The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Today’s guest is Tony V, a local legend of the Boston comedy scene, headlining steadily and keeping up with the new kids since stand-up first stood out in Boston in the 1980s. His first big break came wrestling with suitcases as the American Tourister gorilla, his first onscreen turn as …
Bill Murray made a public appearance in the Hamptons over the weekend to promote his new movie, Rock the Kasbah. (See him photographed above with director Barry Levinson and co-star Bruce Willis) But Vulture managed to ask him about that other movie. Yeah. The Ghostbusters reboot. “You know, they were …
TGIF! Thank Ghostbusters It’s Friday. These are your busters of ghosts, coming to a movie theater near you in 2016: Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon. Photographed July 10, 2015, on the movie set in Boston by director Paul Feig. Screenplay by Katie Dippold. Neil Casey will …
We don’t need any more Ghostbusters movies. But nostalgia is a tricky son of a gun that wants us to relive the moments that brought us sheer joy in our childhood and adolescence over and over and over. Combine that with the sheer Pavlovian greed of Hollywood to repeat ideas …
Who are Paul Feig, Katie Dippold and Ivan Reitman gonna call this summer for their Ghostbusters reboot? Looks like Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones are gonna answer the call this summer! Feig Tweeted a photo of the fearless foursome just minutes ago, and sources are confirming …
Christmas is coming early this year, and it hasn’t even arrived just yet. We learned today, first via Variety, that Bill Murray — who has sung on Saturday Night Live and in various movie and TV appearances over the past few decades (including his newest film, St. Vincent, wherein he …
The 30th anniversary of Ghostbusters brought with it a re-release over Labor Day weekend that earned $1.76 million at the box office. And with it, more talk of a potential Ghostbusters 3. Well, forget that, and think about this reality instead: Paul Feig re-teaming with Katie Dippold — he directed …
Stephen Colbert must keep up appearances as blowhard mouthpiece “Stephen Colbert” on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, but at the tail end of Monday night’s episode, “Stephen Colbert” offered that if he, in fact, were a comedian…”as a young, bookish man with glasses looking for a role model, I might …
Writer/director/comedian Harold Ramis died early this morning, four years after first being diagnosed with the health problems that caused his autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis. Ramis was 69. Ramis was born in Chicago on Nov. 21, 1944, and moved back to the Windy City in 1996 while still a hugely successful writer …
When will people stop asking Bill Murray if he’ll agree to do a third Ghostbusters movie? If it seems as though the fan-driven — or has it been media-driven — obsession with including a Ghostbusters 3 question into most interviews and encounters with Murray has gone on for several years, …
