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Chazz Palminteri describes his 'Bronx Tale' as relevant, entertaining family story, not a gangster story MIKE WEATHERFORD MORE COLUMNS Preview "A Bronx Tale" 8 p.m. Wednesday through Oct.

Check out this story with accompanying photos at VegasDeLuxe.com . Ever since he began acting, Chazz Palminteri dreamed of playing Broadway and performing in Las Vegas.

The grand jury transcripts of the sex abuse case paint a far more damaging picture of the events that allegedly unfolded between the director and a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson's home in 1977.

Chazz Palminteri will write and co-produce indie drama "Wall Street Mafia" for Fiore Films, with lensing to start in New York in February.

Known for her bubbly onscreen persona, distinctively breathless baby-ish voice and eye-popping curves, actress Jennifer Tilly has made a career playing airheads with high-pitched voices and hearts of gold.

Tony winner Mary-Louise Parker will appear in conversation with musician Ryan Adams about his second book of poetry and fiction, HelloSunshine on Friday, September 25 at the New York Public Library.

Gee, this wig weighs a ton! What dope'd wear a thing like this? Rosco: Everybody used to wear them, Lina.

Although never "connected", actor Tony Sirico had his share of run-ins with the law before packing the pistol away to play hoodlums in the movies.

Woody Allen needs no introduction. Love him or hate him, he's been making movies since 1966 and has been a major factor in our cultural consciousness.

Woody Allen says he's not opposed to Broadway stage musical adaptations of his films, but insists he has no interest in writing or even seeing them.

Woody Allen has been gradually been moving out of the center ring of his own movies, with his last real starring role having been in 2002's "Hollywood Ending." Long before that, however, various actors have been seen as playing the Woody Role, although the director doesn't necessarily agree with that take.

On the eve of the release of Whatever Works , the 40th movie Woody Allen has directed, I thought it would be fun to rank every single one of his films in order of quality, from the sublime to the wretched.

This match made in Manhattan is such an obvious fit you wonder why Woody Allen didn't think of it sooner People like to kvetch: why doesn't Woody Allen make movies like he used to? Whatever happened to the zany intellectual who made us all feel like New Yorkers, as he mocked bourgeois pretension and his own neuroses in the same exasperated breath? ...

The new Woody Allen film, Whatever Works - his 40th for those keeping count - signals a return for the filmmaker in more ways than one.

U.S. actor Tony Darrow, known for playing mobsters, attempted to extort money from a man several years ago, federal prosecutors allege.

If you're looking for a well-written and brilliantly acted new dramedy to watch this summer, you could do a lot worse that Showtime's brand new Nurse Jackie .

Actor Jim Broadbent rose from the ranks of British theater to become an internationally acclaimed player, recognized for excessive theatrical romps like "Topsy Turvy" and "Moulin Rouge" , as well as subtle character-based dramas "Life is Sweet" and "Iris" . Considered by many to be the quintessential British character actor, Broadbent was unafraid ...

Good mooring. Today is the 135th day of the year. On this day in 1972, George Wallace, a former governor of Alabama and a symbol of segregation, was shot by Arthur Bremer while Wallace was at Laurel, Md., campaigning for president.

Actor, writer and director Chazz Palminteri wrote his own ticket to the top with his one-man stage play "A Bronx Tale," an Italian-American coming of age story that wooed movie studios and Robert De Niro, who directed the 1993 screen adaptation.

Once known for her high-profile boyfriends, Penelope Cruz is now a favourite of film critics in her own right.