DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - The Grammy Museum hosted comedian Bob Newhart before a sold out audience on March 9.
The program started with a slide show of Newhart’s life followed by an interview by Robert Santelli, the museum’s executive director.
They discussed his 50 years in show business. …
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Bo-Peep, from Fukuoka, Japan, is ready to rock 2010 by playing what they hope will be their best show. Spinner spoke with lead guitarist and singer Mika Yoshimura and drummer Ryoko Nakano as they riffed on their biggest vices, a near-death experience and the varying reactions of music audiences in Japan, the US and the UK. …
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NFL.
It’s Christmas Eve for football junkies and front offices alike as the Free Agency is ready to kick off in a matter of hours. This year was supposed to be comprised of little activity and only a few big name players donning new uniforms with the failure of the NFL to reach a new collective bargaining agreement. …
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I most certainly won’t be the first to pen a gushing obit to WCCO’s Darcy Pohland… and I surely won’t be the last.
Neither first, nor last, matters much to me.
Darcy was a human measuring stick, though she never asked to be, nor most likely ever wanted to be.
Fact be told, she was. …
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Hollyweird’’s biggest night, and all that jazz.
As your political columnist, what do the Academy Award nominated films and performances tell us about the Zeitgeist, circa early 2010?
First of all, though much has been written about the fact that academy officials last year, freakend out about lower television ratings and the fact that a majority of the nominated films are ones that a majority of Americans haven’t seen, expanded the Best Picture category from 5 to 10 this year. …
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In a scathing forum address to all writers, Spoof editor Mark Lowton came down hard on all veteran writers about the volume of emails and “PM’s” he’s received about persons known simply as “MW Chuy.”
In his omnipotent capacity as owner, administrator, inventor, originator, I.T. dude, and sometimes editor of the Spoof, Lowton declared that effective midnight March 7, all Spoof writers will be instructed to use only “One” writer’s name per IP Address and not the 15 or so like a certain writer is doing. …
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Will Charlie Sheen wind up being sued for breach of contract if he’s broken a morals clause in his “Two and a Half Men” series agreement? Will he have the book thrown at him in Colorado, where he faces charges stemming from a Christmas Day arrest for assault in Aspen involving his wife, Brooke Mueller? …
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Zone,’ and the radio icon offered “The Insider” his uncensored thoughts about new “Idol” judge Ellen DeGeneres and the changes he says he’d make to the show if he ended up joining it next season.
“I read in the paper that they want to give me $100 million to judge a karaoke contest, and that seems like pretty good pay for something as dumb as that,” Stern said of the rumors that he’s received offers to be part of next season’s “Idol. …
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Aaron Ruben, who was a producer, writer and director for some of the most popular television comedies of the 1960s and ’70s, notably “The Andy Griffith Show,” “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” and “Sanford and Son,” died Saturday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 95. Sid Caesar, tapped a rich vein of television gold when, in 1960, he shifted location to the mythical small town of Mayberry, N. …
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Publisher Hill & Wang, a part of the MacMillain group, is carving out a niche for itself as the top publisher of comic book biographies and histories. Beginning with Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon’s 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, Hill & Wang has brought together cartoonists with insight and talent to tell the life stories of Ernesto Guevara and Leon Trotsky, and to explain the vagaries of the Vietnam War. …
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(Feb. 23) — Weapons signed out by a character from “South Park,” a dangerous joyride with AK-47s and hundreds of missing weapons that had been intended to help equip Afghan security forces.
It sounds like a cartoon parody of war, but these are just a few of the problems the Senate Armed Services Committee said it found during a six-month investigation into Xe Services, better known by its former name, Blackwater Worldwide. …
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Her album Growing Pains also sold millions of copies, turning Myers into a platinum recording artist.
She catapulted to international fame, the top of the musical charts, and shared the stage with various artists like Sarah McLachlan and Bob Dylan. However, when the touring was over, Myers brutally fell into anonymity; hitting rock bottom financially, professionally and personally. …
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WCVB-TV’s Susan Wornick hosts some of Boston’s favorite comedians, including Harrison Stebbins, Danny Miller, Mehran, and Robbie Printz for a special night of laughs to raise funds and awareness for Rebuilding TogetherTMBoston, a non-profit that renovates the homes of Boston’s low income, elderly and disabled homeowners for free. …
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So You Think You’re Funny and Amused Moose awards, to regular stints on Radio 2, Radio 4, BBC3 and E4, and a tour supporting the perpetually sold-out Simon Amstell - you’d be right to expect a lot.
But you’d be disappointed.
From the outset their deadpan nonchalance sits awkwardly with feigned arrogance, as they mercilessly parody the kind of luvvie theatre which they seem to have unfortunately succumbed to themselves. …
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