On December 26, 1973, horror fans endured long lines for the theatrical premiere of The Exorcist – a film that’s now considered by many to be the scariest movie ever made. Directed by William Friedkin and based on the bestselling novel by William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist broke box office records in its first week of release. Theater employees reported that moviegoers were passing out, becoming ill, and heading for the exits before the credits rolled because the subject matter was so disturbing and intense.
The creation of the classic horror film, which is the gold standard for movies dealing with possession and the devil, begins with Blatty’s novel published in 1971. Blatty’s story focused on a 12-year-old girl named Regan MacNeil who went from a happy-go-lucky, horse-loving preteen to a foul-mouthed, head-spinning nightmare after being possessed by a demon. Coming to Regan’s rescue were two Catholic priests who eventually...
The creation of the classic horror film, which is the gold standard for movies dealing with possession and the devil, begins with Blatty’s novel published in 1971. Blatty’s story focused on a 12-year-old girl named Regan MacNeil who went from a happy-go-lucky, horse-loving preteen to a foul-mouthed, head-spinning nightmare after being possessed by a demon. Coming to Regan’s rescue were two Catholic priests who eventually...
- 10/6/2023
- by Kevin Finnerty
- Showbiz Junkies
It was the battle of the Stephens at the 27th annual Tony Awards telecast March 25, 1973 on ABC from the Imperial Theatre. In one corner was Stephen Sondheim’s glorious and exquisite romantic musical “A Little Night Music” based on Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 comedy “Smiles of a Summer Night.” And in the other corner, 25-year-old Stephen Schwartz’s hip, cool, Fosse Fosse Fosse musical “Pippin.”
“A Little Night Music,” which featured song memorable tunes as “Send in the Clowns” and “A Weekend in the Country,” waltzed into the ceremony hosted by Rex Harrison and Celeste Holm and co-hosted by Sandy Duncan and Jerry Orbach with 12 nominations including best musical, best original score, best book for Hugh Wheeler, best direction of a musical for Harold Prince, best performance by a leading actress in a musical for Glynis Johns, leading actor in a musical for Len Cariou, featured actress in a musical for...
“A Little Night Music,” which featured song memorable tunes as “Send in the Clowns” and “A Weekend in the Country,” waltzed into the ceremony hosted by Rex Harrison and Celeste Holm and co-hosted by Sandy Duncan and Jerry Orbach with 12 nominations including best musical, best original score, best book for Hugh Wheeler, best direction of a musical for Harold Prince, best performance by a leading actress in a musical for Glynis Johns, leading actor in a musical for Len Cariou, featured actress in a musical for...
- 4/5/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Chicago – In one of my trips to New York City, I saw him in the distance on the street (this actually happens often in NYC. Pay attention!). Actor Paul Sorvino, Paulie Cicero of ‘Goodfellas’ legend, as well as many other films/stage/TV/opera work, was unmistakably walking right towards me. “Hey Paulie,” I instinctively said. “Hey,” he said back. Fast forward several years later, Mr. Sorvino was honored by the Chicago Film Critics Awards in 2013, I was a newly minted Chicago Film Critic, and I met him again (see below). Paul Sorvino died on July 25th, 2022, in Jacksonville, Florida. He was 83.
Paul Anthony Sorvino was born in Brooklyn, and studied at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. After a stint in advertising, he made his Broadway debut in 1964 in the musical “Bajour.” Six years later, his was in his first film, Carl Reiner’s “Where’s Poppa” (1970), and one...
Paul Anthony Sorvino was born in Brooklyn, and studied at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. After a stint in advertising, he made his Broadway debut in 1964 in the musical “Bajour.” Six years later, his was in his first film, Carl Reiner’s “Where’s Poppa” (1970), and one...
- 7/28/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Walter Raney, a onetime Fox casting director who ran a Los Angeles repertory company and mentored actors including Jason Patric, Amy Jo Johnson and John Larroquette, has died. He was 79.
Raney died Jan. 2 in Los Angeles of natural causes, his niece, Leanne Rayman, told The Hollywood Reporter.
In 1976, Raney produced and directed a Los Angeles production of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning basketball drama That Championship Season after striking up a friendship with playwright Jason Miller. From that, Raney launched the New Theatre League Repertory, a workshop and showcase for new talent in Hollywood.
Raney produced and/or directed ...
Raney died Jan. 2 in Los Angeles of natural causes, his niece, Leanne Rayman, told The Hollywood Reporter.
In 1976, Raney produced and directed a Los Angeles production of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning basketball drama That Championship Season after striking up a friendship with playwright Jason Miller. From that, Raney launched the New Theatre League Repertory, a workshop and showcase for new talent in Hollywood.
Raney produced and/or directed ...
- 1/20/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Walter Raney, a onetime Fox casting director who ran a Los Angeles repertory company and mentored actors including Jason Patric, Amy Jo Johnson and John Larroquette, has died. He was 79.
Raney died Jan. 2 in Los Angeles of natural causes, his niece, Leanne Rayman, told The Hollywood Reporter.
In 1976, Raney produced and directed a Los Angeles production of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning basketball drama That Championship Season after striking up a friendship with playwright Jason Miller. From that, Raney launched the New Theatre League Repertory, a workshop and showcase for new talent in Hollywood.
Raney produced and/or directed ...
Raney died Jan. 2 in Los Angeles of natural causes, his niece, Leanne Rayman, told The Hollywood Reporter.
In 1976, Raney produced and directed a Los Angeles production of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning basketball drama That Championship Season after striking up a friendship with playwright Jason Miller. From that, Raney launched the New Theatre League Repertory, a workshop and showcase for new talent in Hollywood.
Raney produced and/or directed ...
- 1/20/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“You fool! You can not stop me! I am the ninja! No one, nothing can stop me!.”
BearManor Media has published The Cannon Film Guide, a Trilogy of Books About the Movies Released By the Legendary 1980s B-Movie Studio, Cannon Films. Order The Cannon Film Guide Here
Volume One Available Now: Over 500 Pages Covering the Company’s First Five Years under the Leadership of B-Movie Icons Golan and Globus
From 1980 until 1994, The Cannon Group was responsible for the production of more than 200 films. Quantity, rather than quality, was the key to Cannon’s game: their output included many of the 1980s’ most beloved (and notorious) b-movies. Along the way they dipped their toes into every imaginable genre of movies, made stars out of Chuck Norris and Michael Dudikoff, kicked off the ninja and breakdancing crazes, and kept Charles Bronson working into the twilight of his career. While it’s rare...
BearManor Media has published The Cannon Film Guide, a Trilogy of Books About the Movies Released By the Legendary 1980s B-Movie Studio, Cannon Films. Order The Cannon Film Guide Here
Volume One Available Now: Over 500 Pages Covering the Company’s First Five Years under the Leadership of B-Movie Icons Golan and Globus
From 1980 until 1994, The Cannon Group was responsible for the production of more than 200 films. Quantity, rather than quality, was the key to Cannon’s game: their output included many of the 1980s’ most beloved (and notorious) b-movies. Along the way they dipped their toes into every imaginable genre of movies, made stars out of Chuck Norris and Michael Dudikoff, kicked off the ninja and breakdancing crazes, and kept Charles Bronson working into the twilight of his career. While it’s rare...
- 6/26/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Bernard Gersten, a pioneering force in New York City’s nonprofit theater movement, died today at his home in Manhattan of pancreatic cancer. He was 97.
His death was announced by daughter Jenny Gersten.
“Lincoln Center Theater mourns our cherished Bernard Gersten who died this morning peacefully in his sleep at the astounding age of 97,” the theater company said in a statement. “Bernie’s intelligence, innate sense of goodness, bravery, wisdom, generosity, elegance and wit, and most important, deep knowledge and love of the theater, made him a giant in our...
His death was announced by daughter Jenny Gersten.
“Lincoln Center Theater mourns our cherished Bernard Gersten who died this morning peacefully in his sleep at the astounding age of 97,” the theater company said in a statement. “Bernie’s intelligence, innate sense of goodness, bravery, wisdom, generosity, elegance and wit, and most important, deep knowledge and love of the theater, made him a giant in our...
- 4/27/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Eddie Jones, who played Jonathan Kent on ABC’s Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as part of a five-decade career that spanned TV, movies and theater, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 84.
Jones was a longtime member of Los Angeles’ Interact Theatre Company, which confirmed the news of his death.
“An actor of keen wit and sharp instinct, when Eddie was on stage, you couldn’t take your eyes off him,” the group said on its website. “When he was off-stage, his broad, bright smile would light up the room.”
Jones’ film credits included Seabiscuit in 2003 and Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal the next year. Other movies included A League of Their Own, The Grifters, Cadillac Man, The Rocketeer and Sneakers.
On TV, he appeared as a series regular on Sci Fi Channel’s The Invisible Man as well as in Dark Shadows and The Equalizer,...
Jones was a longtime member of Los Angeles’ Interact Theatre Company, which confirmed the news of his death.
“An actor of keen wit and sharp instinct, when Eddie was on stage, you couldn’t take your eyes off him,” the group said on its website. “When he was off-stage, his broad, bright smile would light up the room.”
Jones’ film credits included Seabiscuit in 2003 and Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal the next year. Other movies included A League of Their Own, The Grifters, Cadillac Man, The Rocketeer and Sneakers.
On TV, he appeared as a series regular on Sci Fi Channel’s The Invisible Man as well as in Dark Shadows and The Equalizer,...
- 7/8/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Susan Bernard, the 1960s cult movie actress who would go on to oversee her father’s iconic archive of Marilyn Monroe photographs and see the son she had with actor Jason Miller, Joshua John Miller, become a successful TV producer in his own right, died unexpectedly at her home in L.A.’s Hancock Park neighborhood Friday. She was 71.
According to family spokesperson Siri Garber, Bernard died suddenly of an apparent heart attack.
Best remembered for her role in Russ Meyer’s 1965 cult epic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Bernard had a rangy Hollywood career than spanned such 1960s-’70s pop culture touchstones as General Hospital, The Beverly Hillbillies, Room 222, The Witchmaker, The Smith Family with Henry Fonda and the 1969 pulp lesbian classic That Tender Touch (since preserved by Outfest’s Legacy Project).
Once voted one of the 100 most beautiful women of the century by Playboy magazine, Bernard was the daughter of Bruno Bernard,...
According to family spokesperson Siri Garber, Bernard died suddenly of an apparent heart attack.
Best remembered for her role in Russ Meyer’s 1965 cult epic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Bernard had a rangy Hollywood career than spanned such 1960s-’70s pop culture touchstones as General Hospital, The Beverly Hillbillies, Room 222, The Witchmaker, The Smith Family with Henry Fonda and the 1969 pulp lesbian classic That Tender Touch (since preserved by Outfest’s Legacy Project).
Once voted one of the 100 most beautiful women of the century by Playboy magazine, Bernard was the daughter of Bruno Bernard,...
- 6/26/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Jason Patric, the actor known for his roles in films like The Lost Boys, After Dark My Sweet, and Speed 2: Cruise Control, has signed with Abrams Artists Agency for theatrical representation. Patric, who was previously repped by Apa, recently filmed The Yellow Birds opposite Jennifer Aniston and Toni Collette and co-starred in the Fox series, Wayward Pines.
Patric, son of actor/playwright Jason Miller, has appeared in stage productions such as Broadway’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Beirut, Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap, Henry V, and the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play That Championship Season.
His forthcoming film slate includes the action-thriller Hour Of Lead, from writer-director Peter Facinelli, the William Coakley-directed indie, Runt, and psychological thriller, Becoming, with Toby Kebbell.
Patric will continue to be repped by Bloom, Hergott, Diemer, Rosenthal.
Patric, son of actor/playwright Jason Miller, has appeared in stage productions such as Broadway’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Beirut, Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap, Henry V, and the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play That Championship Season.
His forthcoming film slate includes the action-thriller Hour Of Lead, from writer-director Peter Facinelli, the William Coakley-directed indie, Runt, and psychological thriller, Becoming, with Toby Kebbell.
Patric will continue to be repped by Bloom, Hergott, Diemer, Rosenthal.
- 3/20/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
If doing standup is like a conversation with the audience, as Jim Gaffigan describes, he’s had quite a few of them.
But while he rose to prominence as one of the country’s most popular comedians on stage, he’s been quietly amassing a collection of film roles that flex some distinctly different muscles. All of that came to a head at Sundance 2019, where Gaffigan is a part of three different films, each occupying a different corner of the indie film world.
“I love standup and the process of developing material, and there’s a certain authority that you have as the writer. Whereas, it’s definitely a collaboration in an acting world. You feel a responsibility not only to the director and the writer, but to the character,” Gaffigan told IndieWire.
In the “Light from Light,” he plays a widower who thinks he might be seeing proof of his deceased wife’s spirit.
But while he rose to prominence as one of the country’s most popular comedians on stage, he’s been quietly amassing a collection of film roles that flex some distinctly different muscles. All of that came to a head at Sundance 2019, where Gaffigan is a part of three different films, each occupying a different corner of the indie film world.
“I love standup and the process of developing material, and there’s a certain authority that you have as the writer. Whereas, it’s definitely a collaboration in an acting world. You feel a responsibility not only to the director and the writer, but to the character,” Gaffigan told IndieWire.
In the “Light from Light,” he plays a widower who thinks he might be seeing proof of his deceased wife’s spirit.
- 2/1/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
This summer, Fox's Wayward Pines is back for a second season with a star-studded cast which now includes Jason Patric (The Lost Boys, Narc).
Press Release: Jason Patric (“Rush,” “Narc”) has been cast in a leading role in Wayward Pines, the hit psychological thriller event series returning for a second season this summer on Fox. Patric will portray Dr. Theo Yedlin, a confident, driven surgeon whose leadership skills will prove invaluable to the residents of Wayward Pines.
From executive producer M. Night Shyamalan (“The Sixth Sense,” “The Visit”) and based on the world created by author Blake Crouch in his international best-selling series of books, the 10-episode, second season will pick up after the shocking events of Season One, with the residents of Wayward Pines battling against the iron-fisted rule of the First Generation. Dr. Theo Yedlin – a new resident of Wayward Pines – awakens from suspended animation and finds himself...
Press Release: Jason Patric (“Rush,” “Narc”) has been cast in a leading role in Wayward Pines, the hit psychological thriller event series returning for a second season this summer on Fox. Patric will portray Dr. Theo Yedlin, a confident, driven surgeon whose leadership skills will prove invaluable to the residents of Wayward Pines.
From executive producer M. Night Shyamalan (“The Sixth Sense,” “The Visit”) and based on the world created by author Blake Crouch in his international best-selling series of books, the 10-episode, second season will pick up after the shocking events of Season One, with the residents of Wayward Pines battling against the iron-fisted rule of the First Generation. Dr. Theo Yedlin – a new resident of Wayward Pines – awakens from suspended animation and finds himself...
- 2/5/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Fifteen years ago, Jim Gaffigan was yet another young stand-up comic riding the conveyer belt from the comedy clubs to a network sitcom in the wake of the success of Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano, Tim Allen, and more. His CBS sitcom "Welcome to New York" was designed as a vehicle for him, but somewhere between the start of development and when it hit the air, the focus shifted to co-star Christine Baranski, an Emmy winner for CBS' "Cybill." It turned out to be a good showcase for neither, and produced only 13 episodes before calling it quits. That wasn't the end of Jim Gaffigan, sitcom actor, but for a long time, it was the end of Jim Gaffigan, aspiring sitcom star. He took jobs on other people's shows ("The Ellen Show," "My Boys") and largely focused on his food-obsessed comedy act (like his famous routine about Hot Pockets). Given how well...
- 7/14/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Richard Dysart, the Emmy-winning actor who portrayed the cranky senior partner Leland McKenzie in the slick, long-running NBC drama L.A. Law, has died. He was 86. Dysart, who also played Coach in the original 1972 Broadway production of Jason Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning That Championship Season, died Sunday at home in Santa Monica after a long illness, his wife, artist Kathryn Jacobi, told The Hollywood Reporter. The acclaimed L.A. Law — created by Steven Bochco (who eventually handed off the series to David E. Kelley) and Terry Louise Fisher — aired for eight seasons from 1986
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- 4/9/2015
- by Mike Barnes, Duane Byrge
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Believe it or not, it has been 20 years since The Mighty Ducks graced your movie screens (for the second time). And in honor of the movie that inspired us all to attempt ice skating and say “Quack” repeatedly, Time caught up with those involved for a full oral history of the franchise.
Here’s what we learned:
The first draft was much darker. “The draft I wrote in that apartment was much darker,” writer Steve Brill said. “It wasn’t a Disney movie. There weren’t murders or anything, but there was some adult romance. And a lot of hockey...
Here’s what we learned:
The first draft was much darker. “The draft I wrote in that apartment was much darker,” writer Steve Brill said. “It wasn’t a Disney movie. There weren’t murders or anything, but there was some adult romance. And a lot of hockey...
- 6/10/2014
- by Samantha Highfill
- EW.com - PopWatch
The Mighty Ducks, the '90s ice hockey kids movie franchise, might be revived for a fourth movie, according to producer Jordan Kerner.
During an extensive discussion about the 20th anniversary of D2: The Mighty Ducks with Time, Kerner said that Disney has approached him about a follow-up movie, but said that he was still trying to find the right story to tell.
"There have been a number of times that we have discussed with the studio the idea of either bringing it back and bringing it back possibly with one or two of the guys who are now in their thirties as the coaches, and having a few more of them be their friends in their lives and having the kids come back," said Kerner.
"And I've been pitched a story two or three times. It hasn't been the right story yet, but the idea of doing that is...
During an extensive discussion about the 20th anniversary of D2: The Mighty Ducks with Time, Kerner said that Disney has approached him about a follow-up movie, but said that he was still trying to find the right story to tell.
"There have been a number of times that we have discussed with the studio the idea of either bringing it back and bringing it back possibly with one or two of the guys who are now in their thirties as the coaches, and having a few more of them be their friends in their lives and having the kids come back," said Kerner.
"And I've been pitched a story two or three times. It hasn't been the right story yet, but the idea of doing that is...
- 6/10/2014
- Digital Spy
"The Exorcist," released 40 years ago this week (on December 26, 1973), is widely regarded as the scariest movie ever made, but after four decades, two sequels, two prequels, and countless spoofs, is there anything about the tale of demon-possessed Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) and the priests who try to save her (Max von Sydow and Jason Miller) left to jolt and shock us?
Maybe there is. "Exorcist" director William Friedkin's 2013 memoir, "The Friedkin Connection," has three chapters full of dish on the making of the film, including which characters were based on famous people, how some of the famous special effects were accomplished, how he came to slap a Jesuit priest, and whether or not the production was cursed. Here are 25 things you may not know about "The Exorcist," many of them from Friedkin's recent book.
1. The real case that inspired William Peter Blatty's novel and screenplay was the 1949 exorcism of a 14-year-old boy,...
Maybe there is. "Exorcist" director William Friedkin's 2013 memoir, "The Friedkin Connection," has three chapters full of dish on the making of the film, including which characters were based on famous people, how some of the famous special effects were accomplished, how he came to slap a Jesuit priest, and whether or not the production was cursed. Here are 25 things you may not know about "The Exorcist," many of them from Friedkin's recent book.
1. The real case that inspired William Peter Blatty's novel and screenplay was the 1949 exorcism of a 14-year-old boy,...
- 12/26/2013
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Bruce Dern is at the top of his game in Alexander Payne's road movie about a father and son's quest for riches
When putting together his critically acclaimed neo-noir thriller After Dark, My Sweet, James Foley instructed his casting director to "go find me a Bruce Dern type" for the crucial role of Uncle Bud, a retired cop whose avuncular manner masks an undercurrent of psychosis. For three months, a succession of hopeful players was brought to Foley's attention but all fell short of the mark, none possessing the necessary blend of twinkling intensity and barely repressed craziness. In the end, exasperated, the casting director made a startling suggestion: "Why don't you just get Bruce Dern?"
Having worked with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Bob Rafelson, Roger Corman and Hal Ashby, Dern had earned himself a reputation in the 1960s and 1970s as a purveyor of wild-eyed rebels,...
When putting together his critically acclaimed neo-noir thriller After Dark, My Sweet, James Foley instructed his casting director to "go find me a Bruce Dern type" for the crucial role of Uncle Bud, a retired cop whose avuncular manner masks an undercurrent of psychosis. For three months, a succession of hopeful players was brought to Foley's attention but all fell short of the mark, none possessing the necessary blend of twinkling intensity and barely repressed craziness. In the end, exasperated, the casting director made a startling suggestion: "Why don't you just get Bruce Dern?"
Having worked with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Bob Rafelson, Roger Corman and Hal Ashby, Dern had earned himself a reputation in the 1960s and 1970s as a purveyor of wild-eyed rebels,...
- 12/8/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Bruce Dern in ‘Nebraska’: AFI Fest 2013 highlight The Los Angeles-based AFI Fest, which kicked off last Thursday, November 7, 2013, continues until next Thursday. On Monday, November 11, the highlight of AFI Fest 2013 is Alexander Payne’s Nebraska (7:00 p.m. at Tcl Chinese Theatre), likely to earn a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for veteran Bruce Dern, who earlier this year took home the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. (Photo: Bruce Dern, Will Forte in Nebraska.) Set in Kentucky (kidding), Nebraska accompanies an elderly man (Dern) and his son (Will Forte) as they travel from Billings, Montana, to Lincoln, Nebraska, so he can collect sweepstakes prize money he believes he has won. In sum, Nebraska is what’s called a Road Movie, in which the Road is a metaphor for Life. Shades of brothers Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise getting to know one another in Barry Levinson’s Rain Man,...
- 11/11/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Today, we're featuring Jason Patric circa 1986. In 2005, Patric appeared on Broadway as 'Brick' in a revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, opposite starred Ashley Judd, Ned Beatty and Margo Martindale. He next appeared on Broadway opposite Brian Cox, Chris Noth, Kiefer Sutherland and Jim Gaffigan in a revival of his father Jason Miller's play, That Championship Season, which began previews on February 9, 2011 and closed on May 29, 2011.
- 8/26/2013
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Chicago – The hilarious comedy of Jim Gaffigan is about to go beyond Hot Pockets. Gaffigan will be in the Chicago area on May 8th and 9th, 2013, to promote his very first book, “Dad is Fat,” in which he applies his keen observational powers through his experience in being a father of five children.
Jim Gaffigan is hugely popular for his riffs on the American obsession with convenience foods, and hearing his Hot Pockets routine just once will have you humming the famous jingle for days (“Hot Pockets!”). Gaffigan grew up as the youngest of six siblings in Chesterton, Indiana, but began his stand-up career in New York City. He honed his act to feature his signature bits on food, and his Comedy Central specials (“Beyond the Pale,” “King Baby”) have been major blockbusters. He also has made several movies, including the recent “Away We Go” (2009), and spent three seasons on...
Jim Gaffigan is hugely popular for his riffs on the American obsession with convenience foods, and hearing his Hot Pockets routine just once will have you humming the famous jingle for days (“Hot Pockets!”). Gaffigan grew up as the youngest of six siblings in Chesterton, Indiana, but began his stand-up career in New York City. He honed his act to feature his signature bits on food, and his Comedy Central specials (“Beyond the Pale,” “King Baby”) have been major blockbusters. He also has made several movies, including the recent “Away We Go” (2009), and spent three seasons on...
- 5/8/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – As the stars, presenters and award recipients gathered at the Chicago Film Critics Awards on February 9th, they took some time out to mix with the media at a pre-show press conference. Jane Lynch, Paul Sorvino, Joe Piscopo, Nadine Velazquez, Regina Taylor and the other award winners offered their perspectives.
HollywoodChicago.com’s Brian Tallerico, Patrick McDonald and Matt Fagerholm covered the presser, and contributed several questions asked to the awards show participants. Photographer Joe Arce captured his stellar portraits at the event. Below is a summary of the afternoon’s best.
Jane Lynch, Recipient of “Comedia Extrarodinaire”
Accepting this year’s award for Comedia Extraordinaire was the incomparable Jane Lynch, the Chicago-bred actress who achieved mega-stardom with her portrayal of Sue Sylvester, the bullying high school coach on “Glee.” It was a role impeccably designed for Lynch’s uproarious wit and deadpan timing, which she cultivated in a...
HollywoodChicago.com’s Brian Tallerico, Patrick McDonald and Matt Fagerholm covered the presser, and contributed several questions asked to the awards show participants. Photographer Joe Arce captured his stellar portraits at the event. Below is a summary of the afternoon’s best.
Jane Lynch, Recipient of “Comedia Extrarodinaire”
Accepting this year’s award for Comedia Extraordinaire was the incomparable Jane Lynch, the Chicago-bred actress who achieved mega-stardom with her portrayal of Sue Sylvester, the bullying high school coach on “Glee.” It was a role impeccably designed for Lynch’s uproarious wit and deadpan timing, which she cultivated in a...
- 2/16/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Along with Jack Klugman, character actor Charles Durning also passed away on Christmas Eve. He died of natural causes at his New York City apartment at the age of 89. -Insertgroups:12- As with Klugman, his pursuit of acting had to be put on hold when he was drafted into the Us Army during World War II. Durning served with distinction, despite injuries that resulted in three Purple Hearts, winning both the Silver and Bronze stars for valor. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, he was wounded in the leg while in one of the first units to land on Omaha Beach. He went on to fight in the Battle of the Bulge and was captured by the Germans at one point. Following the war, he worked as a journeyman actor for decades, appearing in small roles in theater, film and television. His big breaks came one after the other in 1973. He was featured...
- 12/29/2012
- Gold Derby
Prolific American actor who was Oscar nominated for roles in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and To Be Or Not to Be
The American actor Charles Durning, who has died aged 89, first grabbed audience attention as the crooked Lieutenant Snyder in The Sting (1973). He makes an explosive appearance, tearing down an alley after the slick grifter played by Robert Redford, and repeatedly lurches out of the shadows throughout the rest of the film. Durning had only a handful of scenes, and over the next 40 years would seldom be granted more screen time in 200-odd film and TV roles. Nevertheless, his jowly face, with its boxer's nose and sly eyes, grew increasingly familiar, and his name in the opening titles usually promised good things ahead. His heavyset frame meant he was often cast as tough guys, but he later assumed more jovial roles, portraying Father Christmas several times.
His first...
The American actor Charles Durning, who has died aged 89, first grabbed audience attention as the crooked Lieutenant Snyder in The Sting (1973). He makes an explosive appearance, tearing down an alley after the slick grifter played by Robert Redford, and repeatedly lurches out of the shadows throughout the rest of the film. Durning had only a handful of scenes, and over the next 40 years would seldom be granted more screen time in 200-odd film and TV roles. Nevertheless, his jowly face, with its boxer's nose and sly eyes, grew increasingly familiar, and his name in the opening titles usually promised good things ahead. His heavyset frame meant he was often cast as tough guys, but he later assumed more jovial roles, portraying Father Christmas several times.
His first...
- 12/28/2012
- by Chris Wiegand
- The Guardian - Film News
At exactly 8 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, Dec. 27, Broadway will dim its lights to honor Charles Durning, who died Monday at 89.
Though well known for TV's "Rescue Me" where he played Michael, Tommy's dad for seven years, and as the voice of Francis Griffin on "Family Guy" for a decade, Durning was a steady presence on Broadway since 1964 when he began as an understudy.
By 1972, however, he had a breakout role in "That Championship Season" as the self-promoting mayor.
Durning won a Tony Award in 1990 for his portrayal of Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
The varied roles continued. And in 1996, Durning had a courtroom duel with George C. Scott -- consider the show of machismo on that stage -- in "Inherit the Wind." The next year he starred with Julie Harris in a Broadway revival of "The Gin Game."
His final Broadway appearance was at the kingmaker,...
Though well known for TV's "Rescue Me" where he played Michael, Tommy's dad for seven years, and as the voice of Francis Griffin on "Family Guy" for a decade, Durning was a steady presence on Broadway since 1964 when he began as an understudy.
By 1972, however, he had a breakout role in "That Championship Season" as the self-promoting mayor.
Durning won a Tony Award in 1990 for his portrayal of Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
The varied roles continued. And in 1996, Durning had a courtroom duel with George C. Scott -- consider the show of machismo on that stage -- in "Inherit the Wind." The next year he starred with Julie Harris in a Broadway revival of "The Gin Game."
His final Broadway appearance was at the kingmaker,...
- 12/27/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Los Angeles — Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge.
His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate Oscar-nominated character actor, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope to Dustin Hoffman's would-be suitor in "Tootsie."
Durning, who died Monday at age 89 in New York, got his start as an usher at a burlesque theater in Buffalo, N.Y. When one of the comedians showed up too drunk to go on, Durning took his place. He would recall years later that he was hooked as soon as he heard the audience laughing.
He told The Associated Press in 2008 that he had no plans to stop working. "They're going to carry me out, if I go," he said.
Durning's longtime agent and friend,...
His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate Oscar-nominated character actor, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope to Dustin Hoffman's would-be suitor in "Tootsie."
Durning, who died Monday at age 89 in New York, got his start as an usher at a burlesque theater in Buffalo, N.Y. When one of the comedians showed up too drunk to go on, Durning took his place. He would recall years later that he was hooked as soon as he heard the audience laughing.
He told The Associated Press in 2008 that he had no plans to stop working. "They're going to carry me out, if I go," he said.
Durning's longtime agent and friend,...
- 12/25/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge.
His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate Oscar-nominated character actor, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope to Dustin Hoffman’s would-be suitor in Tootsie.
Durning, who died Monday at age 89 in New York, got his start as an usher at a burlesque theater in Buffalo, N.Y. When one of the comedians showed up too drunk to go on,...
His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate Oscar-nominated character actor, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope to Dustin Hoffman’s would-be suitor in Tootsie.
Durning, who died Monday at age 89 in New York, got his start as an usher at a burlesque theater in Buffalo, N.Y. When one of the comedians showed up too drunk to go on,...
- 12/25/2012
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside Movies
Charles Durning, the versatile character actor whose friendly face and full form was recognizable to movie audiences since the mid-'70s, died of natural causes at his Manhattan home Dec. 24, his agent confirmed. He was 89. Among his roles: The corrupt cop in The Sting, the show-stopping Governor in Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar), Jessica Lange's father and Dustin Hoffman's love-smitten suitor in Tootsie, a buffoon of a German officer in To Be Or Not to Be (another Oscar nod) and Warren Beatty's law-enforcement boss in Dick Tracy. His range of real-life roles was even broader. Durning, a genuine World War II hero with the Purple Hearts to prove it, worked in a button factory, taught ballroom dancing, sung on radio, trained as a stockbroker and painted bridges. According to a 1990 People profile, at the time he played Big Daddy to Kathleen Turner's Maggie the Cat in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, During had been on his own since age 16, when he left home because his widowed mother, Louise, was having trouble supporting five kids on the money she earned laundering cadets' uniforms at West Point. (His father, an Army sergeant, died when Durning was 12.)...
- 12/25/2012
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
By Sam Negin
Theater Editor & Columnist
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For regular theatergoers like me, trying to figure out what to see next can become a game. But what do you do when you’ve seen everything around town before the next crop of shows comes up for the fall? Maybe see Book of Mormon again?
Try going to a regional theater like Playwrights Horizons or the Papermill Playhouse. Even a New York-based theater company like The Public Theater has a number of wonderful offerings each year. A number of their productions have come to Broadway over the years, and this season, there are a number of shows at each of these theater companies that have their eye on Broadway.
A few of the productions that got their start at Playwright’s Horizons in the past are Clybourne Park (which won this year’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play), Assassins, Grey Gardens,...
Theater Editor & Columnist
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For regular theatergoers like me, trying to figure out what to see next can become a game. But what do you do when you’ve seen everything around town before the next crop of shows comes up for the fall? Maybe see Book of Mormon again?
Try going to a regional theater like Playwrights Horizons or the Papermill Playhouse. Even a New York-based theater company like The Public Theater has a number of wonderful offerings each year. A number of their productions have come to Broadway over the years, and this season, there are a number of shows at each of these theater companies that have their eye on Broadway.
A few of the productions that got their start at Playwright’s Horizons in the past are Clybourne Park (which won this year’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play), Assassins, Grey Gardens,...
- 9/11/2012
- by Sam Negin
- Scott Feinberg
By Beck/Smith
HollywoodNews.com: Kiefer Sutherland smiles when he talks about anticipating the late April-early May start of production on the big-screen “24″ movie. “That’s like going home,” he says of getting back into Jack Bauer’s skin.
It’s been more than five years since the “24” team first set its sites on making a feature. Sutherland acknowledges, “That process has taken us so long; it’s such a complicated script to write. Normally, we have 24 hours to tell a story. Trying to condense it into two hours involves a lot of hard choices: What kind of story do you want to tell? How political do you want to make it? How character-driven do you want to make it?”
Sutherland was in fine form at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour this week, talking about his Jan. 25-debuting Fox “Touch” series that has him as the father of a mute,...
HollywoodNews.com: Kiefer Sutherland smiles when he talks about anticipating the late April-early May start of production on the big-screen “24″ movie. “That’s like going home,” he says of getting back into Jack Bauer’s skin.
It’s been more than five years since the “24” team first set its sites on making a feature. Sutherland acknowledges, “That process has taken us so long; it’s such a complicated script to write. Normally, we have 24 hours to tell a story. Trying to condense it into two hours involves a lot of hard choices: What kind of story do you want to tell? How political do you want to make it? How character-driven do you want to make it?”
Sutherland was in fine form at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour this week, talking about his Jan. 25-debuting Fox “Touch” series that has him as the father of a mute,...
- 1/14/2012
- by Beck / Smith
- Hollywoodnews.com
Exclusive: NBC has bought a single-camera comedy from actor-comedian Jim Gaffigan, Universal TV and Scot Armstrong and Ravi Nandan’s studio-based American Work. Gaffigan will write and star in the project based on his life as a lazy man, married to a strong woman, raising 4 children in a 2 bedroom apartment in New York City. Gaffigan will executive produce with his manager, Brillstein Entertainment’s Alex Murray, as well as Armstrong and Nandan. Gaffigan, a respected standup comedian, will begin a 30-city tour in the beginning of 2012. It will spawn a televised comedy stand-up special in February, which is eying non-traditional ways for digital distribution. CAA-repped Gaffigan’s previous comedy series starring vehicle was the 2000 CBS sitcom Welcome To New York, which was produced by David Letterman’s company. He recently co-starred on the TBS comedy series My Boys and made his Broadway debut in That Championship Season earlier this year.
- 10/26/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Will CSI: NY‘s stirring season opener cover all the bases? How Big will Chris Noth’s Good Wife presence be this season? Will Supernatural‘s Crowley ally with the boys or Cas? Can Leslie Knope handle the end of the world? Read on for those answers, plus other teases from some of TV’s hottest shows.
CSI: NY | Ever since TVLine started previewing the new season – namely, the Sept. 23 opener revolving around 9/11, when Mac lost his wife – I’ve had a lot of readers ask if we’ll get the perspective of other team members as well. As seen...
CSI: NY | Ever since TVLine started previewing the new season – namely, the Sept. 23 opener revolving around 9/11, when Mac lost his wife – I’ve had a lot of readers ask if we’ll get the perspective of other team members as well. As seen...
- 8/25/2011
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Chicago – The wonderful bonus of the Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show is the opportunity to meet the real stars of past film eras. Ernest Borgnine and Bruce Dern were there during the show in March of this year.
Both actors carved out character careers during the period of the 1950s to the present. They have often explored the cowboy genre, and each starred opposite some legendary movie gunslingers. Ernest Borgnine appeared in one of the greatest westerns of all time, “The Wild Bunch” (1969). Bruce Dern starred opposite John Wayne in “The Cowboys” (1972).
The Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show is a biannual event that brings celebrities to Chicago to meet, sign autographs and interact with their admirers. Hosts Ray and Sharon Court announced at the March show that the upcoming October show would be their last, as they are retiring.
HollywoodChicago.com got the chance to interview Borgnine and Dern, and Joe Arce...
Both actors carved out character careers during the period of the 1950s to the present. They have often explored the cowboy genre, and each starred opposite some legendary movie gunslingers. Ernest Borgnine appeared in one of the greatest westerns of all time, “The Wild Bunch” (1969). Bruce Dern starred opposite John Wayne in “The Cowboys” (1972).
The Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show is a biannual event that brings celebrities to Chicago to meet, sign autographs and interact with their admirers. Hosts Ray and Sharon Court announced at the March show that the upcoming October show would be their last, as they are retiring.
HollywoodChicago.com got the chance to interview Borgnine and Dern, and Joe Arce...
- 7/5/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
We have been reporting quite a bit of very recent casting news about the comic-to-tv-pilot adaptation of Powers, a police procedural set in a world with superpowers. It now looks like the final piece of the puzzle has fallen into place, as they have awarded the role of Christian to the very excellent Jason Patric. Here is the FX press release, which includes a nice bit of info about the show as well as about Mr. Patric:
Film and stage star Jason Patric has signed on to star as “Christian Walker” in the FX drama series pilot Powers, based on the award-winning comic and graphic novel series by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming.
“We’ve been asked repeatedly why it has taken so long to bring our series adaptation of Powers to fruition. It is for the same reason we cast Jason Patric in this role; we are aiming for something extraordinary,...
Film and stage star Jason Patric has signed on to star as “Christian Walker” in the FX drama series pilot Powers, based on the award-winning comic and graphic novel series by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming.
“We’ve been asked repeatedly why it has taken so long to bring our series adaptation of Powers to fruition. It is for the same reason we cast Jason Patric in this role; we are aiming for something extraordinary,...
- 6/23/2011
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
Jason Patric has signed on to star in FX’s comic adaptation of Powers.
Patric, who stole the show in the recent movie The Losers and, of course, appeared in films such as Rush, will star as a homicide detective devoted solely to cases that involve people with superpowers. The pilot was penned by Charles H. Eglee (The Shield).
The move marks the actor’s first regular TV series gig. Patric says he switched his focus from movies and theater to television because he’s drawn to strong storytelling.
“In my movies I’ve always tried to find compelling stories...
Patric, who stole the show in the recent movie The Losers and, of course, appeared in films such as Rush, will star as a homicide detective devoted solely to cases that involve people with superpowers. The pilot was penned by Charles H. Eglee (The Shield).
The move marks the actor’s first regular TV series gig. Patric says he switched his focus from movies and theater to television because he’s drawn to strong storytelling.
“In my movies I’ve always tried to find compelling stories...
- 6/22/2011
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Jason Patric has "Powers," and his first lead role in a TV series. Patric ("Narc," "The Lost Boys") has taken the lead role of Christian Walker in FX's drama pilot "Powers," Deadline reports. Walker is a homicide detective who works cases involving people with superpowers. In the Brian Michael Bendis-Michael Avon Oeming comic book the pilot is based on, Walker himself is a former superhero who lost his powers but still has ties to that world.
He joins Lucy Punch ("The Class"), who's playing Walker's partner Deena Pilgrim, and Bailee Madison (as Calista) in the show's cast.
If "Powers" goes to series, it will be the first regular TV role for Patric, who has worked in movies for pretty much his entire career. He co-starred in HBO's comedy pilot "Tilda" last year, but that show didn't go forward. Patric recently wrapped up a stint on Broadway in a revival of "That Championship Season,...
He joins Lucy Punch ("The Class"), who's playing Walker's partner Deena Pilgrim, and Bailee Madison (as Calista) in the show's cast.
If "Powers" goes to series, it will be the first regular TV role for Patric, who has worked in movies for pretty much his entire career. He co-starred in HBO's comedy pilot "Tilda" last year, but that show didn't go forward. Patric recently wrapped up a stint on Broadway in a revival of "That Championship Season,...
- 6/22/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Jason Patric is headed back to the small screen.
The veteran actor, who has starred in That Championship Season on Broadway over the past few months, will anchor Powers, an upcoming FX drama based on Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's graphic novel.
Similar to SyFy's Alphas, the show focuses on a pair of detectives who lead a homicide department that takes on cases involving culprits with supernatural abilities. Lucy Punch will co-star.
Shooting on Powers begins this summer in Chicago. There's a strong likelihood FX will pick it up for the fall.
The veteran actor, who has starred in That Championship Season on Broadway over the past few months, will anchor Powers, an upcoming FX drama based on Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's graphic novel.
Similar to SyFy's Alphas, the show focuses on a pair of detectives who lead a homicide department that takes on cases involving culprits with supernatural abilities. Lucy Punch will co-star.
Shooting on Powers begins this summer in Chicago. There's a strong likelihood FX will pick it up for the fall.
- 6/22/2011
- by matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
- TVfanatic
Danny Glover is going to have his hands full pretty soon, since TVLine recently revealed that he’s going to be dealing with a kid that can peek into the future.
Glover is joining the Fox series, Touch, as Arthur DeWitt, a professor who works with gifted children, but ‘gifted’ for him means children that are really good with numbers, not predicting events before they happen. Kiefer Sutherland, who hasn’t done a series since 24, stars as the father and David Mazouz is the future-seeing boy.
Tim Kring, the guy behind Heroes, wrote the script and will be executive producing along with Sutherland, Katherine Pope and Peter Chernin. Hopefully, Kring’s presence doesn’t mean we’ll get an awesome pilot and first season, with everything crashing and burning after that.
Touch is being looked at as a midseason replacement but that’s not a slight against it since production...
Glover is joining the Fox series, Touch, as Arthur DeWitt, a professor who works with gifted children, but ‘gifted’ for him means children that are really good with numbers, not predicting events before they happen. Kiefer Sutherland, who hasn’t done a series since 24, stars as the father and David Mazouz is the future-seeing boy.
Tim Kring, the guy behind Heroes, wrote the script and will be executive producing along with Sutherland, Katherine Pope and Peter Chernin. Hopefully, Kring’s presence doesn’t mean we’ll get an awesome pilot and first season, with everything crashing and burning after that.
Touch is being looked at as a midseason replacement but that’s not a slight against it since production...
- 6/10/2011
- by Marty Shaw
- Boomtron
Exclusive: Chris Noth has signed with Gersh. He had been repped by CAA. Noth, a fixture of TV and stage in New York, has been acting in the Broadway revival of That Championship Season, and he continues in a non-exclusive role as the scandal-scarred husband in The Good Wife. Noth continues to be managed by Sanders Armstrong Caserta.
- 6/3/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
"Extra's" Aj Calloway caught up with Kiefer Sutherland in NYC, where they chatted about what should happen to Jack Bauer in the "24" movie.
Kiefer said, "I want to see Jack do a lot of things that are representative of the show. I want him to be able to take his life back, and I think that's going to be a large aspect of the film."
As for his current gig on Broadway, starring in "That Championship Season,...
Kiefer said, "I want to see Jack do a lot of things that are representative of the show. I want him to be able to take his life back, and I think that's going to be a large aspect of the film."
As for his current gig on Broadway, starring in "That Championship Season,...
- 5/12/2011
- Extra
Standing before a podium straight out of a retro game show, Matthew Broderick and Anika Noni Rose, the Broadway actress best known for her star-making turn in Tony Kushner’s "Caroline, or Change," announced the 2011 Tony Award nominees from New York City's Lincoln Center Tuesday Morning.
Noticeably missing from the list of nominees? Hollywood stars.
Despite leading roles in the past year for the likes of Daniel Radcliffe, Keifer Sutherland, Chris Rock, Robin Williams, Kathleen Turner, Jim Belushi, James Earl Jones and Ben Stiller, most of the acting nominees this year are theatre veterans, rather than TV and film transplants.
However, a few Hollywood types found room to make a splash. “The Book of Mormon,” which features a book from “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and music from Robert Lopez, led the pack with 14 nominations, including nods for Best Musical, Direction, and Best Leading Actor, as well as Featured Actor and Actress.
Noticeably missing from the list of nominees? Hollywood stars.
Despite leading roles in the past year for the likes of Daniel Radcliffe, Keifer Sutherland, Chris Rock, Robin Williams, Kathleen Turner, Jim Belushi, James Earl Jones and Ben Stiller, most of the acting nominees this year are theatre veterans, rather than TV and film transplants.
However, a few Hollywood types found room to make a splash. “The Book of Mormon,” which features a book from “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and music from Robert Lopez, led the pack with 14 nominations, including nods for Best Musical, Direction, and Best Leading Actor, as well as Featured Actor and Actress.
- 5/4/2011
- by Lucas Kavner
- Huffington Post
One of the most star-heavy Broadway seasons in recent memory has not resulted in a big-name lineup in nominations for this year's 65th annual Tony Awards, celebrating the best of the bright White Way. Besides a snubbed Robin Williams in the drama Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Chris Rock in The Motherf----- in the Hat, Jim Belushi in Born Yesterday and Daniel Radcliffe in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - though his costar John Larroquette and the show itself were nominated - also overlooked was the entire cast (as well as the revival itself) of the...
- 5/3/2011
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Actor David Arquette is offering up an invitation to a summer barbecue in his back yard as part of a charity auction. The winning bidder will get the chance to spend an afternoon with the "Scream" star at his Los Angeles home, where he'll be cooking up his grill specialties.
Proceeds from the auction will benefit the non-profit organization Malaria No More, which aims to end suffering and death caused by the disease. He says, "Starting on World Malaria Day, April 25th, people can bid on a backyard barbecue at my house with my friends. I have an incredible rib recipe - you gotta taste it. You can go to ebay, the auction is there and the money will benefit Malaria No More."
Singer Josh Groban is donating a pair of tickets to one of his upcoming concerts, while Kiefer Sutherland will fly two fans out to New York City...
Proceeds from the auction will benefit the non-profit organization Malaria No More, which aims to end suffering and death caused by the disease. He says, "Starting on World Malaria Day, April 25th, people can bid on a backyard barbecue at my house with my friends. I have an incredible rib recipe - you gotta taste it. You can go to ebay, the auction is there and the money will benefit Malaria No More."
Singer Josh Groban is donating a pair of tickets to one of his upcoming concerts, while Kiefer Sutherland will fly two fans out to New York City...
- 4/26/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Actor David Arquette is offering up an invitation to a summer barbecue in his back yard as part of a charity auction.
The winning bidder will get the chance to spend an afternoon with the Scream star at his Los Angeles home, where he'll be cooking up his grill specialities.
Proceeds from the auction will benefit the non-profit organisation Malaria No More, which aims to end suffering and death caused by the disease.
He says, "Starting on World Malaria Day, April 25th, people can bid on a backyard barbecue at my house with my friends. I have an incredible rib recipe - you gotta taste it. You can go to ebay, the auction is there and the money will benefit Malaria No More."
Singer Josh Groban is donating a pair of tickets to one of his upcoming concerts, while Keifer Sutherland will fly two fans out to New York City to see him perform in his play, That Championship Season.
The winning bidder will get the chance to spend an afternoon with the Scream star at his Los Angeles home, where he'll be cooking up his grill specialities.
Proceeds from the auction will benefit the non-profit organisation Malaria No More, which aims to end suffering and death caused by the disease.
He says, "Starting on World Malaria Day, April 25th, people can bid on a backyard barbecue at my house with my friends. I have an incredible rib recipe - you gotta taste it. You can go to ebay, the auction is there and the money will benefit Malaria No More."
Singer Josh Groban is donating a pair of tickets to one of his upcoming concerts, while Keifer Sutherland will fly two fans out to New York City to see him perform in his play, That Championship Season.
- 4/26/2011
- WENN
Starting April 25, you have the chance to bid on exclusive celebrity experiences along with sports, music, and travel packages to benefit Malaria No More.
Auctions include: Attend a barbeque at David Arquette’s house with his celebrity friends; take a VIP Nickelodeon tour, meet the Spongebob cast, and sit in on a recording session; tour the Fox News Room with Martha MacCallum and meet other anchors; meet Kiefer Sutherland in New York and see That Championship Season; meet Josh Groban or Brad Paisley and attend their concerts; take a trip to Cancun, Antigua, or The Grenadines; score New York Knicks and New Jersey Nets tickets; and much more!
Find out more here.
Read more...
Auctions include: Attend a barbeque at David Arquette’s house with his celebrity friends; take a VIP Nickelodeon tour, meet the Spongebob cast, and sit in on a recording session; tour the Fox News Room with Martha MacCallum and meet other anchors; meet Kiefer Sutherland in New York and see That Championship Season; meet Josh Groban or Brad Paisley and attend their concerts; take a trip to Cancun, Antigua, or The Grenadines; score New York Knicks and New Jersey Nets tickets; and much more!
Find out more here.
Read more...
- 4/22/2011
- Look to the Stars
While watching "The View," I saw Chris Noth, who said he was starring in "That Championship Season" on Broadway. I remember when Jason Miller, its playwright, starred in my life. In the mid-'70s, we dated for quite some time and had a passionate love affair. Writers have always appealed to me and Jason was an oxymoron in Hollywood -- a literate actor who was fun to be with. We laughed and created havoc. He had a home in Malibu on the beach. Oh, not in the chic part but up aways...
- 4/21/2011
- The Wrap
On Tuesday (April 5), a cavalcade of stars walked the runway at Sean Connery's annual Dressed to Kilt fundraiser. But one group of "models" -- Chris Noth, Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Gaffigan, Jason Patric and Brian Cox -- had a little surprise in store for the audience when they reached the end of the runway. Without fanfare, the quintet, currently starring in "That Championship Season," turned their backs to the audience, bent over and lifted their kilts to the assembled photographers.
And, in keeping with Scottish tradition, the men did indeed appear to be totally commando.
We love you guys and all -- but we're not sure we wanted to see any of your full moons. Especially you, Gaffigan.
All proceeds from the evening went to the Wounded Warriors Projects and the Paralyzed Veterans Association of America, according to the New York Daily News.
And, in keeping with Scottish tradition, the men did indeed appear to be totally commando.
We love you guys and all -- but we're not sure we wanted to see any of your full moons. Especially you, Gaffigan.
All proceeds from the evening went to the Wounded Warriors Projects and the Paralyzed Veterans Association of America, according to the New York Daily News.
- 4/7/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Kiefer Sutherland and "Sex and the City" star Chris Noth were among the celebrities who walked the runway in kilts at a charity fashion show in New York on Tuesday night, April 5. The actors, who appear together in Broadway play "That Championship Season", were joined by their co-stars Brian Cox, Jason Patric and Jim Gaffigan at the annual Dressed To Kilt event.
The stars strutted along the catwalk in the traditional Scottish garment to raise money for a number of charities, including the Wounded Warrior Project and the Paralyzed Veterans of America organization. And they had a cheeky surprise for the audience at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan - they lifted the kilts and flashed their butts as they reached the end of the catwalk.
It is the eighth year the Dressed To Kilt event, which took place at Hammerstein Ballroom, has been held. Also taking the runway was Glasgow-born comedian Billy Connolly,...
The stars strutted along the catwalk in the traditional Scottish garment to raise money for a number of charities, including the Wounded Warrior Project and the Paralyzed Veterans of America organization. And they had a cheeky surprise for the audience at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan - they lifted the kilts and flashed their butts as they reached the end of the catwalk.
It is the eighth year the Dressed To Kilt event, which took place at Hammerstein Ballroom, has been held. Also taking the runway was Glasgow-born comedian Billy Connolly,...
- 4/7/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Getty Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Noth, Jim Gaffigan and Jason Patric walk the runway at the 9th Annual ‘Dressed To Kilt’ charity fashion show in New York City.
Tartan chic? Couture kilts?
If it all sounds like one huge oxymoron, well, that’s the point. Or, more precisely, that’s Dressed to Kilt, the Scottish -themed fashion show that’s become one of the more bizarre events on New York’s annual social calendar. The 8th edition was held last night...
Tartan chic? Couture kilts?
If it all sounds like one huge oxymoron, well, that’s the point. Or, more precisely, that’s Dressed to Kilt, the Scottish -themed fashion show that’s become one of the more bizarre events on New York’s annual social calendar. The 8th edition was held last night...
- 4/6/2011
- by Charles Passy
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Kiefer Sutherland and Sex And The City star Chris Noth were among the celebrities who walked the runway in kilts at a charity fashion show in New York on Tuesday night.
The actors, who appear together in Broadway play That Championship Season, were joined by their co-stars Brian Cox, Jason Patric and Jim Gaffigan at the annual Dressed To Kilt event.
The stars strutted along the catwalk in the traditional Scottish garment to raise money for a number of charities, including the Wounded Warrior Project and the Paralyzed Veterans of America organisation.
And they had a cheeky surprise for the audience at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan - they lifted the kilts and flashed their butts as they reached the end of the catwalk.
The actors, who appear together in Broadway play That Championship Season, were joined by their co-stars Brian Cox, Jason Patric and Jim Gaffigan at the annual Dressed To Kilt event.
The stars strutted along the catwalk in the traditional Scottish garment to raise money for a number of charities, including the Wounded Warrior Project and the Paralyzed Veterans of America organisation.
And they had a cheeky surprise for the audience at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan - they lifted the kilts and flashed their butts as they reached the end of the catwalk.
- 4/6/2011
- WENN
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