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Tokyo Strip Clubs: Monster Mash: Tokyo architects win Pritzker Prize; ‘Glee’ guests set; the …

… Top prize: The 2010 Pritzker Prize — architecture’s highest honor — has been awarded to Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the Tokyo firm SANAA who are known for their reticent, ethereal designs. (Los Angeles Times)
–Reunited: Tony winner Idina Menzel (”Wicked,” “Rent”) and Tony nominee Jonathan Groff (”Spring Awakening”) will make guest appearances on the April 13 episode of the Fox series “Glee,” with Groff playing a potential love interest for Lea Michele (his “Spring Awakening” co-star) and Menzel playing Groff’s glee club coach. (Playbill)
–Big boon: Philanthropist Ann Ziff has given the Metropolitan Opera $30 million, its largest gift from an individual ever, at a time, says general manager Peter Gelb, “when the Met is sorely in need of cash.”  (New York Times)

–Baby June: Stage and screen actress June Havoc, who along with her mother, Rose, and sister, Louise — better known as stripper Gypsy Rose Lee — inspired the 1959 Broadway musical “Gypsy,” has died at 96. (Village Voice via Playbill)

See the full article from “Los Angeles Times (blog)”

~ by nikki on March 29, 2010.

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