Tracey Ullman
Go Home! Go Home!
— Tracey Ullman’s exhortation to the audience at the end of each episode of The Tracey Ullman Show
Occupation: Actress, Comedian
Date of Birth: December 30, 1959
Place of Birth: Slough, Berkshire, England
Sign: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Capricorn
Relations: Husband: Allan McKeown (British TV producer) Read the rest of this entry »
Bill Murray
I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
— Bill Murray
THE idea that Bill Murray could have ended up as somebody’s doctor is too terrifying to contemplate. Luckily, he was put on probation, and he subsequently dropped out of college (and pre-med studies) after being busted for pot possession at O’Hare Airport. Read the rest of this entry »
Lily Tomlin
Mary Jean “Lily” Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She has won multiple awards from many quarters, including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award and has also been nominated for an Academy Award.
Early life
Tomlin was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects, [...]
Joe E. Brown
Joseph Evans Brown (28 July 1892 – 6 July 1973) was an American actor and comedian. In 1902 at the age of 10, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five Marvellous Astons which toured the country on both the circus and vaudeville circuits. He gradually added comedy into his act and [...]
Bert Lahr
Bert Lahr (August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967) was a Tony Award-winning American actor and comedian. Lahr is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion and the farmworker Zeke in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but was well known during his life for work in burlesque, vaudeville, and [...]
Diane Keaton
If my film makes one more person miserable, I’ll feel I’ve done my job.
— Woody Allen
A PALE, bespectacled, 120-pound neurotic, Woody Allen polished his misfit persona in Greenwich Village cafes before recording three hit comedy albums in the sixties. In his early twenties, he was already joking about his divorce from Harlene Rosen (they had [...]
A Dopey Comedy
One walks out of Half-Baked with a disappointing sense of not having derived a cheap contact high from this flagrant dope comedy (so flagrant that even Tommy Chong gives it his blessing with a small role). But the good news is that as your basic idiot’s delight, the film is not entirely unwatchable.
Eddie Murphy
I think in 20 years I’ll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.
— Eddie Murphy
IN an article published in Vibe magazine in 1994, director John Landis opined that Eddie Murphy is “a bona fide movie star.” By “bona fide,” Landis was referring to the old-style stars [...]
Moore’s Law
Miramax
Director–Michael Moore
Starring Garrison Keillor, Michael Moore
Documentary 96 min
Between Michael Moore’s first documentary, Roger & Me, and his latest, The Big One, a few things happened that established his reputation as an icon of working-class ire and clown prince of satire. Among them was “TV Nation,”
Brett Butler
I was married to a subliterate, terra-cotta-toothed imbecile with violent tendencies.
— Brett Butler
IT’S no secret that the life of Grace Kelly, the character played by Brett Butler on the enormously popular sitcom Grace Under Fire closely parallels Butler’s own life. Both Grace and Brett survived abusive marriages, and both
