructs them to steal an apparently highly destructive Egyptian scroll from the Brooklyn Museum. Meanwhile, Joanne's aggrieved husband (David Lansbury) becomes increasingly suspicious that she's having an affair.

Strugatz's script has a few clever moments poking fun at the alien contact subculture, but is ultimately undone by its lack of subtlety and degeneration into broad sci-fi comedy. Not helping matters are the amateurish direction and the charmless performances, with even such normally reliable supporting players as Melissa Leo and Marcia Jean Kurtz floundering in their overly broad characterizations.

Taking as its central conceit the idea that a small theater company staging Shakespeare's classic would fall victim to the play's melodramatic intrigues, "Macbeth in Manhattan" is a competently made, intermittently engrossing indie that suffers from predictability and a schematic quality.

We know where the film is going long before it gets there, but it treads fairly lightly, and its portrait of off-Broadway machinations bears the stamp of authenticity. Director Greg Lombardo's debut feature recently served as the premiere film at the 16th Long Island (New York) Film Festival.

Gloria Reuben of "ER" plays Claudia, who with her fiance Max (David Lansbury) auditions for a lead role in a small-scale production of "Macbeth". Although she gets the nod to play Lady Macbeth, Max loses the lead to his longtime rival, good-looking soap star William (Nick Gregory), and must settle for the smaller role of Macduff. Adding insult to injury, William begins to flirt shamelessly with Claudia, who doesn't exactly run from the attention.

Soon, Claudia and William embark on an affair, and Max is in the throes of personal and professional despair. When William throws Claudia over for a nubile blond playing one of the three witches, he's invited by Max to rehearse a sword fight that turns all too realistic.

"Macbeth in Manhattan" doesn't possess the wit needed to make its high concept succeed fully, nor does it engage our emotions in caring about its characters. It taxes patience by using far too many scenes from Shakespeare's play, and devices like repeated shots of a pair of legs in a red kilt walking around Manhattan are cloying. Having a chorus talk to the camera and comment on the action also seems far too obvious and is made more so by the casting of talented Harold Perrineau, who performs the same function on HBO's acclaimed series "Oz."

Still, the film displays intelligence and imagination, capturing its milieu with amusing, insightful accuracy. The young, attractive cast handles its chores capably, whether playing their modern or Shakespearean characters, and Reuben is effective in conveying Claudia's inner turmoil. Best of all is John Glover, delivering one of his usual, wittily sly performances as the manipulative director.

Tech credits for the low-budget enterprise are fine, and the film gains much from its well-chosen Manhattan locations.

MACBETH IN MANHATTAN

An Amber Waves presentation

A Cinebard production in association with Plus Films

Director: Greg Lombardo

Screenplay: Joe Gagen, Greg Lombardo

Producers: Joe Gagen, Victoria Lang, Pier Paolo Piccoli

Executive producers: Betty Hegner, Richard Hegner

Director of photography: Leland Krane

Editor: Donna Stern

Music: John Hegner

Production designer: Greco

Color/stereo

Cast:

Claudia: Gloria Reuben

Max/Macduff: David Lansbury

William/Macbeth: Nick Gregory

Richard/Director: John Glover

Chorus: Harold Perrineau

Patty: Amelia Campbell

Derek/Duncan: Christopher McCann

Running time -- 96 minutes

No MPAA rating...