The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2013 - Part 2 - Indie Wire (blog)

The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2013 - Part 2 - Indie Wire (blog)

The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2013 - Part 2Indie Wire (blog)While the initial idea to take “Anchorman 2” to Broadway first was scrapped, some of the musical elements have seemingly survived a film that reunites the entire cast of a minor comedic milestone: to a certain generation of comedy geeks, the Murderer's ...

How I Got My EGOT: 12 Lessons Mel Brooks Learned Making TV, Albums, Movies, and Theater

With a new box set collecting material from his entire career, Mel Brooks talks about his experiences in multiple media and the lessons learned along the way. Only 11 people in the history of the world have one. As popularized by the show 30 Rock , an EGOT is the prestigious honor of making a grand slam out of all four major entertainment awards. It’s a distinction that lasts a lifetime. In the ...

This Guy Funded His Startup With Profits From Marijuana Stocks

He turned down a legal career to start his own business.

Imposter PPO was a tout - The Standard Digital News

The Standard Digital NewsImposter PPO was a toutThe Standard Digital NewsThis was a live performance on stage ...very entertaining..the guy was just incognito he should just be hired to act a movie ..very creative character all the conned were the bobchinsky and the dobchinsky just like in The play G. I (Government ...and more »

Film Event Highlights – January 2013 - The Skinny

Film Event Highlights – January 2013The SkinnyScreening an eclectic selection of underground, arthouse, and experimental movies, this month's pick is Bad Boy Bubby, a black comedy featuring incest, abuse, and murder, that has been compared to works by David Lynch and John Waters. The event is ...

Mazel Tov - Metro Weekly

Mazel TovMetro WeeklyCelebrated Spanish actress Carmen Maura plays a ditzy mom in Mikael Buch's new gay romantic comedy Let My People Go! Maura, you may recall, was the unforgettable lead in gay Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar's ... Other films of interest to LGBT filmgoers ...and more »

EDITOR IN CHIEF - Superman Homepage

EDITOR IN CHIEFSuperman HomepageJanuary 14: Susannah York, Lara in Superman: The Movie, dies of cancer in 2011, aged 72. ... January 25: Patricia Marand, Lois Lane in the broadway musical comedy It's a Bird It's a Plane It's Superman, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1934. .... Ignoring ...and more »

DVD releases in January and February - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

DVD releases in January and FebruaryPittsburgh Post Gazette"Taken 2": Sequel to the 2009 hit starring Liam Neeson as a retired CIA agent who stopped at nothing when Albanians kidnapped his teenage daughter for the underground sex trade. This time, he and his wife are taken hostage in Istanbul, and they need ...and more »

Ordinary Folks, Extraordinary Adventures - Wall Street Journal

Wall Street JournalOrdinary Folks, Extraordinary AdventuresWall Street JournalNo festival film of 2012 was as gregariously weird as "John Dies at the End." Adapted by cult hero auteur Don Coscarelli from a popular underground comedy-horror novel by David Wong, this kaleidoscopic mystery explores the consequences of ingesting a ...

A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012 - Chicago Reader

Chicago ReaderA list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012Chicago ReaderThe Devil's Cleavage (Experimental Film Society at School of the Art Institute, February) February saw several tributes to noted underground filmmaker George Kuchar, who died in September 2011, with programs at both Doc Films and the Siskel Center's ...

From ‘Twin Peaks’ to mayor of ‘Portlandia’

Kyle MacLachlan of “Twin Peaks” returns in the third season of the sketch comedy series “Portlandia.”

Gene Wilder On Gilda's Club Name Change: 'She Would Have Cried' - Huffington Post (satire)

Gene Wilder On Gilda's Club Name Change: 'She Would Have Cried'Huffington Post (satire)Janeane Garofalo. In addition to being one of the pioneers of the "alternative comedy" scene in the '90s and starring in shows like "The Larry Sanders Show" and "The Ben Stiller Show," Garofalo distinct, biting voice is also seen in movies like ...and more »

James Bond: Skyfall is 2012's second-most gaffe-packed film release - Radio Times

Radio TimesJames Bond: Skyfall is 2012's second-most gaffe-packed film releaseRadio TimesSharp-eyed viewers have spotted a whopping 35 mistakes in the 23rd Bond movie... but there's even more in Men in Black III! Comments ... Of all last year's cinema releases, only Men in Black III boasted more mistakes, with contributors to MovieMistakes ...and more »

'Totally Biased' Comic On Race, Politics And Audience

Comic W. Kamau Bell's show, produced by Chris Rock, mixes standup, sketches and interviews. Bell tells Fresh Air about the origins of his political humor and why it's important for him to have a multiracial audience.

Bill Persky, that guy from 'That Girl'

The classic sitcom he created with Sam Denoff paved the way for such independent-female series as 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show.' His new autobiography tells all that and more. Emmy Award-winning sitcom writer-producer-director Bill Persky was recently giving a lecture at New York University's film school when the topic of role models came up. Someone in the class wanted to know why he believed ...

Dustin Hoffman finally graduates to director's chair

Dustin Hoffman has already earned kudos for 'Quartet,' his directing debut about a comedy about retired opera stars in England. Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY

Borgen: 'I never thought it would travel'

So farewell then, Sarah Lund. The Killing may be finished, but solace for connoisseurs of steely Danish drama heroines comes with the return of the world's sexiest prime minister, fictional or otherwise – Birgitte Nyborg in the drama Borgen, a sort of subtitled Scandinavian 'West Wing' about the intricacies of domestic Danish politics that debuted 12 months ago with 600,000 BBC4 viewers, double ...

To The Meaningful Pursuit of Passion

In Woody Allen?s classic, ?The Lunatic?s Tale,? Ossip Parkis struggles between his love of two women, one brilliant and sophisticated, the other outrageously beautiful; following a successful brain exchange, Parkis is able to live happily ever after with his perfect partner ? until he finds himself falling for a flight attendant ?whose boyish, flat figure and Alabama twang caused my heart to do ...

Citytv turns to homegrown U.S.-style multi-cam comedy for 2013 lineup

TORONTO – Canadian-born TV writer Andrew Orenstein had been working in Hollywood for well over a decade by the time he was invited to work on his first Canuck series, but it wasn’t his northern roots that got him the gig. The veteran writer from “3rd Rock from the Sun” and “Malcolm in the Middle” Read the Rest of the Entry

Chris O’Dowd gushes about ‘Girls’ creator Lena Dunham

Chris O’Dowd’s time seems to have arrived. The Roscommon actor/funnyman is gonna be all over the place in the next few weeks, first thanks to his co-starring role in the new Judd Apatow film This Is Forty, out at the end of the month.