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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 25 Admit-Two Passes to VIP Screening Party For TNT’s ‘Raising the Bar’

HollywoodChicago.com — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:30:31 -0600

CHICAGO – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: TV, we have 25 admit-two VIP screening passes up for grabs to the exclusive Chicago screening party for season two of the new TNT drama “Raising the Bar”. The series comes from 10-time Emmy-winning producer Steven Bochco of “L.A. Law” and “NYPD Blue”.

Winners will enjoy complimentary appetizers and an advance screening of the first episode of season two before it airs! Winners will also have the chance to win a season-one DVD of the series!

To win your free pass to the VIP “Raising the Bar” screening party in Chicago courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is be one of the first 25 people to submit a comment in this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup. That’s it!

The party will be held on June 4, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.

“Raising the Bar” from 10-time Emmy-winning producer Steven Bochco of “L.A. Law” and “NYPD Blue”.
Image credit: TNT

Here is the “Raising the Bar” plot description:

“Raising the Bar” is the new drama from Steven Bochco: the 10-time Emmy-winning producer of “L.A. Law” and “NYPD Blue”. The series stars Mark Paul Gosselaar (“NYPD Blue”), Gloria Reuben (“ER”) and Jane Kaczmarek (“Malcolm in the Middle”).

It follows the lives of young lawyers who work on opposite sides – the public defender’s office and the district attorney’s office – as well as those who sit in judgment on their cases. “Raising the Bar” will return with all-new episodes beginning on Monday, June 8, 2009 at 9 p.m. CST.

To secure your free pass now, make sure you’re logged into your HollywoodChicago.com account. If you don’t yet have one, you can quickly register here. Having an account with a valid e-mail address is required. Then, simply add a new comment in the form below. In your comment, include an answer to this simple question:

How do you raise the bar in life?

Like all Hookups here, this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: TV is simple: The first 25 people to comment below win! We will be in touch with the winners to distribute your passes.

Season two of “Raising the Bar” from Emmy-winning producer Steven Bochco of “L.A. Law” and “NYPD Blue” stars Mark Paul Gosselaar, Gloria Reuben, Jane Kaczmarek, Stacy Hall, Currie Graham, Melissa Sagemiller, J. August Richards, Jonathan Scarfe, Teddy Sears, Paul Joyner, Natalia Cigliuti, Wayne Lopez, Jon Polito and Angel Oquendo.

By ADAM FENDELMAN
Editor-in-Chief
HollywoodChicago.com
adam@hollywoodchicago.com

Exclusive Set Slideshow: NBC’s ‘ER’ Filming in Chicago With Noah Wyle on Jan. 30, 2009

HollywoodChicago.com — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:58:17 -0700

CHICAGO – HollywoodChicago.com has obtained from a reader named “Kevin” exclusive set imagery of NBC’s “ER” filming in Chicago with Noah Wyle and David Lyons on Jan. 30, 2009.

Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley declared the day “ER Day”. The day saw filming of the very last episode of “ER” ever since its beginning in 1994. These shots were obtained in Chicago at Broadway Avenue and Lawrence Avenue under the CTA red line.

“ER” in 2009 features Noah Wyle, William H. Macy, Angela Bassett, John Stamos, Shiri Appleby, Laura Cerón, Deezer D, Alex Kingston, Lynn A. Henderson, Abraham Benrubi, Parminder Nagra, Troy Evans, Linda Cardellini, Scott Grimes, Brian Lester, Dinah Lenney and Leland Orser.

“ER” in 2009 also features Louie Liberti, Angel Laketa Moore, Amy Aquino, Perry Anzilotti, David Lyons, Gil McKinney, Michael B. Silver, Christopher Amitrano, Brendan Patrick Connor, Emily Rose, Nasim Pedrad, Courtney B. Vance, Imani Hakim, Justina Machado, Monique Daniels, Angel Parker, Keiko Agena, Elliot Durant III, Joey Marino, Tim Corley and Shannon Marie Woodward.

You can click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through this slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All image credits go to HollywoodChicago.com.

erfilmingchicago1: Noah Wyle (center) filming NBC’s ER in Chicago on Jan. 30, 2009.
erfilmingchicago2: David Lyons filming NBC’s ER in Chicago on Jan. 30, 2009.
erfilmingchicago3: David Lyons filming NBC’s ER in Chicago on Jan. 30, 2009.
erfilmingchicago4: David Lyons filming NBC’s ER in Chicago on Jan. 30, 2009.
erfilmingchicago5: David Lyons filming NBC’s ER in Chicago on Jan. 30, 2009.

By ADAM FENDELMAN
Editor-in-Chief
HollywoodChicago.com
adam@hollywoodchicago.com

Chicago Native, Legendary Comedian Harvey Korman Passes Away at 81

HollywoodChicago.com — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:06:33 -0600

CHICAGO – Legendary comedian and Chicago native Harvey Korman passed away on Thursday. He is best remembered from films such as “Blazing Saddles” and “High Anxiety” as well as a performer on the “The Carol Burnett Show”. Korman was 81.

Legendary comedian and Chicago native Harvey Korman passed away on May 29, 2008.
Photo credit: BroadwayWorld.com

A statement released by his family through the University of California at the Los Angeles Medical Center gives the cause of death as complications from the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm four months ago.

“Everything he did on ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ – especially the Mother Marcus character – was a special favorite,” his daughter, Katherine Korman, said in a published interview on Thursday.

Mother Marcus was a Yiddish grandmother played by Korman in drag. He based the character on his own real-life grandmother.

Harvey Herschel Korman was born in Chicago in 1927. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he studied drama at the Goodman School of Drama.

He then moved to New York where “for the next 13 years I tried to get on Broadway, on off-Broadway [and] under or beside Broadway,” Korman said in a 1971 interview. He gave up and moved back to Chicago only to leave for California to try and make it in show business again.

After some small voice work and minor movie parts, in 1964 he had his breakthrough joining “The Danny Kaye Show”. After the show went off the air, he found his way onto “The Carol Burnett Show”.

A Harvey Korman dentist sketch on “The Carol Burnett Show”.
Video credit: YouTube

There, he routinely played roles in hilarious sketches to a national audience and high ratings. While Korman left Burnett’s show to host his own “The Harvey Korman Show,” it only lasted one season.

Mel Brooks (one of Korman’s biggest fans) cast Korman in “Blazing Saddles” for the part of Hedley Lamarr. Korman always considered that one of his favorite roles.

Brooks would use him later in the films “History of the World: Part 1,” “High Anxiety” and “Dracula: Dead and Loving It”.

Korman continued his work with the motion pictures “The Flintstones” and “The Flintsones in Viva Rock Vegas” as well as television appearances on “ER” and “Mama’s Family”.

He was nominated for seven Emmys for his television work and won four. He also was nominated for four Golden Globe awards and won one.

Our Harvey Korman remembrance thread can be found here.
More HollywoodChicago.com writing from Dustin Levell can be found here.

By DUSTIN LEVELL
Senior Staff Writer
HollywoodChicago.com
dustin@hollywoodchicago.com