CineEurope shifted into gear on Tuesday with Universal's presentation of upcoming pics, including "Battleship," and MPAA topper Chris Dodd's first address to the European industry.
U brought in director Peter Berg to present footage of the sci-fi epic, w
Regarding her horrible boss in Warners' "Horrible Bosses," Jennifer Aniston said she had no trouble being a potty mouth. However, some research was required to play her dentist character.
"I did go to the dentist right beforehand though -- to see how t
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Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer will return to the St. James Theatre, his American Idiot home, to stage his revised revival of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Foreve
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The M*A*S*H veteran guest stars in the new season of Showtime's cancer dramedy as Dr. Atticus Sherman, a renowned oncologist whom Cathy (Laura Linney) consults for a second opinion. Like any good doctor, he makes us wait: He doesn't even show up in the S
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I'm not entirely sure what to make of the relatively recent explosion in premium cable TV "dramedies" like Weeds, United States of Tara, Nurse Jackie, Hung, Episode
You'd think one of the goals of a show about a cancer patient would be to get viewers invested in the survival of the patient.
But 'The Big C' (10:30PM ET Monday, Showtime) is so manipulative and contrived that it tends to shoot itself in the foot in tha
Anyone who argues that this show about cancer isn't funny clearly isn't watching. The Big C
began its second season tonight, and the result was both hilarious and
sad, effortlessly combining the two and creating a show that seems to do
the impossible.
Al Pacino, Glenn Close, and Treat Williams were just some of the stars who turned out on Monday afternoon at Alice Tully Hall to celebrate the life of director Sidney Lumet. The man who made “Serpico,” “Network,” “12 Angry Men,” “Prince of the City,” an
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Last year at this time, it was unclear whether a new show primarily focusing on a woman diagnosed with cancer would be a ratings success or too much of a downer to keep the interest of viewers. Thankfully, with TV vets like Jenny Bicks ("Sex and the City
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I gotta hand it to HBO; they’ve really done a nice job with their documentary series. Each one is distinctive and, for the most part, smart and well-made. The title of tonight’s offering, “Hot Coffee,’’ refers to the 1990s case of the woman who spilled a
A new season begins for the great comedy pocked with tears, "The Big C"
(Showtime, 10:30 p.m.) and Laura Linney's superbly played Cathy Jamison has a
brand new attitude.
Now that others know of her cancer, she takes more steps in addressing
it, even as t
Dark and darker comedies "Weeds" and "The Big C" have their season premieres back to back Monday on Showtime.
These aren't sitcoms. They are half-hour meditations on tragic contemporary life with droll senses of humor: Jail time for dealing pot and stag
If you think TV is the place to work out disagreements with your spouse, “The Marriage Ref” is for you! The series returns for a second season at 10 p.m. on WHDH (Ch. 7). Jerry Seinfeld, Julianne Moore and Ricky Gervais chose sides while the audience vot
While Laura Linney’s Cathy Jamison denied her cancer diagnosis during Season 1 of the Showtime dark comedy The Big C made for compelling drama, things changed in the finale when she shared the news with her family. When her moody son Adam (Gabriel Basso)
The David Library of the American Revolution in Washington Crossing has announced its summer Movie Series for 2011. The Library will screen four rarely seen feature films plus an episode of the television miniseries “John Adams” over the coming weeks. Th
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Summer's the perfect fit for "True Blood" (HBO, 9 tonight), the only vampire entertainment worth following because it refuses to take itself seriously, even as it manages to seriously poke you with a scare from time to time.
Alan Ball's perfectly paced a
As the new season starts on Showtime's "The Big C" Monday, we see the backyard leaves turning their fall colors. But on a recent visit to the set, in a former tobacco warehouse off I-95, there is a dusting of man-made snow on the familiar back deck.
Duri
Jordin Althaus / Showtime Cathy (Laura Linney) plays a suburban mom with cancer. The Big C: Drama-comedy. Second season premiere 10:30 p.m. Mon. on Showtime. Did you hear the one about the suburban mom with Stage 4 melanoma? Cancer is very much a joking
Synopsis: It’s fall on THE BIG C season 2 and Cathy has become an all-out warrior in her Stage 4 melanoma fight and Paul (Oliver Platt) has stepped up to become her “cancierge.” A new oncologist (special guest appearance by Alan Alda) is on the case with
Elizabeth Lippman for The New York Times A GALA EVENING The cast of “All's Well That Ends Well” takes a bow Monday night at the Delacorte Theater. More Photos » GREAT as they are, not all of Shakespeare ’s plays are as relevant to life today as others. B
Whether they realize it or not, fans of Canadian television in the 1970s and 80s regularly watched the work of director/writer George Bloomfield: Road to Avonlea, Street Legal, SCTV, Adderley, The Campbells, E.N.G., The Outer Limits, Lonesome Dove, Fragg
I forgot to mention a highlight of the previous weekendseeing "Another Year," a quiet character drama set in England. The long-married couple at the center of the plot consists of Gerri (Ruth Sheen), a counselor, and Tom (Jim Broadbent), an engineering g
It usually would be extraneous to talk about a movie poster in a movie review, but in this case the poster for Woody Allen's latest feature, Midnight in Paris, is particularly instructive. Here we see Owen Wilson, cast in the role of the stereotypical Al
Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney) spent the first few months of her melanoma diagnosis (during the first season of The Big C on Showtime) not quite in denial but still ignoring the importance nonetheless. She heard “Stage Four” and looked around at her life,
Showtime's dark comedy The Big C returns Monday for its second season and Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney) has shifted from denying her cancer diagnosis to getting angry.
"There are going to be a lot of twists and turns this year," showrunner Jenny Bicks to
By Pia Catton Young and anointed, the alumni of recent Shakespeare in the Park productions gathered in little eddies along the edges of the Public Theater's gala dinner on Monday night in Central Park before a performance of "All's Well That Ends Well."A
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In his 2007 memoir “Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself,” actor Alan Alda spends a chapter laying out a foolproof one-step plan for being a good father: Love your children.
Sounds simple enough. But as I read this I couldn’t help
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The 1979 political drama The Seduction of Joe Tynan has been in the back of my mind as a movie I ought to watch just about forever. It’s early Meryl Streep, it’s a nerdy political procedure movie, it’s Alan Alda. But because, for whatever reason, the mov
The Big C is about to start Season 2 and Golden Globe winner Laura Linney is cuter than ever.
Her character, however, is not — at least not all the time. As Cathy Jamison, Linney has been through the ringer since her diagnosis with Stage 4 melanoma, but
Image Credit: Everett Collection Yesterday, we asked you to name your favorite Woody Allen movie ever. Needless to say, the responses we received were as diverse as Allen’s oeuvre itself, from established classics like Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sister
As a double-bill opens up a new series of Nurse Jackie on RTE Two this evening, it seems a good time to ask: will there ever be a time when medical dramas aren't hugely popular?Probably not. It's literally life and death, the very stuff of which great fi
You can guess the plot of the new TV Land sitcom Happily Divorced just by hearing the title and looking at the poster. In the opening moments of the pilot episode, Fran (Fran Drescher) sits in bed with her husband of 18 years, Peter (John Michael Higgins
For centuries, the theme of sexual sins committed by the powerful has been scintillating source material for the arts. In poems and plays, in novels and films and TV series, artists have explored the fleshly failings of the high and mighty.
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By Bob Goepfert The Record The calendar says summer begins next week. However the entertainment calendar insists summer has already started. Rockin’ on the River kicks off it’s season in downtown Troy on Wednesday, Alive at Five in Albany is already in i
Noah Wyle came to most people’s attention in 1992, when he played the young Cpl. Jeffrey Barnes in A Few Good Men. But he vaulted to stardom two years later on ER, playing fresh-faced third-year medical student John Carter, whose first day in the mania o
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What a pity that one of the Waratahs' most admirable victories in recent times was witnessed by a record-low crowd. It was a performance de
You don’t think summer is still the home of repeats and dashed-off reality series, do you? In the past decade, cable channels such as TNT and USA have changed the game, drawing huge off-season audiences with original dramas such as “The Closer’’ and “Bur
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It was a huge week for the boys in Hollywood -- major heroine casting news was scarce.
But when Angelina Jolie announces a new project, that kind of makes up for it.
Meanwhile, Jason Bateman circl
The World Science Festival is a place where one goes to see the giants of science, many of whom are household names (at least in scientifically inclined households) like E.O Wilson, Steven Pinker and James Watson, people on top of their game in their sci
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Assuming that no outbreak occurs in the next year or so, we'll get to see WORLD WAR Z before an actual zompocalypse.
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Few people could hope to get kids jumping out of their seats with excitement at the prospect of doing mathematics. But when Arthur Benjamin, the Mathemagician, took to the stage on Saturday and a
Comes another royal wedding. July 2 Monaco's Albert weds 6-foot South African swimming champ Charlene Wittstock after four years. Second- tier royals will show. Like William and Kate plus Charles and Whatsername. Being Prince Al is inviting 4,000 Monegas
Philip Rose, who produced "A Raisin in the Sun" on Broadway as well as "The Owl and the Pussycat," "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?," "Purlie" and "Shenandoah," died Tuesday, May 31, in Englewood, N.J. He was 89.
In 1959 "A Raisin in the Sun," Rose's first
June 1, 2011: Alan Alda, the long-time host of the PBS show "Scientific American Frontiers," discusses the debut of his play about the life of Marie Curie at the 2011 World Science Festival.
Most places one would look for a scientist include classrooms,
AP file photoAlan Alda gave the commencement address at The Williston Northampton School's 170th graduation ceremony Saturday in Easthampton.
EASTHAMPTON -- He's perhaps best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H, one of television's longest-ru
EUGENE, Ore. – The view that attending one of the local colleges or even the now spendy University of Oregon means work once you graduate is "not true," say former Eugene area grads who are now out of work for a year or more.
Moreover, Mike noted that a
EASTHAMPTON — Acclaimed actor, director and writer Alan Alda shed the role of a celebrity Saturday when he addressed the 120 graduating students at the Williston Northampton School to assume a much more ordinary role: that of a grandfather.
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“If you feel like your arsenal of knowledge could use replenishing and/or have a slight fascination with the way things work, we suggest checking out the third installment of the World Science Festival. This five-day event features a series of discussion
Military characters have long been visible in pop culture, from G.I. Joe to Beetle Bailey to Alan Alda’s “Hawkeye’’ and his pals on “M*A*S*H.’’ Military terms pervade the language (see: mission accomplished, bite the bullet). And military style has been
By Nick Andersen World Science Festival David Morse, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Liev Schreiber World Science Festival Alan Alda loves science, and the World Science Festival loves Alan Alda. The festival kicked off its fourth annual iteration with a star-stud
ANTOINE LAVOISIER was a scientific revolutionary. Among other things, this father of modern chemistry, as he is known, named oxygen and showed that breathing is a form of combustion. Metropolitan Museum of Art The chemist Antoine Lavoisier and his wife a
Here at The Atlantic Wire, we respect and value the social media editors who share the links that make our jobs easier. Sometimes, though, we have no idea what they're talking about. So after a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite head-s
New York's World Science Festival kicked off its first full day with some of the world's greatest minds sharing their excitement with the general public over the latest advancements in science.
This evening, "The Dark Side of the Universe" asked us to co
Science is often writ large, the terrain transformed by the quest for knowledge. From a giant, miles-long donut buried beneath Switzerland, to a set of huge radio telescopes that march along the horizon, here's the best of big science.
For the next five
Philip Rose, who as the producer of Broadway shows like “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Purlie Victorious” advanced the cause of black playwrights and actors and helped widen the scope of American theater to include stories of blacks and other minorities, die
For the last three years, I've been in love with another woman and my wife doesn't seem to mind, largely because the woman in question was already dead two years before I was born.
I've been submerged in the world of Marie Curie while writing a play abou
Ben Walsh previews the best reasons to swap the sunscreen for the big screen this summer X-Men: First Class Director: Matthew Vaughn Matthew Vaughn, who did such a splendid job with Kick-Ass, has been recruited to direct this X-Men prequel. One dearly ho
Alda slated to appear on 'The Big C'
Special guest: Five-time Emmy winner Alan Alda, best known to television audiences for his portrayal as army hospital doctor Hawkeye Pierce in the long-running hit series "M*A*S*H," will make a special guest star ap
Kids and kindred spirits have fun with geometric toys during the 2010 World Science Festival Youth and Family Street Fair in New York City.
The World Science Festival hits the streets of New York City on Tuesday, and this time, you don't even have to be
Alda ("M*A*S*H*") is making his playwriting debut with Radiance and told the New York Times that the work will explore Curie's life between winning her first Nobel for Physics in 1903 and her second for Chemistry in 1911.
Maggie Gyllenhaal, who last a
