Carrey's Scrooge Rings In Hollywood Holiday Spirit Nov 3, 2009
" -- A Manhattan couple (Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant) in a rocky marriage find new twists in their relationship after they see a murder and are hustled into witness protection. "It's Complicated" -- A messy love triangle develops among a bakery and restaurant owner (Meryl Streep), her ex-hubby (Alec Baldwin) and an architect (Steve Martin) in the latest from director Nancy Meyers ("Something's Gotta Give"). FOXES, FROGS AND RODENTS: Meryl Streep also joins George Clooney and Bill Murray... (KIRO TV, WA)
‘The Book of William’ binds First Folios to a world of bibliophiles Oct 29, 2009
Later, at auction, he finds himself within spitballing distance of Steve Martin. But Collins is no mere cutup. (Boston Globe)
Bill Cosby collects comedy honour Oct 28, 2009
Previous recipients include Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal. The tribute will be aired on 4 November on the PBS channel in the US. Cosby insisted that the show be free of profanity and should reflect his passion for education. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
So She Thought: 'Balloon Boy' another sad Hollywood tale Oct 27, 2009
A girl I attended dance class with enjoyed a recurring role as Ritchie Cunningham's girlfriend on "Happy Days." Another friend lived a few doors down from comedian Steve Martin. I can see how being within such close range of people like that might make you think fame is attainable for anyone willing to work hard enough. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
More of this story Oct 25, 2009
Steve Martin (R-Bartlesville) announced recently. According to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, the project involves bridge repairs on county road 1500 over the Caney Creek River northwest of Dewey. (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)
5 Understanding Your 'Idiot' Manager Oct 22, 2009
The Jerk - I am not talking Steve Martin from the movie, but more like the bully who picked on everyone in school. Related Articles. (Datamation)
Daniel Melnick, 77; produced hit movies and TV shows Oct 19, 2009
While Mr. Melnick was making Roxanne, the 1987 comedy that starred Steve Martin and updated the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, the pair had lengthy conversations about life, Mr. Melnick later recalled. That led to Martin writing 1991 s L.A. Story, which Mr. Melnick produced. (Boston Globe)
Novelist Jonathan Lethem Oct 19, 2009
It's the human condition taken to one very absurd extreme, like someone finding a dusty old VHS tape of a Steve Martin comedy from the '80s and deciding, "There's the answer, it's inside that. If I just penetrate this artifact, I'll finally get what I need.". Are other nations are as obsessed with their own pop culture refuse as we are. (Time.com)
Man with two brains plays five strings Oct 17, 2009
Steve Martin on stage in Los Angeles last month ''I don't want to be known as the comedy banjo player ... He's known as a comedian but for Steve Martin, the banjo is no joke, writes Bernard Zuel ... When he was one of the kings of stand-up in the 1970s, then the star of off-the-wall comedies such as The Jerk and The Man with Two Brains, Steve Martin would do a lot for a gag. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Robert Walsh directs David Mamet’s ‘Speed-the-Plow’ in Watertown Oct 16, 2009
The other bit was in The Spanish Prisoner ; I was Steve Martin s stunt double. At the end of the movie he gets shot with a stun gun, and they asked me to come in and pull that off for him. (Boston Globe)
'Gilmore' Graham tries 'Parenthood' Oct 14, 2009
"Parenthood," based on the 1989 movie starring Steve Martin and Mary Steenburgen, was originally slated for NBC's fall schedule, but was pushed back after Tierney's diagnosis ... "Parenthood," based on the 1989 movie starring Steve Martin and Mary Steenburgen, was originally slated for NBC's fall schedule, but was pushed back after Tierney's diagnosis. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
David Letterman, Cad Oct 9, 2009
"I would never make a disparaging comment about David Letterman." Steve Martin offered this friendly take to Letterman: "It proves that you're a human being, and we weren't really that sure before.". Even celebrities few recognize (or remember) are stepping up to defend Letterman. (Townhall.com)
A 'Family Guy' affair Oct 8, 2009
Tierney, who hails from Hyde Park, was supposed to star in the show based on the 1989 movie starring Steve Martin. But earlier this fall, the actress left the project to get treated for breast cancer. (Boston Globe)
NOW and David Letterman: Where’s the Outrage? Oct 7, 2009
"So, how was your weekend?" Steve Martin to David Letterman on Monday s program. On Thursday s Letterman Show, David Letterman admitted to sexual relationships he had with female staffers over the years. (Human Events Online)
David Letterman Jokes, Apologizes Oct 6, 2009
A bit later, guest Steve Martin gave Letterman his kidding consolation: "It proves that you're a human being. And we weren't really that sure before.". Martin Short, making an unannounced appearance, playfully plopped himself in Martin's lap. (Click2Houston, TX)
Letterman Apologizes to Wife on Show Oct 6, 2009
Lakari said Letterman also joked frequently about it, including with guests Steve Martin and Martin Short. Letterman disclosed the sexual relationships after an alleged $2 million blackmail threat against him. (Newsmax)
Studio Hopes Hispanics Find 'Nacho' Tasty Oct 5, 2009
"We didn't want it to be the 'iThree Amigos!' a Mexican movie," says Ms. Pistor, referring to the 1986 Mexican bandit farce starring Steve Martin. Paramount zoned in on young males and families. (Yahoo News -- Latinos & Hispanics)
Tyminski wins top bluegrass awards Oct 4, 2009
(AP) - The duo Dailey nt won best entertainer for the second straight year and comedian/actor Steve Martin won two minor awards Thursday night. Tyminski, who also won top male vocalist in 2001, 2002 and 2003, thanked his five band members. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
David Letterman comes clean without telling all Oct 4, 2009
And hope that Steve Martin is interested in the project. Copyright. (FOX61, CT)
Steve Martin on banjo on his first music tour, no joke Oct 4, 2009
This is completely new to me, Steve Martin (pictured last week in Los Angeles) says of his music tour ... Yes, that Steve Martin. (Boston Globe)
Steve Martin Wins His First IBMA Aw... Oct 4, 2009
Steve Martin Wins His First IBMA Awards. Steve Martin Wins His First IBMA Awards ... The 20th annual IBMA event in Nashville on Oct. 1, 2009, boasted first-time winners, such as Steve Martin, as well as bluegrass favorites, including Dan Tyminski. (Suite101.com)
ISN'T IT FUNNY: LETTERMAN SAYS HE SLEPT WITH STAFFERS... Oct 3, 2009
I saw Steve Martin trying to give a serious speech on PBS once and he was getting the same thing: laughs because people think they're supposed to. Even Dave probably doesn't quite know how to NOT joke. (The Drudge Report)
Cat survives after being shot in head with arrow Oct 3, 2009
The 2-year-old gray and white tabby came home one day last week looking like he was doing a bad imitation of the Steve Martin skit from the 1970s. BC's arrow was pointing front-to-back rather than side-to-side. (Fresno Bee)
Tyminski top bluegrass male 4th year in a row Oct 2, 2009
Steve Martin, center, and Vince Gill, right, perform during a concert in Los Angeles on Wednesday ... About 20 other awards were being presented at the Ryman Auditorium, with comedian/actor Steve Martin up for six honors. (MSNBC -- Music)
S.F. festival is hardly bluegrass anymore Sep 30, 2009
Hardly Strictly offers comedian Steve Martin a fine opportunity to re-create the instrumental banjo album he made earlier this year, "The Crow: New Songs For 5-String Banjo.". The heart of the festival remains the traditional folk and bluegrass musicians who appear on the Banjo Stage at Speedway Meadow. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
"Shrinking Parties" Speed Up Therapy Sep 19, 2009
I thought they were going to talk about that old Steve Martin bit where he talks about getting small. Add a comment. (CBS News)
‘Bored to Death’ is delightfully droll Sep 18, 2009
His previous foray in TV, Fox s Cracking Up, was too broad to showcase his low-key gifts, and the movies in which he shines (such as Steve Martin s Shopgirl ) are few and far between. He reminds me of a young Dustin Hoffman at times, but he has a more singular persona that can only flourish with sufficiently offbeat material. (Boston Globe)
Daily TV and radio guide Sep 18, 2009
Update of the classic, with Steve Martin in Spencer Tracy s role. PG (1991). (Boston Globe)
Fall 2009 movie preview Sep 18, 2009
Steve Martin, meanwhile, is remodeling her home and looking to move in. Complicated. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
A look at this fall’s movies Sep 13, 2009
e caught in a romantic-comic love triangle with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin ... Steve Martin turns up as Baldwin s romantic rival. (Boston Globe)
Spies Dont Get Dates Sep 11, 2009
Yes, I ve opened a medicine cabinet until that scene in Father of the Bride where Steve Martin did it and it broke. Steve. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Be a New Yorker: Magazine's festival shows you the way Sep 9, 2009
The year after our Trillin stroll, for instance, we sat in Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center late on a Friday night with maybe four dozen others, listening to Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey discuss life at "Saturday Night Live." The next afternoon, we ran to the library on 42nd Street (the iconic one, with stone lions at the foot of the stairs) for a conversation with Woody Allen; then, an hour later, after a drink on a patio in Bryant Park, there was a chat with Steve Martin (right). Showing: lect. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
Vampires, Toys Take To The Screen This Fall Aug 31, 2009
", with Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant as a couple whose failing marriage may get a second chance after they're sent into witness protection; "All About Steve," starring Sandra Bullock stalking the man she thinks is her true love; "Couple's Retreat," featuring Vince Vaughn, Kristin Davis, Jon Favreau and Kristen Bell working out relationship kinks on a therapy vacation; and "It's Complicated," about a woman (Meryl Streep) pursued by two men (Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin). George Clooney... (Click2Houston, TX)
Exciting times: The depth charts are out Aug 26, 2009
In The Jerk, Steve Martin was ecstatic when the new phone books were in ... But today, it beats reading Steve Martin s phone book. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Chuckles for Charity feeds needy (10) Aug 23, 2009
My father had the old vinyl records of Steve Martin s albums and I used to listen to Steve Martin s stand-up (routine) from the 70s over and over. Kirkindall said he was also influenced by the comedic styles of George Carlin and Sam Kinison. (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
White pages delivery to end? Aug 18, 2009
The phone book, that annual visitor to doorsteps everywhere and, for a certain Steve Martin movie character evidence of success, appears headed to oblivion. ATgia has asked the state Public Service Commission for permission to stop delivering residential white pages to its customers, calling it a substantial hardship for the company that is no longer necessary. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Steve Martin bringing banjo act to Troy Music Hall Aug 18, 2009
TROY -- Actor, comedian and accomplished banjo player Steve Martin will bring an evening of bluegrass music to the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in October as part of a national tour to promote his best-selling album "The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo." His is just one of a new slate of concerts announced by the venue. See the for details. (Albany Times Union)
Obituaries for Saturday, August 15, 2009 Aug 15, 2009
Web Search powered by YAHOO. Published - Saturday, August 15, 2009. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Dan Tyminski Band leads bluegrass awards nominations with 9 nods, Steve Martin gets 6 Aug 14, 2009
The duo Dailey nt have seven and comedian-actor Steve Martin got six. A longtime banjo picker, Martin burst onto the bluegrass scene with his first music album this year. (FOX61, CT)
This day in history Aug 14, 2009
Comedian-actor Steve Martin is 64. Actor Antonio Fargas is 63. (Boston Globe)
John Hughes: an appreciation Aug 11, 2009
It s Hughes trying on street-level Jacques Tati with John Candy and Steve Martin doing Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The result is a dyspeptic comic strip with moments of riotous screwball comedy and real tenderness. (Boston Globe)
* Director Hughes dies at 59 Aug 8, 2009
Steve Martin played lead character Neal Page in the 1987 hit Planes, Trains obiles. John Hughes was a great director, but his gift was in screenwriting, Martin said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
1980's film icon Aug 8, 2009
"He was such a great writer who created so many enduring characters for film, both as a director and a writer. His real gift was in creating these identifiable characters," actor, writer and comedian Steve Martin, who starred in "Planes" with John Candy, told CNN. ... Such scenes as Anthony Michael Hall holding Ringwald's panties up high to the stunned appreciation of his friends in "Candles"; Steve Martin's harangue of a rent-a-car clerk in "Planes"; and Ben Stein's economics teacher asking,... (CNN -- US)
Director John Hughes Dies At 59 Aug 7, 2009
Throughout the decade, he worked with actors and comedians like Matthew Broderick, Steve Martin, Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Bacon, John Candy and Alec Baldwin. Hughes would only direct one more film, 1991's "Curly Sue," choosing instead to concentrate on his career as a screenwriter. (VHI.com -- Music News)
John Hughes, 1950-2009, By Kurt Loder Aug 7, 2009
He started branching out with the 1987 "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," a more grown-up sort of picture starring Steve Martin and the late John Candy. (Hughes claimed he wrote the script for it in three days. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Prolific film director John Hughes dead at 59 Aug 7, 2009
Hughes branched out from the teen genre in 1987 with the slapstick comedy Planes Trains & Automobiles starring Steve Martin and John Candy, the late comic whom he teamed up with again for 1989's Uncle Buck. Yet it was 1990's Home Alone that cemented Hughes's reputation as one of the most successful talents of his generation. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Filmmaker John Hughes, Chronicler of '80s Teens, Dies Aug 7, 2009
The stay-at-home dad morphed into Mr. Mom; the annoying guy next to you became the Steve Martin John Candy hit Planes, Trains and Automobiles. And as a portraitist of teen angst, he was a sunnier Salinger, a comedic S.E. Hinton. (Time.com)
Steve Martin, Matthew Broderick, More Pay Tribute To John Hughes Aug 7, 2009
In 1987, Steve Martin starred alongside John Candy in another of Hughes' writer/director projects, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." "He was such a great writer who created so many enduring characters for film, both as a director and a writer,". "His real gift was in creating these identifiable characters.". (VHI.com -- Music News)
‘Slumdog Millionaire’ available on Comcast Movies and Events Aug 5, 2009
(Encore on Comcast) Steve Martin s wacky midlife crisis is interrupted by the simultaneous pregnancies of his daughter and his wife. The concept is thin, the jokes are thinner, and the comedy ultimately disintegrates into shameless schmaltz. (Boston Globe)
Daily TV guide Aug 4, 2009
Steve Martin as con man Sgt. Ernie Bilko. PG (1996). (Boston Globe)
CHAT TRANSCRIPT: James Healey answers your questions Aug 1, 2009
James Healey: As Steve Martin exclaimed in his movie 'The Jerk,' 'It's a profit deal. TC is off-the-shelf, low-cost stuff. (USA Today -- Money)
‘America’s Sweethearts’ available on Encore on Comcast Jul 22, 2009
Buoyed by Steve Martin s sadistic dentist, this musical is solid entertainment. (PG-13; runs through July 30). (Boston Globe)
Court upholds Grand Canyon's river management plan Jul 22, 2009
Park Superintendent Steve Martin said he's pleased with the decision. The plan, he said, took years of work and took into account alternatives that would have excluded motorized rafts. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Tina Fey has last laugh in world of TV comedy Jul 17, 2009
30 Rock won three of the five Emmy nominations Thursday for guest actor in a comedy series for Alan Alda, Jon Hamm and Steve Martin. Its the type of show that everybody in the comedy business wishes they had on their resume, Long said. (MSNBC -- Television)
Click to read:Inside Holland's "Half Baked" Pot Policy Jul 15, 2009
" - Steve Martin quote on Marijuana "When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter - to quit paradise for earth - heaven for hell. Taste the hashish, guest of mine - taste the hashish. (CBS News)
Clements farmer vying for congressional seat (1187) Jul 15, 2009
an arctic region covered with ice (thank you Steve Martin). " srev007 wrote on Jul 14, 2009 10:00 PM:" Brad Goehring is the right person for our 11th District. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
The new three-deeps are here! The new three-deeps are here! Jul 10, 2009
While not as exciting as getting a new phone book, (for you younger readers, review Steve Martin s filmography on imdb. com) the three-deeps are out. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Rio Lindo student organizes massive food drive (2) Jul 10, 2009
Steve Martin, Rio Lindo community service coordinator, has known Carvalho for two years. Hell see a problem and hell want to fix it, Martin said. (Sebastopol Sonoma West Publishing, CA)
Networks are spinning less-obvious films into TV series Jul 8, 2009
In the fall, NBC will bring a drama version of the 1989 Steve Martin movie Parenthood (a prior, short-lived comedic attempt aired in 1990), while ABC has slated a Desperate Housewives spin on The Witches of Eastwick, simply titled Eastwick ... That means no angry fanboys protesting against NBC if the Steve Martin role is miscast. (Boston Globe)
Jazzmen perform in Methuen Jul 7, 2009
Allen is featured on the soundtrack of The Out-of-Towners with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn (and also made a cameo appearance). Peplowski has been a Duke Ellington aficionado since childhood. (Boston Globe)
Column: The gift of time spent in Brookline's Runkle School Jun 30, 2009
From Genghis Khan to rapper Kanye West, with Albert Einstein, author Pearl Buck, Charles Darwin, Amelia Earhart, Queen Elizabeth I, Coco Chanel and Steve Martin in between ... Steve Martin did a comedy routine from Saturday Night Live, complete with improvisation. (Brookline TAB, MA)
Henry-Pizzuti ceremony a hit Jun 29, 2009
There were two special Martins at Tanglewood this weekend - Martin Sheen and Steve Martin. The men helped Garrison Keillor celebrate his 10th annual live broadcast of Prairie Home Companion from Lenox. (Boston Globe)
Legislators Wrap Up Session: Stimulus funds balance state budget woes Jun 28, 2009
Steve Martin and Earl Sears. Moderated by H.J. Reed, lobbyist for ConocoPhillips, the state officials discussed the first regular session of the 52nd Oklahoma Legislature, hitting highlights of legislation dealing with education, procedural amendments and the 2010 budget. (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)
Mastery of science and theater 2009 Jun 26, 2009
Spoiler alert: There s a visitor from the future in Steve Martin s play. NIKOLA TESLA. (Boston Globe)
'King Tut' opening gala Jun 26, 2009
"Most of my knowledge of King Tut comes from Steve Martin, I'm sorry to say," interjected her husband, Doug, referring to the comedian's 1978 radio hit. Before dinner, Fine Arts Museums Board President Dede Wilsey welcomed guests to the show, and museums director Buchanan noted that sponsors have guaranteed free admission to every schoolchild in the Bay Area. (San Francisco Chronicle)
