Carol Hall, the composer and lyricist for Broadway’s long-running The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and one of the musical forces behind Marlo Thomas’ classic 1974 TV special and album Free to Be …You and Me, died Thursday at her home in New York City. She was 82 and had been living with a rare form of dementia for three years.
Her death was announced by publicist Jessica Johnson. Hall had been diagnosed with logopenic primary progressive aphasia.
Hall also was a longtime contributor to Sesame Street and had written and performed her own songs since the 1970s. Among her memorable Sesame Street songs were the Grammy-winning “True Blue Miracle,” “The Plant in The Window,” “Women Can Be,” and “Big Bird’s Beautiful Birthday Bash.”
For Free to Be …You and Me — the groundbreaking album and subsequent ABC special that challenged stereotypes and promoted gender equality that won Peabody and Emmy...
Her death was announced by publicist Jessica Johnson. Hall had been diagnosed with logopenic primary progressive aphasia.
Hall also was a longtime contributor to Sesame Street and had written and performed her own songs since the 1970s. Among her memorable Sesame Street songs were the Grammy-winning “True Blue Miracle,” “The Plant in The Window,” “Women Can Be,” and “Big Bird’s Beautiful Birthday Bash.”
For Free to Be …You and Me — the groundbreaking album and subsequent ABC special that challenged stereotypes and promoted gender equality that won Peabody and Emmy...
- 10/12/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Carol Hall, the singer, songwriter and recording artist best known for writing the music and lyrics for the long-running Broadway hit The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, has died. She was 82.
Hall died Thursday at her home in New York City surrounded by her husband and children, publicist Jessica Johnson announced. She had been wrestling with logopenic Primary Progressive Aphasia, a rare form of dementia, for three years.
Hall was a major contributor to Marlo Thomas' Peabody and Emmy-winning 1974 ABC special and gold album Free to Be … You and Me, which saluted individuality and tolerance. She wrote the popular ...
Hall died Thursday at her home in New York City surrounded by her husband and children, publicist Jessica Johnson announced. She had been wrestling with logopenic Primary Progressive Aphasia, a rare form of dementia, for three years.
Hall was a major contributor to Marlo Thomas' Peabody and Emmy-winning 1974 ABC special and gold album Free to Be … You and Me, which saluted individuality and tolerance. She wrote the popular ...
- 10/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Carol Hall, the singer, songwriter and recording artist best known for writing the music and lyrics for the long-running Broadway hit The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, has died. She was 82.
Hall died Thursday at her home in New York City surrounded by her husband and children, publicist Jessica Johnson announced. She had been wrestling with logopenic Primary Progressive Aphasia, a rare form of dementia, for three years.
Hall was a major contributor to Marlo Thomas' Peabody and Emmy-winning 1974 ABC special and gold album Free to Be … You and Me, which saluted individuality and tolerance. She wrote the popular ...
Hall died Thursday at her home in New York City surrounded by her husband and children, publicist Jessica Johnson announced. She had been wrestling with logopenic Primary Progressive Aphasia, a rare form of dementia, for three years.
Hall was a major contributor to Marlo Thomas' Peabody and Emmy-winning 1974 ABC special and gold album Free to Be … You and Me, which saluted individuality and tolerance. She wrote the popular ...
- 10/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe 30 films comprising the main slate of this year's New York Film Festival have been announced, including Alfonso Cuarón's autobiographical, Mexico-set film Roma, Mariano Llinás's fourteen-hour "adventure in scale and duration" La Flor, and Alex Ross Perry's '90s rockstar melodrama Her Smell. "The unifying thread is their bravery," says Festival Director Kent Jones. "The bravery needed to fight past the urge to commercialized smoothness and mediocrity that is always assuming new forms." Festival president Marco Solari and Vice President Carla Speziali of the Locarno Film Festival—which is currently ongoing until August 11—have agreed to sign a pledge "ensuring gender equality and inclusion in programming". The initiative was organized by members of the Swiss Women’s Audiovisual Network (Swan), including filmmaker Ursula Meier, and joins a number of pledges to...
- 8/10/2018
- MUBI
Thanks to Jessica Simpson’s sometimes Nsfw Instagram posts, we know that she “has the hots” for her husband, Eric Johnson (who could forget the cheeky butt-baring birthday photo?). But her latest social media revelation showed which items she finds sexiest on her man (and it’s definitely not what you think).
In an Instagram post over the weekend, Simpson revealed that it’s her husband’s shoe game that “makes her want to bang.”
As a highly accomplished footwear designer herself, one would think she’d be put off by the debatable Vibram V-Train five-toed shoes (you either love ’em,...
In an Instagram post over the weekend, Simpson revealed that it’s her husband’s shoe game that “makes her want to bang.”
As a highly accomplished footwear designer herself, one would think she’d be put off by the debatable Vibram V-Train five-toed shoes (you either love ’em,...
- 1/22/2018
- by Colleen Kratofil
- PEOPLE.com
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