Costume News Archive - 13-Mar-2008

  • Lincoln exhibit opens (Mountain Home News)
    The Lincoln exhibit at the Mountain Home Public Library kicked off its three-week stay with a gala ceremony last Thursday featuring state and local dignitaries, an appearance by "Honest Abe" himself, and participation by the Idaho Civil War Volunteers, a re-enactor group dressed and outfitted in period costume.


  • HBO fleshes out a Founding Father with 'John Adams' (USA Today)
    John Adams is about to get star treatment and justifiably so, says Tom Hanks, co-executive producer of an epic seven-part, 81/2-hour, $100 million HBO miniseries premiering Sunday (8 ET/PT).


  • MBTA Manager Fired Over Employee's Noose Costume (WBZ Boston)
    The MBTA has fired a top manager who it said didn't take action against a worker who wore a noose to work as part of a Halloween costume.


  • Kiss keeps passion on (Adelaide Now)
    THIRTY-FIVE years on the road has done nothing to quell the theatrical bent of Kiss, which today turned up for an Australian photo call in full costume.


  • Corey Feldman - The Things They Say 7591 (ContactMusic)
    "I put on the costume, put on the headband, I grew my hair out, bleached it blonde again, I even made my eyebrows all bushy and crazy just like they were in the first one. I ...


  • Flashy crime drama "21" deals a winning hand (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
    Just as veteran gamblers realize that the house always wins, moviegoers know what happens to wide-eyed kids who strike it rich by ignoring the angels on their shoulders. Still, a predictable rise and fall doesn't keep the ride in "21" from being enjoyable. Moviegoers should respond well to the film's glossy pleasures.


  • MBTA fires manager over employee costume (Boston Globe)
    The MBTA fired a top-level manager last week for not taking action against an employee who wore a noose to work as part of a Halloween costume in 2006.


  • Legendary 'cowboy saver' to hang up his costume (Houston Chronicle)
    After more than three decades of hurling his body between fallen cowboys and 2,000 pounds of furious muscle and horns, Miles Hare, 52, is bidding farewell to the sport that has made him a legend on the rodeo circuit.


  • 'Idol' Hears a Who (PageSix.com)
    WE HEAR that Jim Carrey will be making a cameo on American Idol on Wednesday - in a Horton costume. The animated actor plays the cartoon elephant in the upcoming Dr. Seuss adaptation Horton Hears a Who. We know the pachyderms never forget... but do they sing?


  • Flights of growth (The World)
    MEXICO BEACH, Fla. ? Marilyn Theus peddles costume jewelry, chipped china plates and other ?junktiques? on the roadside between Port St. Joe and Mexico Beach. On Tuesdays she?s joined by a friend who markets fresh shrimp from the site overlooking the turquoise waters of St. Josephs Bay.


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    Costume News Archive - 13-Mar-2008