Hurricane Irene Hits Broadway Where It Hurt$ Mo$t
Broadway took in 36% less money than it did for the same week last year ($11.62 million vs. $18.15 million) with an equally huge drop in attendance (from 204,265 last year to 130,853 this year).
Adam Riches Takes Home Top Honors at Edinburgh Fringe
The 38-year-old English actor won the prize for his performance in Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches, which features his “trademark mix of character comedy, anarchic stagecraft and a fearless level of audience engagement,” according to Edinburgh Fringe officials.
L.A. Mayor Vows to Help Out Hollywood
os Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa vowed to step up to the plate for the movie and television industry in front of a small crowd of Hollywood higher-ups last Wednesday.
Jeff Bridges Practices Meditation to Bring ‘Dynamics’ to His Life
It turns out that Jeff Bridges is a lot more like his famous Tron character Kevin Flynn than we ever realized. In Tron: Legacy it is revealed that Flynn has turned to meditation during his nearly three decade imprisonment in the electronic world of Tron to find inner peace.
Julia Stiles Discusses Her Killer Scenes In ‘Dexter’
“I met with producer John Goldwyn, and he gave me the broad strokes about what the arc of the character would be. I did ask if I would end up killing anyone, and he said yes.”
Paul Rudd Talks ‘Our Idiot Brother’, Judd Apatow and His Best Career Advice
Paul Rudd might be starring in a movie titled Our Idiot Brother, but count the actor himself as one who doesn’t think that the character he plays really is an idiot.
Jennifer Hudson: “I’m Prouder Of My Weight Loss Than My Oscar”
Singer and Dream Girls actress Jennifer Hudson may be happy over her big 2006 Oscar win, but according to Hudson nothing can top her 80lb weight loss.
Steve Coogan Agrees to Cameo in 17-Year Old Film Student’s Movie
Seventeen year-old Liam Hooper wrote a letter to Steve Coogan (Tropic Thunder, The Other Guys, Alan Partridge) asking him to appear in his £1,000 student film.
Don’t Expect to See Reality TV Stars on The Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which deems who is “worthy” of a star (of course, footing the $30,000 for the star yourself is part of the worthiness), there is an unofficial ban on reality television “stars” from joining the Walk of Fame.
Reeve Carney on his New Role in the Jeff Buckley Biopic and Spider-Man
Currently starring in the Broadway musical Spider-Man, that has been bogged down with a slew of issues, Reeve Carney was recently asked how things were going now that the headlines have dulled.
Watch: 14 Year-Old Anne Hathaway’s First Commercial
In the video clip (that has made its way mysteriously back in rotation) the in demand star is seen overcome with teenage angst, and a style that screams the 90’s.
Interview: Megan Mullally and Ken Marino
The two talk Children’s Hospital, a Party Down movie, female body parts and more. This is a really great interview!
Broadway’s ‘The Book of Mormon’ Enjoys Sizeable Profits
The Book of Mormon cost $9.1 million — far cheaper than effect-laden shows like Shrek and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark — and has already recouped thirty percent of its cost for it’s investors and will pay off the investments completely by October.
Who Was Paul Rudd’s ‘Our Idiot Brother’ Character Partly Inspired By? The Director, Jesse Peretz
“The first thing was I read the script and thought it was really funny, but not just funny I loved the drama in it, I thought it was an interesting character and a fun character to play.”
Jessica Chastain Reveals That Robin Williams Paid For Her Acting School
Actress Jessica Chastain, who appeared in both The Tree of Life and The Help this summer, has revealed that her education at Julliard was funded entirely by a scholarship paid for by Robin Williams.
East Coast Earthquake Caught on Film During Local Commercial
A Virginia auto store was filming a commercial when the 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit this past Tuesday and caught it all on video.
Daniel Radcliffe’s First Post-Potter Role: “A character-driven, well-written horror film”
While some actors would feel the pressure to follow up a massive franchise like “Potter” with another huge project, Radcliffe doesn’t see it that way.
Actors Sue Seeking Royalties on Merchandising of Their Classic Film and Television Roles
When actor Zack Ward played Scott Farkus in 1983’s The Christmas Story, he probably had no idea that not only would the film be considered a classic but decades later his character would live on in merchandise like action figures, which use his likeness from the 1983 film.
Elizabeth Olsen: Hollywood Depicts Young Women Wrong
A lot of times with female relationships and young women [in the movies], it’s either ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’ or catty b–,” Olsen explained. “I just have a problem with that. They’re supposed to be either as perfect as how they’re portrayed on Disney or as mean as they’re portrayed in high school movies. And in real life it’s neither of those.”
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