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The question was, as the opening night gala host of this week's Just For Laughs Toronto festival, could Hamilton-born comedy legend Martin Short still stickhandle between full-time stand-up comics?
Comedy Central Insider (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Stephen Colbert's Law & Order rerun tonight. [No Fact Zone] Seth Rogen interview. [Canadian Press] Lorne Michaels and the SNL cast talk about the next season. [TV Squad] Adam McKay interview. [Hartford Courant] Jeff Garlin interview. [Irish Times] Paul Thomas...
Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
IN the wake of their parents' separation, twin brothers Jared and Simon (Highmore, times two) move to the dilapidated family pile of Spiderwick Mansion with older sister Mallory (Bolger) and their mother Helen (Parker).
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Charles Joffe co-produced Woody Allen's movies and managed the budding careers of high-profile comedians like Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and David Letterman.
Colin McEnroe | To Wit (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
NYT page-oner on Lieberman's long walkabout doesn't break much new ground. But I did find myself wondering how the U.S. Senator justifies his ceaseless sporting around as McCain's wing man.Most of us understand that our senators will, from time to...
Mickey News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Disney is developing a comedy that pokes fun at the world of synchronized swimming.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
NOT many movies have a hero who receives a lap dance and participates in a climactic go-kart race. But not many movies revolve around a 13-year-old who resembles and acts like a middle-age man - Jason Alexander's George Costanza, if you want to get...
Comedy Central Insider (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Judd Apatow to do stand-up at Just for Laughs. [Canadian Press] 5 awful SNL hosts. [Mental Floss] Dave Chappelle missed a rally for Kevin from The Real World. [Brooklyn Paper] Disney making synchronized swimming comedy without Martin Short and Harry...
PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
If Dancing With the Stars doesn't work out for him, Lance Bass should audition for this! Disney is developing a flick called Synchronicity, a comedy that pokes fun at the world of synchronized swimming. Here's the twist! The project will center on male synchronized swimmers. Blades of Glory in the pool! The fictional sport of male synchronized swimming [...]
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Filed under: Comedy , Sports , Deals , Scripts via videosift.com To me, the only male synchronized swimmers are the ones above -- Martin Short and Harry Shearer, with a little added choreography from a spandex-clad Christopher Guest. However, we're about to get another variety, and I'm not sure what I think about that. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Disney and Scott Rudin have teamed up for Synchronicity...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Paging Will Ferrell: Disney and Scott Rudin are developing a comedy based around male synchronized swimmers.
Cinema Blend Feeds (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
For years the blending of the mundane contemporary world with a magical world of mystery has been dominated by the Harry Potter books, movies, underoos, and breakfast cereal. What about those of us who weren't born to be wizards, but instead are stuck in the ordinary world? The Spiderwick Chronicles shows that we too can enjoy a magical, extraordinary world around us
Brahsome (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Everyone knows that every party has a pooper. And in the case of NBA Draft parties, that pooper was Jay Bilas. (I will now hang myself for quoting Martin Short in FotB.) But seriously, Bilas was the scourge of NBA fans, douchy frat-bags and alcoholics everywhere last Thursday night when he refused to use the [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
97 minutes. Rated PG.Based on Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's children's books, the movie offers a dazzling array of magical beings and realms for Jared Grace, twin Simon and teen sis Mallory to explore. It combines the magic effects of more robust fantasy franchises with the story of a family under divorce duress without going too dark. Also helping keep things merrily off-kilter, Martin Short provides...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Anthony Calvillo became the CFL's second-most prolific passer as the Montreal Alouettes beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 33-10 on Thursday.
