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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Be a Tourist: Events around town May 16-18
Comedian, actor, television writer, author and musician Paul Reiser is one of Hollywood's most prolific creatives. He will be performing at Kellar's on May 16th and 17th at 7:30 p.m. For more information, click here. For the first time ever in the region, the Erie Zoo is lighting up the night with Glow Wild: The Chinese Lantern Festival, produced by HanArt Culture! From April 17 to June 15, the zoo will transform into a dazzling world of larger-than-life, handcrafted lantern displays, breathtaking cultural performances and a magical evening experience like no other. For more information, click here. Norton Juster's beloved children's book, The Phantom Tollbooth Jr., is adapted for the stage in this modern tale of a boy who must save the princesses Rhyme and Reason and reunite the brother kings who rule over the cities of Dictionopolis and Digitopolis. For more information, click here. Ideas and inspiration are blooming at the Friends of the Erie County Library's 'Swing into Spring' Book Sale in the Admiral Room of the Blasco Library. The sale will feature gently used gardening books, craft books and cookbooks, along with a nice selection of fiction and non-fiction books, children's books, puzzles and some media. For more information, click here. Drift PAOHNY and Lake Erie Speedway Driven By Pro Waste present Spring MatsErie. Join Lake Erie Speedway for over 25 hours of action on the track! For more information, click here. Sinai Sports is thrilled to be hosting the Season 10 Midwest Regional Championship, starting May 16th! Competition ranges from kids as young as six to masters who are 40 and over. Spectator tickets for visitors, friends and relatives are available at the door for $5.00 per day per person. For more information, click here. This three-day event showcases grassroots art and music in the unique spirit of Appalachian culture and tradition. Over the course of the three-day festival, there will be live music around town, children's activities and workshops, dancing, art shows, music workshops, local artisan vendors, jam sessions, yoga, Pilates and much more! For more information, click here. WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? is 90 minutes of hilarious improvised comedy and song, all based on audience suggestions. Cast members Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Jeff B. Davis and Joel Murray will leave you gasping with the very witty scenes they invent before your eyes. For more information, click here. Get ready for a night of rock 'n' roll mayhem as the legendary Alice Cooper hits the road on his Too Close for Comfort tour! Known for his electrifying stage presence, dark theatrics, and timeless anthems, Alice Cooper promises a show that pushes the limits of shock rock and musical mastery. Experience all the hits, from School's Out to Poison. For more information, click here. Enjoy samples from local breweries and ride the Beer Coaster at Waldameer Park as part of Erie's celebration of American Craft Beer Week. For more information, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Calgary Herald
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Calgary Herald
Calgary Expo: Helen Hunt talks Twister, As Good as it Gets, Paul Reiser and what her dream role would be
Article content 'I had to do a U.K. accent,' she said. 'Boy, when you hear it and it's bad and it's coming out of your own mouth. I have a good enough ear to know when it's bad but I didn't know enough to make it good. I worked on it for a year. It might take other actors less amount of time. For me it was a year until I could walk out there and not worry about it.' Article content Hunt rose to fame during her seven-season run as Jamie Buchman in Mad About You in the 1990s. There was a reboot in 2019. Hunt starred opposite Paul Reiser, who played her film-director husband. When asked who some of her favourite people were to work with, she again didn't hesitate. Article content 'Paul Reiser for sure,' she said, again to tremendous applause. 'I would probably pick him. Not only is he one of the best but we had eight years to be together. I hear stories about people who worked together in TV shows and they don't get along, I don't know what I would have done. I really don't. Because I just lucked out. He and I are still friends, we see each other all the time. Oh my God, we would see each other more than we would see our partners in real life for eight years. So if I didn't adore him and didn't love playing with him, it would have been a long day.' Article content Article content Hunt was still working on Mad About You when she was cast it one of her pivotal roles. In James L. Brooks As Good as It Gets she played the single mother of a chronically ill child who befriends a misanthropic author with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder played by Jack Nicolson. The film won both Hunt and Nicholson Academy Awards. Article content 'It's always the writing,' she said.'Ninety per cent of it all is the writing. I was working on that and doing Mad About You at the same time. I was a blonde Tuesday through Thursday and a brunette Friday to Monday.I was saying to someone in front of the writer and director Jim Brooks — who has made some of my favourite movies and your too, I bet — a friend of his asked me which of these parts was more like me and I said 'Well, Mad About You, probably.' Article content Article content Jim Brooks disagreed. Article content 'I thought about that and then after not seeing it for decades, I saw the last 25 minutes recently because I went to a screening of it and I thought 'He's right. I'm very sensitive to what people say, I care about my kid in a fierce way, although I didn't have a kid when i did that part. There is a lot of me in there even though she lives in a part of the world, has a different job and speaks a differently, there was a lot of me in her.' Article content As for Twister, a 1996 blockbuster in which Hunt played storm-chaser Jo Harding, Hunt says she is nothing like that character. Article content 'I would be driving the other way,' she said. Article content She looks back on it fondly, but admits it was a tough shoot. Article content 'We were in the mud, we were in the firehoses, we were in the wind,' she says. 'The most fun part …was hanging out with all these guys. It was like Wizard of Oz in that way — 'you were there and you were there' — and they were all around this Dorothy character that I got to play. We worked until six in the morning in 100 it's not like the most fun you've ever had. But we laughed so hard played cards all night. That's kind of what movie-making is sometimes. You're bored and you get so close.' Article content
Boston Globe
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
‘It's just that stand-up is the thing I love': Paul Reiser on returning to his roots
Advertisement But Reiser, who will be at The Cabot in Beverly on April 25, finally returned to the road about a decade ago and says he's right where he belongs. 'People say, 'You don't have to do it,'' he says. 'I don't have to, I just love performing.' Paul Reiser as Dr. Owens in "Stranger Things." Netflix Q. What keeps you going out there? Are you constantly writing material and need an audience? A. I wish it were that, where I've got to tell somebody, and my wife has already heard this crap. But it's just that stand-up is the thing I love. I don't love airports, I don't love connecting flights. I tell my agent it's got to be a direct flight and not too late because I like to be in pajamas at 9:45 if possible. Advertisement I've been on Just before I was speaking to you, I was working on a bit that's a couple of months old. There's one little section that is not working. I love the fine tuning of it and the precision of it. And it is precision. I'll write as meticulously as I can even though when I get on stage I won't do it exactly that way. I don't memorize everything. From left: Mary Matalin, Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt, and James Carville in a 1998 episode of "Mad About You." Saeed Adyani Q. How has your stand-up evolved since the early days? A. I have a hard time watching old stuff, but when I do see a glimpse of it, there are themes of things I'm still questioning, that are universal. But certainly as you get older, you have more to talk about. You've seen more life. What's also great is when the audience now comes to see me, it's not 1978, 'And here's comedian number 11.' If people are coming and they bought a ticket and they came to see me, because they know me from something. Probably 'Mad About You.' It really does feel like getting together with old friends. The audience thinks 'I know this guy. We grew up together and we got married around the same time. We had kids around the same time.' And the same warmth that I think they bring, I feel towards them. The idea that they bought a ticket, drove here, and are staying up late, that's not nothing. Because I know to get me out of my house and go see a show, it takes some convincing. Advertisement And maybe younger people come, too, and they're confused — 'Wait, why is the doctor from 'Stranger Things' trying to be funny?' Q. Has your approach to writing changed? A. I write more, but I throw out more. Sometimes I'll think of something funny but say that's too easy, or that's not me or that's not what I want to say. I try to not watch other comics but something will pop up on YouTube or on Instagram and if I see somebody doing a similar bit, I say, 'I guess I'll throw mine out.' If you see other people doing it then it's pretty low-hanging fruit so I'll look for something different. It's part of why I did my first special since the early '90s last year. I felt I needed to put my flag in the ground, let someone else see it and say, 'Well, he already did that joke.' Q. When you say 'that's not me,' are you close to your onstage persona? A. It's mostly the same. When I went back out a couple of years ago, someone asked if my stand-up was like my 'Mad About You' character. The show grew out of my stand-up — I even called my character Paul because I didn't want to have to act too hard. Nobody's going to come to my show and say, 'Whoa, that's not what I was expecting at all.' Advertisement For better or for worse, this is what I do. I don't sit here and come up with ideas for world peace or political insight. I was opening for John Denver around 1980. I was talking about relationship stuff, like how taking a shower together sounds sexy, but one of you is always cold and then John Denver would come out and he would do spiritual or uplifting songs. We were out for a drink one night, and I said, 'I feel a little silly. I'm talking about sharing food, you're talking about this other stuff' and he said, 'People have to start on the ground before they can get to the sky.' So I thought, 'So there is validity and value to what I'm doing.' That always stayed with me. What I'm doing is entertaining. And, by the way, it's not mandatory. You don't have to come, but if you do, we're going to have an evening of solid laughs and you're going to go home smiling. I tell people that I'm the only one who offers a money-back guarantee. If you're not completely enamored and you don't have a great time, I will come back next year — and I'll take you to see somebody funnier. So you can't lose is what I'm saying. Interview was edited for length and clarity.
