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2 Buzz News Roundup, 5/2
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3 Movie Preview: Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock
Simon Cowell
4 Buzz News Roundup, 4/22
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5 Watch, Pass, TiVo, or Rent: Taking Woodstock
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6 Taking Woodstock: A Pleasant Piece of Nostalgia
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7 Paul Rudd and Zach Galifianakis Team Up to Exercise Free Will
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8 TV Tonight: Sarah Silverman and Demetri Martin Are Back
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9 Link Time — Demetri Martin Lands a Show at CBS
Demetri Martin gets his own CBS show — Variety NBC orders full seasons of Chase and Chuck, more Undercovers — Ausiello Files Listen to Taylor Swift's "Mean" — Idolator Check out this great list of 20 songs the Glee kids should perform — TV.com A sequel to Jackass 3D may hit theaters in the next few months — A.V. Club Watch Glee do the "Time Warp" — Vulture Mad Men's fourth season Read more
When The Sarah Silverman Program and Important Things With Demetri Martin return tonight on Comedy Central, the network is packaging the two shows back to back for a hilarious Thursday night. This is the third season premiere for Silverman's show and the second for Martin's, which kicks off the night at 10. It's been more than a year since Silverman's show has been on the air, and since then it Read more
Christmas in January! Two of my favorite funnymen, Paul Rudd and Zach Galifianakis, have signed on for promising new comedy Will. In the movie, Rudd plays a man in a world where lives are written by scribes in heaven, and who wakes up one day to find that his scribe (played by Galifianakis) has decided to stop writing his life, thus granting him free will. If the casting isn't enough to convince Read more
Like many people who weren't even alive in 1969, I have an irresistible, faux nostalgia for movies that capture the vibe of that time. So while Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock abounds with '60s cliches, I couldn't help but enjoy it. As telegraphed in the title, Taking Woodstock offers an alternate perspective on the legendary New York music festival. The story swirls around Elliot Teichberg (Demetri Read more
I wasn't sure what to make of the trailer for Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock; it seems like such funny material for the Academy Award-winning director of Brokeback Mountain and The Ice Storm. Then again, maybe there is more of a dramatic arc here with comedian Demetri Martin's role as a shy, closeted teen. Is it the story of his coming out, his family's role in putting on the legendary festival, or Read more
Demetri Martin is one of my favorite funny guys. His surreal sense of humor (plus his "I am one of the missing Beatles" look) is totally endearing. He's even described as a geeky dreamboat by people who keep tabs on that sort of thing. (The guy attended Yale and NYU School of Law on a full scholarship!) Now, add actor to his list of accomplishments. He's starring in Ang Lee's film Taking Read more
Vanessa Hudgens will reportedly star in Beastly, a Manhattan-set, modern-day take on Beauty and the Beast, based on Alex Flinn's young-adult novel. — ComingSoon Christopher Gorham will return as Henry in the finale of Ugly Betty. — Entertainment Weekly Simon Cowell claims he'd leave American Idol if it stopped being the No. 1 show. — The Hollywood Reporter The 3-D "motion picture event," Read more
I love Demetri Martin's bit about how adding the word "ladies" to the end of a sentence automatically makes you sound like a creep. I admit, the word "ladies" often makes me cringe, though some of my guy friends seem to think it's classy. I guess it's better than referring to a group of women as "girls" or "my b*tches!" . . . but still. What say you? Saying "Ladies" — Yay Read more
You might see the word "Woodstock" and feel like we've seen enough about the famous music festival, but this trailer for Ang Lee's first English-language film since Brokeback Mountain actually looks like it might have something new to add to the story. Taking Woodstock is kind of hilariously hard to figure out: In the lead role there's comedian Demetri Martin (who you may know from his TV show Read more
You can't resist the cute funny dudes, and I don't blame you one bit. The results are in for GiggleSugar's best male stand-up comedian of 2008, and the honor goes to Demetri Martin! I am also a big fan his stand-up (for proof of his funny, give this vid a watch). Thumbs up, Demetri. Very close behind were Dane Cook and Jim Gaffigan, another one of my faves. Notable write-in candidates included Read more
