http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/A Michigan Entertainment blog by Bill Iddings.enMovable Type Enterprise 4.29-advance http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/noA Michigan Entertainment blog by Bill Iddings.extra_iddingshttp://feedburner.google.comhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/uYdu_A7hJ0E/a_family_film_for_fathers_day.html554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleThu, 14 Jun 2012 07:48:51 PDTtag:www.mlive.com,2012:/news/muskegon/index.ssf//4582.8507319 ]]>I will celebrate this Father's Day by taking a movie star to our movie.http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/06/a_family_film_for_fathers_day.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/0SGlPp0S9Jw/extra_iddings_a_phone_call_fro.html554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleFri, 08 Jun 2012 09:01:53 PDTtag:www.mlive.com,2012:/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf//4627.8472580 ]]>Ray Bradbury called me. Twice.The summer -- I forget exactly which year -- was in the late 1980s. Many months before I had written Bradbury a letter, requesting his permission for me to adapt one of his novellas, "The Halloween Tree," into a radio play.http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/06/extra_iddings_a_phone_call_fro.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/j7bnMXOl8vE/post_15.html554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleTue, 05 Jun 2012 16:07:49 PDTtag:www.mlive.com,2012:/living/muskegon/index.ssf//4628.8459251 ]]>Before the 2012-2013 theater season introduces West Michigan to a new playwright -- but not really -- warm-weather offerings stocked mainly with local talent will bridge the gap leading into this fall.http://www.mlive.com/living/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/06/post_15.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/DzHnOHfTPy8/people_and_places_we_know_are.html554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleMon, 14 May 2012 21:02:02 PDTtag:www.mlive.com,2012:/news/muskegon/index.ssf//4582.8316749 ]]>“WaterWalk,” a new film largely shot and completely financed in West Michigan, had just concluded a May 7 screening in the Grand Haven 9 movie complex. A former colleague of mine at the Muskegon Chronicle came up to me and said, “You’re the best one in your scene.”http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/05/people_and_places_we_know_are.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/7wtK4_4RcAA/extra_iddings_the_coopersville.html554927947057Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleTue, 01 May 2012 10:32:39 PDTtag:www.mlive.com,2012:/news/muskegon/index.ssf//4582.8208899 ]]>Like the football term from which it takes its title, "Touchback" is harmless. It's a cuddly, feel-good diversion that will enjoy a long run on The Family Channel.http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/05/extra_iddings_the_coopersville.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/334Gv9ursi4/extra_iddings_when_again_shoul.html554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleTue, 01 May 2012 09:10:01 PDTtag:www.mlive.com,2012:/news/muskegon/index.ssf//4582.8208636 ]]>Having nothing -- outside Hitchockian musings winging around intermittent sightings of titular black birds -- to do with the Poe poem from which it takes its title, “The Raven” is a turkey.http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/05/extra_iddings_when_again_shoul.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/9hR5RE2eIig/extra_iddings_summer_stocks_up.html554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleFri, 20 Apr 2012 17:18:55 PDTtag:www.mlive.com,2012:/news/muskegon/index.ssf//4582.8144536 ]]>This season's four local stage productions will be the comedies "The Nerd," "The Odd Couple," "The 39 Steps" and a two-character musical comedy, "Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins." http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/04/extra_iddings_summer_stocks_up.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/O_o4myAmZhw/extra_iddings_on_friday_the_13.html554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleFri, 20 Apr 2012 17:06:58 PDTtag:www.mlive.com,2012:/news/muskegon/index.ssf//4582.8144516 ]]>Cast your eyes on a retro revitalization of a timeless slapstick comedy classic, one now with the inspired audacity to cast Larry David as a disciplinarian nun named for a Nazi war criminal; and a horror flick that's a lot smarter -- and funnier -- than its title makes it sound, a genre-bending movie in which a late cameo that shouldn't be divulged can be hinted at as alien.http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/04/extra_iddings_on_friday_the_13.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/GcX19zGyUZE/extra_iddings_an_audition_date.html554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleSun, 15 Apr 2012 21:31:34 PDTtag:www.mlive.com,2012:/news/muskegon/index.ssf//4582.8113871 ]]>Auditions will be held at 1 p.m. May 13 for the 2012 Summer Fine Arts Festival at Howmet Playhouse in Whitehall.http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/04/extra_iddings_an_audition_date.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/V82Fizi86vU/extra_iddings_shakespeares_new.html554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleSun, 15 Apr 2012 21:32:53 PDTtag:www.mlive.com,2012:/news/muskegon/index.ssf//4582.8113870 ]]>At 7:30 p.m. April 27, Pigeon Creek will perform its current touring show, “Romeo and Juliet,” at the Seven Steps Up building, 116 S. Jackson.http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/04/extra_iddings_shakespeares_new.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/JGJA--1VOkA/extra_iddings_the_show_must_go.html554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleFri, 03 Feb 2012 19:22:57 PSTtag:www.mlive.com,2012:/news/muskegon/index.ssf//4582.7677214 ]]>One of the most rock-solid rules in live theater is that "The show must go on" no matter what. Sometimes, however, the show can't. http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/02/extra_iddings_the_show_must_go.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/_-F6Vu_BIP8/extra_iddings_urinetown_and_th.html554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleWed, 25 Jan 2012 08:57:23 PSTtag:www.mlive.com,2012:/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf//4627.7624371 ]]>Makes you wonder if Muskegon Community College and the Muskegon Museum of Art have gotten their heads together.http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/01/extra_iddings_urinetown_and_th.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/NDy2nTrVjaE/extra_iddings_one_door_closes.html554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleTue, 17 Jan 2012 11:57:56 PSTtag:www.mlive.com,2012:/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf//4627.7583266 ]]>And so the Harbor Theater is gone. That's the way that one went.http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/01/extra_iddings_one_door_closes.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/srwsRt1HXwo/extra_iddings_not_by_the_numbe.html654586554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleTue, 27 Dec 2011 08:22:31 PSTtag:www.mlive.com,2011:/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf//4627.7481799.20111227112231 ]]>The media’s mania for compiling year-end lists — best, biggest, blah, blah — festers epidemic.http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf/2011/12/extra_iddings_not_by_the_numbe.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/fDe3oTMcNwY/extra_iddings_casting_into_the.html654586554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleMon, 19 Dec 2011 20:55:45 PSTtag:www.mlive.com,2011:/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf//4627.7454010.20111219235545 ]]>Three local theater concerns have cast their first shows of the new year.http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf/2011/12/extra_iddings_casting_into_the.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/ACbyvoTsA80/extra_iddings_the_resurrection.html654586554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleSat, 10 Dec 2011 16:40:42 PSTtag:www.mlive.com,2011:/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf//4627.7411451.20111210194042 ]]>The return to print of Libby Gelman-Waxner poses one the burning questions of our time: Who is Libby Gelman-Waxner?http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf/2011/12/extra_iddings_the_resurrection.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/iTlAl_6VGGk/extra_iddings_silents_are_gold.html654586554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleMon, 28 Nov 2011 14:25:24 PSTtag:www.mlive.com,2011:/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf//4627.7352327 ]]>Rich Houtteman already is mulling over the next silent movie he’ll book into Howmet Playhouse.http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf/2011/11/extra_iddings_silents_are_gold.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/Loia9jmHMgE/extra_iddings_the_mystery_of_t.html654586554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleTue, 01 Nov 2011 07:11:49 PDTtag:www.mlive.com,2011:/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf//4627.7216758 ]]>Glimpse did I a former jail, where that night a show’d unveil, one in which an actor pal’d, go gothic dark as Poe.http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf/2011/11/extra_iddings_the_mystery_of_t.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/lqn4W9jtuTM/human_centipede_2_--_what_a_re.html654586554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleTue, 25 Oct 2011 16:21:41 PDTtag:www.mlive.com,2011:/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf//4627.7179301 ]]>After mercifully screening just twice this past weekend at the Harbor Theater, the revolting horror film “The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)” has left Muskegon. Good riddance.http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf/2011/10/human_centipede_2_--_what_a_re.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/DPoUH2gexng/extra_iddings_sacked_by_the_wa.html654586554927Bill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleMon, 24 Oct 2011 10:25:57 PDTtag:www.mlive.com,2011:/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf//4627.7174876 ]]>On successive Saturdays this month, two Big Ten quarterbacks with unblemished 2011 records were sacked from the ranks of the unbeaten.http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf/2011/10/extra_iddings_sacked_by_the_wa.htmlnonadult