Billy Crystal News

I know a lot of fans had been suggesting Neil Patrick Harris, who was the best thing about the Emmys - and is usually the best thing about whatever he's doing - but I was holding out hope for Steve Martin.

When it was announced yesterday that the Oscar hosts next March would be Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, I felt oddly disappointed.

When it was first released in 2001, Monsters, Inc. was the fourth feature-length computer animated film from Pixar.

Reviewed by: Scott Chitwood Movie Rating: 9.5 out of 10 Extras Rating: 8.5 out of 10 Movie Details: View here Buy this DVD at Amazon.com Rating: G Starring: John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan Billy Crystal as Mike Wazowski Mary Gibbs as Boo / Mary Steve Buscemi as Randall Boggs James Coburn as Henry J. Waternoose Jennifer Tilly as Celia Bob ...

Jude Law would seem the ideal choice to play Hamlet. It is, after all, a revenge play with all the trappings of a B movie.

Those of a certain age may remember the wonderful Chris Guest-Billy Crystal sketches from Saturday Night Live in which Willie and Frankie, a pair of none-too-bright New York City characters who enjoyed nothing more than comparing notes of the twisted, masochistic self-mutilation they needlessly endured : Frankie: Boy.

It was the New Orleans native's big commercial breakthrough, providing the music for the modern-day love story by adding a classy soundtrack packed with such standards as "Where or When" and "It Had To Be You" that not only became an integral part of the storyline, it poised Connick for a career that would find him attempting to duplicate that ...

For those readers who are under the tender age of, oh, I don't know, maybe thirty, the Paleolithic-era program Saturday Night Live used to actually be funny .

Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays has a lot in common with the other shows in its solo autobiographical genre.

Alex D. Linz plays the junior-high anarchist of the title into a resourceful, low-key hero as he seeks revenge on the school bully.

Wow, this looks bad, bad, bad. Not as bad as All About Steve or Old Dogs , but pretty damn bad.

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.

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.

In the 1999 movie " Analyze This ," the psychiatrist played by Billy Crystal asks his insecure gangster patient , "What is my goal here? To make you a happy, well-adjusted gangster?" Keep the doctor's question in mind.

THIS WEEK: Billy Crystal has fallen off the national radar in recent years after establishing himself as a comic genius and unlikely romantic lead and now he's doing what all slight-past-their-prime comedian-stars do: a one man show, ' 700 Sundays ,' about the life that made him what his is today.

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.

The When Harry Met Sally star and his wife Janice will be grandparents for the third time when their daughter gives birth in October , and they were hoping to surprise their expanding family with a new play area in their Pacific Palisades home.

Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally." They were cinema's most unlikely couple.

Humour cinema so often reminds us is no laughing matter. When comedy is itself the subject of a film, it's invariably associated with depression and moral vacancy.

Simon Houpt Last updated on Friday, Aug. 21, 2009 10:53AM EDT W ho knew that superfast broadband Internet service could be marketed with multiple orgasms? A new spot for the British ISP Virgin Media spoofs the celebrated scene in When Harry Met Sally in which Sally faked an orgasm over lunch at Katz's Deli while Harry squirmed in his seat.