Howard Stern has been one of the most controversial – and revered – figures in the history of modern media. With a passion for the field as a child, Stern’s climb to the top of the radio world truly began in the ‘80s. And he did it off of his unique, button-pressing, FCC-clashing brand and humor: the boobs, the prank calls, the Wack Pack, all of it all made Howard Stern one of the most recognizable figures in all of media. And so as his markets grew and his written word topped the charts – but long before his first $500 million contract with Sirius – it was time for Stern to enter the movie business…with something a little more commercially viable than Butt Bongo Fiesta.
So how did the guy who mocked his wife’s miscarriage on the air and flipped the bird to nearly every boss he’s ever had...
So how did the guy who mocked his wife’s miscarriage on the air and flipped the bird to nearly every boss he’s ever had...
- 2/7/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
How could you not love My Girl, the 1991 hit tale of friendship, romance and tragedy with that great cast? The story is set during the summer of 1972 and centers on Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chulumsky), an 11 year old tomboy. Her dad (Dan Aykroyd) is an undertaker and she lives in a funeral parlor. Her mom died during childbirth and her gramma (Ann Nelson) is losing her mind. When makeup artist Shelly (Jamie Leigh Curtis) starts working with her dad, they become close and eventually fall in love. Vada is jealous of her step-mother to be, but she has a best friend, the adorable Thomas J (Macaulay Culkin) who understands her and she can talk to him about anything. The most unbearable thing for Vada would be losing him, so she is absolutely distraught when tragedy strikes!
I saw My Girl when it was new and have not revisited it until I...
I saw My Girl when it was new and have not revisited it until I...
- 3/17/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
ABC on Thursday became the latest network to trim its 2008-09 development slate, citing the effects of the writers strike on this year's pilot season.
ABC went for a deep cut, releasing about 35-40 scripts, roughly one-third of its slate and the most of any network. Most of the projects are said to hail from the network's sister studio, ABC Studios, and about 15 are believed to be comedy scripts.
ABC's list of dismissed projects is said to include Alana Sanko's Get Out and Rob Lotterstein's One Big Happy. Both are executive produced by ABC Studios-based producers, Salma Hayek and Emile Levisetti, respectively.
Also let go are untitled scripts from Laurice Elehwany, Todd Graff and the duo of Dave Lampson and Andrew Leeds. Graff had been developing his project with non-writing producers Nina Wass and Gene Stein, whose overall deal with ABC Studios was terminated earlier this month, also as a fallout from the strike.
ABC went for a deep cut, releasing about 35-40 scripts, roughly one-third of its slate and the most of any network. Most of the projects are said to hail from the network's sister studio, ABC Studios, and about 15 are believed to be comedy scripts.
ABC's list of dismissed projects is said to include Alana Sanko's Get Out and Rob Lotterstein's One Big Happy. Both are executive produced by ABC Studios-based producers, Salma Hayek and Emile Levisetti, respectively.
Also let go are untitled scripts from Laurice Elehwany, Todd Graff and the duo of Dave Lampson and Andrew Leeds. Graff had been developing his project with non-writing producers Nina Wass and Gene Stein, whose overall deal with ABC Studios was terminated earlier this month, also as a fallout from the strike.
- 1/25/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Variety reports that director Joel Zwick, who helmed the runaway hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding, has signed to direct the offbeat romantic comedy Centerfold for Mandalay Pictures. The screenplay, being rewritten by Laurice Elehwany and Rick Copp (My Girl), revolves around a college senior who, in an attempt to one-up his former high-school nemesis, submits his girlfriend's photo to a calendar contest. Things backfire when a national men's magazine gets a look at the photo and offers said girlfriend a life of money, fame, and posterity as a pin-up centerfold. No stars are yet attached.
- 8/13/2002
- IMDbPro News
THE PRINCE OF TIDES
Columbia
This ambitious film taps deep into the psychological crevices of two Southern twins whose tumultuous past has eroded their will to live. For them, the tides of life cease to beat. Capped by a vigorous, resurgent performance from Nick Nolte, this meticulously presented Barbra Streisand film, despite gushing to a foamy romantic finale, is a glowingly mounted and generally gutty movie. Based on Pat Conroy's best-selling novel, ''The Prince of Tides'' should wash up some solid boxoffice sediment for Columbia.
Scrupulously executed, screenwriters Pat Conroy and Becky John-
Scrupulously executed, screenwriters Pat Conroy and Becky John-ston's brainy adaptation delves deliberately into the traumatic past of affable Southerner Tom Wingo (Nolte), whose good-old-boy charm masks a gnawing, paralytic pain (HR 12/2). -- Duane Byrge
MY GIRL
Columbia
There'll be a Big Mac attack for ''My Girl'': overanxious tots storming to see their ''Home Alone'' hero, Macaulay Culkin, waste the big bad people, and then, blindsided parents who'll have to cope with their little ones' emotional confusion when they emerge from a show where Culkin is struck dead by bee stings.
03Rippling with a tender and robust script from first-time screenwriter Laurice Elehwany, ''My Girl'' is a spirited, early 1970s story about one Middle American girl's coming-of-age: 11-year-old Vada (Anna Chlumsky) is a hyperactive, hypochondriac kid whose home life is, well, funereal -- her widowed father (Dan Aykroyd) is an undertaker and the family abode is also a funeral home.
03''My Girl's'' performances are terrific. Young Chlumsky is a wonderful whirlwind of emotions as the acutely sensitive Vada, while Culkin is endearingly natural as her first kiss (HR 11/27). -- Duane Byrge
Also reviewed last week was the film ''Talkin' Dirty After Dark'' (HR 12/2).
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
Columbia
This ambitious film taps deep into the psychological crevices of two Southern twins whose tumultuous past has eroded their will to live. For them, the tides of life cease to beat. Capped by a vigorous, resurgent performance from Nick Nolte, this meticulously presented Barbra Streisand film, despite gushing to a foamy romantic finale, is a glowingly mounted and generally gutty movie. Based on Pat Conroy's best-selling novel, ''The Prince of Tides'' should wash up some solid boxoffice sediment for Columbia.
Scrupulously executed, screenwriters Pat Conroy and Becky John-
Scrupulously executed, screenwriters Pat Conroy and Becky John-ston's brainy adaptation delves deliberately into the traumatic past of affable Southerner Tom Wingo (Nolte), whose good-old-boy charm masks a gnawing, paralytic pain (HR 12/2). -- Duane Byrge
MY GIRL
Columbia
There'll be a Big Mac attack for ''My Girl'': overanxious tots storming to see their ''Home Alone'' hero, Macaulay Culkin, waste the big bad people, and then, blindsided parents who'll have to cope with their little ones' emotional confusion when they emerge from a show where Culkin is struck dead by bee stings.
03Rippling with a tender and robust script from first-time screenwriter Laurice Elehwany, ''My Girl'' is a spirited, early 1970s story about one Middle American girl's coming-of-age: 11-year-old Vada (Anna Chlumsky) is a hyperactive, hypochondriac kid whose home life is, well, funereal -- her widowed father (Dan Aykroyd) is an undertaker and the family abode is also a funeral home.
03''My Girl's'' performances are terrific. Young Chlumsky is a wonderful whirlwind of emotions as the acutely sensitive Vada, while Culkin is endearingly natural as her first kiss (HR 11/27). -- Duane Byrge
Also reviewed last week was the film ''Talkin' Dirty After Dark'' (HR 12/2).
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 12/3/1991
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There'll be a Big Mac Attack for ''My Girl'': overanxious tots storming to see their ''Home Alone'' hero, Macaulay Culkin, waste the big bad people and, then, blind-sided parents who'll have to cope with their little ones' emotional confusion when they emerge from a show where Culkin is struck dead.
Word-of-mouth in the lower grades at the elementary school will be troubled. Truly, Columbia, to paraphrase the title song, will have ''when it's cold outside, the month of May'' at the boxoffice, but those receipts will be a mixed blessing: this fine film's most appreciative audience may be adults over 35 who will only inadvertently show up for this offering, who, like their kids, will think ''My Girl'' is some sort of ''Home Alone'' clone. Why should they think different, the ads are careful not to say.
The film's most enthusiastic viewers will likely be found six months hence in the family video room, among adults who find they're hooked on this beguiling coming-of-age drama just as their kids scamper away to noisier, less-troubling activity.
Rippling with a tender and robust script from first-time screenwriter Laurice Elehwany, ''My Girl'' is a spirited, early 1970s story about one Middle American girl's coming-of-age: 11-year-old Vada (Anna Chlumsky) is a hyperactive, hypochondriac kid whose home life is, well, funereal -- her widowed father (Dan Aykroyd) is an undertaker and the family abode is also a funeral home.
Bright and super-sensitive, young Vada is susceptible to unrelenting fears of death: like first-year med students, she thinks she has the terminal symptoms of whatever disease her father's latest ''client'' died from. In short, her whole home setting, which includes a senile grandmother, prompts this morbidity.
Her only solaces are a kind schoolteacher (Griffin Dunne), whom she develops a crush on, and her tag-along friend Thomas J. (Culkin), whose shy gentleness soothes her. But deep down, the little girl is troubled by an overwhelming burden -- her mother died as a result of her birth and she feels guilty!
Also, still suffering the pangs of that death is Vada's father, Harry. has schlumped to an easy chair and a sitcom. His resuscitation here, however, is decidedly less complex than his daughter's: a leggy cosmetologist Jamie Lee Curtis) comes to work for him and, amazingly, her eyeshadow immediately turns to goo over the hefty Harry.
While this parallel adult-style revitalization is pleasing, it is perhaps this somber story's weakest, most facile link. Nonetheless, director Howard Zieff ties it all together with a masterly, if somewhat over-rosy, knot.
''My Girl's'' performances are terrific. Young Chlumsky is a wonderful whirlwind of emotions as the acutely sensitive Vada, while Culkin is endearingly natural as her first kiss. Once again, Aykroyd shows his considerable strength as a dramatic actor.
Tech contributions are tops: Joseph T. Garrity's production design and Karen Patch's costume design color this Nixon/Agnew-era story with the festering contradictions of the times, while James Newton Howard's music layers in all the right emotional lilts.
MY GIRL
Columbia
A Brian Grazer-Imagine Films Entertainment Production
A Howard Zieff Film
Producer Brian Grazer
Director Howard Zieff
Screenwriter Laurice Elehwany
Executive producers Joseph M. Caracciolo, David T. Friendly
Director of photography Paul Elliott
Production designer Joseph T. Garrity
Editor Wendy Greene Bricmont
Music James Newton Howard
Casting Mary Colquhoun
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Harry Sultenfuss Dan Aykroyd
Shelly DeVoto Jamie Lee Curtis
Thomas J. Sennett Macaulay Culkin
Vada Sultenfuss Anna Chlumsky
Phil Sultenfuss Richard Masur
Mr. Bixler Griffin Dunne
Gramoo Sultenfuss Ann Nelson
Dr. Welty Peter Michael Goetz
Running time -- 102 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
Word-of-mouth in the lower grades at the elementary school will be troubled. Truly, Columbia, to paraphrase the title song, will have ''when it's cold outside, the month of May'' at the boxoffice, but those receipts will be a mixed blessing: this fine film's most appreciative audience may be adults over 35 who will only inadvertently show up for this offering, who, like their kids, will think ''My Girl'' is some sort of ''Home Alone'' clone. Why should they think different, the ads are careful not to say.
The film's most enthusiastic viewers will likely be found six months hence in the family video room, among adults who find they're hooked on this beguiling coming-of-age drama just as their kids scamper away to noisier, less-troubling activity.
Rippling with a tender and robust script from first-time screenwriter Laurice Elehwany, ''My Girl'' is a spirited, early 1970s story about one Middle American girl's coming-of-age: 11-year-old Vada (Anna Chlumsky) is a hyperactive, hypochondriac kid whose home life is, well, funereal -- her widowed father (Dan Aykroyd) is an undertaker and the family abode is also a funeral home.
Bright and super-sensitive, young Vada is susceptible to unrelenting fears of death: like first-year med students, she thinks she has the terminal symptoms of whatever disease her father's latest ''client'' died from. In short, her whole home setting, which includes a senile grandmother, prompts this morbidity.
Her only solaces are a kind schoolteacher (Griffin Dunne), whom she develops a crush on, and her tag-along friend Thomas J. (Culkin), whose shy gentleness soothes her. But deep down, the little girl is troubled by an overwhelming burden -- her mother died as a result of her birth and she feels guilty!
Also, still suffering the pangs of that death is Vada's father, Harry. has schlumped to an easy chair and a sitcom. His resuscitation here, however, is decidedly less complex than his daughter's: a leggy cosmetologist Jamie Lee Curtis) comes to work for him and, amazingly, her eyeshadow immediately turns to goo over the hefty Harry.
While this parallel adult-style revitalization is pleasing, it is perhaps this somber story's weakest, most facile link. Nonetheless, director Howard Zieff ties it all together with a masterly, if somewhat over-rosy, knot.
''My Girl's'' performances are terrific. Young Chlumsky is a wonderful whirlwind of emotions as the acutely sensitive Vada, while Culkin is endearingly natural as her first kiss. Once again, Aykroyd shows his considerable strength as a dramatic actor.
Tech contributions are tops: Joseph T. Garrity's production design and Karen Patch's costume design color this Nixon/Agnew-era story with the festering contradictions of the times, while James Newton Howard's music layers in all the right emotional lilts.
MY GIRL
Columbia
A Brian Grazer-Imagine Films Entertainment Production
A Howard Zieff Film
Producer Brian Grazer
Director Howard Zieff
Screenwriter Laurice Elehwany
Executive producers Joseph M. Caracciolo, David T. Friendly
Director of photography Paul Elliott
Production designer Joseph T. Garrity
Editor Wendy Greene Bricmont
Music James Newton Howard
Casting Mary Colquhoun
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Harry Sultenfuss Dan Aykroyd
Shelly DeVoto Jamie Lee Curtis
Thomas J. Sennett Macaulay Culkin
Vada Sultenfuss Anna Chlumsky
Phil Sultenfuss Richard Masur
Mr. Bixler Griffin Dunne
Gramoo Sultenfuss Ann Nelson
Dr. Welty Peter Michael Goetz
Running time -- 102 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 11/27/1991
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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