This is actually a picture of Jon Hamm the last time he hosted 'Saturday Night Live.' We're assuming he looked roughly the same this time.
The World Series is currently in full swing for Major League Baseball. A Jon Hamm-hosted episode of “Saturday
A good host frequently seems to bring out the best in Saturday Night Live, and this was true of Jon Hamm… at least in the sketches and taped pieces in which he was involved. (Even his SNL logo bridges coming out of the commercials were funny.) He got
['SNL' - 'Season 36, Episode 5']
Jon Hamm isn't a household name. Sure, he plays Don Draper on AMC's 'Mad Men,' but as popular as that show is, there are still a lot of people who probably think he's some 'Bachelorette' reject. But what about his
Well, the wigs were very good last night on “Saturday Night Live.” The comedy? Not so great, although a sketch about victims of viral videos offered some laugh-out-loud moments. A blacksmith hit Kristen Wiig in the head, and Jon Hamm performed a
1. "The Four Seasons" Alan Alda's story of three middle-aged couples over the course of a year includes an autumn parents' weekend at a New England college. The title composition by Vivaldi perfectly compliments the burnished colors as the characters
Jennifer Aniston’s movie “Wanderlust” is going to end soon and before that, she joined friends for farewell celebration.
She joined her cast members on Wednesday night for a wrap party that was held at Ecco in Midtown. The party was hosted by Alan Alda.
There's certain to be a plunge in Jennifer Aniston sightings now that "Wanderlust," the new comedy re-teaming Aniston with her "The Object of My Affection" co-star Paul Rudd has wrapped in town.
Both stars attended the film's wrap party this week at
Jennifer Aniston’s movie “Wanderlust” is about finished and before she wanders on out of here she joined friends for a farewell celebration. She joined co-star Paul Rudd and several other cast memebers on Wednesday night for a wrap
Among the six feature films being screened as part of the fifth annual Hartford International Film Festival, which begins Thursday and runs through Nov. 7, is a documentary that shines renewed fame on a Hartford girl who made an indelible mark on the
Jennifer Aniston’s movie “Wanderlust” is about finished and before she wanders on out of here she joined friends for a farewell celebration. She joined co-star Paul Rudd and several other cast memebers on Wednesday night for a wrap
Casey Affleck pulled off one big trick this year with his staged Joaquin Phoenix documentary "I'm Still Here," and it looks he'll be doing the same for his next big role in "Rush Hour" director Brett Ratner's "Ocean's Eleven"-meets-Bernie Madoff flick
What do you get when a sharp-edged, snarky New York Times columnist reviews the memoir of a bad boy of rock 'n roll? Not what you'd expect.
Keith Richards takes the exact opposite approach toward women in Life. As Dowd tells it, "Learning that there's a
Next week in election booths across the United States, more votes will be cast for women than have ever been cast before.
Not by women, for women.
While some may say otherwise, we see this as good thing. That's because we are enlightened, trailing edge
The story of Persephone, ab ducted queen of the under world, is one of the most potent in Greek mythology -- so much so that it's inspired a steady stream of writers and artists over the centuries.Now, Julia S...
Good dancers don't guarantee good
Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck and Judd Hirsch have all signed on for the comedy/thriller "Tower Heist" for Universal PIctures says The Hollywood Reporter.
The story follows a group of employees in a luxury apartment building who attempt to rob the
As a tremendously exciting new season begins at the New York City Opera, general manager and artistic director George Steel waxes enthusiastic
Priscilla's parade across the desert falls short of euphoria
In the summer of 1963, I started what would be a
It’s about folks of various classes trying to rob a Bernie Madoff type — robber baron, thief, Wall Street con artist. Alan Alda has that role.
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Casey Affleck and Judd Hirsch have signed on to the seemingly endless cast of Tower Heist , according to The Hollywood Reporter . The roster of the Brett Ratner-directed action comedy already includes Matthew Broderick, Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan
Brett Ratner is directing the film, in which Stiller will play the overworked manager of an illustrious tower residence, who heads up a team who rob a Wall Streeter (to be played by Alda) who's pulled a Ponzi scheme and swindled them all.
[For the entirety of October I will be showcasing one horror film each day. Every film is pulled from my DVD shelf or streamed via Netflix Instant and will be one I haven’t seen. Unlike my A Movie A Day or A Movie A Week columns there won’t necessarily
Various Artists: Free to Be... You and Me Soundtrack
My mom worked for public education, and one summer she brought home Free to Be... You and Me. It was a children's movie with all these different people that you wouldn't expect making songs, like
Antonio Banderas' next directing job will be the sci-fi psychological thriller "Solo," according to Variety.
Banderas will direct from an original screenplay by Erik Jendresen, who also wrote "The Big Bang," in which the actor starred. "Solo" will
Carly Heffernan got her start at Spring Valley Public School
That’s been the path for Carly Heffernan, who grew up in the Brighton area.
The 25 year old has been part of The Second City for 18 months, currently working in the show Second City Live in 3D.
Brett Ratner‘s new movie, the thriller/action/comedy Tower Heist, is prepping to shoot in November in New York City. The cast is enough to earn at least an interested glance: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, Gabourey Sidibe and Michael Pena. Now
With her Hollywood royalty family roots and a life and career as
expansive and interesting as a show biz fairytale, everyone thinks
actress Marlo Thomas wrote and published her autobiography years
ago.
But as Thomas describes it, it was always on the
Tea Leoni has signed on to star in Brett Ratner's action comedy Tower Heist.
The film, from Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, will also star Ben Stiller, Alan Alda and Charlie Murphy - brother of Eddie.
Tower Heist follows a number of
Maybe Ben Stiller'snext flick should be called "Meet the Lawyers."
The New York-born funnyman is expected to film parts of his new comedy in the historic Bronx County Courthouse next month, said the mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and
Ben Stiller To Produce 'Zoolander' Animated Web Series
Hansel might be so hot right now, but it’s Derek Zoolander who is making a comeback. Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films has signed a two year deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment to create web
In the upcoming film Tower Heist, Ben Stiller plays the manager of a luxury highrise building who loses his pension to a Wall Street Ponzi scheme. So he and cohorts plan revenge on the crook in his penthouse apartment.
Directed by Brett Ratner (X-Men:
Tower Prep Review
You who have been waiting for a teenage version of "The Prisoner" set inside a private High School, your wait is now ended. "Tower Prep," which premieres in the rather grown-up time slot of Tuesday at 8 p.m. — it goes up against "NCIS"
Here's the transcript from my Oct. 21 live chat on STLtoday.com.
Our next chat is set for Thursday, Nov. 4, so visit www.stltoday.com/chat beginning
a week in advance to post questions and comments.
Gail: Hi, everybody. I'm thrilled that so many people
Next, though he's been set to play famous cyclist and humanitarian Lance Armstrong in a long-gestating biopic, it looks like Matt Damon will tell the story of the Tour de France champion in a different way. 24 Frames reports the actor will narrate a new
Seems Howard Stern was wrong about Gabourey Sidibe.
But as of Wednesday, the Oscar-nominated star of "Precious" is part of the cast of "Tower Heist," a comedy starring industry unknowns Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy, the Wrap reports.
There aren't
Brett Ratner has set Oscar-nominated Precious star Gabourey Sidibe and Michael Pena to join Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy and Alan Alda in Tower Heist, the action-comedy that Universal Pictures is gearing up to start production in New York next month.
“Beyond! Beyond! Beyond was ‘the city,’” the New York intellectual Alfred Kazin once wrote in a tender memoir of his Brownsville boyhood. Manhattan beckoned then and somehow it beckons still.
The guest of honor at this particular party may have been
Los Angeles – October, 20, 2010 – The Paley Center for Media will honor acclaimed Entertainment Tonight host Mary Hart and iconic sportscaster Al Michaels this year at its annual gala event, Salute to Excellence. Hart is being recognized for her
"Saturday Night Live" alum Michaela Watkins is joining the cast of Universal's "Wanderlust," the studio announced on Monday.
David Wain's comedy stars Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as a married couple who try to escape the modern pressures of New York
NEW YORK — In her new book, Marlo Thomas pulls off a bit of admirable alchemy.
Within its charming, breezy 379 pages, she blends a personal memoir; a loving tribute to her dad, comedian Danny Thomas; a portfolio of interviews she did with more than 20
Bill Birch will write the action-comedy "Collared" for Warner Bros. and Mandeville Films, the latter company announced on Friday.
The movie concerns a mysterious group of prisoners held captive in the secretive military base Area 51.
The story is
A very selective look at the shows and various other TV odds and ends that stood out for me this week:
STUNT OF THE WEEK: Live from New York, it was 30 Rock. (And the following comments apply only to the early version. Couldn't really imagine sitting
"High School Musical" star Vanessa Hudgens is in final negotiations to play the female lead opposite Josh Hutcherson in New Line's "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," the studio has confirmed to TheWrap.
Brad Peyton is directing the sequel to "Journey
This week's Ketchup featuring casting news for both Batman 3 and the Spider-Man reboot, sequel news for Top Gun and new (or possible new) roles for Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie, Shia LaBeouf, Eddie Murphy and Sigourney Weaver.
Although James Cameron
The most difficult things in life include walking up to a stranger and saying 'hello'. The next difficult thing in life is saying 'good bye' to those who matter in our life. Life has to go on and we need to bid farewell to our old buddies some day or
Tonight, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, and the cast of 30 Rock (including guest stars Jon Hamm and Matt Damon) will perform a live episode of the Emmy-winning NBC series, something viewers have been anticipating since it was announced this summer.
At a press
Sometimes when you die onstage, you really die onstage.
In 1984, the Fez-wearing English comedian Tommy Cooper suffered cardiac arrest while performing a magic act on live TV; it took a few minutes for the crowd to figure out that Cooper's collapse wasn'
For much of the '30 Rock' cast, tonight's live episode (8:30PM ET, NBC) is old hat; Tracy Morgan and Tina Fey, of course, spent years on 'Saturday Night Live,' Alec Baldwin has hosted 'SNL' so frequently (15 times, to be exact, which ties him with Steve
Ex-“Today” show hostess with the mostess Jane Pauley, who suffers from bipolar disorder, and veteran actor — and science fanatic — Alan Alda doing the meet-and-greet thing at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research’s 10th Anniversary Dinner . . ....
Some plays can be more interesting for their shocking past than their diminished present.
Such is "La Ronde," a darkly comic dramatization of erotic serial encounters in 1900 Vienna by Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931). It's a daisy chain of seduction in
Tower Heist is shifting the story to include the topical element of a crooked Wall Street type (Alan Alda) getting rich off the backs of the employees of a luxury apartment building, who is then convicted of running a fraudulent Ponzi scheme and
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Eddie Murphy will star opposite Ben Stiller and Alan Alda in "Tower Heist," a comedy being directed by Brett Ratner.
In a story ripped from recent financial headlines, the overworked manager (Stiller) of a posh
Before becoming Tower Heist, Brett Ratner’s latest film was conceived as an urban version of Ocean’s Eleven, with Eddie Murphy in the starring role. The title then was Trump Heist, and the original cast poised to join him included Chris Rock, Dave
LITTLE ROCK Back in the day, boys and girls, back in the very early days of television, programs were performed live. In the early ’50s, the newfangled medium grabbed entertainment from wherever it could - vaudeville, radio, the theater. A camera was
According to RadarOnline.com, Lindsay Lohan got caught busting out of rehab at the Betty Ford Center…
The site claims she and another resident made the big break so they could score some Coke…as in Coca-Cola. Apparently things like soda and television
If Peter Serafinowicz of "Running Wilde" looks familiar, it's because he's the funniest comedian you didn't realize you're already a big fan of. Serafinowicz (pronounced sare-uh-FIN-uh-witsh) plays Fa'ad Shaoulin, the neighbor/rival of star Will Arnett,
A bevy of boldfacers were inducted into the Cambridge-based American Academy of Arts and Sciences over the weekend, among them ABC’s Christiane Amanpour and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Others joining the exclusive club included secretary of
"The Junior Affair" is a comedy of misunderstanding. Puddle shares that she was dumped by her boyfriend, so Emmy and Steve decide to help her out in very different ways. Emmy starts hanging out with the ex-boyfriend hoping to convince him that Puddle is
Sure. He’s not homophobic because he’s not AFRAID of gay people. He just hates them. Duh.
Can you blame him, with all that grinding and such that those people like to do?
Sure, that’s the way to secure the Jewish vote….
Hey Bing, I think you mean Carl
If something felt slightly off with Season Four of 30 Rock, you weren’t the only one to notice.
For awhile, 30 Rock was starting off as a unique blend of past television greats, mixing the top-notch workplace comedy stylings of The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Sorry for being a little late with this one, since the film has opened in a few markets already, but Fantastic Fest pretty much put everything on the back burner in terms of my workload. But I certainly didn't want you to ignore the fascinating film
I’m a sucker for the dramatic aspect of baseball and I’ll readily admit that. In our roundtable the other night, Steven Goldman even referred to me as a baseball era version of Alan Alda from MASH. I’ll take it. It should then come as no surprise that
"In a surprise move, the romance drama "Blue Valentine" with Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling has been awarded the dreaded NC-17 rating by the MPAA. Critics who've seen the film and the scene responsible for the NC-17 are saying the harsh rating is
We have four brief casting stories for you this morning. First up, the Winnipeg Free Press reports [via Bloody Disgusting ] that Alice Eve ( She’s Out of My League ) has replaced Margarita Levieva in David Brooks’ ATM . Described as “Hitchcockian”, the
Alan Alda - Alan Alda has recently had the distinction of being nominated for an Oscar, a Tony, and an EMMY - as well as publishing a bestselling book - all in the same year.
His memoir, entitled Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, and Other Things I've
In a crowded TV landscape where returning skeins don't have nearly the marketing dollars of freshman shows, networks are always looking for inexpensive ways to draw attention to programs.
The cast and crew at NBC's "30 Rock" are going forward this week
Paul Rudd may commit to be all out for his role in "WanderLust", but he probably will not show his asset in front of co-star Jennifer Aniston. According to E! Online, the actor will use a prosthetic penis to film his nude scenes in the film.
"It's so
Wanderlust, the Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston comedy about a married couple who try to escape modern society and end up in a hippie commune, is really starting to come together. Much of the cast has already been set—first Justin Theroux (Mulholland Dr.)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Arts and Sciences will induct some of the world's most distinguished scholars, artists, and institutional leaders here on Saturday, October 9. The induction ceremony is part of
Paul Rudd: Causing chuckles on the Wanderlust set with his fake penis, apparently (AP)
The film will follow the adventures of a married couple who wind up in a Dixie nudist colony.
According to E! Online, sources on the Georgia set of the film say
Edem wonders:
What happens if an actor either leaves (Melinda Kanakaredes, CSI: NY) or is sacked (A.J. Cook, Criminal Minds) during the summer, before the new season starts? Is it more of a headache for writers, or par for the course?
It depends on who
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Alan Alda and Ben Stiller are set to star in the new movie Tower Heist, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Brett Ratner is directing the picture.
In the film, the overworked manager (Stiller) of an illustrious tower
Alan Alda has landed roles in forthcoming Universal films Wanderlust and Tower Heist.
The former M*A*S*H actor will star with Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd in comedy Wanderlust as the leader of a commune, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Alda will
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 the recent "You Will Meet a Tall Dark
Scheduled to open in area theaters next weekend (Oct. 15)
are:
Jackass 3-D, yes, a third "Jackass," this time
straight between the eyes. Starring, as if anyone else could, would
or should: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, "Wee Man" Acuna,
Chris
The English Patient screenwriter and director Anthony Minghella: not on Jerry's short list for favorite film visionaries. (AP Photo/Frank Wiese)
The fact is, when it comes to movies my wife, the beautiful Judy Licht, and I are incompatible. The most
"Wanderlust" stars Aniston and Rudd as a married couple who try to
escapemodern society by moving out of New York.
Alda will play Carvin, the head of a naturist village. It sounds like a fun
role for the actor, who has a gentle energy about him that
Alan Alda has signed onto two comedies, "Wanderlust" and "Tower Heist", both at Universal Pictures according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Judd Apatow-produced "Wanderlust" centers on a couple (Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston) who try to escape society
Alda will first board Universal's Judd Apatow comedy "Wanderlust," and then becomes the first to join Ben Stiller in "Tower Heist," which Brett Ratner is directing.
Alan Alda is heading to the big screen, booking two back-to-back projects at Universal.
Alan Alda has been tapped to co-star in two comedies for Universal: "Wanderlust" and "Tower Heist."
Thesp joins an ensemble cast in "Wanderlust" led by Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux and Malin Akerman, while Ben Stiller toplines "Tower
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In the film, to be directed by David Wain, Aniston and Rudd play an urban couple who stop at a rural B&B, which turns out to be a commune filled with nudists, pot smoking and orgies. Alda will play the head of the community.
"I am the New Man. My turn-ons include nurturing, chamomile tea and doing more than my share of the housework. I have forsaken red meat for soy, power lifting for Pilates and world conquest for the simple joy of raising sensible, well-adjusted children.
FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer | - AP In this book cover image released by Hyperion, "Growing Up Laughing," by Marlo Thomas, is shown. (AP Photo/Hyperion) - AP FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2010 file photo, actress Marlo Thomas poses for a portrait in
Marlo Thomas is the daughter of show-biz royalty. Her dad is singer-actor-comedian Danny Thomas , and his hang-around-the-house pals were people like Milton Berle , George Burns and Sid Caesar . Thomas became a star herself with the proto-feminist 1966
Who is Yasmina Reza? And why are her characters saying (and doing) such appalling (and amusing) things?
Though not a household name in the U.S., Reza is one of the most-produced contemporary playwrights in the world. Her first smash hit, "Art," has been
