NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
“ Superior Donuts ,” which racked up very good reviews when it opened in October, will end its Broadway run Jan. 3. The new Tracy Letts comedy — his follow-up to Pulitzer-winning “August: Osage County” — stars Michael McKean and Jon Michael Hill as Chicago donut shop workers wrestling with the American Dream. “Superior Donuts” plays the Music Box Theatre,...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Writer/director Ari Gold also stars as the title character Power in this underdog/rock n' roll/road comedy. The story is as simple as it's protagonist: Power is a full-on loser, who works at the local energy plant with his gruff union leader dad Harlan (Michael McKean) and lives in a tent on the front lawn of his eccentric hippy aunt Joni (Jane Lynch) while persuing his dream of being a respected...
Zippidy Doo Da (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Sarah Palin’s book is finally out, if you live in fly-over country she may soon be hawking it at a bookstore near you. Myself, I’m not interested in her happy bullshit, or whatever her ghostwriter has to say. I just want to point out that, 1.25 million dollar advance notwithstanding, it’s common for books by celebutards to be best-sellers and remaindered at the same time. Amazon has...
Gossip Central (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Snow falls, the Chicago wind whistles when the door opens at Superior Donuts, a cozy, if down and out mom & pop shop run by Arthur Przybyszewski (Michael McKean) with a counter and homey stools in Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy...
Travel (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
By Louis Gregory It wasn't that long ago that a trip to the corner video shop was the most convenient way to get a movie. As technologies have advanced, downloading dvds off movie download sites is becoming very common. Here are some examples of movies you can acquire through a movie download site. Clue: Stupid joke whodunit based on the trendy board game of the same name with all the recognizable...
Deadspin (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Yes, that's the Michael McKean — David St. Hubbins! Lenny from Laverne & Shirley! — calling Darren Rovell a dick. Oh, snap. [@MJMcKean, earlier]
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
" Who the Hell is Wolf [Blitzer] ?" -Balloon Boy, Falcon Heene From the New York Post: Anchors sink on 'Jeopardy' CNN should consider banning its anchors from appearing on "Celebrity Jeopardy" after the humiliating defeats of Wolf Blitzer and Soledad O'Brien . Wolf was blitzed last month, coming in last with minus-$4,600, behind comic Andy Richter , a past winner who racked up $68,000...
Don Surber (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien went on Jeopardy and lost, the New York Post reported. She finished third behind Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Michael McKean of “Spinal Tap” fame, who won with $24,800, followed by Abdul Jabbar with $8,800 and O’Brien with $6,200. How do you lose to Lenny of “Lenny and Squiggy”? But she [...]
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Last month, CNN's Wolf Blitzer tanked on Celebrity Jeopardy! with a final score of negative $4,600. This month, network cohort Soledad O'Brien managed to take home $6,200 for charity, but still came in third behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spinal Tap 's Michael McKean. As some people have pointed out , this does not make CNN look amazing, especially in light of the news that CNN is currently last in...
Gratuitous Violins (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Gratuitous Violins rating: **** out of **** If August: Osage County examined the tangled relationships among family members then Tracy Letts ' new Broadway play, Superior Donuts , tackles an equally complex subject - how we relate to each other as a community, as individuals, as Americans. Like its Tony and Pulitzer-winning predecessor, Superior Donuts arrives in New York from the Steppenwolf Theatre...
Berman Post (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Maybe CNN Anchor's should stop playing Jeopardy. At least O'Brien finished with a positive score unlike Wolf Blitzer (CNN) . http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/10/26/another-cnn-anchor-comes-third-celebrity-jeopardy "O’Brien came in third behind a comedian and a basketball legend: This month, it was O’Brien’s turn against NBA legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Michael McKean,...
The Culture Buddies (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
When I was in New York with Matt, I went to see Tracy Lett's new play, Superior Donuts , with my buddies Ben and Casey. Ann and her son, Adam, went to see it last night. Collectively, we all really enjoyed it . . . This is certainly a kinder, gentler play than Lett's Pulitzer and Tony winning, August: Osage County , but it is no less powerful. The dialogue is crisp (nobody writes banter better than...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
innocuous \ih-NOK-yoo-uhs\, adjective: Harmless; producing no ill effect. Not likely to offend or provoke; as, "an innocuous remark." Innocuous is from Latin innocuus, from in-, "not" + nocuus, "harmful," from nocere, "to harm." It is related to innocent, formed from in- + nocens, nocent-, "harming, injurious, hence criminal, guilty," from the present...
Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Rapper Eminem is 37. Country singer Earl Thomas Conley is 68. Singer Jim Seals of Seals and Crofts is 67. Singer Gary Puckett of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap is 67. Drummer Michael Hossack of The Doobie Brothers is 63. Actor Michael McKean (”Laverne and Shirley,” “This Is Spinal Tap”) is 62. Actress Margot Kidder [...]
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Cyrus the Great released the Jews from their exile in Babylon in 539 BC. Charles II sold Dunkirk to France for £40,000 in 1662. In 1814, a vat at the Meux and Company Brewery in Tottenham Court Road ruptured, causing other vats to rupture and spilling 323,000 gallons of beer into the streets of London. Born today: Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) and David St. Hubbins, er Michael McKean (1947). It is...
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youloveit | 04/08/2009
Plot: Capitalizing on his credit conj at the time that the draw of 'Hogan's Heroes,' Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) dove into the freewheeling sou of the 60s and 70s with luxuriate in, having affairs with many women. Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to instrument his exploits, an clique that may very well obtain led to his massacre in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel allowance...
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