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.
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Podcast Talk: Allison Tolman & Lucas Neff of ABC-TV’s ‘Downward Dog’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 17, 2017 - 5:12pm- ABC-TV
- Allison Tolman
- Barry Rothbart
- Downward Dog
- Fargo
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Interview
- Kirby Howell-Baptiste
- Lucas Neff
- Ned
- Patrick McDonald
- Pittsburgh
- Podcast
- Raising Hope
- Samm Hodges
- Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- Sundance Film Festival
- The Second City
- Theater
- University of Illinois-Chicago
- Web Series
- Theater, TV, DVD & Blu-Ray
CHICAGO – From “Mr. Ed” to “Dog with a Blog,” talking animals have had their place on TV. The latest has origins as a web series, with the clever title “Downward Dog.” The show premieres on Wednesday, May 17th, 2017 (9:30pEST/8:30pCST), on ABC TV, and features Ned the Dog as Martin, and human companions portrayed by Allison Tolman and Lucas Neff.
Entertainment News: Best-Picture ‘Boyhood,’ TV’s ‘Transparent’ Are Golden Globe Winners
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 12, 2015 - 9:53am- Amy Adams
- Amy Poehler
- Billy Bob Thorton
- Birdman
- Boyhood
- Downton Abbey
- Eddie Redmayne
- Entertainment News
- Fargo
- George Clooney
- Golden Globe Awards
- Golden Globes
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- J.K. Simmons
- Jeffrey Tambor
- Julianne Moore
- Kevin Spacey
- Michael Keaton
- NBC
- Patricia Arquette
- Patrick McDonald
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Tina Fey
- Transparent
CHICAGO – The best of 2014 in film and TV was celebrated at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards on January 11th, 2015. Co-hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the first big and splashy awards ceremony of the season honored the films “Boyhood” (Drama) and “The Grand Budapest Hotel (Comedy), plus continued to recognize the current influence of online TV series by awarding honors to “Transparent” (Amazon Prime) and its lead actor, Jeffrey Tambor.
Interview: William H. Macy Invites You to ‘The Sessions’
Submitted by BrianTT on October 22, 2012 - 1:55pmCHICAGO – You’re going to be reading a lot about “The Sessions” in the coming weeks as it expands from its already-successful art house run and weaves through an awards season in which it will likely be nominated more than once. John Hawkes leads the film as man who lives in an iron lung and longs to feel human contact.
Blu-Ray Review: Coen Brothers Hit HD With Four of Their Best
Submitted by BrianTT on September 7, 2011 - 3:36pmCHICAGO – Few directors have ever kickstarted their career more confidently than Joel and Ethan Coen. And they did it with such an array of genre and subject matter from the gritty noir of “Blood Simple” to the subversive comedy of “Raising Arizona” to the gangster epic “Miller’s Crossing” to the heavily-symbolic drama “Barton Fink” to the whimsical charmer “The Hudsucker Proxy” and head-first into one of the best movies ever made — “Fargo.” Four of their first six films have been collected in the “Coen Brothers Collection” and while Fox was, very sadly, only able to send over one of them individually, we didn’t want this stellar collection to go unmentioned.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 ‘A Serious Man’ Chicago Passes to New Joel, Ethan Coen Film
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on October 2, 2009 - 11:22pmCHICAGO – In our latest comedy/drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the Chicago screening of the highly anticipated new film “A Serious Man” from Oscar-winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen!