Cinematical (Free subscription) | yesterday
Read Part One of this interview right here When Judd Apatow 's latest film, Funny People, was announced, many critics and audiences hailed it - even before they saw it - not only as an evolution of the filmmaker's style, but a return to the kind of drama-laced comedy that flourished in the 1980s and early '90s thanks to folks like Cameron Crowe and James L. Brooks . When it was released, the film...
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Wonder whether you should buy this indie flick? Despite decent performances, a lackluster Blu-ray release and familiar plotline make the answer obvious.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Over four decades, he wrote jokes and scripts for 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show,' 'Taxi, 'Cheers' and many others. David Lloyd, an Emmy Award-winning television comedy writer who wrote the classic "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," has died. He was 75.
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Slow-pitch romantic comedy?
Splash News Online (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Reese Witherspoon is finally back to work on the set in Los Angeles of the untitled James L. Brooks movie which she has been filming for like FOREVER! Seriously, here are shots of her in June running sprints on the set and working on her s oftball moves in May . How long is making this movie going to take?
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Reese Witherspoon picked up an Oscar in 2005 for her performance as June Carter in the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line," but she's been fairly quiet since then. Working of course, but there's one listing on IMDB for her that's had me curious for ages. After all, it's not every day that you pair [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
JACK NICHOLSON, PETER FONDA and DENNIS HOPPER smoked real cannabis during a scene for movie classic EASY RIDER.Fonda has confessed the trio used "real pot" to capture...
Just Jared (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Reese Witherspoon will star and produce in Rule #1, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The story of an friendship between a Puerto Rican girl with attention deficit disorder and a New York woman was written by Terrel Seltzer, who co-wrote One Fine Day, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney. Between her Avon perfume In Bloom and her [...]
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The Simpsons’ first warts-and-all history may be better thanks to the producers’ gag order
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Noteworthy new book about The Simpsons—The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History by journalist John Ortved draws on eighty new interviews to create an oral history about the creation and day-to-day production of the show. Ortved wrote an interesting article for The Daily Beast in which he talks about how Fox and James L. Brooks refused [...]
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Even though I no longer watch it, I’ve liked THE SIMPSONS since it began as shorts on THE TRACEY ULLMAN SHOW. I remember seeing those and thinking, “To hell with this annoying Brit — these cartoon characters deserve their own show.” When it happened a few years later, I thought I should be a network [...]
Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History by John Ortved, a review from Powells.com by Chris Bolton.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
After nearly two weeks of lensing some of America's top women's softball players, filmmaker James L. Brooks decided he wanted some action.
The Illadelph (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
So reports The Gossip on Philly.com . The restaurant was closed to the public for five days while the untitled James L. Brooks comedy filmed scenes in the restaurant a couple weeks back. Paul Rudd and Reese Witherspoon were both there. And Union Trust itself, a steakhouse, had to play an Italian restaurant for the movie. Meanwhile, no word on exactly how much Twenty Manning was compensated when it...
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Secrets of The Simpsons - The Daily Beast So a reporter for Vanity Fair sets out to write an oral history of The Simpsons, but gets stonewalled completely by the studio and the producers for asking a question about a producer who was exiled over a decade ago. This forces the reporter to investigate and dig into the dirt and he comes out with a book that is way more scathing than it would have been...
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