Woke up this morning to this breaking news. More than 100 Los Angeles-area firefighters are battling a large fire on a back lot at Universal Studios, fire authorities said. There were also reports of an explosion in the southern California amusement park said Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Frank Reynoso. [CNN.com]
Category: Movies
RIP Harvey Korman
Harvey Korman in Blazing Saddles Harvey Korman, the award-winning comedic actor who rose to fame playing second banana to Carol Burnett on her television variety series and who starred in hit movies like “Blazing Saddles” and “High Anxiety,” died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 81. The cause was complications from the rupture of…
Young@Heart Chorus at The Beacon Theatre
On June 22, 2008, the Young@Heart Chorus will be making a rare, one night only, appearance at the Beacon Theatre. The Young@Heart Chorus are a group of elderly individuals who came together in 1982 and began to sing their own unique interpretations of classic and contemporary rock songs. The documentary film of the same name…
RIP Sydney Pollack and Dick Martin
Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay as director, producer and sometime actor whose star-laden movies like “The Way We Were,” “Tootsie” and “Out of Africa” were among the most successful of the 1970s and ’80s, died Monday at home here. He was 73. The cause was cancer, said the publicist Leslee Dart, who spoke for…
Contests Ending Today | The National and Indiana Jones
Today is your last day to enter the contest to win the new CD/DVD package The National and a copy of the new Indiana Jones soundtrack. To win The National “A Skin, A Night” CD/DVD: Tell me which Bowery Presents venue The National opened last year. To win the Indiana Jones and The Kingdom…
It’s Indiana Jones Soundtrack Giveaway Day!
The new Indiana Jones film opens tonight and I know you’re thinking to yourself, I better get my hands on a copy of the soundtrack before they all sell out. Well, guess what? You can rest a little easier because I’m giving away a copy of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Indiana Jones and…