Billy Crystal News

A record 500-plus people attended Wisconsin's largest early stage investing conference this month and another 250 rubbed shoulders in the same convention hall at the Midwest's largest forum on health care investing.

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.

If you're feeling blue, any of these movies will lighten your mood and may have you reminiscing about the good, old days - no texting or twittering in these movies, for those of us over-50. 1. When Harry Met Sally - This 1989 screenplay by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner is a warm New York story .

Everyone has their own favorite Pixar movies. Some adore the Toy Story films, or Finding Nemo, or last year's esoteric sci-fi fable, Wall-E. The three I love most are Ratatouille, Up! and, especially, Monsters, Inc.

The Accidental Husband A labored, overly complicated romantic comedy lazily directed by Griffin Dunne in which firefighter Patrick Sullivan , stunned when his fiancee suddenly calls off their wedding at the suggestion of radio love expert Dr.

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.