Not even unsubstantiated death threats could keep Mike Tyson's adoring fans -- including Puff Daddy P. Diddy Sean Combs Diddy -- away from Broadway's Longacre Theater last night, where the former Heavyweight Champion of the World performed his one-man show, Mike Tyson: The Undisputed Truth. The influence of director Spike Lee could be felt here and there: the ultra-loud pre-show mix of rap classics, spun by D.J. Clark Kent, called to mind the opening montage of Lee's film "Do the Right Thing," as did the banners featuring names of Brooklyn neighborhoods from "Bed Stuy Do or Die" to, oddly enough, Park Slope. Once the show began, the overwhelmingly male, mostly white audience cheered every time Tyson referenced his legendary boxing career -- and guffawed in a way that probably would have made Dave Chappelle squirm every time he said the word "motherfucker." (He said it a lot.
- 8/8/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Matthew Broderick has signed on to a comedy pilot at NBC, marking his first regular role in a TV series.
Broderick will star in a show called "Beach Lane," the showbiz trade papers report. The show would follow his character, a well-known author who's hired to run a small newspaper in the Hamptons by the paper's owner, the scion of a wealthy family.
"NewsRadio" creator Paul Simms is writing the pilot and will executive produce with "Saturday Night Live" guru Lorne Michaels and Marci Klein.
Broderick guest-starred on "30 Rock" in 2008 and has starred in several TV movies (most recently "The Music Man" on ABC in 2003), but "Beach Lane" would be his first full-time commitment to a TV series.
Other pilot news:
- CBS has greenlit a pair of drama pilots, one from "Sopranos" veterans Mitchell Green and Robin Burgess and one from "ER" and "Souhtland" exec producer John Wells.
Green...
Broderick will star in a show called "Beach Lane," the showbiz trade papers report. The show would follow his character, a well-known author who's hired to run a small newspaper in the Hamptons by the paper's owner, the scion of a wealthy family.
"NewsRadio" creator Paul Simms is writing the pilot and will executive produce with "Saturday Night Live" guru Lorne Michaels and Marci Klein.
Broderick guest-starred on "30 Rock" in 2008 and has starred in several TV movies (most recently "The Music Man" on ABC in 2003), but "Beach Lane" would be his first full-time commitment to a TV series.
Other pilot news:
- CBS has greenlit a pair of drama pilots, one from "Sopranos" veterans Mitchell Green and Robin Burgess and one from "ER" and "Souhtland" exec producer John Wells.
Green...
- 2/2/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
There are surely more conflicts to come, but the Screen Actors Guild membership on Thursday night settled a big one: Ken Howard has been elected the union's new national president.
Running mate Amy Aquino beat two-time incumbent Connie Stevens in the race for secretary-treasurer. Howard and Aquino will serve two-year terms beginning Friday.
For the moment, at least, the outcomes indicate that a winning 47.2% of the voting segment of SAG's roughly 120,000 members prefers the less strident approach of the self-styled moderate wing of the party represented by Unite for Strength.
Howard collected 12,895 votes, or 3,989 more than MembershipFirst candidate Anne-Marie Johnson, who received 32.6% of the 27,295 votes cast. Independents Seymour Cassel and Asmar Muhammad garnered 17.7% and 1.5%, respectively, in their bid for the presidency.
Ufs came together last year in opposition and in January led a boardroom coup at SAG, installed new negotiators and salvaged a deal with Hollywood producers nearly a...
Running mate Amy Aquino beat two-time incumbent Connie Stevens in the race for secretary-treasurer. Howard and Aquino will serve two-year terms beginning Friday.
For the moment, at least, the outcomes indicate that a winning 47.2% of the voting segment of SAG's roughly 120,000 members prefers the less strident approach of the self-styled moderate wing of the party represented by Unite for Strength.
Howard collected 12,895 votes, or 3,989 more than MembershipFirst candidate Anne-Marie Johnson, who received 32.6% of the 27,295 votes cast. Independents Seymour Cassel and Asmar Muhammad garnered 17.7% and 1.5%, respectively, in their bid for the presidency.
Ufs came together last year in opposition and in January led a boardroom coup at SAG, installed new negotiators and salvaged a deal with Hollywood producers nearly a...
- 9/24/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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