Bullets Over Broadway News

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.

In the past 20 years, John Cusack has been a distinctive presence in everything from noir thrillers to action blockbusters.

Musicals are the theatrical norm at the Hippodrome Theatre, so it's a refreshing change of pace to have Chazz Palminteri's autobiographical one-man play "A Bronx Tale" there.

They could be gregarious, even expansive, but they knew when to shut their traps.

Academy Award-winning actress Dianne Wiest was a highly respected New York stage veteran who initially carved out a reputation for intense dramatic chops, but found herself more frequently cast in comedy when her career expanded to include feature films.

Think of Julia Roberts and Drew Barrymore starring in back in 1996. What's that, you say? You'd forgotten they were in that one.

You may not recognize actor/writer Chazz Palminteri by name, but you definitely know his face a ' that kind of furrowed Italian-wiseguy mug that would make you swear up and down that you'd seen him whack some two-faced hooker on The Sopranos .

Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein will host the 54th Annual Drama Desk Awards, which will be held May 17 at 9 PM at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City.

WOODY Allen is a real love-him-or-hate-him director... and by that I mean we critics love him and most film-goers hate him.