"What the hell is wrong with Florida?" is the type of question Dave Barry is often asked about his home state after colorful Florida stories go viral (like Florida Man Seen Firing Musket at Cars While Dressed as Pirate or Florida Man Says He Danced on Patrol Car in Order to Escape Vampires). In his new book, Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland, released this month, the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist acknowledges that his home state has become known as the "Joke State." But after traveling through Florida, Barry offers this defense of the state's quirkier crimes:...
- 9/20/2016
- by Sam Gillette, @sgillette7
- PEOPLE.com
"What the hell is wrong with Florida?" is the type of question Dave Barry is often asked about his home state after colorful Florida stories go viral (like Florida Man Seen Firing Musket at Cars While Dressed as Pirate or Florida Man Says He Danced on Patrol Car in Order to Escape Vampires). In his new book, Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland, released this month, the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist acknowledges that his home state has become known as the "Joke State." But after traveling through Florida, Barry offers this defense of the state's quirkier crimes:...
- 9/20/2016
- by Sam Gillette, @sgillette7
- PEOPLE.com
When you write about entertainment all day every day, you tend to get caught up in minutiae, and it leads to editorial decisions I would call questionable. When you're writing breathless headlines about Pez dispensers, you may be working too hard to find relevance in the irrelevant. Getting hung up on the micro often prevents us from focusing on the macro, but I'd like to take the opportunity to take a step back from time to time to examine 'The Bigger Picture.' I'd like to start by telling you three stories. They're just three totally unrelated stories about going to see movies with people reacting afterwards in ways that are, by any definition, irrational. I can't imagine what might have happened in the last week that would have me reflecting on these incidents, but maybe by the time I've told them, we can figure out some sort of unifying thread.
- 2/18/2016
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Writers tend to be lone wolves, but Ridley Pearson, the prolific author of both adult and children’s thrillers (including the Peter and the Starcatcher series), is clearly a team player. On a panel today at BookCon with fellow kids’ adventure author James Dashner (of the Maze Runner series), he talked, among other things, about his far-flung and often very entertaining collaborations from Dave Barry to the Disney Corporation.On Stephen King, with whom Pearson is in the novelist super-group The Rock Bottom Remainders: What’s interesting about Stephen is he’s an absolutely normal guy. He’s not one of these macabre, dressed in all black kind of guys. But it turns out that his fans are psycho. We played in Nashville, and we always ended with Stephen because that’s how we knew we’d get the most applause. This band is the worst band you’ve ever heard,...
- 5/31/2015
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
With such a definitive and spoiler-happy title as “He Married His Wife” (even with pronouns lending a level of mystery), plot quickly becomes unimportant. Even the contemporary micro-genre this 1940 film fills, the comedy of remarriage, immediately announces T.H. Randall’s (Joel McCrea) eventual reunion with estranged wife Valerie (Nancy Kelly). In order for the couple to come together, both actors must switch between clown and straight-man acts at screwball pace using the supporting cast as colorful props.This outline worked well for Howard Hawks’s Bringing Up Baby (1938) two years earlier, but that had the remarkable advantage of both Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, both known for versatility in anything their studio would throw at them. Conversely, 20th Century Fox put director Roy Del Ruth to the task of He Married His Wife as a workman director capable of identifying the strengths of a trending narrative style for economic opportunity.
- 5/6/2015
- by Zach Lewis
- MUBI
Dave Barry may or may not be heading to movie theaters this weekend to catch the Fifty Shades of Grey movie, but last year he admitted that he’d read E.L. James’ bestseller to comedic results. Dave Barry On ‘Fifty Shades’ Barry, a humor author and columnist, decided to read Fifty Shades after hearing so much […]
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- 2/13/2015
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
Justin Bieber has been spending a lot of time with model Yovanna Ventura and was recently spotted walking with her along Venice Beach.
Justin Bieber Dating Yovanna Ventura
On Monday, Bieber, 20, and Ventura strolled down the Venice Beach Boardwalk, where they looked and acted “like a couple,” an eyewitness told E! News. According to the bystander, the two shared drinks and snacks and took a ride on a rickshaw in which Bieber’s hand remained on his date’s leg the whole time.
Apparently Bieber had pursued Ventura, and went about trying to meet her earlier this year. Since then, the two have hung out in Miami and Ventura also accompanied him and Kylie Jenner to the Mayweather fight.
"Justin wanted to meet her," a source told E!. "He sought her out. It hasn't been too hot and heavy, but they have been hanging out a lot. Their relationship is blossoming.
Justin Bieber Dating Yovanna Ventura
On Monday, Bieber, 20, and Ventura strolled down the Venice Beach Boardwalk, where they looked and acted “like a couple,” an eyewitness told E! News. According to the bystander, the two shared drinks and snacks and took a ride on a rickshaw in which Bieber’s hand remained on his date’s leg the whole time.
Apparently Bieber had pursued Ventura, and went about trying to meet her earlier this year. Since then, the two have hung out in Miami and Ventura also accompanied him and Kylie Jenner to the Mayweather fight.
"Justin wanted to meet her," a source told E!. "He sought her out. It hasn't been too hot and heavy, but they have been hanging out a lot. Their relationship is blossoming.
- 5/6/2014
- Uinterview
Justin Bieber landed at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday after a flight from Tokyo and was detained for a total of four hours.
Justin Bieber Detained At Lax
Bieber, 20, was held at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Area at Lax for secondary questioning due to his foreign national status, Bieber’s publicist told Entertainment Weekly. Despite the online petitions to revoke the Canadian native’s visa, he was permitted to enter the U.S..
After four hours of questioning in the Tom Bradley International Terminal, Bieber was finally released. His entourage waited for him and left with the pop singer once he was done with the airport authorities.
Following the incident, Bieber took to Twitter to reassure his concerned fans that there was nothing to worry about and to stay positive.
Life is good. Keep it positive always...
Justin Bieber Detained At Lax
Bieber, 20, was held at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Area at Lax for secondary questioning due to his foreign national status, Bieber’s publicist told Entertainment Weekly. Despite the online petitions to revoke the Canadian native’s visa, he was permitted to enter the U.S..
After four hours of questioning in the Tom Bradley International Terminal, Bieber was finally released. His entourage waited for him and left with the pop singer once he was done with the airport authorities.
Following the incident, Bieber took to Twitter to reassure his concerned fans that there was nothing to worry about and to stay positive.
Life is good. Keep it positive always...
- 4/25/2014
- Uinterview
Taco Bell president Brian Niccol participated in a Reddit Ama on Thursday – the day the fast food chain launched their breakfast menu – and answered one question with a Justin Bieber joke.
Taco Bell Pokes Fun At Justin Bieber
While Americans now have the benefit of enjoying a Taco Bell breakfast, their neighbors to the north in Canada aren't so lucky. When a Reddit user asked when the menu would be coming to Cananda, Niccol had the perfect response: “When you take Justin Bieber back.”
Taco Bell president Brian Nicol
During the Ama, Niccol also gave a jokey response to a user who wanted to know if sales had increased in Colorado following the state’s legalization of marijuana. He quipped they’d increased 420%, before playing naïve and asking, “But seriously, what is 4/20?”
When asked if the short-lived Bell Beefer would be making a comeback, Niccol empathetically replied, “I’m terribly sorry.
Taco Bell Pokes Fun At Justin Bieber
While Americans now have the benefit of enjoying a Taco Bell breakfast, their neighbors to the north in Canada aren't so lucky. When a Reddit user asked when the menu would be coming to Cananda, Niccol had the perfect response: “When you take Justin Bieber back.”
Taco Bell president Brian Nicol
During the Ama, Niccol also gave a jokey response to a user who wanted to know if sales had increased in Colorado following the state’s legalization of marijuana. He quipped they’d increased 420%, before playing naïve and asking, “But seriously, what is 4/20?”
When asked if the short-lived Bell Beefer would be making a comeback, Niccol empathetically replied, “I’m terribly sorry.
- 3/28/2014
- Uinterview
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dave Barry, best known for his beloved humor column in The Miami Herald, recently released his 25th non-fiction book of observational comedy, You Can Date Boys When You’re Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About.
Dave Barry On Fatherhood
Through parenting a now 14-year-old girl, Barry is all too familiar with Justin Bieber – the family-friendly pop star-turned-wannabe bad boy. In fact, Barry attended a Bieber concert in which the “Beauty and the Beat” singer ripped his shirt off for the thousands of adoring young fans. Barry wasn’t impressed.
“At one point he took off, he took off his shirt, which was pretty silly I thought, because he doesn't have - he's not Channing Tatum,” Barry told Uinterview exclusively. “You know he, he's got the same body as the Geico Gecko. But he took his shirt off and, 'Aah Justin I love you.
Dave Barry On Fatherhood
Through parenting a now 14-year-old girl, Barry is all too familiar with Justin Bieber – the family-friendly pop star-turned-wannabe bad boy. In fact, Barry attended a Bieber concert in which the “Beauty and the Beat” singer ripped his shirt off for the thousands of adoring young fans. Barry wasn’t impressed.
“At one point he took off, he took off his shirt, which was pretty silly I thought, because he doesn't have - he's not Channing Tatum,” Barry told Uinterview exclusively. “You know he, he's got the same body as the Geico Gecko. But he took his shirt off and, 'Aah Justin I love you.
- 3/18/2014
- Uinterview
Even though the people that occupy the future-set world of Veronica Roth’s novel are separated into different factions with different characteristics, all of the people at the Ronnie’s 20 Cine in St. Louis Tuesday night were clearly all gathered for the same thing: Divergent. The young adult series that has spawned three books and a legion of fans is making its way into theaters with the film Divergent on March 21.
Fans of all ages came out to see two of the actors from the film for a red carpet premiere Tuesday night in St. Louis. Some of these fans were even lucky enough to be the first to see the highly-anticipated film.
Christian Madsen who plays Al and Ben Lloyd-Hughes who plays Will received a warm reception from fans who waited hours to meet the stars behind their literary heroes. Groups of young girls squealed with excitement when the...
Fans of all ages came out to see two of the actors from the film for a red carpet premiere Tuesday night in St. Louis. Some of these fans were even lucky enough to be the first to see the highly-anticipated film.
Christian Madsen who plays Al and Ben Lloyd-Hughes who plays Will received a warm reception from fans who waited hours to meet the stars behind their literary heroes. Groups of young girls squealed with excitement when the...
- 3/6/2014
- by Michael Haffner
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Man on Carrion Road
Ian McShane has joined Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego's "The Man On Carrion Road" for Atlas Independent. Filming begins in April.
McShane plays an aging retired sheriff of a small border town with violent tendencies. Patrick Wilson also stars in the Nils Lyew-scripted film. [Source: Screen]
Prima
Vera Farmiga ("Bates Moel") has joined the relationship comedy "Prima". Evan Greenberg helms the film which begins shooting in March.
The story follows a young girl who gets accepted to an elite and snobbish dance academy. [Source: Screen]
Lunatics
Steve Carell is attached to the film adaptation of SNL's Alan Zweibel and humorist Dave Barry's novel "Lunatics". The pair have also penned the script adaptation.
Jack Black is being talked about for the other lead in a comedy about two suburban dads, one of whom runs a pet store called The Wine Shop. [Source: Showbiz 411]
Your Right Mind
Clea DuVall, Sheryl Lee, Emily Alyn Lind...
Ian McShane has joined Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego's "The Man On Carrion Road" for Atlas Independent. Filming begins in April.
McShane plays an aging retired sheriff of a small border town with violent tendencies. Patrick Wilson also stars in the Nils Lyew-scripted film. [Source: Screen]
Prima
Vera Farmiga ("Bates Moel") has joined the relationship comedy "Prima". Evan Greenberg helms the film which begins shooting in March.
The story follows a young girl who gets accepted to an elite and snobbish dance academy. [Source: Screen]
Lunatics
Steve Carell is attached to the film adaptation of SNL's Alan Zweibel and humorist Dave Barry's novel "Lunatics". The pair have also penned the script adaptation.
Jack Black is being talked about for the other lead in a comedy about two suburban dads, one of whom runs a pet store called The Wine Shop. [Source: Showbiz 411]
Your Right Mind
Clea DuVall, Sheryl Lee, Emily Alyn Lind...
- 2/7/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The Rock Bottom Remainders are a weird idea. The concept of famous writers like Stephen King, Dave Barry, and Amy Tan getting together to form a mediocre rock band brings to mind your middle-aged dad and his drinking buddies declaring that they’re gonna get the old college band back together, someday. But it’s different than that, richer than that. The Rbr’s previous jam-book memoir, Mid-Life Confidential, went a long way toward explanation. One of the benefits of having your vanity band made up of all talented writers is that they have no trouble articulating what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. For some, it’s a way to try something outside their comfort zone; for some, it’s a way to connect with people who understand the unique problems of bestselling writers; and for some, it’s about discovering whether they can be good...
- 6/19/2013
- by Kevin Quigley
- FEARnet
Much is being made of the fact that Stephen King has—for the time being—decided to forego an eBook of his latest novel, Joyland. Several articles imply that he is no longer a fan of the digital format. Others argue that he shouldn’t get to decide how people experience a book, ignoring the fact that digital rights are separate from print rights and that authors get to choose how to exploit them. As illustrated in my first essay here at FEARnet, King has long been a champion of eBooks—an innovator, even. There was a digital version of The Wind Through the Keyhole last year and there will be one of Doctor Sleep later on this year. King isn’t challenging the format. He simply wants readers to have the retro feeling of holding a paperback in this one case. That’s what Hard Case Crime is all about,...
- 6/7/2013
- by Bev Vincent
- FEARnet
Remember that time when Superman caught a Kryptonian virus on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman? And he spent practically the whole episode laid out on the couch, barely conscious? And all he could manage to do was sort of thrash his head about and moan a bit? Having spent the entirety of this past week laid out at home with what I have not-so-fondly dubbed “The Winter Plague,” I suspect I know just how he felt.
I also suspect that when it comes to the Winter Plague, I have not been very heroic. Or at least that’s what it seems like when looking back at my pathetic tweets over the past week (tweeting being about all I’ve had the energy to do, since I can do it from my phone, while lying down in bed). But I guess I could look at the whole matter in another way.
I also suspect that when it comes to the Winter Plague, I have not been very heroic. Or at least that’s what it seems like when looking back at my pathetic tweets over the past week (tweeting being about all I’ve had the energy to do, since I can do it from my phone, while lying down in bed). But I guess I could look at the whole matter in another way.
- 2/5/2013
- by Emily S. Whitten
- Comicmix.com
Peter and the Starcatcher may be closing on Broadway later this month, but the Tony Award-winning play has found a new home Off Broadway at New World Stages.
Based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, the Peter Pan prequel tells the story of the orphan who became The Boy Who Never Grew Up. The play first debuted in March 2011 at New York Theatre Workshop before heading to Broadway in 2012, where it will close on Jan. 20. The show will transfer to its new Off-Broadway location this spring.
“We have had an amazing run on Broadway, and audience demand continues to grow,...
Based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, the Peter Pan prequel tells the story of the orphan who became The Boy Who Never Grew Up. The play first debuted in March 2011 at New York Theatre Workshop before heading to Broadway in 2012, where it will close on Jan. 20. The show will transfer to its new Off-Broadway location this spring.
“We have had an amazing run on Broadway, and audience demand continues to grow,...
- 1/2/2013
- by Tara Fowler
- EW.com - PopWatch
Avast, me hearties, and feast yer eyes on th’ calendar decoratin’ Davy Jones’ Locker. That’s right, maties: Once more, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day. The 10th annual worldwide celebration of Talk Like a Pirate Day, to be precise. We can harrrrdly arrrrrticulate ourrrrrr excitement.
Confused? Let me drop the Long John Silver act and explain. In 1995, a group of friends discovered that it’s really, really fun to pepper your speech with buccaneer slang. Their first ever Tlapd was a private joke shared among a small group of pals. But in 2002, the gang told humorist Dave Barry...
Confused? Let me drop the Long John Silver act and explain. In 1995, a group of friends discovered that it’s really, really fun to pepper your speech with buccaneer slang. Their first ever Tlapd was a private joke shared among a small group of pals. But in 2002, the gang told humorist Dave Barry...
- 9/19/2012
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Peter and the Starcatcher, the five-time Tony Award-winning play by Rick Elice, celebrates the 10th annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day today, September 19th, with a special Stache Day in honor of their own pirate, Black Stache. This morning, the first 100 fans in line at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street with mustaches real or fake received one free ticket for this evenings performance. Matthew Saldivar and Dave Barry were at the Brooks Atkinson to celebrate this morning with fans, and you can check out full coverage below...
- 9/19/2012
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
Now that the dust has settled around “The Hunger Games” helmer Gary Ross’ exit following the first entry in the multi-million dollar film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ popular book series, it looks as if he’s finally decided to start picking that next project he can use his 'Hunger Games' cachet on to get going. He did sign on for "Houdini" over at Summit, and while he was rumored to be eyeing "Tarzan" at Warner Bros., we were told the director would not be swinging from the jungle vines anytime soon. Instead, it was revealed Ross would be heading to Neverland with Disney, tackling the tale of another group of kids – albeit ones who never grow up. Ross was negotiating to helm “Peter Pan and the Starcatchers” -- a Peter Pan prequel of sorts based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson – but now Deadline is reporting that...
- 8/21/2012
- by Benjamin Wright
- The Playlist
Gary Ross, coming off of the success of "The Hunger Games," was in one of the most enviable positions in Hollywood. After all, there's no sweeter moment than when you've just had a tremendous commercial hit and you're able to take your time and pick your follow-up from a huge selection of possible projects. Ross was already an A-list filmmaker, so the success didn't radically change things for him, but it did put whatever choice he made under a much brighter spotlight. Disney purchased the rights to the Peter Pan novels by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson several years ago, and...
- 8/20/2012
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
After establishing himself as much more of a household name thanks to The Hunger Games this year, Gary Ross is moving on to his next project, and it's once again going to be a big one. He's now set to direct Peter and the Starcatchers, an adaptation of the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson that's currently running as a hit Broadway production as well. Ross had been weighing the project back in June, but now Deadline reports he's committed, with hopes to start directing "as quickly as possible" next year. Ross had also been in talks with Summit to make The Secret Life of Houdini, one of a handful of Houdini projects out there, but he apparently wanted to give Starcatchers his full attention. Though the Disney project will inevitably be sold as a Peter Pan prequel, especially since Disney's got their own animated Peter Pan back in...
- 8/20/2012
- cinemablend.com
Gary Ross has finally settled on a follow-up project to his massively successful adaptation of "The Hunger Games." The director considered a handful of possibilities, but Deadline is reporting that Ross has decided to direct "Peter and the Starcatchers."
The film will be based on a novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, which acts a prequel to the Peter Pan story we are all familiar with.
Ross was reportedly also considering "The Secret Life of Houdini," but the Deadline report claimed that a deal was not close for that project.
Learn more about "Peter and the Starcatchers" after the jump!
According to Deadline, "Peter and the Starcatchers" has a little ways to go before getting in front of the camera. Screenwriter Jeese Wigutow still has to deliver his latest draft of the script, and there is not a budget in place yet.
But Gary Ross reportedly wants to get moving quickly,...
The film will be based on a novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, which acts a prequel to the Peter Pan story we are all familiar with.
Ross was reportedly also considering "The Secret Life of Houdini," but the Deadline report claimed that a deal was not close for that project.
Learn more about "Peter and the Starcatchers" after the jump!
According to Deadline, "Peter and the Starcatchers" has a little ways to go before getting in front of the camera. Screenwriter Jeese Wigutow still has to deliver his latest draft of the script, and there is not a budget in place yet.
But Gary Ross reportedly wants to get moving quickly,...
- 8/20/2012
- by Kevin P. Sullivan
- MTV Movies Blog
Earlier this summer Gary Ross (The Hunger Games) pulled out of the running to direct The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and ended up talking to Disney about developing a project for them called Peter and the Starcatchers. According to Deadline, he's officially secured the directing gig and it will be his next film project. It looked like he would be directing a film for Summit Entertainment called The Secret Life of Houdini, but apparently he was tired of waiting around for the studio to make a deal, and he lost interest.
Peter and the Starcatchers is the first in a book series written Dave Barry and Ridley Pierson, that has already been adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway production. The script for the film is currently being written by Jesse Wigutow.
The story is a Peter Pan origin story, that follows "a young Peter who befriends Molly, a shipmate...
Peter and the Starcatchers is the first in a book series written Dave Barry and Ridley Pierson, that has already been adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway production. The script for the film is currently being written by Jesse Wigutow.
The story is a Peter Pan origin story, that follows "a young Peter who befriends Molly, a shipmate...
- 8/20/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Breaking: Since Gary Ross dropped out of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, he kicked the tires on a bunch of projects. He has now firmed up the Disney film Peter And The Starcatchers as his next directing vehicle. Ross has lost interest in directing The Secret Life Of Houdini, a project that Summit Entertainment is putting together. They never got as far as making a deal with Ross. Ross is squarely focused on Disney’s adaptation of the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, and the studio is waiting for a new draft of the Jesse Wigutow script that is scheduled to be delivered in October. The film hasn’t been budgeted, but Ross hopes to direct it as his next film as quickly as possible in 2013. The film is in spirit a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, a fantasy pirate adventure full that starts when...
- 8/20/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Since leaving Panem, director Gary Ross certainly has had his pick of projects. The Hunger Games director is now in talks to take on Disney's Peter Pan prequel, Peter Pan and the Starcatchers. Like The Hunger Games, Starcatcher has the potential to launch a new franchise for Disney as the film is based on the first book in a series of children's novels by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. Disney optioned the book back in 2005 with the intention of turning it into a 3D CG feature, but ended up adapting it into a Tony Award-winning stage musical instead. With fairy tale retellings all the rage, it seems the studio is willing to give a film version another shot. Enter Ross, whose monster hit has grossed $681 million worldwide to date. The selective director is also attached...
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- 7/18/2012
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
I've been wanting to watch Girls since before its premiere, somewhat because of the hype and somewhat because the show seems like it would hit close to my upper-middle class NYC home—not a requirement for me to like a narrative-based product, but an encouragement. Alas, I have neither HBO nor a TV to play it on, and I can't watch Ology's screener, because my laptop doesn't like CDs, something I thought at first was a DVD permissions problem but turns out to be hardware-related.
Do you care about any of this? I sure hope not. But for some reason Josh Wilk thinks we should really care about his personal relationship to Girls. Josh has two daughters, 7 and 4, which gives him something in common with about 2 billion people on earth, but he also has a Girls screener, which those other 2 billion daughter-havers do not, and what he projects into the...
Do you care about any of this? I sure hope not. But for some reason Josh Wilk thinks we should really care about his personal relationship to Girls. Josh has two daughters, 7 and 4, which gives him something in common with about 2 billion people on earth, but he also has a Girls screener, which those other 2 billion daughter-havers do not, and what he projects into the...
- 6/23/2012
- by Evan McMurry
- TVology
I've been wanting to watch Girls since before its premiere, somewhat because of the hype and somewhat because the show seems like it would hit close to my upper-middle class NYC home—not a requirement for me to like a narrative-based product, but an encouragement. Alas, I have neither HBO nor a TV to play it on, and I can't watch Ology's screener, because my laptop doesn't like CDs, something I thought at first was a DVD permissions problem but turns out to be hardware-related.
Do you care about any of this? I sure hope not. But for some reason Josh Wilk thinks we should really care about his personal relationship to Girls. Josh has two daughters, 7 and 4, which gives him something in common with about 2 billion people on earth, but he also has a Girls screener, which those other 2 billion daughter-havers do not, and what he projects into the...
Do you care about any of this? I sure hope not. But for some reason Josh Wilk thinks we should really care about his personal relationship to Girls. Josh has two daughters, 7 and 4, which gives him something in common with about 2 billion people on earth, but he also has a Girls screener, which those other 2 billion daughter-havers do not, and what he projects into the...
- 6/23/2012
- by Evan McMurry
- Celebsology
Los Angeles -- It took 20 years but the group Bruce Springsteen once praised as being almost as good as a lousy garage band is finally calling it quits.
The Rock Bottom Remainders, a contingent that has made it clear with every performance that literary giants like Amy Tan, Stephen King and Scott Turow really did make the right decision when they set aside their musical ambitions to write books, is calling it a career after two Southern California shows later this month.
"We've gotten as good as we're ever going to get," says lead guitarist and best-selling humorist Dave Barry, explaining the band's decision.
"You can't get any better," Barry continued. "Well, you actually can get a lot better. But we can't get any better. We're up to almost four chords now, and the Beatles quit at that point, I'm pretty sure."
Truth be told, the Rock Bottom Remainders were...
The Rock Bottom Remainders, a contingent that has made it clear with every performance that literary giants like Amy Tan, Stephen King and Scott Turow really did make the right decision when they set aside their musical ambitions to write books, is calling it a career after two Southern California shows later this month.
"We've gotten as good as we're ever going to get," says lead guitarist and best-selling humorist Dave Barry, explaining the band's decision.
"You can't get any better," Barry continued. "Well, you actually can get a lot better. But we can't get any better. We're up to almost four chords now, and the Beatles quit at that point, I'm pretty sure."
Truth be told, the Rock Bottom Remainders were...
- 6/17/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Second star to the right and straight on til morning leads you much closer than you’d think; to the Brooks Atkins Theater on 47th street in Midtown, Manhattan. This is where you'll find the critically acclaimed production Peter and the Starcatcher, a minimalistic origin story of Peter Pan and Captain Hook. Peter and the Starcatcher is based off of the best selling children’s novel of the same title by Pulitzer Prize winning author Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, and has garnered 9 Tony Away Nominations since it’s opening on April 15th, 2012, including Best Play. But be warned: though it's whimsical themes are childlike, this play is not for children. Sure, there are plenty of youngsters who will be thoroughly entertained by the boisterous fanfare unfolding on stage, but this show -- with...
- 5/30/2012
- by Zoë Gulliksen
- The Daily BLAM!
Score one for the self-published author. In a bidding war comparable to the recent "50 Shades of Grey" face-off, 20th Century Fox has acquired the film rights for Hugh Howey's self-published, post-apocalyptic e-book, "Wool." Originally started as a stand-alone story in 2011, fervor over Howey's work led to more installments, the first five of which have been compiled into a omnibus edition. Howey self-published "Wool" through Amazon, and, after positive word-of-mouth, sold over 140,000 copies through e-book in just under six months. Not bad for a guy who worked as a yacht captain for eight years before pursuing a literary career (can't make stuff like that up).
Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free are partnering with Film Rites’ Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch for the film version of "Wool," which is set on a decimated Earth and follows the remains of humanity living in an enormous silo. Fox is clearly setting its...
Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free are partnering with Film Rites’ Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch for the film version of "Wool," which is set on a decimated Earth and follows the remains of humanity living in an enormous silo. Fox is clearly setting its...
- 5/18/2012
- by Ryan Gowland
- The Playlist
One night, nearly two decades ago, Nicholas Stoller, at that time a freshman at Harvard, dragged his mattress out of his room and into the room of his suitemate. Both young men had long-distance high school girlfriends whom they missed terribly, and they'd decided to have a sleepover to bond over their shared state of longing. During the sleepover, the suitemate decided to put on his prom song, “Always” by the English synthpop duo Erasure. The two listened as a ghostly plucking of strings filled the room, accompanied by a faint, mournful moaning, then a pulsing beat and quirky, digital squiggles of synthesizer funk. And soon, a high-pitched male voice, wavering and rising with emotion, swelling at the chorus: Always/I want to be with you/and make believe with you/and live in harmony harmony oh love. The song played, and they both cried.
Stoller laughs as he tells this story.
Stoller laughs as he tells this story.
- 4/30/2012
- by Maris James
- The Playlist
As much fun as Act I of "Peter and the Starcatcher" is -- and that cannot be overstated -- the second act contains some of the best scenes on Broadway this season.
Christian Borle ("Smash") is absolutely fabulous as a prissy pirate prone to malapropisms. He seems to be channeling some inner Groucho with the huge mustache -- he is, after all Black Stache -- and does the great bug eyes as well. Borle milks every joke, but never a second too long.
Like everyone in Roger Rees and Alex Timbers' precisely directed play, he never misses a beat or a joke. This cast should be used in drama schools to illustrate the beauty of comic timing.
"Peter and the Starcatcher" is not so easily defined. It's a comedy, clean enough for children. The few mildly suggestive jokes sail over kids' heads but get laughs from the adults. It's a musical,...
Christian Borle ("Smash") is absolutely fabulous as a prissy pirate prone to malapropisms. He seems to be channeling some inner Groucho with the huge mustache -- he is, after all Black Stache -- and does the great bug eyes as well. Borle milks every joke, but never a second too long.
Like everyone in Roger Rees and Alex Timbers' precisely directed play, he never misses a beat or a joke. This cast should be used in drama schools to illustrate the beauty of comic timing.
"Peter and the Starcatcher" is not so easily defined. It's a comedy, clean enough for children. The few mildly suggestive jokes sail over kids' heads but get laughs from the adults. It's a musical,...
- 4/24/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Nicki Minaj might be taking over London by storm, but London is taking over Nicki’s speaking voice like it’s some kind of little dapper brain virus. In a new interview with Dave Barry, host of ITV’s Hot Desk across the pound, Minaj sounds all kinds of proper as she slips in and out of a few different kinds of British accents. We know Nicki lets Martha from time to time but this is some next level cuteness; You can almost feel Nicki getting more posh as the interview goes on.. If she calls a truck a lorry, we will squeal out loud.
We wonder if the voices in Nicki Minaj‘s head have started sounding like Helen Mirren yet, too. We wouldn’t be surprised, seeing as how they’ve apparently started issuing commands. Commands like, shut down your Twitter account. “A voice in my head told...
We wonder if the voices in Nicki Minaj‘s head have started sounding like Helen Mirren yet, too. We wouldn’t be surprised, seeing as how they’ve apparently started issuing commands. Commands like, shut down your Twitter account. “A voice in my head told...
- 4/20/2012
- by Halle Kiefer
- TheFabLife - Movies
Peter and the Starcatcher is a tiny show, but spectacle, wit, and joy spill out of it like treasure from a magic pocket. A cast of twelve, a couple of trunks, and a versatile length of rope yield more storytelling than most oversize spectaculars can manage. There’s a naval battle, an island full of savages, and a mermaid chorus, all packed onto a stage that feels no bigger than a conch shell. It’s a measure of the production’s low-tech delights that when Molly, the cast’s sole female, ingests a dose of “starstuff,” crosses her legs and levitates, Jeannie-style, it looks like a miraculous effect, even though we can clearly see the plank, the pivot, and the hand on the seesaw’s other end.Written by Rick Elice and based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, the play tells the story of how a...
- 4/16/2012
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
Scene: Robin and I are sitting in our den. We are empty nesters. The TV is on. She's engrossed in the same program that I'm pretending to be watching when, in fact, I'm wondering why we aren't naked.
And then a commercial. The one where a woman on the phone has just been told it will cost up to $6,000 for her father's funeral. She sits at her kitchen table shaking her head. I let it play for a few more beats and then break the silence.
- You think we should get that, Robin?
- Burial insurance?
- So the kids won't be financially burdened in their moment of unspeakable grief.
- I don't think so ...
- Robin, it's $6,000. And since I'm fairly certain that someday we'll both be dead, that's a
huge chunk of change to make sure they won't leave us lying around or propped up in
these chairs.
And then a commercial. The one where a woman on the phone has just been told it will cost up to $6,000 for her father's funeral. She sits at her kitchen table shaking her head. I let it play for a few more beats and then break the silence.
- You think we should get that, Robin?
- Burial insurance?
- So the kids won't be financially burdened in their moment of unspeakable grief.
- I don't think so ...
- Robin, it's $6,000. And since I'm fairly certain that someday we'll both be dead, that's a
huge chunk of change to make sure they won't leave us lying around or propped up in
these chairs.
- 1/25/2012
- by Alan Zweibel
- Aol TV.
The Finder
USA, 2012, imdb
Thursday, 9Pm, Fox
Created by Hart Hanson, based on characters from The Locator book series by Richard Greener
Episode 1.01 “An Orphan Walks Into a Bar”
Directed by Daniel Sackheim
Written by Hart Hanson
Episode 1.02 “Bullets”
Directed by Terrence O’Hara
Written by Matt MacLeod
*****
The Finder series is a new procedural series with an interesting premise and really good characters, betrayed by a writing staff that don’t seem to read their own scripts.
The show falls into the category of quirky, intellectually brilliant, but emotionally damaged investigators like Bones, House, and Body of Proof. Like Sherlock Holmes’ Watson, Walter Sherman (Geoff Shults) is a wounded veteran, although Sherman was wounded in Iraq rather than Afghanistan. Before his injury, Sherman was great at finding people and things for the military, but after he is almost supernaturally gifted at it, though this is balanced by his obsessive...
USA, 2012, imdb
Thursday, 9Pm, Fox
Created by Hart Hanson, based on characters from The Locator book series by Richard Greener
Episode 1.01 “An Orphan Walks Into a Bar”
Directed by Daniel Sackheim
Written by Hart Hanson
Episode 1.02 “Bullets”
Directed by Terrence O’Hara
Written by Matt MacLeod
*****
The Finder series is a new procedural series with an interesting premise and really good characters, betrayed by a writing staff that don’t seem to read their own scripts.
The show falls into the category of quirky, intellectually brilliant, but emotionally damaged investigators like Bones, House, and Body of Proof. Like Sherlock Holmes’ Watson, Walter Sherman (Geoff Shults) is a wounded veteran, although Sherman was wounded in Iraq rather than Afghanistan. Before his injury, Sherman was great at finding people and things for the military, but after he is almost supernaturally gifted at it, though this is balanced by his obsessive...
- 1/25/2012
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
"Peter and the Starcatcher," Rick Elice's play about the Peter Pan legend based on Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's novel, will fly onto Broadway. The show is scheduled to start preview performances on March 28 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in advance of an April 15 opening. The current occupant of the Atkinson, "Relatively Speaking," closes Jan. 29. "Peter," directed by Tony winner Roger Rees and Drama Desk winner Alex Timbers ("Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson"), played Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop last season and received rave reviews, as well as five Drama Desk nominations (winning for outstanding music in a play), two Lucille Lortel Awards (for outstanding lead actor and outstanding choreography) and a Henry Hewes Design Award for best lighting.Back Stage critic David Sheward called it "imaginative and wildly entertaining." Casting information has not been announced. Christian Borle, currently filming NBC's "Smash," won a Lortel Award and...
- 1/19/2012
- by help@backstage.com ()
- backstage.com
For some Broadway producers (particularly those whose star doesn’t moonlight as Wolverine), it’s the winter of their discontent. January is traditionally when Broadway attendance dips dramatically as tourists retreat from New York City. The final curtain came down last weekend on many shows, both long-running veterans (The Addams Family) and relative newcomers (Private Lives, Bonnie and Clyde). But the vultures are circling other box office weaklings that have struggled to find an audience even during the tourist-flush holiday season.
Last week, for instance, the new musical Lysistrata Jones filled less than half its seats and grossed an anemic...
Last week, for instance, the new musical Lysistrata Jones filled less than half its seats and grossed an anemic...
- 1/2/2012
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
Last Friday I threw my back out when I bent over to pick up my tooth.
I think that sentence bears repeating.
I threw my back out when I bent over to pick up my tooth.
No, this piece is not about the horrors of the advancing age or eroding health this event implies. I'll leave it to others to share tales of how their bodies, despite all dietary and aerobic regiments, are grinding to an inevitable halt. All I know is that while I was down there on our kitchen floor, now eye level with the $3,000 implant that decided it would rather spend time against the molding under the pantry door than embedded in the upper left quadrant of my mouth, the first thought that entered my mind was that I'll just get up and continue with my day. I had a lot to do. There was a script I had to finish.
I think that sentence bears repeating.
I threw my back out when I bent over to pick up my tooth.
No, this piece is not about the horrors of the advancing age or eroding health this event implies. I'll leave it to others to share tales of how their bodies, despite all dietary and aerobic regiments, are grinding to an inevitable halt. All I know is that while I was down there on our kitchen floor, now eye level with the $3,000 implant that decided it would rather spend time against the molding under the pantry door than embedded in the upper left quadrant of my mouth, the first thought that entered my mind was that I'll just get up and continue with my day. I had a lot to do. There was a script I had to finish.
- 12/22/2011
- by Alan Zweibel
- Aol TV.
Just days ago, writer-director Quentin Tarantino added four new cast members to his upcoming, anti-slavery "Southern" movie Django Unchained, and it doesn't look like he's done casting just yet.
THR reports Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) has been cast in a "minor but showy role" of a quirky gambler.
In the movie, a freed slave (Jamie Foxx) works to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from a sadistic slave owner (Leonardo DiCaprio). Cohen's character will purchase Washington much to his misfortune.
Next Showing:
Link | Posted 11/12/2011 by Ryan
Sacha Baron Cohen | Dave Barry | Alan Zweibel | Steve Carell | Rex Linn | Max Irons | The Host | Django Unchained...
THR reports Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) has been cast in a "minor but showy role" of a quirky gambler.
In the movie, a freed slave (Jamie Foxx) works to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from a sadistic slave owner (Leonardo DiCaprio). Cohen's character will purchase Washington much to his misfortune.
Next Showing:
Link | Posted 11/12/2011 by Ryan
Sacha Baron Cohen | Dave Barry | Alan Zweibel | Steve Carell | Rex Linn | Max Irons | The Host | Django Unchained...
- 11/12/2011
- by Ryan Gowland
- Reelzchannel.com
The Hurt Locker’s Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have been working on the Seal Team 6 movie long before the actual Seal Team 6 killed Osama Bin Laden. Of course they had to adjust their story from a failed mission to a successful one due to current events. But since that time Joel Edgerton was the only actor attached to a role. Now Deadline reports that The Chicago Code’s Jason Clarke will be joining the cast of the Seal Team Six movie adaptation. According to the report Clarke will play as “a terrorist hunter in service of the U.S. efforts to hunt Bin Laden.”
Unfortunately the report fails to mention what became of Edgerton’s role. And due to scheduling conflicts, the actor might not even get a chance to appear in the movie. Also being discussed for roles are Tom Hardy (who also stars in Wettest County), Jennifer Ehle...
Unfortunately the report fails to mention what became of Edgerton’s role. And due to scheduling conflicts, the actor might not even get a chance to appear in the movie. Also being discussed for roles are Tom Hardy (who also stars in Wettest County), Jennifer Ehle...
- 11/11/2011
- by Mike Lee
- FusedFilm
[1] While Steve Carell has obviously been trying to branch out beyond his funnyman roots with some of his recent [2] choices [3], the latest addition to his crowded slate sounds more like classic Carell. The very busy actor is attached to produce and star in Universal Pictures' Lunatics, a big-screen adaptation of Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel's forthcoming novel. Carell will play one of two suburbanites who get involved in a petty feud, with unexpectedly far-reaching consequences. More details after the jump. Carell's been landing roles left and right ever since his exit from NBC's The Office. He's already wrapped Seeking a Friend for the End of the World with Keira Knightley, and is currently shooting Great Hope Springs with Meryl Streep. Beyond that, he's also signed on for Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, Charlie Kaufman's Frank or Francis, the literary adaptation Dogs of Babel, the magician comedy Burt Wonderstone,...
- 11/11/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Steve Carell seems to be attaching himself to a new project on a daily basis. Just off the top of my head, he’s got Dogs of Babel, Burt Wonderstone, and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World coming up – so I’m starting to take all of these attachments with a grain of salt. Is he really going to be able to squeeze all of these starring roles into his schedule? But, nonetheless, another one has been announced. The latest news, coming out of Deadline Armonk, is that Carell will be starring in an adaptation of a Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel novel called “Lunatics.” The books centers on a rivalry between two suburban dads that escalates to the point that it creates butterfly effect-type global consequences. More specifically, the novel’s description on Amazon reads, “Philip Horkman is a happy man-the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and...
- 11/11/2011
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Steve Carell has signed on to star in Lunatics. Lunatics is a film adaptation of the Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel novel with the same name. Universal Pictures has bought the rights to Lunatics, but Barry and Zweibel will adapt their novel for the movie audience, reports Deadline. The film will follow two New Jersey soccer dads whose minor feud has much bigger consequences. Carell will play a pet store owner who referees children's soccer games on Sundays. The Crazy, Stupid, Love (more)...
- 11/11/2011
- by By Kristina Bustos
- Digital Spy
Steve Carell is attached to star in "Lunatics" for Universal Pictures says Deadline
Based on the Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel novel, the story follows two New Jersey soccer dads whose minor feud escalates to create worldwide consequences and leaves them running for their lives.
Carell plays one of them, a pet store owner and local kids soccer ref. Barry and Zweibel will adapt the script themselves.
Scott Stuber, Pam Abdy, Vance DeGeneres and Charlie Hartsock will produce.
Based on the Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel novel, the story follows two New Jersey soccer dads whose minor feud escalates to create worldwide consequences and leaves them running for their lives.
Carell plays one of them, a pet store owner and local kids soccer ref. Barry and Zweibel will adapt the script themselves.
Scott Stuber, Pam Abdy, Vance DeGeneres and Charlie Hartsock will produce.
- 11/11/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Steve Carrel is set to star in 'Lunatics'. The '40-year-old Virgin' actor will take on the role of Philip Horkman, a pet shop owner who referees kids football games on Sundays, the character in the novel written by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel which has now been acquired by Universal Pictures. The Barry Zweibel-creation, which will be produced by Scott Stuber and Pam Abdy as well as Steve himself along with his Carousel partners Vance DeGeneres and Charlie Hartsock, is about the feud of two New Jersey football dads which escalates far beyond its means leaving...
- 11/11/2011
- Virgin Media - Movies
Steve Carell has built a career out of playing some less-than-average characters, but his latest film role has him turning into a real head case.
Collider reports that Carell has signed on to star as Philip Horkman, a pet store owner and soccer ref, in "Lunatics," the film adaptation of Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel's novel of the same name.
The movie tells the story of two soccer dads who find themselves at the center of escalating insanity when they cross paths, not limited to running from the law, the government, and a guy in a Chuck E. Cheese costume.
Carell has been keeping busy since leaving "The Office," with roles in "Burt Wonderstone," "Dogs of Babel," "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World," "Foxcatcher" and "Despicable Me 2" all lined up for the next few years.
"Lunatics" is being produced by Carell and his partners at Carousel Productions.
Collider reports that Carell has signed on to star as Philip Horkman, a pet store owner and soccer ref, in "Lunatics," the film adaptation of Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel's novel of the same name.
The movie tells the story of two soccer dads who find themselves at the center of escalating insanity when they cross paths, not limited to running from the law, the government, and a guy in a Chuck E. Cheese costume.
Carell has been keeping busy since leaving "The Office," with roles in "Burt Wonderstone," "Dogs of Babel," "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World," "Foxcatcher" and "Despicable Me 2" all lined up for the next few years.
"Lunatics" is being produced by Carell and his partners at Carousel Productions.
- 11/11/2011
- by Sarah Crow
- NextMovie
Steve Carell is attached to star in a new film adaptation of the Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel novel Lunatics. Universal Pictures acquired the rights to the novel, and the authors of the novel will also write the screenplay as well for Universal Picturtes
The story follows two New Jersey soccer dads whose minor feud escalates to create worldwide consequences, and leave them running for their lives. According to Deadline, "Carell will play Philip Horkman, the owner of a pet store who refs kids soccer games on Sundays, and there he meets an irate soccer dad who triggers the misadventures."
There's no word on who will play the other soccer dad, I just hope that it doesn't end up being Will Ferrell. It seems what the studios first instinct would be for a movie like this. I could see how this could end up being a funny film, but it's...
The story follows two New Jersey soccer dads whose minor feud escalates to create worldwide consequences, and leave them running for their lives. According to Deadline, "Carell will play Philip Horkman, the owner of a pet store who refs kids soccer games on Sundays, and there he meets an irate soccer dad who triggers the misadventures."
There's no word on who will play the other soccer dad, I just hope that it doesn't end up being Will Ferrell. It seems what the studios first instinct would be for a movie like this. I could see how this could end up being a funny film, but it's...
- 11/11/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Steve Carell is attached to star in Universal Pictures' Lunatics , based on the upcoming Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel novel, reports Deadline . The title, which will be released on January 10, is described as follows: One of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of... Okay, we made that line up. What they do form is a writing team of pure comic genius, and they will have you laughing like idiots. Philip Horkman is a happy man-the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for kids' soccer. Jeffrey Peckerman is the sole sane person in a world filled with goddamned jerks and morons, and he's...
- 11/11/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Now I know why Steve Carell had to leave "The Office." He's attached to so many movies, there's no way he could do all that attaching while still attached to a TV show. Steve Carell, you are officially everywhere. Carell is now attached to star in the sports comedy Lunatics, based on the novel by humorists Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. The film stars two New Jersey soccer dads whose feud on the field escalates into a real-world war. Carell would play Phillip Horkman, one of...
- 11/11/2011
- by Mike Sampson
- JoBlo.com
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