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Movie Review: This Is 40

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.20.2013 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

Foul-mouthed without being particularly funny, involved without being compelling, Judd Apatow's This Is 40 wants to be deeper than it really is. Which is an Apatowian trademark.

ReThink Review: This Is 40 - Marriage Is Hard!

Jonathan Kim | Posted 02.12.2013 | Entertainment
Jonathan Kim

While most movies would make sure every conflict gets settled and tied up with a neat bow, This Is 40 takes a more realistic approach to marriage and life by saying that sometimes you face problems you don't know how to solve.

Review: The Campaign

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.08.2012 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

Here's why I'd almost be willing to give The Campaign a pass on the fact that it's sloppy, inconsistent and only intermittently funny.

The Campaign: Politics as Usual

Regina Weinreich | Posted 09.25.2012 | Entertainment
Regina Weinreich

The Campaign plays the current election season for laughs. Candidates for Congress, Will Ferrell as Cam Brady and Zach Galifianakis as Marty Huggins vie for votes in a how-low-can-you-go campaign.

It Cannot Be Denied

D. R. Tucker | Posted 09.07.2012 | Green
D. R. Tucker

How about setting a similarly themed film in Oklahoma, beginning with residents discussing their feelings about Senator James Inhofe's insistence that climate change is all a big hoax that Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI somehow fell for?

Gazelle Emami

John Lithgow On Who's More Egotistic: Actors Or Journalists?

HuffingtonPost.com | Gazelle Emami | Posted 08.06.2012 | Home

This is one in a series of Tony nominee snapshots in the lead-up to the awards Sunday night. When it comes to actors and journalists, John Lithgow ...

WATCH: John Lithgow On The 'Least Cool' Moment Of His Life

Posted 05.22.2012 | Fifty

John Lithgow, who just received his sixth Tony award nomination for his role in "The Columnist" tells Jimmy Fallon why growing up in the sixties reall...

Stage Door: Ghost, The Columnist

Fern Siegel | Posted 06.28.2012 | Arts
Fern Siegel

There is a difference between an apparition and the real thing -- and the same can be said of a Broadway show. It can be rendered cinematically, as in Ghost, The Musical, thereby becoming a musical that thinks it's a movie.

'The Columnist' Review: Life in the Closet

Wilborn Hampton | Posted 06.26.2012 | Home
Wilborn Hampton

The Columnist focuses mainly on Joseph Alsop's closeted homosexuality and dwindling influence during the Vietnam War era, never examining other facets of a complicated man.

National Book Award Winners - Revealed!

Posted 11.17.2011 | Books

The National Book Awards 2011 were announced last night at a ceremony in a downtown New York venue. Though the nominees announcement had been overs...

Who Won The National Book Award?

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 01.16.2012 | Books

NEW YORK — The National Book Awards ceremony, held just blocks from the Occupy Wall Street protests, was a gilded tribute to the 99 percent. St...

Nicki Gostin

John Lithgow On 'Drama: Actor's Education' Memoir

HuffingtonPost.com | Nicki Gostin | Posted 12.11.2011 | Celebrity

If you're expecting to find out what Jane Curtin was like to work with in John Lithgow's new memoir, "Drama: An Actor's Education," you'll be sorely d...

More Stars Join Morgan Freeman In Prop. 8 Play

AP | Posted 11.08.2011 | Home

NEW YORK -- A new play about the legal battle over same-sex marriage in California keeps attracting big-name talent. Producers announced Thursday tha...

WATCH: Unexpected Stars Audition For 'Jersey Shore'

Posted 10.16.2011 | Comedy

With the cast of "Jersey Shore" headed off to Italy this season and in-fighting causing rifts that could only be found in reality TV, it was only a ma...

John Lithgow Returns To Broadway

AP | Posted 09.25.2011 | Arts

NEW YORK -- John Lithgow is coming back to Broadway in a familiar role – a newspaper columnist. The Tony Award-winning star of the TV show "3rd...

WATCH: James Franco, John Lithgow in 'Apes' Prequel

Posted 09.19.2011 | Entertainment

Rise of the Planet of the Apes," the big budget prequel to the 1968 classic, "Planet of the Apes," is set for release on Aug. 5, and this newly releas...

WATCH: John Lithgow's Dramatic Interpretation Of Gingrich Press Release

Posted 07.20.2011 | Comedy

John Lithgow is an alumnus of the London Academy Of Music & Dramatic Art, which some have argued is the world's finest acting school. And on Thursday ...

NPH Talks Kids, Gets New Dad

Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

Neil Patrick Harris certainly has a lot going on with his family these days -- both on and off screen. The multi-talented funnyman, who in October ...

The NERDIEST Celebrities (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

Celebs aren't usually known for their book smarts or academic awards, but there are a few who defy expectations. Who would have thought that the dad f...

Lost, Glee, Mad Men and More: Fearless Emmy Advice -- 2010 Edition

Ed Martin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Ed Martin

As you read this, members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences are busily poring over their 2010 Emmy Awards ballots. Here are my suggestions for the top programs and performers.

Golden Globes 2010: The TV Winners

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The Golden Globes can't get enough of "Mad Men." AMC's critically acclaimed series about a 1960s-era ad agency won its ...

Thoughts on Haiti, And the Spirit of Activism in Film

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
John Farr

Great activist movies portray the ongoing struggle between the welfare of working people and larger societal forces, seemingly beyond their control, that threaten their integrity, livelihood, and often, their very survival.

HuffPost Review: Leap Year

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

Leap Year is the kind of movie of which I wish I could say, "You couldn't pay me to watch that crap." Obviously, however, you can -- but not nearly enough.

David Letterman, Sons of Anarchy, Grey's Anatomy, Dexter: Random Reflections on the Opening Weeks of the Fall TV Season

Ed Martin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Ed Martin

The most-improved broadcast series of the new season is Grey's Anatomy, and the most improved on basic cable is FX's gritty, riveting Sons of Anarchy.

John Lithgow And Patrick Wilson's Odd Theater Experience

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

The last time that John Lithgow and Patrick Wilson participated in the kind of theater exercises that they did to prepare for the current Broadway re...