Time has finally caught up with Billy Crystal, at least in terms of his age and the age of his character in “Mr. Saturday Night.” The 1992 film found the young Crystal playing decades older as Buddy Young, Jr., a stand-up and television comedian in his 70s looking to resuscitate his career and rescue the relationships he had scorched on his path to success. For the musical stage adaptation, which opened at the Nederlander Theatre on April 27, Crystal gets to act his age for the majority of the proceedings, occasionally playing younger for the flashback scenes.
Featuring a book by the original screenwriters and a score by Jason Robert Brown and Amanda Green, “Mr. Saturday Night” stars Crystal, David Paymer – who reprises his role from the movie – Randy Graff, Shoshana Bean, Chasten Harmon, and others. Tony Award-winner John Rando (“Urinetown”) directs.
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Featuring a book by the original screenwriters and a score by Jason Robert Brown and Amanda Green, “Mr. Saturday Night” stars Crystal, David Paymer – who reprises his role from the movie – Randy Graff, Shoshana Bean, Chasten Harmon, and others. Tony Award-winner John Rando (“Urinetown”) directs.
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- 5/4/2022
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
Sometimes the best way to make an institution reform is to change it from the inside. That was what longtime Philadelphia civil rights advocate and criminal defense attorney Larry Krasner thought when he launched his bid to become his city’s next district attorney. He won that 2017 election, and “Philly D.A.,” an eight-part documentary series for PBS’ “Independent Lens” banner, shows what happened next. Suddenly, this longtime advocate against mass incarceration was Philadelphia’s top prosecutor.
Krasner entered his role as D.A. with a mission: to end cash bail, something which results in defendants being jailed simply because they’re poor, and find other ways to reform an approach to criminal justice that has resulted in Philadelphia being the most incarcerated major city in the U.S. A few things seem like no-brainers: increase the amount of drugs an arrestee is carrying before major prison time is imposed,...
Krasner entered his role as D.A. with a mission: to end cash bail, something which results in defendants being jailed simply because they’re poor, and find other ways to reform an approach to criminal justice that has resulted in Philadelphia being the most incarcerated major city in the U.S. A few things seem like no-brainers: increase the amount of drugs an arrestee is carrying before major prison time is imposed,...
- 2/3/2021
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
The last time Johnny Brennan picked up a phone to make a prank call, Apple was a decade away from releasing the iPhone. Hell, “texting” was virtually nonexistent. After a nearly 25-year hiatus from recording original material, the comedian and co-creator of The Jerky Boys is making a comeback with a new self-titled record featuring his classic characters.
Brennan’s return was in part inspired by a series of successful live shows over the past few years. The reverence fans showed for the crank call albums, including reciting back even the most obscure details from the recordings, convinced him it was time to dust off voice characters like Frank Rizzo, Sol Rosenberg, and Jack Tors. For years fans showed an appetite for new material. But the 59-year-old Brennan entered the studio again to make one person in particular laugh.
“You gotta do it for yourself,” Brennan tells Den of Geek...
Brennan’s return was in part inspired by a series of successful live shows over the past few years. The reverence fans showed for the crank call albums, including reciting back even the most obscure details from the recordings, convinced him it was time to dust off voice characters like Frank Rizzo, Sol Rosenberg, and Jack Tors. For years fans showed an appetite for new material. But the 59-year-old Brennan entered the studio again to make one person in particular laugh.
“You gotta do it for yourself,” Brennan tells Den of Geek...
- 12/8/2020
- by Chris Longo
- Den of Geek
After teasing the return of the Jerky Boys in 2019, the infamous prank call artists have officially announced their first album in over 20 years.
Dubbed simply The Jerky Boys, the self-titled LP — out on Black Friday, November 27th — features Johnny Brennan, co-founder and caretaker of the Jerky Boys moniker, dialing up unsuspecting victims with both new characters alongside beloved callers like Frank Rizzo, Jack Tors, Mike Derucki and Sol Rosenberg.
In this exclusive clip, the aforementioned Rosenberg — who inspired Family Guy’s Mort Goldman, which Brennan also voices — torments the iRobot...
Dubbed simply The Jerky Boys, the self-titled LP — out on Black Friday, November 27th — features Johnny Brennan, co-founder and caretaker of the Jerky Boys moniker, dialing up unsuspecting victims with both new characters alongside beloved callers like Frank Rizzo, Jack Tors, Mike Derucki and Sol Rosenberg.
In this exclusive clip, the aforementioned Rosenberg — who inspired Family Guy’s Mort Goldman, which Brennan also voices — torments the iRobot...
- 9/29/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
In a sit-down with President Donald Trump on Thursday, Fox News’ Harris Faulkner asked him about his response to protests and unrest in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd.
“Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” Trump wrote on Twitter on May 28.
Reporters quickly pointed to the source of the phrase, used in 1967 by Miami’s mayor Walter E. Headley, who had a history of racial bigotry, according to historians. Twitter slapped a label on Trump’s tweet for violating rules against “glorifying violence.”
In the interview, conducted during the president’s trip to Dallas, Faulkner said, “I’m Harris on T.V., but I’m a black woman. I’m a mom. And you know… and you’ve talked about it, but we haven’t seen you come out and be that consoler in this instance. And the tweets, ‘when the looting starts,...
“Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” Trump wrote on Twitter on May 28.
Reporters quickly pointed to the source of the phrase, used in 1967 by Miami’s mayor Walter E. Headley, who had a history of racial bigotry, according to historians. Twitter slapped a label on Trump’s tweet for violating rules against “glorifying violence.”
In the interview, conducted during the president’s trip to Dallas, Faulkner said, “I’m Harris on T.V., but I’m a black woman. I’m a mom. And you know… and you’ve talked about it, but we haven’t seen you come out and be that consoler in this instance. And the tweets, ‘when the looting starts,...
- 6/12/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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