Mukund Creations - All In One Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Director: Barry Levinson Starring: Robert De Niro , Sean Penn , Stanley Tucci , Bruce Willis , Catherine Keener , John ,Turturro , Kristen Stewart , Robin Wright Penn Review What Just Happened is a story of a middle-aged Hollywood producer Ben (Robert De Niro) and the two-weeks in his life when he is trying to get his film Fiercely released while going through his second [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Right Here on Our Stage Tonight! Ed Sullivan's America By Gerald Nachman (UC Press; 455 pages; $29.95) In Barry Levinson's film "Avalon," several generations of a large, boisterous family gather in front of a new television set in the 1950s, eyes young and...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Waters, Levinson and Simon will share stage to promote Maryland Film Festival John Waters, Barry Levinson and David Simon aren't just appearing on stage for the first time together for the Maryland Film Festival benefit on Nov. 14. They're also throwing their support behind the event in advance.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Americans take it on faith that movie stars are politically liberal. Whether the celebrity lives in L.A. or New York, from Streisand to Sarandon, we...
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Former According to Jim star Jim Belushi is moving to a drama series. He's been tapped to star in a legal drama created by Murphy Brown mastermind Diane English and Homicide and Oz exec-producer Barry Levinson. The show is loosely based on the memoir "How Can You Defend These People?" by TV commentator and lawyer Mickey Sherman. This is an excellent way for Belushi to wash the stench of...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Jim Belushi is teaming up with Diane English and Barry Levinson to create a show about a defense attorney based on the lawyer and television commentator Mickey Sherman, according to Variety . Belushi is coming off of eight seasons of his, for lack of a better term, hit sitcom, According to Jim . English created the respectable Murphy Brown , and Levinson's got quite a few notches in his belt; he executive...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
p2pnet news view Politics | Movies:- It’s “like calling the back of a cereal box a novel”. That’s Boston Herald critic Mark A. Perigard on Barry Levinson’s documentry Poliwood, centering on the convergence of celebrity and politics. He’s quoted in IMDb which says the film includes a look Susan Sarandon, Spike Lee, Ellen Burstyn, Tim Daly, [...]
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Congrats to my good pal Mickey Sherman, CT defense attorney and CBS and cable TV legal analyst. Variety reports: James Belushi has agreed to team with Diane English and Barry Levinson for an hourlong TV drama that will cast him as a defense attorney character modeled after the famed lawyer and TV commentator Mickey Sherman. ...... Sherman wrote the memoir “How Can You Defend Those People?,”...
Time (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
One election day ago, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, and TV is marking the anniversary with two earnest documentaries -- and an alien invasion
Vulture (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Marmaduke and Me: Owen Wilson will lend his husky bark to Marmaduke , Fox's adaptation of the canine comic strip. The film combines live-action and computer animation to tell the story of a family that moves from Kansas to Orange County with their enormous, pain-in-the-ass dog. Once there, Marmaduke meets the purebred of his dreams who he must woo while navigating a fall from grace. This gives Wilson...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Told he's had a nothing-if-not-eclectic career, Barry Levinson thinks for half a second and says, "As it turns out, I guess it has been." True. Not everyone could go from playing a deranged bellhop in a Mel Brooks farce to winning an Oscar for directing a sensitive and bittersweet drama about an ...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
TV News: ICM packaging series for actor post-'Jim' -- Here's an unusual group of creative collaborators: Jim Belushi has teamed with Diane English and Barry Levinson for a prospective TV drama that would cast Belushi as a defense attorney character based on the lawyer and TV commentator Mickey Sherman.
US News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The director of the new documentary says dissatisfaction may lead to a viable third party candidate.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Producer/director Barry Levinson takes a look at the convergence of celebrity and politics in the documentary Poliwood ,which airs tonight (Monday) on Showtime. Featured in...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
POLIWOOD. 7:30 tonight, Showtime. BY THE PEOPLE: THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA. 9 p.m. tomorrow, HBO. WHAT A difference a year makes.
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