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Del Close: Dueling scripts detail improv pioneer
Charna Halpern's script about her late iO (formerly ImprovOlympic) co-founder Del Close opens with the vastly influential, hard-living, difficult, brilliant improvisation pioneer glimpsing a TV on which his former student Betty Thomas is thanking him...
Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Celebrities, Bill Murray, Faster (movie) , Entertainment
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The 'Bridesmaids' Effect: Isn't it time a woman got to direct a raunchy comedy?
The Big PictureIn corporate America, it's no longer a surprise to see a woman running a giant company like EBay or Hewlett-Packard. But in Hollywood, where actresses have far shorter careers than actors do, and it's accepted practice to pay male stars...... -
Another ‘female ‘Hangover,’ this one with Isla Fisher and Betty Thomas
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThe glory days of director Betty Thomas were more than a dozen years ago, when she made “The Brady Bunch” a kitschy kick. Her last film was the Alvin and the Chipmunks “squeakwel.” But she's inherited the director's chair of... -
Guess who's missing from Hollywood Reporter's most powerful women in showbiz list
The Big PictureIt's hard to imagine a more depressing symbol of the lack of influence of women directors in Hollywood than the Hollywood Reporter's new Women in Entertainment Power 100 List. The list, which gives the No. 1 spot to ABC TV...... -
Oscars stage manager braces for his final cues to the stars
He delivered a forgotten harmonica to Stevie Wonder onstage at the Grammy Awards, supplied a shoulder to lean on for a post-hip-surgery Gregory Peck at the Oscars and served as a human Xanax for hundreds of other stars in the most terrifying and...
Tags: Grammy Awards, The Voice (tv program), Academy Awards, American Idol (tv program), Game Shows
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'Guess Who'
![The press kit for the film "Guess Who" is a faux leather-bound family photo album featuring a shot of stars Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac uneasily seated at opposite ends of a yellow couch. When you open the kit, Mac slides menacingly to his left until he's elbow-to-elbow with the cowering Kutcher.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-03/16845436.jpg "The press kit for the film "Guess Who\" is a faux leather-bound family photo album featuring a shot of stars Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac uneasily seated at opposite ends of a yellow couch. When you open the kit, Mac slides menacingly to his left until he's elbow-to-elbow with the cowering Kutcher.")
Times Staff WriterThe press kit for the film "Guess Who" is a faux leather-bound family photo album featuring a shot of stars Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac uneasily seated at opposite ends of a yellow couch. When you open the kit, Mac slides menacingly to his left until...Tags: Cheshire, Stanley Kramer, Katharine Hepburn, Family, Ashton Kutcher
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I Spy
The Hartford CourantThe classic Bill Cosby-Robert Culp secret-agent show undergoes updating for Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson, though the sport is no longer tennis. CIA agent Alexander Scott (Owen Wilson) recruits professional boxer Kelly Robinson (Eddie Murphy) to help...Tags: Famke Janssen, Owen Wilson, Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Malcolm McDowell
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Dr. Dolittle
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday June 26, 1998 Animals move their lips a lot in "Dr. Dolittle," but they have nothing of interest to say. And neither does anyone else. Based on the Hugh Lofting stories about a man able to talk to all of God's creatures, "Dr. Dolittle"...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Chris Rock, Ossie Davis, Albert Brooks, Family
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The Brady Bunch Movie
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday February 17, 1995 Starting out as six single-parent children in search of a TV family, the Brady Bunch have turned into a multimedia conglomerate of daunting proportions. Besides that original ABC series about the dad with three boys...Tags: Alanna Ubach, Jean Smart, Family, Michael McKean, ABC (tv network)
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Private Parts
FOR THE TIMESFriday March 7, 1997 The opening chapter of radio deejay Howard Stern's best-selling autobiographical riff "Private Parts" recalls the supposedly true story of a Long Island businessman who became so aroused by an on-air interview between Stern...Tags: Disc Jockeys, Paul Giamatti, Radio, New York, Mary McCormack
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Can't Hardly Wait
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday June 12, 1998 Before the credits are over for the fast and funny "Can't Hardly Wait" the word ripples through the ranks of capped-and-gowned seniors of Huntington Hills High that the unthinkable has happened: The class of '98's top jock...Tags: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Matthew Sweet, Peter Facinelli, Scott Baio, Harry Elfont
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28 Days
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday April 14, 2000 Gwen Cummings thinks being in rehab is one big joke. And no wonder. She's in a movie that believes exactly the same thing. "28 Days," otherwise known as " 'Happy Days' Checks Into 'Wonderland,' " is a film with a jones...Tags: Dominic West, Alan Tudyk, New York, Steve Buscemi, Viggo Mortensen
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