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14 articles from 2009
DVD Playhouse--December 2009
19 December 2009 3:11 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—December 2009
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Public Enemies (Universal) Johnny Depp portrays legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger in co- writer/director Michael Mann’s take on America’s first “Public Enemy Number One.” Like many big studio releases today, Public Enemies has it all: A-list talent before and behind the camera, but lacks a heart or soul that allows its audience to connect with it. Film plays out like a “true crime” TV show with re-enactments of famous events cast with top actors and shot by the best technicians in the business, with little, if any, character or story development to hold it together in between. A real disappointment from one of our finest filmmakers and finest actors. The lone standout: the great character actor Stephen Lang as a hard-eyed lawman who’s seen a lot, but manages to retain a tiny piece of his heart. For a better take on the same subject, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Gay Of The Dead #29 - Socket’s Alexandra Billings
1 December 2009 2:29 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
December 1 is World AIDS Day, and I have the pleasure of knowing someone HIV+ who is both connected to the horror/sci-fi world and a huge fan, actress Alexandra Billings.
I met Alexandra ages and ages ago, right around when someone invented fire. We were both eyeballs deep in the Chicago theater community, doing show after show, sometimes two or even three different plays a night, with the energy only a 20-something possesses. We worked together, became friends, and eventually both moved to La around the same time. You can read a fairly detailed account of her Chicago days (through my eyes) including a lot of info about her transgender journey in my other blog here: http://zombietruckstop.livejournal.com/2006/12/01/ - and of course on her own website.
After so much theater, Alexandra now swims around the Los Angeles on-camera, TV and film pool, slowly but surely convincing forward-thinking casting »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Sean Abley)
'Gilda Live' now on DVD: Anybody else excited about this?
19 November 2009 1:54 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
A few weeks ago, with zero fanfare, Warner Bros. released a DVD version of Gilda Live, the Mike Nichols-directed concert pic of Gilda Radner's 1979 one-woman show. The disc -- a bare-bones straight-from-video transfer -- ended up under the piles of new releases on my desk until yesterday, when I found it, popped it in my computer, and smiled for 96 minutes straight. (Check out the clip below of Gilda's inspired tap dance "audition.") I can't judge Gilda Live in any sort of objective way. It replayed endlessly on Comedy Central when I was younger, and the skits, the songs, »
- Adam Markovitz
Joe Flaherty on the Glory Days of Second City TV—and Why Old People Aren't Funny
16 November 2009 12:35 PM, PST | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
From December 11 through 13, alumni of improvisational comedy’s most influential training ground, The Second City, will congregate in Chicago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the theater’s founding. And as part of my reporting on the theater’s history and its illustrious roster of alumni for this month’s Fanfair section (Laugh Factory: Second City Celebrates 50 Years), I interviewed one of my favorite Second City veterans: Joe Flaherty. Fans of another school of comedy—Judd Apatow University—will remember Flaherty from his role as Harold Weir, father of Lindsay and Sam Weir in the beloved but short-lived Freaks and Geeks. But I revere Flaherty for his work on the always funny, often brilliant Second City television series—Sctv—that began in Toronto and eventually moved to the NBC network on Friday nights as a stepsister to Saturday Night Live, which has counted such Second City alumni as Bill Murray, »
It’S Garry Shandling’S Show The Complete Series DVD Review
29 October 2009 12:40 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Gary Shandling: 2 for 2. Two TV shows, two masterpieces. But where more people are familiar with his later Larry Sanders Show, It’s Gary Shandling’s Show has not received the same posthumous praise or attention, partly because it was a Showtime show in the mid to late 80’s, and then began playing on the just-starting Fox network. The show aired for four seasons, and then was out. And to be fair, it ran out of steam, but when it was on, it was one of the most dazzling formalist TV shows to ever air. My review after the jump.
The premise is that Gary Shandling plays himself, and has a platonic female best friend in Nancy (Molly Cheek) and a married best friend in Pete Schumacher (Michael Tucci). Pete’s wife Jackie (Bernadette Birket) eventually gives birth to a second child, who gets named by the audience, and they have »
- Andre Dellamorte
It’S Garry Shandling’S Show The Complete Series DVD Review
29 October 2009 12:26 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Gary Shandling: 2 for 2. Two TV shows, two masterpieces. But where more people are familiar with his later Larry Sanders Show, It’s Gary Shandling’s Show has not received the same posthumous praise or attention, partly because it was a Showtime show in the mid to late 80’s, and then began playing on the just-starting Fox network. The show aired for four seasons, and then was out. And to be fair, it ran out of steam, but when it was on, it was one of the most dazzling formalist TV shows to ever air. My review after the jump.
The premise is that Gary Shandling plays himself, and has a platonic female best friend in Nancy (Molly Cheek) and a married best friend in Pete Schumacher (Michael Tucci). Pete’s wife Jackie (Bernadette Birket) eventually gives birth to a second child, who gets named by the audience, and they have »
- Andre Dellamorte
DVD Review: Beautiful Series Set For ‘It’s Garry Shandling’s Show’
27 October 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – A lot of classic TV comedies are often pointed to as being “ahead of their time”. The quirky, weird, and memorable “It’s Garry Shandling Show” wasn’t really ahead of its time because there’s nothing quite like it on the air. The groundbreaking cult classic is now available in a gorgeous 16-disc set from Shout Factory and it’s just what Shandling fans deserve.
DVD Rating: 4.5/5.0
Between his stint as the heir apparent to Johnny Carson (Shandling guest hosted “The Tonight Show” an incredible number of times) and the pioneering television he would do on one of the best sitcoms of all time, “The Larry Sanders Show,” there was “It’s Garry Shandling Show,” which ran for 72 episodes from 1986 to 1990. The program was the first ever broadcast on Showtime and would later be rerun and more widely seen on Fox.
Showtime had given Shandling and his co-writer »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Threesome, Anyone?
11 October 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | Momlogic | See recent Momlogic news »
One mom is less than thrilled about the upcoming threesome on "Gossip Girl." Here's why.
Beth Falkenstein: It sounds like something Gilda Radner as Emily Litella might have said on SNL's Weekend Update: "What's this I hear about a threesome on 'Gossip Girl'?" She might then go on to extol the virtues of girlfriends doing things in threes, until Chevy Chase whispered the real meaning of the term in her ear. Her face would register shock -- "Oh, that's very different!" she would exclaim -- then finally end with her trademark "Never mind."
Unfortunately, I do mind.
This may come as a surprise to my friends, who know me as a left-wing, hippie liberal. I'm supposed to be all for sexual freedom. And I am, between consenting adults ... in private. So when I heard that "Gossip Girl" would be featuring a threesome on their November 9 episode, I put my fringe-moccasin'ed foot down. »
[TV] 30 Rock: Season 3
22 September 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
I must admit that it’s taken me a long time to get on the Tina Fey train, but I finally think I’m starting to get the appeal. I always felt lukewarm towards her work on Saturday Night Live, and I had never felt compelled to give 30 Rock any more than cursory consideration, but after watching this season, I’m willing to admit that she’s a very talented woman who plays to a largely unappreciated demographic almost flawlessly, and that 30 Rock is the best representation of her work. I am not without reservation on the show itself, nor do I think she is equally talented in all of her many tasks on the show, but I am no longer going to insist that there is something wrong with people who prefer this show to The Office (though I will still always probably prefer the latter).
The end of »
- Anders Nelson
It's Garry Shandling's Show: The Complete Series Finally Comes to DVD on October 20th
20 July 2009 10:28 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Shout! Factory, in collaboration with Garry Shandling, has announced the start of DVD production on a spectacular new complete series collector's set of Shandling's groundbreaking first TV series It's Garry Shandling's Show. For years, fans and critics alike have been anxiously waiting for the DVD release of the show, which has never been available on home video. It's Garry Shandling's Show: The Complete Series DVD box set is set to debut for the first time on DVD and digital distribution this October 20, 2009.
The DVD box set will be comprised of 16-DVDs, featuring the complete 72 episodes from the entire four seasons, a payload of bonus content and much more - all collected in a lavish package. Garry Shandling and Shout! Factory are currently developing a wide range of in-depth bonus content, including extensive featurettes, commentaries, outtakes and much more!
Before the Internet and reality TV, no one saw the true »
Just for Laughs Chicago: Martin Short on His Own Character
20 June 2009 3:21 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Martin Short, the classic comic performer of Sctv, Saturday Night Live and film, came to Chicago as part of Superstation TBS “Just for Laughs” Festival, hosting and performing in the “Let Freedom Hum” revue on June 17th.
Martin Short (as Lawrence Orbach) and friend as part of ‘Just for Laughs’ Chicago
Photo credit: ©2009 Jeremy Freeman for TBS ‘Just for Laughs’ Chicago Dusting off some of his famous characters, like inept talk show host Jiminy Glick, Short also introduced some of the top comedy stand-up talent in the country, including John Pinnette, Tom Papa, Greg Giraldo, Jeremy Hotz and Kathleen Madigan.
HollywoodChicago.com caught up with Short right after the taping of the special, which will air June 26th on TBS (check listings). He spoke about the Canadian sensibility of comedy, the two second cities and some memories of then and now.
HollywoodChicago.com: How did being born and raised »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Rachel Dratch's Big Fat Greek Adventure
3 June 2009 7:01 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
After six seasons as a "Saturday Night Live" player, offbeat funny lady Rachel Dratch leapt away from a show she calls a safety net to pursue other TV ("30 Rock") and film roles ("I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," "Spring Breakdown"). Her latest opportunity to make us giggle is the new rom-com "My Life in Ruins," which stars Nia Vardalos as a frazzled Greek tour guide (get the title now?) trying to get her "kefi" (groove, mojo, etc.) back. Dratch plays a shrill, uncultured American tourist with whom Vardalos is stuck, with the equally eccentric-humored Harland Williams as Dratch's oblivious beau. Definitely not a Debbie Downer in real life, Dratch was in great spirits as we sat down to discuss the film's hard-partying Spanish crew, her theory on funny women, and who was the best lay on "SNL."
If there's one thing I gleaned from "My Life in Ruins," it's »
- Aaron Hillis
Bea Arthur was a true 'Golden Girl'
26 April 2009 2:31 PM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
Bea Arthur, who died Saturday at 86, was the winner of two Emmy Awards for her starring roles on classic sitcoms "Maude" and "The Golden Girls." Before becoming an unexpected TV star in the 1970s, Bea Arthur enjoyed a long and celebrated career in the theater. She won a Tony Award for featured actress in a musical in 1966 for the role of Vera Charles, bosom buddy to "Mame." Married at the time to theater director Gene Saks, who helmed this tuner adaptation of the play "Auntie Mame," Arthur made no secret of the fact that she would have loved to play the part of the glamourous title character, a part that went to Angela Lansbury. With her basso voice and deadpan delivery, Arthur had to settle for the sidekick role, which turned out to be a natural for her — the man-eating, gin-drinking actress Vera. When the movie version was made in »
- tomoneil
Big-Getter Walters Scores Big Gets
18 February 2009 1:30 AM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Barbara Walters, who is semi-retired from primetime television, where she once competed fiercely for major celebrity and newsmaker interviews -- "the big get," as it's known in the broadcast news business -- said Tuesday that she now deplores the competition. Appearing at a breakfast sponsored by Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Communications, Walters, who was interviewed by the New Yorker's Ken Auletta, said, "I hate the whole idea of the big get, and I think the get has gotten worse. There are fewer big gets because there are so many programs. You do the morning show, and then you do either Regis or The View, and then you do Access Hollywood, CNN, Extra. It's endless." Besides, she said, "Even murderers have agents and lawyers." Asked about the future of television news, Walters replied, "I think the only programs that will still be there as they are now in 10 years are the morning shows. Everything else you can TiVo and watch later or read about on the Internet." On being parodied as Baba Wawa on Saturday Night Live, Walters remarked, "I have learned to pronounce my 'r's much better since Gilda Radner." »
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