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...t as "The Basterds." Tarantino's World War II action flick also stars Diane Kruger, B.J. Novak (The Office), Hostel writer-director Eli Roth, and last, but never least, the mighty .
It Might Get Loud (August 21)
Directed by Davis Guggenheim
The Oscar-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth cuts loose in his new documentary, which finds rock gods Jimmy P...
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...o played the wife on The Ted Knight Show. And she was also walking right behind us when you said all that."
Usually, I run from actors. I fled through a side door the night I saw (whom I love) perform her one-woman show (which I hated), because Cloris ended the evening by standing at the theater's exit so that she could hug each and every audience member a...
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...efore turning into a dithery ghost of Meryl Streep's caffeinated werewolf in The Devil Wears Prada. Other than, interestingly, the truly older women (Candice Bergen as Mary's mom, as a straight-shooting housekeeper, and a woefully underused Bette Midler as a much-married playgirl), that's about as badass as anyone gets among this relentlessly well-intention...
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...ng Kopit's crazy dialogue like a crazed shrew. No other actor got anywhere near her grand performance all season long.
The Lars Lindstrom Award for No-Show Entertainment to . . . in Cloris!
Okay, so was still "workshopping" her one-woman show when she brought it to the new Tempe Center for the Arts last February. But no one possessing as m...
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I used to know a crazy lady who looked exactly like .
Ella was the kind of crazy that can never be cured; the kind of crazy that struck fear in the hearts of her friends and family, that caused former employees to change their tele...
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... named George (Ian Hyland) and Bernice (Sarah Steele), and he lives in a modestly palatial Westwood home in which there's room enough to stash his alcoholic mother-in-law, Evelyn (), without much bother.
But beneath the perfect surface, trouble roils: Deborah's body may be in great shape, but it's all that remains from John and Deborah's early days as a ma...
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...Last Picture Show had screened in Archer City, Texas, where the movie was made amid much chaos and distraction. Attending the screening and celebration were stars Jeff Bridges and , who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1971 for her role as Ruth Popper, Timothy Bottoms' dispirited lover. Though he was not far away--only 138 miles, to be exact, resting...
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...sed.)
While Paul and Muffet Brown, the great-granddaughter of Titanic's famous "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, compared notes on the several film interpretations of Molly (Paul favored in a cheesy 1970s TV movie called SOS Titanic, but Brown thought Leachman was "all wrong" and preferred Kathy Bates in the James Cameron version), I toured the center's gift shop,...
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The members of the voice cast -- Eli Marienthal as Hogarth, Jennifer Aniston as his mother, Christopher McDonald as the G-man, Harry Connick Jr. as the beatnik, and John Mahoney, , James Gammon and M. Emmet Walsh in smaller roles -- are all effortlessly effective. The most touching performance, however, is that of the appropriately named Vin Diesel (of Savi...
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...dives off the roof while shrieking obscenities.
The stripper, a hard-looking, baby-voiced young woman named Rose, who resembles a cross between Pamela Anderson Lee and a young , has considerably better luck when she takes to the roof. Doffing her bikini top, she immediately earns high-decibel encouragement from several boatloads of beer-stoked frat boys....
