CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
Lorne Michaels
Gilda Radner Becomes Live Again in ‘Love, Gilda’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 29, 2018 - 12:46pm- 1975
- Bill Murray
- Chevy Chase
- Dan Aykroyd
- Detroit
- Gilda Radner
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Jane Curtin
- John Belushi
- Lorne Michaels
- Lorraine Newman
- Love Gilda
- Movie Review
- National Lampoon Radio Hour
- Original Cast
- Patrick McDonald
- Roseanne Roseannadanna
- Saturday Night Live
- SNL
- The Second City
- Toronto
Rating: 4.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – It’s always something, as the great Gilda Radner often said (through her character Roseanne Roseannadanna), and the documentary “Love, Gilda” is about all her somethings… her childhood, the early comedy days, the rise through “Saturday Night Live” and her succumbing to the dread disease of cancer. She had it all, did it all, but as always “it” could not save her, and eventually us.
SNL Rightly Touts Its Influence in ‘Live From New York!’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 15, 2015 - 11:32am- 1975
- Abramorama
- Alec Baldwin
- Andy Samberg
- Chevy Chase
- Dana Carvey
- Garrett Morris
- George Carlin
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Jane Curtin
- Julia Louis-Dreyfuss
- Laraine Newman
- Live From New York!
- Lorne Michaels
- Movie Review
- New York City
- Patrick McDonald
- Rudy Giuliani
- Saturday Night Live
- September 11th
- SNL
- Steve Martin
- Tina Fey
Rating: 4.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Love, hate or maintain indifference to it, the TV dinosaur “Saturday Night Live” has and will continue to influence American culture as long as it may reign. To celebrate its 40th Anniversary, filmmaker Bao Nguyen takes a fresh look at the iconic television show in “Live From New York!”
‘The Guilt Trip’ Never Reaches a Destination
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 19, 2012 - 12:37pmRating: 2.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – There has to be something wrong with a movie that by the end, the thought is ‘how did they get a parking spot in San Francisco?’ and ‘how much does that house cost?’ “The Guilt Trip,” with Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand, is a dispirited exercise in wasted potential.
Will Forte, Kristen Wiig Explode a Megaton Bomb in ‘MacGruber’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 21, 2010 - 3:57amRating: 0.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – In a parallel universe, perhaps a version of “MacGruber” exists that actually understands that comedy should be funny…oh what a beautiful world that would be. Here in this astral plane Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe and Val Kilmer, plus the writers, director and craft services obviously conspired to create a movie bomb that no one could diffuse.