Chris McKittrick

Christopher McKittrick is the author of Vera Miles: The Hitchcock Blonde Who Got Away (2025), Can’t Give It Away on Seventh Avenue: The Rolling Stones and New York City (2019), Somewhere You Feel Free: Tom Petty and Los Angeles (2020), Gimme All Your Lovin’: The Blues Beard, and Boogie of ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons (2024), and Howling to the Moonlight on a Hot Summer Night: The Tale of the Stray Cats (2024). In addition to his work for Daily Actor, McKittrick and his work have been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Observer, Newsday, USAToday.com, CNBC.com, Time.com, RollingStone.com, and dozens of other entertainment and news websites. He has appeared on television on the Tom Petty episode of HLN’s How It Really Happened and Al Araby TV’s Hekayat Al Cinema, and on various radio shows and podcasts.

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Brooklyn Judge Delays Trial to Allow Juror to Audition for ‘Law & Order: SVU’

People will try just about anything to get out of jury duty.
But I’ve never seen anything like this: a judge presiding over a high-profile attempted murder case in Brooklyn delayed the trial for several hours to allow one of the jurors to audition for a television show. But it wasn’t just any show. In one of those moments that seems to prove that the universe has a sense of humor, the juror received a call to audition for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Co-Starring with Sylvester Stallone and What Bodybuilding Taught Him About Acting

In the 1980s and 1990s it was a dream for many fans of action movies to see Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone star in the same film. But after years of it never happening, Schwarzenegger popped in for a brief cameo in Stallone’s 2010 film The Expendables. For the upcoming sequel, Schwarzenegger agreed to appearing in a longer role, and following that the two will co-star in The Tomb. During an interview to promote an upcoming ESPN documentary short about his years in the Austrian army titled Arnold’s Blueprint, Schwarzenegger spoke about why the real-life friends are working together so often now.

Movie Review: ‘Red Hook Summer’

It’s been over 25 years since director Spike Lee debuted with She’s Gotta Have It and more than 20 since his 1989 film Do The Right Thing was released to critical acclaim. He’s had his highs and lows since then, with his lows particularly low. Perhaps that’s why Lee decided to revisit the world of his best film in Red Hook Summer.

Jodie Foster Planning on Developing Projects for Cable: “Because I do make personal films, they’re hard to get off the ground, especially nowadays”

Jodie Foster is best known for her long acting career, but the actress has always seen herself in the director’s chair. But after directing three theatrically films — Little Man Tate, Home for the Holidays, and The Beaver — Foster has been looking at her fellow big-name actors and actresses who have done shows on cable television and believes her future work belongs there.

Rashida Jones on Writing Her First Script and Getting to the Serious Side of Andy Samberg in ‘Celeste and Jesse Forever’

It’s becoming increasingly common for actors to write their own film scripts, particularly for smaller, independent projects that actors do in between the big-budget studio films. Add Rashinda Jones to the list, as the former The Office star co-wrote Celeste and Jesse Forever with fellow actor Will McCormack, and the pair also star in the film alongside Andy Samberg. Jones spoke to the Huffington Post about writing the film, the challenges associated with performing a character after creating her, and whether funnyman Samberg was able to handle the film’s serious elements.

Chris Rock on ‘2 Days in New York’ and Going Back to Broadway

Chris Rock might have seemed like an odd choice to star in Julie Delpy’s indie romantic comedy 2 Days in New York, but that’s only if you haven’t been paying attention to Rock’s recent career. Sure, he might have starred in Pootie Tang years ago, but in the last several years Rock has manged to branch out not only as a writer, director, and producer, but also as an actor.

Actors Provide Laughs with Dramatic Readings of Yelp Reviews

Online review sites like Yelp can be really helpful, but one always has to remember to take it from the source. I remember reading one that gave a hotel a poor review because the lobby chairs weren’t comfortable and the hotel TV didn’t have the writer’s favorite channel.

‘A Christmas Story’ Musical to Hit Broadway this Christmas

As if there weren’t enough stuff to do in New York City during the holidays, there will be a new Broadway show out for your Christmas tourism dollars: a musical adaptation of the cult-favorite Christmas movie A Christmas Story, which will run at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre from November 5 to December 30.

Matthew McConaughey on ‘Killer Joe’: “I remember throwing the script in the trash and saying I don’t want to be any part of that world”

Those that know me well know that my all-time most hated movie is The Wedding Planner. I was stuck seeing that movie on two separate dates before I learned it’s perfectly acceptable to tell a girl “no, I’d prefer not to see a Jennifer Lopez movie.” As much as I dislike the movie, I hold no ire toward Lopez’s co-star Matthew McConaughey, although I never thought much of him as an actor because of his tendency to star in romantic comedies and awful action movies (though he is awesome in Dazed & Confused, one of my favorite films).

Review: ‘The Lover’ / ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea’ at the Sargent Theater (NYC)

With so much indie theater in New York City it’s impossible for me to make it to every production I’m invited to review. So before I even get into my review of The Seeing Place’s double-bill of Harold Pinter’s The Lover and John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, I feel obligated to point out that this is the third Seeing Place production that I’ve been invited to review this season and perhaps the biggest compliment I can pay them is that I make sure I have been there every time.

Rob Corddry: “I like improv and sketch in that it’s supportive. You can fail a little bit and your partners can pick you up”

It’s almost hard to believe, but Adult Swim series are eligible to be nominated for Emmy Awards. This year the comedy series Childrens Hospital, now in its fourth season, has received a well-deserved nomination for Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Program (that’s a mouthful). Creator and star Rob Corddry, a comedian also known for his appearances on The Daily Show and in Hot Tub Time Machine, spoke about how his career led him to this series and why he thinks it has been successful.

Movie Review: ‘Robot and Frank’

It seems like almost every septuagenarian actor is required to do at least one “grumpy old man” movie role in which its pretty typical for such a character to go from a cranky and surly old coot to a smiling, kindly grandfather with a young heart by the end of the film. Thankfully, in Robot and Frank director Jake Schreier and writer Christopher D. Ford, with a great performance by Frank Langella, find a way around that cliche by sticking the grumpy old man with… a robot pal.

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