Nothin’, Miss Daisy. We jus’ carryin’ on.

Driving Miss Daisy poster
Driving Miss Daisy poster

Daisy Werthan:
You should have let me keep my old LaSalle. It never would’ve behaved this way and you know it.
Boolie Werthan:
Mama, cars don’t behave. They are behaved upon. Fact is, you demolished that Chrysler all by yourself.
Daisy Werthan:
Say what you want, I know the truth.
Boolie Werthan:
The truth is, you just cost the insurance company $2,700. You’re a terrible risk. Nobody’s gonna issue you a policy after this.
Daisy Werthan:
You’re just saying that to be hateful!
Boolie Werthan:
OK. I am. I’m makin’ it all up. Look out there in the driveway! Every insurance company in America is out there, waving their fountain pen, trying to get you to sign up!

Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones in DRIVING MISS DAISY—photo courtesy Jeff Busby

Coming to Baltimore’s Landmark Theatres for just two screenings, June 4th at 7 PM and June 8th at 11 AM:

Two of the world’s greatest living actors, Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones, star in Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Driving Miss Daisy.

The theatrical production of Driving Miss Daisy with Lansbury and Jones was filmed during the play’s Australian tour following sell-out seasons on Broadway and London’s West End. This film offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to see two iconic Broadway and Hollywood veterans in one of the most enduring and popular stage plays of our time. The production also stars four time Tony Award winner Boyd Gaines.

Driving Miss Daisy tells the story of the decades-long relationship between an elderly Southern Jewish woman, Daisy Werthan, and her compassionate African-American chauffeur, Hoke Colburn. Their iconic tale of pride, changing times and the transformative power of friendship has warmed the hearts of millions worldwide.

We have tickets for the Sunday screening. Want to join us? Get your tickets now.

From the Did You Know file: Angela Lansbury has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, but never won; nor did she win any of the 18 Emmy Awards for which she was nominated over the past 33-year years. She holds the record for the most Primetime Emmy losses by any performer. She has, however, won five Tony Awards and many more Golden Globes and Drama Desk Awards.

We’ll see you in Harbor East next month.

By Stephen Brockelman

As a Sr. Writer at T. Rowe Price, I work with a group of the best copywriters around. We belong to the broader creative team within Enterprise Creative, a part of Corporate Marketing Services. _____________________________________________ A long and winding road: My path to T. Rowe Price was more twisted than Fidelity’s green line. With scholarship in hand, I left Kansas at 18 to study theatre in New York. When my soap opera paychecks stopped coming from CBS and started coming from the show’s sponsor, Proctor & Gamble, I discovered the power of advertising and switched careers. Over the years I’ve owned an ad agency in San Francisco; worked for Norman Lear on All in the Family, Good Times, Sanford and Son, and the rest of his hit shows; and as a member of Directors Guild of America, I directed Desi Arnaz in his last television appearance— we remained friends until his death. In 1988 I began freelancing full time didn’t look back. In January 2012 my rep at Boss Group called and said, “I know you don’t want to commute and writing for the financial industry isn’t high on your wish list, but I have a gig with T. Rowe Price in Owings Mills…” I was a contractor for eight months, drank the corporate Kool-Aid, became a TRP associate that August, and today I find myself smiling more often than not.

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