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When: 8 p.m. tonight-Friday, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, 8 p.m. Nov. 15-1 Admission: $58.50-$80.50; 891-7800, mgmgrand.com Sun Calendar More comedy coverage Lily Tomlin Who ever thought we'd see the day that brilliant comic actress Lily Tomlin, 70, and iconic singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, 75, would deign to perform in Las Vegas? Both artists have long ...

Creating a satire on your own culture is a doubled-bladed dagger. Satirists seldom become lionized or praised for their efforts as pointing out failures and dangers and the ridiculous presence of deluded emperors wearing invisible clothes tends to invoke more embarrassment than wisdom or appreciation.

When American auteur Robert Altman died on Nov. 20, 2006, his biographer was left with a pile of transcripts.

A satire of a satire made with love: if that description of the revue "Daryl Glenn and Jo Lynn Burks Play and Sing Robert Altman 's 'Nashville' " sounds self-contradictory , it evokes the heartfelt nostalgia of a popular little show that has been playing at the Metropolitan Room on the first Sunday each month.

"Boondock Saints: All Saints Day" - The original 1999 "Boondock Saints" was a ridiculously over-the-top action film about a pair of Irish-American twins who set out with guns, recklessness and boozy bravado to rid Boston of criminals and mafia.

In an L.A. Times review of the new Robert Altman biography, Richard Schickel went on an attack on Altman and his films.

"Robert Altman: The Oral Biography" by Mitchell Zuckoff; Knopf For Robert Altman, art imitated life.

FX Damages, the award willing legal thriller on FX has summoned new cast members for its third season.

Mitch Zuckoff exchanged many e-mails with Robert Altman 's widow, Kathryn , before embarking on his biography of the legendary director.

It had 22 leads, multiple storylines a ' and a director who was having serious doubts.

Robert Altman, the iconoclastic director of groundbreaking films such as "M*A*S*H,'' "Nashville,'' "Short Cuts,'' and "The Player,'' never met a Hollywood executive he trusted.

Comic and Oscar-nominated actress Lily Tomlin plays the Borgata Saturday in her first Atlantic City performance.

BMNN wrote: on Oct. 10, 2009: For the first time, all three releases from bluegrass composer, banjoist and guitarist Tom Hanway are available digitally via Digital Revolution Entertainment at most online music stores including iTunes and Amazon.

On Tuesday night you can take a stroll down memory lane with Lily Tomlin. Then you can wait with anticipation for her to stroll on screen in The Walker.

In case you were wondering, Steve Martin really is a hell of a banjo player. He more than proved that Sunday night during a concert at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.

It was chaos, as always. 'OK, cookie people? Where are my cookie people?' Barbara Harris called out, over the gossipy judges' hugs and clatter of clipboards.

Lily Tomlin , one of the best-loved women in America, returns to NJPAC with a collection of her greatest hits in An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin - featuring the Emmy- and Tony-winning, Oscar-nominated star with a gallery of her beloved characters - for one night only at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Saturday, October 23 at 8 pm.

Robert Altman's films never told us what to think or feel. The Kansas City-born director - of classics like "McCabe and Mrs.

Daryl Glenn is passionate about Nashville, the classic 1976 Robert Altman film; and he turned that passion into an original, award-winning cabaret show "Daryl Glenn & Jo Lynn Burks Play and Sing Robert Altman's 'Nashville.'" This weekend it returns to New York.

Lieutenant Jim Bateman and I crossed paths 50 years ago. That's all it was, two strangers passing each other, one of us engaged in military protocol, the other seemingly disengaged.