Jane Lynch Joins The Three Stooges

Jane Lynch Joins The Three Stooges
Source: Deadline April 27, 2011

Deadline reports that "Glee" star Jane Lynch will play Mother Superior in Peter and Bobby Farrelly's The Three Stooges at 20th Century Fox.

Mother Superior runs the orphanage where the trio grows up. She will star with Chris Diamantopoulos, who is now set to play Moe, Will Sasso, who's playing Curly, and Sean Hayes, who is portraying Larry.

Filming is scheduled to start in May.

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Ed McMahon: Television's singular sidekick signs off

By Robert Bianco, USA TODAY

Now, Tonight truly feels like an irretrievable yesterday.
The show's era as an icon ended with the death of Johnny Carson, but as long as his "hi-yo" sidekick, Ed McMahon, was still with us, some part of the era was as well. Tuesday, at age 86, McMahon died, taking what was left of the old Tonight Show with him.

McMahon put himself through college pitching products on the Atlantic City boardwalk, which may have been a more useful education than college itself. In a way, that's what McMahon did with startling success for 30 years: He pitched Carson to the public. His laugh made Carson's jokes seem funnier; his straight-man cluelessness in the Carnac routines made Carson seem smarter; and his booming, much-imitated "Here's Johnny" made Carson seem like the most important person on American TV.





On his own, McMahon was not a great talent. As a sidekick, he made the star not just brighter but better. His gregariousness was a perfect complement to the notoriously private Carson's button-down approach, providing a reflected warmth the host might have otherwise lacked.

And indeed, much of what we learned about Carson as a person on air came from his exchanges with McMahon. Fans knew about the pair's divorces, not because they gave interviews to the tabloids but because they discussed them with each other — rarely, but with revealing frankness.

McMahon first worked with Carson as his announcer on the game show Who Do You Trust in the late '50s. The pair obviously clicked, because they moved together to The Tonight Show when Carson took it over in 1962.

McMahon set the sidekick mold most all would follow, and indeed for years made a sidekick seem essential. He mostly served to flatter the star, laughing with sometimes exaggerated gusto even when the joke didn't particularly merit a laugh. (McMahon did honestly what Paul Shaffer now does ironically.) But at crucial times, he could also serve as a foil, puncturing pomposity before it could grow.

In his later years, McMahon's appearances on TV were less fortunate — and often tied to a how-the-mighty-have-fallen fascination with his financial woes. But today, we can remember him young and laughing, welcoming us to the greatest night-time party TV has ever thrown.

Goodnight, Ed. We had a blast.

Dom DeLuise dies at age 75

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dom DeLuise, the U.S. comic actor who gained fame on television and in movies such as "Blazing Saddles" and "Smokey and the Bandit II," has died at age 75.

DeLuise died Monday night at a hospital in the Los Angeles community of Santa Monica, his agent Robert Malcolm said.



 

"It's easy to mourn his death, but easier to remember a time when he made you laugh," DeLuise's family said in a statement issued by Malcolm.

No cause of death was given, but Malcolm said DeLuise had health problems including high blood pressure and diabetes.

In December 2008 the actor told TV show "Entertainment Tonight" that he had been fighting prostate cancer. "I'm still here. I'm 75 and here. I feel very blessed," he said.

Dominick "Dom" DeLuise was born August 1, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York. He began his career in movies and on TV in the 1960s, and he gained widespread fame on the Dean Martin Show as "Dominick the Great," a magician whose act routinely went wrong.

For a brief period in 1968, he was given his own TV program, "The Dom DeLuise Show," and he later proved to be appealing as a guest star in sketch comedy and other shows.

"I loved him from the moment we met. Not only did we have the greatest time working together, but I never laughed so hard in my life as when we were together," Doris Day, who starred with DeLuise in the 1966 movie, "The Glass Bottom Boat," said in a statement.

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In the 1970s, DeLuise became a regular actor in Mel Brooks' comedies. He appeared in the wildly popular Western spoof "Blazing Saddles," as well as "Silent Movie," "History of the World Part I," and "Robin Hood - Men in Tights."



He also made films with Burt Reynolds, a major star at the time, including "The Cannonball Run" and its sequel "Cannonball Run 2."

"Dom always made everyone feel better when he was around. I never heard him say an unkind word about anyone. I will miss him very much," Reynolds told "Entertainment Tonight."

In the 1980s and 1990s, DeLuise worked on a wide range of movies and TV shows such as "Beverly Hills 90210" and "3rd Rock from the Sun," and he hosted a version of "Candid Camera" from 1991 to 1992.

His voice was used in animated programs such as "All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series."

An avid cook, DeLuise wrote several cookbooks including "Eat This" and "Eat This Too!" In recent years, he appeared on the home improvement radio show "On the House with The Carey Brothers."

He is survived by his wife, Carol Arthur, and three sons, Peter, David and Michael, who work in the entertainment industry.

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Inbred Rednecks follows the misadventures of good 'ol Billy Bob, Joe Bob, Clovis and Bubba and their prize-winning cockfighting poultry, Bigass Rooster. Success on the North Carolina-Tennessee cockfighting circuit seems guaranteed...but when the quartet's rooster defeats the villainous Monty's feathered-fighter Demon, the cad orders his thugs to steal Bigass Rooster. The heroic hillbillies set out to rescue Bigass Rooster and plunge into a world of bar fights, car chases, buxom girls, and lunatic characters including Mad Dog and Sweetmeat the Midget.

Beach Blanket Bingo - 1965

In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn - 1997

Acclaimed film editor Alan Smithee's dream comes true when Challenger Films contracts him to direct a new action-adventure, "Trio." The fledgling filmmaker jumps at the chance to direct Whoopi Goldberg, Jackie Chan, and Sylvester Stallone. Little does he realize that he is but a puppet - the company president and executive producer have hired him just to pull his strings. From the first "Roll 'em" to the final cut, the bigwigs keep Smithee out of the loop. To his utter dismay, he finds his name attached to a monster-piece! What's more, he can't even hide behind a fake name because he really IS "Alan Smithee," the pseudonym that disgruntled filmmakers use to replace their own on movies bad enough to destroy their reputations. In desperation, Smithee swipes the master reels and goes into hiding. Aided by the Brothers Brothers, black filmmakers replete with indie cred but short on major studio deals, Smithee faces the ultimate challenge: to negotiate an agreement to re-edit the movie in his own style, or burn the film and his own career along with it.

ZORRO, THE GAY BLADE - 1981

In 1840's Mexico, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega learns of his late father's secret as Zorro, the masked folk hero, and Vega adopts his new persona. But when Vega is incapacitated by an injury, he asks Ramon, his very gay, long-lost twin brother (now calling himself 'Bunny'), to replace him as the caped hero, who makes some drastic changes to his Zorro persona.

The Nude Bomb - 1980

An unknown terrorist has developed a new type of bomb that will destroy clothing, but leave people unharmed. Agent Maxwell Smart (this time without Chief, 99, or Hymie) is taken out of retirement and sent back into the field to track down who this madman is and put a stop to his plans.