This Week in Mal's World

This week in Mal’s World, now that viewers all over the world can see what the Antiques Roadshow’s stop in Virginia Beach acquired last summer, Mal Vincent revisits his Roadshow trip to share if his heirlooms held any surprises. He’ll tell you what appraisers revealed to him, plus he shares what he thinks of the three programs produced that we’re now watching on TV. For more on Antiques Roadshow in Virginia Beach visit: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/watch/episode/2113-virginia-beach-hour-1/

This week in Mal’s World, Mal Vincent takes us out to the theater for the Virginia Stage Company’s latest, “The Wiz,” at the Wells Theatre in Norfolk. What did Mal think of this production of the Tony Award-winning musical, which not only features actors from New York, but also students from Norfolk State University? Mal also explains how both professional actors and students are able to share the stage when it comes to Actors' Equity. For more on “The Wiz” wrapping up at the Wells Theatre, visit www.vastage.org.

“Feud: Bette and Joan” finishes its 8-week run on the FX Network with its finale this week. This docudrama chronicles the details of the legendary rivalry between Oscar-winning actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. In this episode of Mal’s World, Mal Vincent recalls when he attended Crawford’s memorial and was apparently mistook for someone very close to the family, Crawford’s son!

This week in Mal’s World, Mal Vincent recalls the time he, as a novice music critic, was confronted with reviewing a performance by violinist virtuoso Itzhak Perlman in which one the soloist’s strings broke while he was playing! What was Mal to do? We’ll hear the story and we’ll also find out if Mal considers himself a “reviewer” or “critic.” Perlman is part of the Virginia Arts Festival’s Spring lineup and performs at the Sandler Center in Virginia Beach, Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 7:30pm. For more information about tickets for Itzhak Perlman’s performance, visit: www.sandlercenter.org/sandler-calendar/icalrepeat.detail/2017/04/13/473878/-/vaf-itzhak-perlman. For more information on Riverdance (also mentioned in this week’s episode) at the Sandler Center, visit: www.sandlercenter.org/sandler-calendar/icalrepeat.detail/2017/04/26/473887/-/riverdance-the-20th-anniversary-world-tour-part-of-the-great-performance-series. For more on the entire Virginia Arts Festival’s Spring lineup, visit: www.vafest.org.

This week, Mal Vincent recalls the time he donned grease paint, clown shoes, and a rubber nose to play a professional clown with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. As the famous circus ends its 146-year run and its visits to Hampton Roads, Mal shares a special story of how he once became a part of it. He was soon to find out that making people laugh wasn't as simple as dressing up or cramming into a clown car!

This week in Mal's World, Mal Vincent previews the final film of his 3-part festival at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. "The Seven Year Itch" stars Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell. From the film's famous subway-street scene to Marilyn's saucy review of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, Mal shares what makes this classic so charming with Hollywood's legendary "blonde bombshell." For more on the MOCA festival, visit http://www.virginiamoca.org/mal-vincent-presents.

This week, Mal Vincent previews the local showing of the Oscar-winning 1952 film "The Bad and the Beautiful" starring Lana Turner and Kirk Douglas. This film is about the movie-making industry of the time that looked to a Virginia writer for inspiration for a film because, historically, "Virginia was peppered with sex." Watch "The Bad and the Beautiful" for the first time on the big screen, locally, in more than 60 years, on Monday, March 27, 2017 at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach. For more information on the festival visit http://www.virginiamoca.org/mal-vincent-presents.

This week, Mal Vincent shares his insights on the 1953 movie, Mogambo and its leading stars. The film starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly is the first of three films in Vincent’s “Glamour Girls of the Silverscreen” film festival at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach.

This week in Mal's World, Mal Vincent recalls the times he met former Miss America, actress and singer, Vanessa Williams and actor, humorist Hal Holbrook. We'll hear about William's Oscar performance you didn't see and why Hal Holbrook will also have a piece of his heart in Hampton Roads. Hal Holbrook appears at the Ferguson Center for the Arts in Mark Twain Tonight on Thursday, March 16th. Vanessa Williams' concert is Saturday, March 11th, also at the Ferguson in Newport News.

It was the movie mix-up seen and heard ‘round-the-world at this year’s Academy Awards when a duplicate envelope made its way in Warren Beatty’s hands by mistake. But, did you know that “Oscar oops” like this have happened on-stage, live, before? This week, Mal Vincent recalls a few of the Academy blunders you might not have known about.