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PBS' president and CEO Paula Kerger sounds optimistic about the future of the pubcaster. During PBS' portion of the TCA summer press tour she indicated that the government funding crisis that was e
Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline's TCA coverage.
PBS' president and CEO Paula Kerger sounds optimistic about the future of the pubcaster. During PBS' portion of the TCA summer press tour she indicated that the government funding crisis that was e
By WSJ Staff In the new movie “Tower Heist,” Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy take revenge on a Wall Street Madoff-like swindler (played by Alan Alda) who has stolen the retirement savings of the workers at a luxury Central Park condo. It actually looks like
Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller team up for revenge in the caper comedy 'Tower Heist' -- and we've got a first look at the hilarious hijinks!
Ben plays Josh Kovacs, the manager of one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City. In th
Universal Pictures has finally clipped together a trailer for Brett Ratner's action-comedy Tower Heights.
With a cast including Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Gabourey Sidibe and Matthew Broderick, it's not short of a big name or two. Plus, Eddi
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Unlike an encyclopedia, which seeks to provide the definitive answers to our most relevant queries, a literary examination of music should force us to revisit what we consider the “truth”. When evaluating a boo
There was a time whenever Eddie Murphy came out with a new comedy, you knew you were in for a good time. Then, as time went on, that was not true anymore. Sure, he did the "Shrek" movies, but those were not "Eddie Murphy movies." Check out the movie t
Originally envisioned as Brett Ratner’s “black Ocean’s Eleven,” the action-comedy Tower Heist has gone through a few significant changes since then, owing to these crazy, crazy times we live in. For one thing, the initial premise of a bunch of working-cl
About 15 seconds into the first trailer for Tower Heist, it's pretty clear that this isn't going to be just another caper story; this is definitely going to have some funny. In fact, it looks like this might be the funniest heist movie since The Great Mu
Check out the trailer (above) for the Rush Hour director's new movie Tower Heist, starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy.
Admittedly, it's got a pret-ty solid supporting cast, featuring Matthew Broderick, Gabourey Sidibe, and Alan Alda.
Perhaps we'll Redb
Knute Rockne, All-American (1940) - Ronald Reagan portrays George "The Gipper" Gipp in this classic film about the life of Notre Dame’s most famous coach. Have you ever said "Win one for the Gipper?" If so, you've wittingly or unwittingly quoted this old
Universal Pictures has dropped a trailer for action-comedy "Tower Heist". Coming out via Yahoo! Movies, the fresh preview gives a taste at the comedic chemistry between Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy as the former enlists the latter's help in planning to r
CJ: They always like to schedule it at the last minute, just when the government's about to default.
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That's not so different from President Obama seeking to attach a tax inc
'30 Rock' started out strong in its first season, dipped a little bit in its second, came back strong (maybe even stronger than the first) in the third and dipped a little more in the fourth.
Let's start this out by saying that 'dipping' for "30 Rock" is
George Plimpton was the founding editor of the Paris Review and continued editing it for five decades. He was the first to publish Jack Kerouac, Jay McInerney and Jonathan Franzen (and others whose name did not begin with J). He also, as the almost-finis
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The local all-analog TV station (RTV) has just started re-running "Starsky & Hutch" ('75-'79) - from the peak of the "sensitive" '70's (when men were supposed to cry - like Alan Alda). It's pretty funny. I'd say the ideal mi
We here at Windy City Gridiron like to have a good time. That should be obvious if you've ever been to our comment threads, any of our posts, or watched us pick on each other via Twitter.
We wanted to bring you something fun as we lead up to the 2011 sea
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Meryl Streep's daughter Mamie Gummer has married actor Ben Walker. The 27-year-old married Walker, 29, at the family's estate in Connecticut in front of arou
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Operation Jennifer Aniston Finds Relationship Happiness: so far, so good.
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Conway Community Arts Association (CCAA) will present Same Time Next Year by Bernard Slade on July 29-30, Aug. 4-6 at 7:30 p.m. and July 31 and August 7 at 2:30 p.m. at the new Lantern Theatre, 1021 Van Ronkle in downtown Conway.
This will be the first p
Eddie is the owner of a small construction company, but when the contract on
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Alan Alda was traveling the world interviewing scientists for his PBS series Scientific American Frontiers when he noticed they’d flip to a pedantic tone when the camera light turned on.
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Richard Feynman, the science behind the showmanship.
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ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Since its inception, television has served as a lens on American
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Get ready for an epic TV documentary featuring Mary Tyler Moore, Alan Alda, Roseanne Barr, Hugh Laurie, Candice Bergen, Dick Van Dyke, Gillian Anderson, Michael C. Hall, Larry David, Julianna Margulies and Garry Shandling. There’s even room for “Freaks a
America in Primetime, which will run over four Sundays from October 30 to November 20 from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., is a production of WETA Washington, DC, and The Documentary Group, in association with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, with
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“Rescue Me” firefighter Tommy (pictured) is like a modern-day Hawkeye (Alan Alda in MASH) in his dedication and defiance of authority.
As FX’s hit series “Rescue Me” begins its seventh and final season tonight, the melding of comedy and drama is as deft
LAWRENCEVILLE — Joanne Thompkins called it “the biggest thing” that ever happened to her.
The dish washer and assistant waitress worked part-time at the Gwinnett Diner — which closed its doors for the final time on Sunday — for two years, falling in lov
As a devoted viewer of the best that television has to offer -- and the other 500 shows too -- I should be looking forward to Thursday's announcement of the 2011 prime-time Emmy nominations. But even in high-def, television's biggest night has become bor
I've created my own special awards for broadcast television shows called the Broadys. You may be asking yourself, “Broadys? What is that?” … Well, the Broadys are yearly awards for broadcast network television series and only broadcast network television
MONTREAL - It’s a Match Made in Hell. But a promising one, as it turns out.
Match Made in Hell is actually the name of a raucous Montreal sketch comedy troupe. Its three members, Alain Mercieca, Lise Vigneault and Léa Rondot, are not only performing in b
By Eleanor Smeal, Special to CNN Eleanor Smeal and former first lady Betty Ford appear at a 1981 countdown rally for the Equal Rights Amendment in Washington. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Eleanor Smeal says Betty Ford quickly agreed to help push for Equal Rights Ame
That hooting and hollering you hear right now? That's NBC celebrating that it finally booked a "replacement" for Steve Carell on The Office. After being deemed "doomed" without its beloved star, a botched attempt at building buzz through a Will Ferrell g
By Michele Miller , Times Staff Writer In Print: Friday, July 8, 2011 Trish Chaney and Rick Butcher in the opening scene of the romantic comedy. [Michele Miller | Times] Catch it before it's gone. This weekend and next, the Tarpon Springs Cultural Center
Fans may have been surprised when Kix Brooks announced that he was going to appear in the upcoming film 'Thirftstore Cowboy,' but the singer-songwriter has had the acting itch for quite a while.
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LOS ANGELES - The things my father laughed at, I laugh at. I was reminded of this recently when I read of Peter Falk's passing.
I like to think they're up there somewhere, chewing on life and cigars, both of them in their rumpled overcoats. I still have
The West Coast premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's "Good People" is set to open at the Geffen Playhouse in the spring.
The production, which was nominated for a 2010 Tony Award for best play about a woman from South Bosto
David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony-nominated play, Good People, has been added to the Geffen Playhouse's upcoming season, and will run April 3-May 13, 2012.
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No creative team (or cast) was made public for the comic drama about a working-poor Boston single mother who seeks out an old flame from the neighborhood. He's now a doctor, and she's in need of a job.
The play was nominated for a 2011 Best Play Tony A
One of the reasons that Showtime has achieved the level of success with its original programming is in it's forming a new genre ---- the half-hour dramedy. Over the past few years, it has focused some truly marvelous shows centered around women with debi
It was Rita Ford’s voice that people noticed. It was hard not to.
“A voice like that only comes along once every 100 years,’’ an adjudicator remarked several years ago at the annual Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theatres competition.
“To
My husband and I are celebrating our 44th wedding anniversary this week.
When this time of year rolls around, we always joke and say – drawing out the “o” in “long” – that we’ve surely been married a long, long, long time. That presentation, of course,
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Cathy tries dabbling in the supernatural after she's unsuccessful at scoring a spot in a clinical trial for a new cancer treatme
SE02E02: It appears that last week’s speculation that this season would focus on the Anger stage of grieving was mostly wishful thinking. In yesterday’s episode, Cathy’s primary storyline involves her new doctor, Dr. Sherman (Alan Alda, who's basically d
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Why do they always have paintings of women looking out of windows? Are they waiting for us to jump?- Cathy
That's an excellent question, considering how this week's installment chose to feature on themes of life and death, and the time in between. This w
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LEAVENWORTH, Wash. – Police say a 69-year-old Chelan County woman has drowned on a guided rafting trip on the Wenatchee River.
The Wenatchee World says Sharon G. Hughes was one of seven family members and a guide who were on a raft whe
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Forrest Gump got it wrong. Life is not like a box of chocolates – It’s like a game of musical chairs. And, in order to win, you have to take a chair from someone who will inevitably end up without one.
At least that’s what Cathy learned in tonight’s The
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Now that Cathy has gotten over the hurdle of informing all of her family about The Big C, it’s now on to another stage: survival.
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The Superman Returns star has a four-episode arc on the new season of The Big C as Poppy Kowalski, an emotionally stun
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
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FILE - In this Monday, June 6, 2011 file photo, former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, appears at his arraignment on charges of sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid, at State Supreme Court in New York. Attorney William Taylor is at left.
Its Canada day and as the only Canuck who writes on the site I felt it was my duty ( or something like that ) to share some great movies to watch on Canada day.
These movies are either Canadian made productions or feature some great Canadian talent makin
The things my father laughed at, I laugh at. I was reminded of this recently when I read of Peter Falk's passing.
Like to think they're up there somewhere, chewing on life and cigars, both of them in their rumpled overcoats. I still have my father's old
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Showtime's The Big C returns for a second season with "Losing Patients." In the premiere, Cathy (Laura Linney) que
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INTELLIGENCE SQUARED DEBATE: Freedom of the Press Does Not Extend to State Secrets --The First Amendment protects freedom of the press, but how do we reconcile the conflict between national security
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