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B runo , the new film by professional button-pusher Sacha Baron Cohen, will be released in theaters this weekend.

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Michael McKean will re-create his starring role in the forthcoming Broadway production of Tracy Lettsa Superior Donuts .

Jane Lynch is one of the most talented people working in TV and films these days.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Superior Donuts , the new American play by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts, will open Oct.

The hard rockers were trailed on a tour of America in support of the album Smell the Glove by filmmaker Marti DiBergi, who documented their internal friction, cancelled gigs, record company squabbles, problems keeping drummers from spontaneously combusting and occasional geographical difficulties.

Submitted by FunnyFixx.com on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 09:37. Doctor J. Marcus will treat you with good old-fashioned common sense - and nothing else.

The rock stars in the room have been at this all day. Since 11 a.m., the laughable, mostly fictional heavy-metal trio Spinal Tap has been hard at work, making the usual wig adjustments and celebrating the release of the band's first album in 17 years.

Crank it up to eleven with the revolutionary U.K. rock band as "This is Spinal Tap" screams its way to Blu-ray disc July 28 from MGM Home Entertainment .

You do not need me to remind you that life is short. Nor do you need the simplistic prompt that, while we have a responsibility to make as much constructive impact as we can with those few years, we also owe it to ourselves to indulge in personal interests that spark our imagination and passion.

Brendan sez, "I saw the 'Unwigged and Unplugged' show starring Spinal Tap members Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest on Saturday in Chicago.

The Around the Coyote Spring Arts Festival, a smorgasbord of visual and performing arts, runs this evening through Sunday in various locations in West Town in the vicinity of Division and Milwaukee.

Heavy metal reunion tours are usually a little cheesy -- rock 'n' debauchery simply doesn't age well, and paunchy middle-aged rockers who try to keep up with younger versions of themselves start to seem pathetic.

Expect things to get funny. Beacon Theater, 8PM. THREEFER: Charlie Rose, Karl Rove and James Carville walk into a bar.

For a quarter century, audiences have been laughing at the songs performed by Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer.

May 15--It doesn't appear as if the word "blockbuster" will be needed to describe the summer 2009 entertainment schedule in Atlantic City.

And here we always thought David Bowie was the ultimate musical chameleon. Not so, my friends.

It's been 25 years since Spinal Tap launched its hilariously disastrous, albeit fictional, North American tour in support of its equally ill-fated and fictional album, Smell the Glove .

Nobody can talk dirty like Jane Lynch. She played the folk singer with a proud porn star past in "A Mighty Wind." In "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," she taught Steve Carell's character the term "f--- buddy." Most of her characters have one thing in common: a carnal overconfidence that thrusts her to the front of whatever ensemble she's in.

From staff writer Cindy Watts: Just call him Bo Duke. Jimmy Wayne was caught on video making a Dukes of Hazzard exit from his tour bus last week in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., when the lock on the door jammed just about a minute before the singer was due on stage.