CHICAGO – YIPPIE! It’s back, in the neighborhood of its roots. YippieFest 2023 will be August 4th-6th in the Lakeview/Buena Park venue of PRIDE ARTS, 4139 North Broadway in Chicago. The space is less than a half mile from the former Mary-Arrchie Theatre, whose “Abbie Hoffman Festival” was the template for the three-day performance celebration. YippieFest currently has slots for theater acts, including one-act plays, monologue, sketch, improv, vaudeville and other stage performance arts. Artists get free admission to the rest of the festival, so click YiPPIE FEST 2023 to sign up.
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Slideshow: 20 Portraits From The Hollywood Show in Chicagoland on March 17-18, 2018
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 15, 2018 - 2:17pm- Angie Dickinson
- Bambi
- Buck Rogers
- Dawn Wells
- Ed Asner
- Film News
- Gilligan’s Isle
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- HollywoodChicago.com Slideshow
- Hyatt Rosemont/Chicago
- Illinois
- Leave it to Beaver
- Patrick McDonald
- Richard Chamberlain
- Rosemont
- Seinfeld
- Soup Nazi
- Stefanie Powers
- The Hollywood Show
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- The Nelsons
CHICAGO – The TV, movie and entertainment world is coming back to Chicagoland with The Hollywood Show on March 17th and 18th, 2018, at the Hyatt Rosemont/Chicago O’Hare Hotel in Rosemont, Ill. The event gives fans and admirers an opportunity to meet and get pictures with celebrities and take advantage of vendors offering show business memorabilia.
Interview, Audio: Illeana Douglas on Directors & Female Spirit
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 5, 2018 - 10:06am- Allison Anders
- Audio
- Entourage
- Ghost World
- GoodFellas
- Grace of My Heart
- HBO
- Helen Gahagan
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived in and Out of the Movies
- Illeana Douglas
- Interview
- Martin Scorsese
- Melvyn Douglas
- Patrick McDonald
- Podcast
- Seinfeld
- Six Feet Under
- TCM
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- To Die For
- Trailblazing Women
- Turner Classic Movies
CHICAGO – The acting career of Illeana Douglas began with director Martin Scorsese and flourished in her first lead role for “Grace of My Heart” (1996). She is best known today for hosting the “Trailblazing Women” series on Turner Classic Movies, and in Part Three of a three part interview with HollywoodChicago.com, she talks about feminism, the essence of directors she has worked for, plus her grandmother Helen Gahagan, the third female Congress representative in U.S. history.
Interview, Audio: Illeana Douglas on Acting & the Film ‘Grace of My Heart’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 4, 2018 - 3:25pm- Allison Anders
- Audio
- Entourage
- Ghost World
- GoodFellas
- Grace of My Heart
- HBO
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived in and Out of the Movies
- Illeana Douglas
- Interview
- Martin Scorsese
- Melvyn Douglas
- Patrick McDonald
- Podcast
- Seinfeld
- Six Feet Under
- TCM
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- To Die For
- Trailblazing Women
- Turner Classic Movies
CHICAGO – The acting career of Illeana Douglas began with director Martin Scorsese and flourished in her first lead role for “Grace of My Heart” (1996). She is best known today for hosting the “Trailblazing Women” series on Turner Classic Movies, and in Part Two of a three part interview with HollywoodChicago.com, she talks about her approach as an actor and how early influences defined that style.
Interview, Audio: Trailblazing Actress & Film Historian Illeana Douglas
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 3, 2018 - 8:58am- Audio
- Entourage
- Ghost World
- GoodFellas
- Grace of My Heart
- HBO
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived in and Out of the Movies
- Illeana Douglas
- Interview
- Martin Scorsese
- Melvyn Douglas
- Patrick McDonald
- Podcast
- Seinfeld
- Six Feet Under
- TCM
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- To Die For
- Trailblazing Women
- Turner Classic Movies
CHICAGO – Long before 2017, the year of notable recognition for women filmmakers, the actress, producer and author Illeana Douglas launched the film series “Trailblazing Women” on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in 2015. Her goal was to achieve recognition for the pioneering efforts of women in early film history and beyond.
Interviews: Director, Cast of ‘Mind Over Mindy’ Has Chicago Gala Screening on Sept. 19, 2015
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 16, 2015 - 8:46pmCHICAGO – Director Robert Alaniz is a throwback to the maverick film director that completes his projects through hell or low budget. His latest film is his seventh as writer/director, called “Mind Over Mindy.” Larry Thomas – who portrayed the “Soup Nazi” on “Seinfeld” – is part of the cast that will join Alaniz at a Chicago Gala Screening of the film at the northwest side’s historic Patio Theater on September 19th, 2015.
Interview: Larry ‘The Soup Nazi’ Thomas for ‘Mind Over Mindy’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 29, 2014 - 12:44pmCHICAGO – “No soup for you!” is one of the most memorable TV catchphrases of the 1990s, uttered into immortality by actor Larry Thomas on “Seinfeld,” who portrayed “The Soup Nazi.” Thomas was in the Chicago area recently to act in “Mind Over Mindy,” a new comedy from writer/director Robert Alaniz.
Exclusive Portrait: In Memory of Comedian John Pinette
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 8, 2014 - 11:42amCHICAGO – Comedian John Pinette passed away on April 5th, at the age of 50. The rotund jester was named Stand-Up Comedian of the Year at the American Comedy Awards in 1999, and appeared in the films “Duet,” “Dear God” and “The Punisher.” He is probably best remembered as the hapless portly man who gets harassed by the cast of “Seinfeld,” which led to the courtroom sequence of the final episode in 1998.
Interviews: ‘Soup Nazi’ Larry Thomas, Director Robert Alaniz, Cast of New Film ‘You Don’t Say!’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 6, 2013 - 12:34amCHICAGO – The “Soup Nazi” is in Chicago. Actor Larry Thomas – who memorably portrayed that character on two episodes of “Seinfeld” – has a role in the new Chicago-based independent film “You Don’t Say!” directed by local veteran filmmaker Robert Alaniz. “You Don’t Say!” premieres on Saturday, April 6th, at the historic Patio Theater in Chicago, with a red carpet and after-film Q&A.
Interview: Todd Solondz Embraces Ambiguity, Maintains Empathy in ‘Dark Horse’ with Selma Blair
Submitted by mattmovieman on June 25, 2012 - 7:52amCHICAGO – The term “arrested development” could easily be applied not only to every character in a Todd Solondz picture, but every neurotic man-child currently populating the vast majority of Hollywood comedies.
Interviews: Jesse Metcalfe, Brenda Strong Go Back to ‘Dallas’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 11, 2012 - 3:31pmCHICAGO – Dust off your cowboy hat and power bolo ties, the legendary TV show ‘Dallas’ is about to launch again, June 13th, on the TNT Network. Returning as the Ewing family are Larry Hagman (J.R.), Patrick Duffy (Bobby) and Linda Gray (Sue Ellen), joined with the new Ewings, Jesse Metcalfe (Christopher) and Barbara Strong (Anne).
