You take a train to Penn Station, make a left onto Seventh Avenue and fight uptown through the crowds until you hit the TKTS line at 47th Street.You wait on what used to be the Howard Johnson’s side but which is now the Roxy side.You figure you’ll be on
SPIN and MySpace Music are teaming up to present Germs of Perfection: A Tribute to Bad Religion, a digital compilation in honor of the influential band's 30th anniversary. The second song from the series has been posted already, a cover of "Better Off
Ben Hartley, an actor and friend, told Playbill.com, "Having worked in the theatre his entire life, he became a friend and mentor to anyone who was privileged to meet him. Frank lived an unbelievably full, rich life, and always saw the good in everyone.
Diane Keaton played different types of people in different types of Woody Allen films, while always seeming herself. Even in her first scene of her first film with Allen, 1972’s Play It Again, Sam (not directed but written by Allen, based on his play,
1892 Birthday of playwright Elmer Rice (1892 -1967), author of many dramas including Street Scene, Counsellor-at-Law, Dream Girl, The Grand Tour and the libretto to Kurt Weill's musical based on Street Scene. He was also instrumental in the development
We know her as the irrepressible Poppy in Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, for which she burst out of nowhere and won a Golden Globe. Woody Allen seems to have a preternatural instinct for discovering intuitively brilliant young actresses (Scarlett
Anyone who recalls the iSkillet, Pepsi Aspartame, or Honey Bunches of High Fructose Corn Syrup is already familiar with a few of 2009’s unsuccessful spinoff products. As industry insiders will attest, launching a new product during a recession can be
Buried (R), Drama A truck driver wakes up buried alive in an old wooden coffin. Not knowing who might have put him there or why, his only chance to escape from this nightmare is a mysterious cell phone. Poor reception, low battery and lack of oxygen are
With movies like Dan In Real Life, Gnomeo and Juliet, The Wolfman, and Gulliver's Travels on her resume, you'd think Emily Blunt would be a little less apt to take a role in a goofy movie. You'd think.
Nope, the actress is going to flush away all the
LOS ANGELES -- When you make a movie a year, you're going to have your hits and misses. But here are the five Woody Allen movies I like best:
"Annie Hall" (1977): It's quintessential Allen: the neurosis, the self-loathing, the patter of the dialogue,
LOS ANGELES—When you make a movie a year, you're going to have your hits and misses. But when you've been making movies with a distinctive voice every year for more than four decades as Woody Allen has -- including this weekend's "You Will Meet a Tall
Woody Allen's newest feature You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger opens today in movie theaters. It's currently confusing me with its Curse of The Jade Scorpion or The Purple Rose of Cairo -like silhouette poster. With this move the marketing department
Pair will help celebrate Stony Brook's Center for Communicating Science. Actor Alan Alda will speak at SBU on Sept. 23. Stony Brook Film Festival Alda and Greene will host a discussion entitled "Why Communicating Science Matters" from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
(EXT. COURTHOUSE - Cue jazz music; WOODY ALLEN is led up the stairs as REPORTERS and PHOTOGRAPHERS swarm around him.)
Announcer (voice-over): On the eve of the release of his latest motion picture You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Woody Allen goes on
exploring the evolution and architecture of the human mind
I am a graduate student in Developmental Psychology at the University of Southern California.
I'm interested in the way that the environment interacts with biology in producing
innate or
Some 11 years after the syndicated Hercules TV show ended, actor Kevin Sorbo is accusing his former bosses of hiding profits.
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys revolves around the mythical brave and handsome son (Sorbo) of the classic Greek gods as he
When teen sensation Justin Bieber appears on the 11th season premiere of CBS’ “CSI” on Sept. 23, he’ll be making his acting debut — and following in a long-standing television tradition as the very special guest star.
“I got this call saying that Justin
Making Toast is Roger Rosenblatt's graceful memoir of the year following his daughter Amy's sudden death from an undiagnosed heart condition. Rosenblatt, a distinguished author and senior contributor to Time magazine, writes here mostly as grandfather
It's human nature to name things, so we had to come up with a name for what we turned around one day and discovered everyone else doing -- Tweeting, Facebooking, YouTubing, Digging, Etsying, You-Name-It-ing, basically platforming the hell out of the
Actor Kevin Sorbo has accused U.S. TV bosses of hiding profits from 1990s hit show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
The 51 year old played the lead character in the series, which ran in America for six seasons from early 1995 until late 1999.
But he's
Eric Belis, 11, of Portland, organized a fundraiser to bring in money for juvenile diabetes. The event is Saturday, with the doors opening at 11 am at the Portland Social Hall.MELISSA EVANKO/Pocono Record
PORTLAND — For fun, they started walking in the
This is a slap in the face. Now I’ll have go eat my shit sandwich under a bus.
Still waiting for my goddamn unicorn pony.
But Warren won’t be used as fodder in a proxy war, therefore Obama is a weak coward. Plus, nobody has explained to me her precise
Bucky Gunts took home his fourth Emmy this year while becoming a viral sensation thanks to Ricky Gervais.
"The whole thing is hilarious," said Gunts, who won a Primetime Emmy for his direction of the opening ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Winter
More Images » Cowboy John Wayne or sensitive new age guy, Alan Alda? Letter writer Gene Sauve says most women would probably opt for the manly man. Photograph by: File Photos, The Ottawa Citizen Re: Waterworks still socially frowned on for men , Sept. 13
Last night I attended the opening of the 2008 Gen Art Film Festival here in New York City, where the film Diminished Capacity enjoyed its New York premiere at the historic Ziegfeld Theater. Did you go? Really enjoyed this film; as one guy points out in
If you live anywhere near New York City, and you're a fan of independent films (and free drinks), then there's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't be attending at least every night of the 2008 Gen Art Film Festival. As always, Cinematical will be
Debbie Crews lends her 25 years of expertise to the following article published in October's Golf Digest.
It's a sun-drenched morning at the ASU Karsten Golf Course, and psychology consultant Debbie Crews, Ph.D., a faculty research associate at Arizona
troubled, complex and fallible. Make him — in other words — an interesting heavy in a flawed show as opposed to cardboard cutout in a flawed one.
The show: Remember Matt Santos (Smits), the liberal senator who won the White House on "The West Wing" by
Remember Matt Santos (Smits), the liberal senator who won the White House on "The West Wing" by blasting the conservative- portrayed-as-troglodyte Arnie Vinick ( Alan Alda )? He's back, at least in spirit.Supreme Court Justice Cyrus Garza is a
Gala will be broadcast on CBS on December 28, 2010 at 9:00-11:00 p.m., ET/PT
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced the selection of the individuals who will receive the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors. Recipients
Five years passed between the Chicago band Canasta’s debut album, “We Were Set Up,” and the May release of its second album, “The Fakeout, the Tease and the Breather.”
And in less than three months after the second album’s release, the band had already
(Nanowerk News) King Harald of Norway presented the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, Nanoscience and Neuroscience to the eight laureates from US, Germany and Great Britain at spectacular gala performance at Oslo Concert Hall in Oslo, Norway, on 7 September.
Chris Matthews writes:Let me finish tonight with the need for an Obama shake-up.
I said on Friday that President Obama needs to bring in Hillary Clinton as defense chief to give his defense department a clear Democratic lead, bolster his Middle East
Alec Baldwin got a big laugh after the screening of "Last Day at Shea" at East Hampton's Guild Hall Saturday night during a Q&A with Billy Joel, the star of the sarcastic look at fame in the 1970s and '80s. Noting Joel's ex-wife, Christie Brinkley, in
Paul Offit has a slightly nasal voice and a forceful delivery that conspire to make him sound remarkably like Hawkeye Pierce, the cantankerous doctor played by Alan Alda on the TV series M*A*S*H. As a young man, Offit was a big fan of the show (though
Back-to-school season leaves us feeling bittersweet. Sure, we're psyched that we'll never have to cram for another final or tweak the margins of a term paper, but a part of us actually misses the atmosphere of academia. We don't think we're alone in
1898 Birthday of one of Broadway's most endearing leading ladies of the 1920s, Marilyn Miller (1898-1936), whose vehicles will include Sally, Sunny, Rosalie and As Thousands Cheer.
1924 John Colton and Clemence Randolph adapt the W. Somerset Maugham
It's always a little silly when well-known actors pick roles that contrast sharply with their real-life personas-- think longstanding liberal Alan Alda playing a Republican Senator on The West Wing-- but, let's be honest, it's pretty fun too. This time
