His four-decade stint introducing NBC’s Saturday Night Live was just the highest-profile gig in a 70-year career that included (before most of you reading this were born) the original versions of The Price Is Right and Jeopardy!. (includes Weird Al video)
Author: Matthew Westphal
This Israeli Life, Or, If Ira Glass Spoke Hebrew And Lived In Tel Aviv
Mishy Harman got hooked on This American Life while on a 13,000-mile U.S. road trip. “And by the time [he] reached Mississippi, … he was determined to copy it.” Now Israel Story is a huge hit; “[it] begins its second season in Israel next Saturday; an English version … will have its premiere online on Monday.”
“I Hate Violence,” Says World’s Most Famous Living Martial Arts Star
Jackie Chan: “I have a dilemma. I love action, but I hate violence. There is so much violence in the world, from video games and from other movies. I want my movies to have a message of peace, and helping each other. … There has to be plenty of action, but not violence.”
What Daniel Radcliffe Really Hates About Press Interviews
“Frankly, since the age of 20, all of the interviews I’ve done have involved people asking about my impending failure [after all the early success], and how I felt about the possibility of that. … Which is hard to deal with, because a lot of us already have those fears anyway: what if this doesn’t last for ever?; what if I don’t end up working in 10 years? So for other people to then be asking you about those things all the time is like having your innermost fears confirmed by somebody outside of yourself.”
Was I That Bad? How Actors Cope With Really Bad Reviews
John Hurt, Una Stubbs, Meera Syal, Douglas Hodge, and Peter Egan recount tales of critical maulings and how they dealt with them.
“Carrie”-the-Musical Will Not Die
“The much-maligned musical will now drag its blood-soaked self to Los Angeles in a new production that promoters are billing as an ‘immersive’ experience” – ew! – “featuring a theater transformed into Ewen High School, the setting for much of the story.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.18.14
Corcoran Case: Over. “Painful.” But Necessary, Alas?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-08-19
Dora’s amazing tax credit adventure
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-08-18
Revived American Folk Art Museum: The Ingenuity of “Self-Taught Genius”
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-08-18
Museum-Goers Say The Darndest Things
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-08-18
The M word
AJBlog: Performance Monkey | Published 2014-08-18
Comedy and Tragedy Dance a Duet
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-08-18
Monday Recommendation: Mehmet Ali Sanlikol
AJBlog: RiffTides | Published 2014-08-18
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Venue Backs Down On Kicking Out UK Jewish Film Fest
The Tricycle Theatre “which refused to host the UK Jewish Film Festival while it is sponsored by the Israeli embassy, amid the Gaza crisis, has now dropped its objection … but is too late for this year’s festival as alternative venues have been arranged.”
Ailing Plácido Domingo Withdraws From Salzburg Festival
Suffering from bladder and respiratory infections, the tenor-turned-baritone has pulled out from the remaining three sold-out performances of Il trovatore with Anna Netrebko as well as a concert with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
Lockout Averted: Metropolitan Opera Has Tentative Agreements With Musicians’ And Singers’ Unions
Following a midnight deadline and overnight talks, a Federal mediator announced that Met management has settled on contract terms with Local 802 of the AFM (instrumentalists) and AGMA (choristers, some soloists and stage managers).