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James Cagney
James Cagney 1899-1986, American movie actor, b. New York City. He worked on Broadway as an actor and dancer before appearing in films. He is best remembered as a brash, sadistic, tough guy in such movies as Public Enemy (1931) and The Roaring Twenties (1939). He displayed equal vigor in... Read more |
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Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks 1883-1939, American movie actor, b. Denver. From 1901 to 1914, Fairbanks appeared on stage in light comedies. In 1915 he began making movies, becoming the swashbuckling hero of his day in such films as The Mark of Zorro (1921), The Three Musketeers (1921), Robin Hood (1922),... Read more |
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Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren , 1934-, Italian film actress, b. as Sophia Scicoloni. She grew up in the slums of Naples. With the help of Italian producer Carlo Ponti (later her husband) she gained international fame as a beautiful and accomplished film actress in both tragic dramas and boisterous comedies. She won... Read more |
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Eddie Murphy
Murphy, Eddie1961— Comedian, actor Eddie Murphy once told his tenth grade social studies teacher, as reported in Rolling Stone, "I'm going to be bigger than Bob Hope." The enormously popular entertainer was well on his way to turning that youthful boast into a statement of fact after releasing... Read more |
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Keisuke Kinoshita
Keisuke Kinoshita One of Japan's most popular filmmakers after World War II, Keisuke Kinoshita (1912-1998) was a prolific director, writer, and producer, specializing in sentimental dramas and comedies and the use of innovative, expressionistic sets. Rarely have any of Kinoshita's fifty or... Read more |
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Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow 1911-37, American movie star, b. Kansas City, Mo., as Harlean Carpentier. Harlow brought charm and a sexual knowingness to a series of comedies during the 1930s, becoming the model of feminine sexuality in films for the next decade. The original platinum blond, she played the tough... Read more |
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William Powell
William Powell 1892-1984, American movie actor, b. Pittsburgh. Powell made his stage debut in 1912. He played the dapper villain in such early films as Sherlock Holmes (1921), Romola (1924), and Beau Geste (1926). In sound films, his sonorous voice and elegant manner made him more popular as... Read more |
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Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton (Joseph Francis Keaton), 1895-1966, American movie actor, b. Piqua, Kans. Considered one of the greatest comic actors in film history, Keaton used his considerable acrobatic skills, which he had developed as a child in vaudeville, in many silent comedies in which he portrayed a... Read more |
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Lindsay Lohan and Vince 'The Shamwow Guy' Team up in 'Underground Comedy 2010'.
...hilarious trailer for the new movie "Underground Comedy 2010" - a raunchy over-the...Shamwow Guy" Offer ("The Underground Comedy Movie"). To ... |
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Filmmaker Sues Church of Scientology; Scientologist Since 1982, Filmmaker...
...infomercials ran on national cable stations for "The Underground Comedy Movie," co-starring Michael Clarke Duncan, Slash...friends, associates and actors that worked on Underground Comedy, to write false and malicious reports against... |
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Cinema plan falls through
...willing to pay for one movie complex. I hear, though...nonstadium-seating movie houses that could be...s dense, thoughtful movies rarely make their biggest...recently aired "The Final Movie: Stanley Kubrick and...Amazing Jacques in the ... |
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Everett boxer in Flawless role.
...bunch of "Batman" movies. He also wrote the...s best friend in the movie," The Mountain told...for their smash hit movie, "There's Something...guy claims he gave his movie to a friend of Ben Stiller...off his film, "The Underground ... |
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Kidman could make `Drinking' a success story
...Bros. about her starring in a movie based on Cambridge writer Caroline...copying scenes from his film "The Underground Comedy Movie." "We've never heard of him, we've never heard of his movie, and it's all a bunch of baloney... |
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JFK Jr.'s bash to jazz up confab
...with a stick. MAKIN' MOVIES: Looks like Bruce Willis...the way, part of the movie will be shot in Chicago...guys producing "The Underground Comedy Movie" starring Amy Fisher...have never made a movie. They are financing... |
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Mr. President, have we got a girl for you
...to 24 months. Wouldn't you turn down a movie with Joey Buttafuoco in it? A movie producer who says Anna Nicole Smith backed...Vince Offer says Smith agreed to film "The Underground Comedy Movie" but backed out in 1996, saying it would... |
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ARTS & TV IN BRIEF.
...the team behind the summer hit movie "There's Something About Mary...scenes from his film, "The Underground Comedy Movie." Offer contends "Mary" star...rough-cut videocassette of "Underground," although Stiller is not named... |
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SUMMER FILMS '99.(L.A. LIFE)
...than rewarding in this deadpan comedy. (Bluemark) Black Mask: Hong...women in his life. (MGM) The Underground Comedy Movie: Raunchy skit compilation featuring...falls for the world's biggest movie star, played by (casting stretch... |
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ACTORS DELIVER A SCOOP ON TABLOIDS IN NEW FILM
...the tables on the tabloids. The movie answers questions inquiring minds...underlying theme of the whole movie: what is unreal and what is real...himself, of course - in "The Underground Comedy Movie." It boasts an ensemble that... |