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(Getty Images) After 38 years one of pop music's greatest mysteries appears to be solved. For years, fans have speculated that Carly Simon 's 1972 smash hit "You're So Vain," was about an array of ex-boyfriends including Warren Beatty and Mick Jagger . Instead, it seems the song was written about music executive David Geffen . In a reworked version of "You're So Vain" appearing on her new album Never Been Gone Carly can be heard whispering during a musical interlude. When played backwards...Read Full Story

It isn’t often that I cry with sadness, jump out of my seat with shock, and laugh all in one evening, but that’s exactly what happened when I saw the Geffen Playhouse’s stage transform into a Congo brothel, through its compelling and riveting play entitled, Ruined , which is currently running at the Geffen Playhouse until its closing performance date of October 15, 2010. The play is set amongst the devastation of war which raged and still rages in the Democratic Republic of Congo . The long...Read Full Story

Picture yourself here, on the south side of Boston, within of all places—a donut shop. And although, its title is plain vanilla–the plot and characters are not. Written by Tracy Letts , whose play, August: Osage County , was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2008 Tony Award for Best Play , Superior Donuts’ main protagonists is the shop’s proprietor, Arthur Prybyszewski, played by Gary Cole , a cynical shop owner whose life has been shattered and broken by his decision to...Read Full Story

Los Angeles Times Geffen Playhouse founder Gil Cates is dead at 77 Los Angeles Times Gil Cates, who founded the Geffen Playhouse in 1994 and remained its producing director, has died at age 77. Cates also was the former dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. A prolific television producer as well as the director of ... Oscar Producer Gilbert Cates Dead at 77 Reuters Oscar Producer Gilbert Cates Dies at 77 Hollywood Reporter Veteran Oscar producer Gilbert Cates dead at 77 The...Read Full Story

"Love, Loss, and What I Wore" - a comedy on stage now at the Geffen Playhouse - is being billed as "Perfect Girls Night out fare". "A play for women of all ages," theatre enthusiasts are shouting off the rooftops! And, guess what? The ladies who attended with tickets-in-hand claimed their hubbies enjoyed the live! stage production at the Geffen, too. According to the press department at the little Westwood theatre, since the opening nearly two months ago at the intimate Audrey Skirball Kenis...Read Full Story

If you’ve always felt a few butterflies when attending a new play, you wouldn’t be alone. But I’m talking about the audience, and not the actors! Last week was both my first time at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood, which also happened to be the evening after the opening show of the musical play " Nightmare Alley ." With a title like Nightmare Alley, it conjures up the obvious–both a nightmare and an alley; the combined imagery abounds of danger and violence in thinly lit back streets of...Read Full Story

Geoffrey Nauffts’ dramatic tear-jerker, Next Fall brings the emotional crux of the Gay Rights Movement to the Geffen Playhouse . Presenting homophobic family dynamics, tragic endings, and a realistic religious debate that tackles the incongruities and salves of faith, the play features charged performances, careful direction, and a bold script. more › Original post: Not a Dry Eye in the House: ‘Next Fall’ at Geffen PlayhouseRead Full Story

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Remember when Carly Simon had that hit " You're So Vain " and everyone tried to figure out who it was. The finger of suspicion finally landed on Warren Beatty since he was so vain he wouldn't get why the song wasn't about him. Even Warren Beaty figured that it sounded like him, since he called Carly to thank her for the lovely song. Later on in an interview he told a reporter "Let's stop kidding and face it, the song's about me." See, he still doesn't get it. Well no one should be more...Read Full Story

Actors Edi Gathegi and Gary Cole serve me a donut! Photo courtesy of Geffen. Friday was National Donut Day , so I went to The Geffen Playhouse to eat a donut. From the Buttermilk food truck parked in front of the Westwood theatre. My readers know that I have a prejudice against most food trucks. I don’t like eating standing up or leaning against a wall, and I also believe that the plethora of food trucks in the city is harmful to the restaurant business here. The vehicles often park in front...Read Full Story