HollywoodandFine.com Unless they find new ways to recycle their personae, comic actors would seem to have a limited shelf life. It’s all about reinvention. Otherwise, you’re stuck doing the same dumb stuff over and over. (Exhibit A: Adam Sandler). Still, I have to hand it to Ben Stiller. While his …
HollywoodandFine.com The only way I can imagine having fun watching “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” is if I were drunk enough to be really funny myself, watching it with a group of friends on TV in the comfort of my living room – “Mystery Science Theater 3000”-style. Even then, it …
HollywoodandFine.com I’ll admit it. I have a critic’s crush on Kathryn Hahn. Jill Soloway’s witty, surprising “Afternoon Delight” only confirms it. I’ve been a Hahn fan for a number of years; I celebrated when she landed the lead (opposite Hank Azaria) of a sit-com called “Free Agents” (and mourned when …
HollywoodandFine.com Jennifer Westfeldt has slowly built herself a respectable filmography as a writer of smart, entertaining romantic-comedies, beginning with “Kissing Jessica Stein,” continuing through “Ira & Abby,” both of which she also starred in. She’s worked outside the studio system for the most part, because Westfeldt tends to go for …