http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/A Michigan Entertainment blog by Bill Iddings.enFri, 17 Jul 2009 14:18:47 PDTMovable Type Enterprise 1.52 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/noA Michigan Entertainment blog by Bill Iddings.extra_iddingshttp://feedburner.google.comhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/k1wNoXvZKHI/uneasy_rider.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleFri, 17 Jul 2009 14:18:47 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3261514 ]]>Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson in 1969's classic "Easy Rider." On it's 40th anniversary, it won't be showing during the annual Bike Time festival. You'd think that the 2009 Muskegon Bike Time festival would be a natural --...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/07/uneasy_rider.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/f1TB8JEpYOA/shooting_star_hayleys_comet_st.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleTue, 14 Jul 2009 16:40:56 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3236502 ]]>Courtesy Howmet Playhouse Summer Theatre FestivalHayley Clark and Jeremy Meier got their kicks in the "Universal Language" playlet in "All in the Timing." A Broadway play that closes after three performances would be considered a flop on the infamous scale...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/07/shooting_star_hayleys_comet_st.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/ISrrN6mfI6E/an_elderly_man_gets_caught_wit.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleFri, 10 Jul 2009 20:46:11 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3210228 ]]>So it's come to this. This Monday, July 13, the Summer Theatre Festival at Howmet Playhouse in Whitehall will begin rehearsals for "The Underpants," a comedy scheduled to run July 23-25....http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/07/an_elderly_man_gets_caught_wit.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/Y3zDmF34Gzw/keeping_up_with_jeff_sanders.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleThu, 09 Jul 2009 12:40:51 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3198584 ]]>Jeff Sanders The wonder is that Jeff Sanders isn't fried flat-on-his-face frazzled. Beyond being artistic director of the Howmet Summer Theatre Festival, the 31-year-old Sterling Heights native also is directing the 2009 season's first three productions: "All in the Timing,"...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/07/keeping_up_with_jeff_sanders.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/PE7jPkqitNs/two_new_movies_are_killers_ano.htmlExtra IddingsMLive - MoviesMLive.com - Home Page - EntertainmentBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleSun, 05 Jul 2009 16:43:17 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3168412 ]]>Johnny Depp is John Dillinger in director Michael Mann's "Public Enemies." Michael Keaton is a tailor who sews up loose ends. Johnny Depp smirks that you should see a good movie 'cause it might be your last. And this summer's...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/07/two_new_movies_are_killers_ano.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/TB2tzr2ouRQ/what_the_s_going_on_at_howmet.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleSat, 04 Jul 2009 07:42:29 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3161970 ]]>Jeremy MeierKim Harsch WHITEHALL — If its 2009 opener is any indication, the annual Summer Theatre Festival at Howmet Playhouse here has matured enough to perform plays as they are written. The historic venue for many summer-stock seasons has toned...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/07/what_the_s_going_on_at_howmet.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/XtLfCsXUOq4/easy_virtue_is_no_walk_in_the.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleFri, 03 Jul 2009 09:09:21 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3156937 ]]> "EASY VIRTUE" Official trailer after the break. Upper lips don't come much stiffer than the ones being kept in "Easy Virtue," the veddy British comedy of class in which blonde-bobbed Jessica Biel turns into Kristin Scott Thomas, and director...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/07/easy_virtue_is_no_walk_in_the.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/bpfETcWcaTY/cool_reception_for_hot_times.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleThu, 02 Jul 2009 10:56:28 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3149935 ]]>Contributed photoMuskegon native Emily Wheeler, now a resident of Charlotte, N.C., returns home each year for Muskegon Summer Celebration. Were she still down South where God must be a Tar Heel 'cause the sky is Carolina blue, Emily Wheeler would...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/07/cool_reception_for_hot_times.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/OijFSQLcTc4/location_location_location.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleTue, 30 Jun 2009 11:30:48 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3133090 ]]>Chronicle/Kendra Stanley-MillsFriends Molly Duffy, 19, of Norman, Okla., Kaitlyn Rabach, 15, of Muskegon and Andrea Partenio, 15, of Muskegon, left to right, cheer for Jason Aldean as he performs at 2009 Summer Celebration last Monday night. Duffy has become a...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/06/location_location_location.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/ucN9P9zJeZc/bring_it_on_home_to_where.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleMon, 29 Jun 2009 07:59:05 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3123616 ]]>Contributed photoThe blogger, right, was up a tree in 1993's "On Borrowed Time," with Gene Logan, left, and F. Remington Sprague. Journalists sometimes think of the newsroom as a second home. But only to a point. That point was passed...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/06/bring_it_on_home_to_where.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/DdY2AQy8Sq8/some_dreams_come_out_in_the_ca.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleMon, 29 Jun 2009 07:44:13 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3123538 ]]>Contributed photoFrom left, Amanda Carroll, Jessica Barnard and Lauren Spring washed cars Sunday afternoon in the parking lot of a local pharmacy. This hot-babe car wash scene was not out of "Cool Hand Luke." In the 1967 movie starring Paul...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/06/some_dreams_come_out_in_the_ca.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/etkkHDqdqw4/jeremy_meier_a_man_for_almost.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleWed, 24 Jun 2009 22:41:08 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3094225 ]]>Contributed photoCompleteworks: Jeremy Meier (as Romeo or Hamlet or someone) kneeling over Brandon Zale (as Juliet or Ophelia or someone) in "The Compleat Works of Wm. Shakespeare (abridged)" at Howmet Playhouse. As ruts go, Jeremy Meier's found himself in a...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/06/jeremy_meier_a_man_for_almost.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/NYxVEEYO2eA/anvil_doc_brings_down_hammer_o.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleSat, 27 Jun 2009 19:46:00 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3092184 ]]>Courtesy/Brent J. CraigAnvil: The story of Anvil is a rock 'n' roll documentary opening at the Harbor Theater. Michael Moore called it, "The best documentary I've seen in years!" News flash! Anvil will play during Muskegon Summer Celebration. Newsier flash!!...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/06/anvil_doc_brings_down_hammer_o.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/vKDVtfa_MkI/whatever_happened_at_port_city.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleMon, 22 Jun 2009 08:19:20 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3068338 ]]>Contributed photoThe old Port City Playhouse building today. The building is the scene shop of the current Muskegon Civic Theatre. Despite what you virtually cannot read, Port City Playhouse existed. Muskegon Civic Theater — not the MCT people know today...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/06/whatever_happened_at_port_city.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/FGVCgJKQ3dk/miss_up_from_the_bottoms_again.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleThu, 18 Jun 2009 07:32:27 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3039987 ]]> Missing "Up from the Bottoms" once might have been understandable. Missing the documentary movie about the World War II migration of African-Americans to Muskegon from the American South twice was careless. Again missing this gripping chronicle of a heretofore...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/06/miss_up_from_the_bottoms_again.htmlnonadult