John Pankow

If getting reamed by the notoriously grumpy Harrison Ford is a rite of passage for entertainment reporters, you could say I was finally initiated into the club March 18. In fact, you could say a few Chicago reporters were initiated that night. The actor...

The 2013 Florida Film Festival is shaping up to be the biggest one yet: Enzian Theater, which hosts the festival, says a record-breaking 170 films representing 23 countries have been selected from more than 1,500 entries. Of the 170 films, 143 are...

There's was a scene in Sunday's season 2 finale of Episodes in which a writer reveals that his pilot about an English couple coming to America to do a sitcom is picked up. The show would revolve around the couple having to produce their struggling...

Many actors struggle to find consistent work after appearing on hit TV shows, but Matt LeBlanc seems to have come up with the perfect blueprint for how to avoid the dreaded typecasting pitfall. First, you try a spin-off as that same character — as...

Despite frequent attempts, many hit British TV series haven't been able to make a successful transition across the big pond to American television. For every success like NBC's "The Office," there's a bomb like the same network's "Coupling." Or, on a...

Gaylord Focker and Nurse Jackie, together at last. Actors Ben Stiller and Edie Falco are said to be starring in an upcoming Broadway revival of John Guare's comedy "The House of Blue Leaves," according to a report in Variety. The......

"The House of Blue Leaves," John Guare's 1966 comedy of deranged domesticity, is receiving a star-studded Broadway revival at the Walter Kerr Theatre with Ben Stiller, Edie Falco and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Set in Sunnyside, Queens, on the eve of......

For Sean and Beverly Lincoln (Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig, above), the sophisticated but hapless London TV writers at the center of Showtime's comedy "Episodes," nothing is as it seems. Brought to Los Angeles to Americanize their hit British series,.....

Friday April 17, 1998      It's hard not to feel, well, affection for the characters in "The Object of My Affection." Are not George Hanson (Paul Rudd) and Nina Borowski (Jennifer Aniston) sweet and funny, and aren't the Wendy Wasserstein lines they...