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Comedian Billy Crystal began a week-long run of his award-winning stage show 700 Sundays Tuesday night at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas.

This rising director has worked in many mediums: TV, film, live action, animation, fiction and documentary.

Backtracking some, while I was busily applying my choice-making process to all aspects of my life, I got a strong urge to write a novel.

Danielle Harris, star of four films in the HALLOWEEN franchise, as well as pictures like THE LAST BOYSCOUT, CITY SLICKERS, DON'T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER'S DEAD, and the television series ROSEANNE was kind enough to sit down with me at the 2009 Spooky Empire convention in Orlando, Florida to talk about her career.

Halloween is a great time to discover "Drag Me to Hell," Sam Raimi's underrated gypsy horror comedy.

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Born to Episcopal missionaries who spent much of their careers in China, Meadows, along with sister and fellow actor Audrey Meadows arrived in the US in the early 1930s.

Originally published September 28, 2009 at 4 a.m., updated September 28, 2009 at 5:04 a.m. NEW YORK a ' Billy Crystal has taken his boyhood memories back on the road.

City folk get taste of cowboy life Movie City Slickers was inspiration for owner to move to Canada, open ranch By The Canadian Press Sat.

It's "Sundays" on the porch with Billy. ON THE SCENE Where it counts the most -- in life, on stage -- Billy Crystal may well be the Jewish Count Basie of jazz comedy.

Saddle up partner, it's time for a taste of cowboy life Saskatchewan-style. Nestled in the Saskatchewan River valley, along the shores of Lake Diefenbaker, is the La Reata ranch, where city folk can trade in their suits and cars for a cowboy hat and a horse.

Early in his big-time funny, one-man play, '700 Sundays,' Billy Crystal shows home movies of himself as a child, tap-tap-tap-dancing away, like a tiny windup entertainment machine.

The kid is beaming, a most happy little fella, and you are instantly struck by how in his element Crystal seems, even then. Is there, you start to wonder, a gene for 'ready for my close-up'? Gosh darn it, was ever this guy to the one-liner born!

The pure joy of stand-up is evident in the vehicle, which Crystal brings to the National Theatre, having performed it to sold-out houses on Broadway for six months in late 2004 and early 2005. He clearly still wants us to feel the love, because he keeps taking the show on the road: The nine-day Washington engagement, which began Tuesday, launches a second multi-city tour. And once Crystal starts his comic tap routine, it's as if he never wants the music to stop.

For actors Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig, life began at thirtysomething . Now at fiftysomething, after 27 years of marriage, they are still figuratively joined at the hip, professionally and personally.

For years, character actor David Paymer appeared in a multitude of film and television projects, though his name remained unrecognizable to most.

On October 27, the geek-rock gods will return with their seventh studio album, a yet-untitled affair that sees the band partying hard and getting parenthetical.

The first rule of being a cowboy, I'm told just moments after I arrive at the sodden base camp of Wild Deuce Outfitters one rainy Tuesday morning, and before we set out on our first cattle drive of the week, is, "be nice to the cook." It doesn't take long to learn why: when wrangler Scott Phillips makes a derogatory crack about Cookie's cookies, ...

The first rule of being a cowboy, I'm told just moments after I arrive at the sodden base camp of Wild Deuce Outfitters one rainy Tuesday morning, and before we set out on our first cattle drive of the week, is, "be nice to the cook." It doesn't take long to learn why: when wrangler Scott Phillips makes a derogatory crack about Cookie's cookies, ...

I caught the last half of City Slickers on TV the other night, tuning in just in time to hear Jack Palance tell Billy Crystal the secret of life is "one thing." The movie was cheesier than I remembered; I hadn't seen it in a long time.

On Friday night at 9:30pm, Danny DeVito will visit Comic-Con to present a special presentation regarding his new website devoted to sinister short films - THE BLOOD FACTORY .

British director whose output preceding the 1994 feature film sequel to the successful comedy "City Slickers" "City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold" was marked by a comedic feature which bombed and an.... British director whose output preceding the 1994 feature film sequel to the successful comedy "City Slickers" "City Slickers II: The ...