In a turn of a events that will not help our fair city’s reputation as bookish and snobby, The Other Boleyn Girl (no. 1), based on the best-selling tome of the same name, handily beat out the Will Ferrell comedy Semi-Pro (no. 3), despite playing at two fewer theaters. Nationally, however, Boleyn’s buxom stars, Scarlett Read More
Will Ferrell might come to Broadway with a one-man show. According to Michael Riedel of the New York Post, he was inspired by… Billy Crystal? "The show’s bouncing around at this point," a source told Mr. Riedel. "He hasn’t figured out what it’s supposed to be yet."
Details are sketchy, but sources say Read More
Celebrity New Year’s Resolutions on FunnyOrDie.com
Gather ye party hats and give those kazoos a test run. It’s almost time to say goodbye to another year. And good riddance! (Just joshing—we love ya, 2007!) Here to bide the time—well, 2 minutes and 16 seconds—before the ball drops is a fitting video. The clip Read More
In the comedian’s famous last words, “Dying is easy; comedy is hard.” In movie terms, comedy is considered simply as a work that makes people laugh—and heaven knows, that’s hard enough. But to make people laugh while providing them with profound insights into human nature and the world around them is sheer hell. That is Read More
In the comedian’s famous last words, “Dying is easy; comedy is hard.” In movie terms, comedy is considered simply as a work that makes people laugh—and heaven knows, that’s hard enough. But to make people laugh while providing them with profound insights into human nature and the world around them is sheer hell. That is Read More
As I read Neil Strauss’ The Game, I found it impossible not to think of a dear old friend—let’s call her Ingrid—who’s the sort of woman who gets approached by guys constantly. Watching grown men flounder and humiliate themselves at bars, restaurants, museums and bookstores becomes agonizing after a while; typically, they sidle over one Read More
The most unsettling news of the current summer cinema is the grim report that Ron Howard’s rich, rewarding, critically embraced and artistically sound Cinderella Man, the best film of 2005 up to now, has turned into a box-office bummer, while Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a stupid, brain-dead movie for morons, has raked in the loot Read More
When the great, irreplaceable Rosemary Clooney died, she left her lifetime collection of musical arrangements-a 60-year career of archival-status treasures, from soup to nuts-to Debby Boone. Not to the ASCAP, the Smithsonian or the Salvation Army, but to Pat Boone’s little girl. This is not as odd as it seems. The only thing Rosie loved Read More
After the Academy Awards, Hollywood usually takes a little hiatus until summer, when the studios roll out a weekly parade of stadium-fillers. But in recent years, it’s become difficult to pinpoint when spring ends and summer begins-and 2005 proves to be no exception.
In early March, Michael Eisner’s kid Breck Eisner, along with Paramount Pictures, Read More
1) An Opening That Begins With Zoolander and Proceeds to King Lear via the Car-Wash Video
I don’t know about you, but I’m fascinated by catch phrases and what it says about us when one of them catches on. I’m having a drink with an editor before going to the book party for Still Holding Read More
