Buck Henry News

It's a familiar complaint, whenever books are re-imagined for film, fans and critics always cry that the novel is better than the movie.

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

After two years of research and interviews, Mike Sacks is convinced there definitely is a connection between being Jewish and comedy and humor writing.

E, for release on December 1, 2009. From the press release: Returning for what would be the final season for many of the original cast and writers of SNL, the complete fifth season includes an array of comedic hosts, including Steve Martin, Eric Idle, Buck Henry, Rodney Dangerfield, Martin Sheen, Bea Arthur, Ted Knight, Elliot Gould, Burt Reynolds, ...

As of last December Catch a Fire director Philip Noyce was on board to remake Captain Blood , the 1935 Errol Flynn swashbuckling epic.

Warner Bros. has set Michael and Peter Spierig to direct and John Brownlow to write a new version of "Captain Blood," the 1935 swashbuckler pirate classic that starred Errol Flynn as a wrongly imprisoned British doctor who escapes to become a pirate in the Caribbean.

Mike Sacks is a New York-based journalist who's written the bonafide comedy writer's handbook called And Here's the Kicker .

"I don't read biography -- I think it's the least trustworthy form of writing," Buck Henry declares with more force than any of the characters you've seen him play.

What might Buck Henry do differently if he could redo his career? "I'd be born later," the veteran actor-writer quips.

THERE are mysteries our puny brains sim ply cannot solve. What happened to the people of Roa noke Island? Who created Stonehenge? How did Holland Taylor and Buck Henry end up in "Mother"? It's not as if they don't have options.

Lisa Ebersole's new play Mother begins previews July 8 at Off-Broadway's The Wild Project.

The title of Mike Sacks' new book on comedy, And Here's the Kicker: Conversations With 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft , sounds straightforward enough, but it really only hints at what happened when Sacks started talking with comedy greats from past and present, including Buck Henry, Harold Ramis, Mad magazine 's Al Jaffee, and The Simpsons ' ...

Baby boomers aren't the only ones who wax nostalgic about the 1967 film, The Graduate .

Rabbi Yehuda Levin's scorched-earth phrasemaking at this weekend's anti-gay marriage rally hosted by state Sen.

Buck Henry and Holland Taylor will co-star in the new Lisa Ebersole play Mother for Off-Broadway's The Wild Project.

Holland Taylor and Buck Henry have signed on for the forthcoming off-Broadway production of Mother , a new play by Lisa Ebersole, according to The New York Times .

Brooklyn-born author Joseph Heller is best known for coining the phrase "Catch-22" in his his tragicomic World War II novel of the same name.