Chicago – As the leaves begin to crunch beneath our feet, the Fall 2023 Chicago Humanities Festival – ongoing since September – will kick into gear in October with an amazing line-up of celebrity and talkback events. For a complete list and guide to the Festival, click Chicago Humanities.
Photographer Joe Arce has captured Exclusive Portraits beforehand with some of the celebrity attendees. They are pictured below with a link to their event (Click the headline name) and a short description. The 2023 Fall Chicago Humanities Festival takes place through November 17th.
Keegan-michael Key, October 5th
Keegan-Michael Key
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
An Evening With Keegan-michael Key and Elle Key is connected to their critically acclaimed podcast of the same name. Plus they are sharing their new book “The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor.” The book will take readers on a...
Photographer Joe Arce has captured Exclusive Portraits beforehand with some of the celebrity attendees. They are pictured below with a link to their event (Click the headline name) and a short description. The 2023 Fall Chicago Humanities Festival takes place through November 17th.
Keegan-michael Key, October 5th
Keegan-Michael Key
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
An Evening With Keegan-michael Key and Elle Key is connected to their critically acclaimed podcast of the same name. Plus they are sharing their new book “The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor.” The book will take readers on a...
- 10/2/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago –Rainn Wilson is best known of course in his magnificent interpretation as Dwight Schrute on TV’s ‘The Office,’ but his foray into spirituality is why he is appearing at the Chicago Humanities Festival on Friday, April 21st, 2023, promoting his new book, “Soul Boom: Why We Need Spiritual Revolution.” For tickets and more info, click Chi Humanities.
Rainn Wilson is a beloved comedic actor, producer, and author … providing his unique perspective and humor in his new book, within the traumas of our modern world. Wilson tackles some profound issues in “Soul Boom,” including mental illness, racism, sexism, climate change and economic injustice. He will sit down at the Chicago Humanities Festival with the VP of “The Second City” comedy empire, Kelly Leonard, for a chat and Q&a opportunity. It’s sure to be peppered with plenty of Kung Fu and “Star Trek” references, as only Rainn Wilson can offer.
Rainn Wilson is a beloved comedic actor, producer, and author … providing his unique perspective and humor in his new book, within the traumas of our modern world. Wilson tackles some profound issues in “Soul Boom,” including mental illness, racism, sexism, climate change and economic injustice. He will sit down at the Chicago Humanities Festival with the VP of “The Second City” comedy empire, Kelly Leonard, for a chat and Q&a opportunity. It’s sure to be peppered with plenty of Kung Fu and “Star Trek” references, as only Rainn Wilson can offer.
- 4/21/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Until you start watching killer rat movies, you don’t realize how few killer rat movies there are. It’s not a sub-genre that sparked off franchises (does Willard and its sequel Ben count? Let me know) or inspired Funko toys, but rather has films strewn here and there throughout horror history. Today we’re scurrying back to my particular turf for Deadly Eyes (1982), Golden Harvest’s Canadian-lensed attempt to move over from Kung Fu to Rodent Fu. (Sorry Joe Bob Briggs, I couldn’t resist.)
Released in October by Golden Harvest (the Honk Kong based studio with nearly 300 production credits) in Canada and stateside by Warner Brothers the following April, Deadly Eyes (aka Night Eyes) laid droppings all over the place according to critics and audiences alike, and was quickly relegated to clamshell heaven. Was it a film ahead of its time? God no. But Deadly Eyes is way more fun than I remembered,...
Released in October by Golden Harvest (the Honk Kong based studio with nearly 300 production credits) in Canada and stateside by Warner Brothers the following April, Deadly Eyes (aka Night Eyes) laid droppings all over the place according to critics and audiences alike, and was quickly relegated to clamshell heaven. Was it a film ahead of its time? God no. But Deadly Eyes is way more fun than I remembered,...
- 10/28/2017
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Theater lovers convened at New World Stages in New York City for the fifth annual TEDxBroadway earlier this week. Curated for the Ted Talks format to inspire artists, shed light on pressing issues facing the community, and draw parallels between unlikely passions, the full day of talks featured 20 speakers including iLuminate creator Miral Kotb; Feinstein’s/54 Below’s Jennifer Ashley Tepper; the Second City’s creative advisor, Kelly Leonard; Oscar-winning co-writer for “Birdman” and author of recent Broadway hit “On Your Feet!,” Alex Dinelaris; theater-inspired scientist Erin Lavik; and others. “Everything you do is leading to something surprising and inevitable. You just have to pay attention,” said the day’s opener, Dinelaris, of the creative process. He later told Backstage he was honored to be invited to the event, and also offered up advice to auditioning actors: “Whatever your method is—whether it’s self-taught, or Adler, or Meisner, or Atlantic—bring yourself to it.
- 2/23/2016
- backstage.com
Chicago – The comedy juggernaut of Adam McKay and Will Ferrell is about to descend on the holiday movie season with “Anchorman 2,” the sequel to the popular first film. McKay is the behind-the-scenes partner with Ferrell, producing hilarious favorites like “Talladega Nights,” and co-founding the “Funny or Die” website.
McKay has had virtually every job in comedy, and his roots are right here in Chicago as a writer and performer. In 1990, he helped to start the Upright Citizens Brigade, which came out of Chicago’s Improv Olympics (iO), and moved from there to the mainstage cast of The Second City in 1995. He auditioned shortly thereafter for “Saturday Night Live,” and he worked as a writer there from the mid 1990s to 2001, serving as head writer for three seasons.
Adam McKay and Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy on the Set of ‘Anchorman 2’
Photo credit: Paramount Pictures
After leaving “SNL,” he...
McKay has had virtually every job in comedy, and his roots are right here in Chicago as a writer and performer. In 1990, he helped to start the Upright Citizens Brigade, which came out of Chicago’s Improv Olympics (iO), and moved from there to the mainstage cast of The Second City in 1995. He auditioned shortly thereafter for “Saturday Night Live,” and he worked as a writer there from the mid 1990s to 2001, serving as head writer for three seasons.
Adam McKay and Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy on the Set of ‘Anchorman 2’
Photo credit: Paramount Pictures
After leaving “SNL,” he...
- 12/17/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Can former Saturday Night Live cast member and recent Tea Party, anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-Obama nutjob Victoria Jackson make a comeback in Hollywood? She's certainly going to try. Kelly Leonard, vice president of Second City comedy thinks she can. “Talent wins out. If she has talent, Hollywood will let you do anything.”
Oz the Great and Powerful ended up doing better at the box office than estimated, pulling in $80.4 million, making it the biggest opening since The Hobbit in December.
What happens when the internet gets a photo of Joseph Gordon-Levitt working out? Hilarity, that's what!
Princess Lilian of Sweden has passed away at the age of 97. Originally a commoner, Princess Lilian was secretly wed to Prince Bertil for 30 years before the marriage became public so as not to threaten the line of succession.
Cats have no respect for personal property.
With Justin Timberlake pulling double duty as both host and musical guest,...
Oz the Great and Powerful ended up doing better at the box office than estimated, pulling in $80.4 million, making it the biggest opening since The Hobbit in December.
What happens when the internet gets a photo of Joseph Gordon-Levitt working out? Hilarity, that's what!
Princess Lilian of Sweden has passed away at the age of 97. Originally a commoner, Princess Lilian was secretly wed to Prince Bertil for 30 years before the marriage became public so as not to threaten the line of succession.
Cats have no respect for personal property.
With Justin Timberlake pulling double duty as both host and musical guest,...
- 3/11/2013
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
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