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Bryant, Charles W. "What's the world's biggest food fight?." 24 November 2009. HowStuffWorks.com. 26 November 2009.

Filmmaker Ruben Fleischer is having a very good 2009. The former music video director has seen his debut feature, Zombieland , open at number one at the US box office and take in nearly $75 million domestically, while earning an impressive 89% Fresh rating from critics -- not bad for a horror-comedy road movie revolving around the undead.

Canadian musician Paul Shaffer has just published a memoir, We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Showbiz Saga.

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"I grew up in Southern California, and Cab Calloway was performing at Disneyland of all places," Marhevka said.

Comedy star Dan Aykroyd has signed onto John Landis' dark horror-comedy Burke and Hare , alongside the previously cast Simon Pegg and David Tennant as Burke and Hare, respectively.

The 1980s were strange and deliriously productive years for horror. The boundaries of taste had already been pushed past their breaking point.

Comic actor Dan Aykroyd, who is guesting with Downchild on several eastern Canadian dates of this tour, became one of the group's biggest fans.

An American Werewolf In London and Animal House, two of director John Landisa TMs biggest hits, are re-released soon, and the man himself is back behind the cameras for a new Burke and Hare movie.

DOCTOR Who star David Tennant is to join up with Star Trek rival Simon Pegg for a new film about legendary Edinburgh graverobbers Burke and Hare.

Look out, unsuspecting farm animals: The werewolf is planning a comeback. Lycanthropes, lately being outdone by vampires in the court of pop-culture opinion, will have high-profile roles in a pair of upcoming films: The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Wolfman , a remake of the 1941 horror classic.

Looking back on 40 years with Downchild, Toronto blues pioneer Donnie Walsh doesn't offer much insight on his longevity.

This week, Jason Solomons meets director John Landis to discuss his 1981 landmark comic horror film An American Werewolf in London on the eve of its re-release. Landis regales us with some of the challenges in making the picture in London, how he managed to get permission to film the famous sequence in Piccadilly Circus and why he fought the unions ...

Carrie Fisher is smart enough, ballsy enough and funny enough to take care of herself when it comes to personal attacks.

In this Sept. 15, 2009 photo, actress and writer Carrie Fisher , who stars in "Wishful Drinking," a one-woman show as well as the title of her memoir, is shown at the American Airlines Theater, in New York.

Like blue cheese or a blue Ford Mustang, The Blues Brothers don't spoil with age.

Universal / 97 Minutes / Rated R / Street Date: September 15, 2009 by Kenneth J. Souza Sep 21, 2009 Writer-director John Landis sometimes gets overlooked for being something of a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to film projects.

It's 10 p.m. on a Tuesday, and I'm on the roof of Solas waiting to see if I'm going to get to drink vodka out of a glass skull with one of the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players.

Gibson , who more recently played a recurring role as cantankerous Judge Clark Brown on "Boston Legal," was part of the original ensemble cast of "Laugh In," which ran ... from 1968 to 1973.