Summer Heights High
10:30 pm/ET HBO
Series creator Chris Lilley's bravura performance as not one but three characters made high school seem like more fun than it probably was. Tonight's first-season finale features his typical over-the-top spins on his chief drama queens, Mr. G and Ja'mie, as they hilariously hog the spotlight in, respectively, a pulsating musical and the Year 11 formal.
Read on for previews of Dog Whisperer Nick News with Linda Ellerbee Million Dollar Password and The Sound of Music.
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ABC Family has ponied up $3 million to air The Sound of Music up to seven times a year for the next three years, starting in April. As part of the deal, ABC proper gets one holiday-season airing of its own.... To commemorate (what would have been) John Wayne's 100th birthday, the Warner Bros. and Paramount studios on May 22 will release 48 of the Duke's films. The six-disc collection includes spiffed-up versions of Rio Bravo, The Cowboys and True Grit (for which he won an Oscar), as well as six titles never issued on DVD.... John Inman, best known for his role as Mr. Humphries on the long-running BBC comedy Are You Being Served?, died Thursday following a long illness. He was 71.
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Question: Whatever happened to the six von Trapp children whose family's story inspired The Sound of Music? Two boys and four girls, right? Did any of them go on to do more movies or television shows?
Answer: Though inspired by the true story of the von Trapp family, The Sound of Music (1965) fictionalized certain aspects of their story. The widowed Georg von Trapp actually had seven children from his marriage to his first wife, Agathe, who died of scarlet fever in 1922. The family later expanded to 10 after his 1927 marriage to aspiring nun Maria Augusta Kutschera, who originally came to work for him not as a governess to his entire brood but as a teacher for his ailing youngest daughter. In order, the children were Rupert, Agathe, Maria,
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Question: I heard that The Sound of Music was not the first movie made about the von Trapp family. Is this true? If so, what is the other movie called, and is it available on DVD?
Answer: Before the Broadway musical and beloved movie The Sound of Music (1965), the story of the von Trapp family was explored in two nonmusical German films in the 1950s, Die Trapp-Familie (The Trapp Family 1956) and Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika (The Trapp Family in America, 1958). Both were based on Maria Agathe Kutschera von Trapp’s 1947 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was also the basis for The Sound of Music. By all reports she was treated very badly by her German publishe
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Hot to launch a stage revival of The Sound of Music — and now that his first pick, the impossibly hot Scarlett Johansson, has declined the lead role — producer Andrew Lloyd Webber is considering using a reality-TV competition to find his new Maria, says the New York Post. Meanwhile, Julie Andrews has christened Cameron Diaz her choice to fill her nun's sensible shoes, should there be a big-screen remake of Music — provided that "My Favorite Things" be rewritten to include "Hair gel/and Angels/and young boys named Justin."
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