http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/A Michigan Entertainment blog by Bill Iddings.enSun, 08 Nov 2009 20:51:46 PSTMovable 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/bGzRzpMKsls/unhappy_anniversaries.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleSun, 08 Nov 2009 20:51:46 PSTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3916685 ]]>This approaching Friday the 13th is as good of a time as any to consider anniversaries we’d rather not.Seventy years ago, on Oct. 29, the American stock market crashed. AP Photo/Marty LederhandlerThe twin towers of the World Trade Center burn...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/11/unhappy_anniversaries.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/MC1mP8xv2i4/theater_plastered_with_holiday.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleTue, 10 Nov 2009 18:52:31 PSTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3894425 ]]>Contributed photo"It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play" originated a few years ago in Stamford, Conn., featuring these three guys. Muskegon Community College is readying a production at Overbrook Theater.‘Tis the theater season to be jolly.All three of the...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/11/theater_plastered_with_holiday.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/6M0zIJj7suw/worlds_apart_big_fan_and_the_s.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleWed, 04 Nov 2009 15:19:14 PSTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3878587 ]]>Patton Oswalt (left) and Kevin Corrigan root in the futility of being a “Big Fan.”Fashion is fashion and football is football and never the twain shall meet.Unless, that is, you count Muskegon, where two movies whose subjects share little in...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/11/worlds_apart_big_fan_and_the_s.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/MUN94A1_su0/you_have_to_really_eavesdrop_w.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleSat, 31 Oct 2009 08:41:31 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3853422 ]]>Take it from Jack Ketchum: “You have to really eavesdrop well.” The day before this Halloween, Ketchum, the horror novelist whose real name is Dallas Mayr, told this to about 130 people piled into a lecture hall in the Stevenson...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/10/you_have_to_really_eavesdrop_w.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/p2WhPEOjeVo/memory_doesnt_need_to_serve_so.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleSun, 25 Oct 2009 16:48:39 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3821384 ]]>Contributed photoAuditions for Muskegon Community College’s production of “Mr. Christmas, Mr. Bailey,” a live radio play based on the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life,” will be 6 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, at MCC’s Overbrook Theater.The fear of being stricken with...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/10/memory_doesnt_need_to_serve_so.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/Hh7250Xuqdw/post_2.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleSat, 24 Oct 2009 14:34:38 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3815703 ]]>Britta Cleveland is keeping me up nights. Not like you think. Actually, Blanche Bickerson is hounding her husband, John, into the wee hours of the morning. Hassling the haggard guy about this, that and the other thing, Instead of bright-eyed...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/10/post_2.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/26j9VeLuCho/meeting_keats_oh_that_ode_thin.htmlExtra IddingsBill Iddings | The Muskegon ChronicleThu, 22 Oct 2009 08:11:50 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3803135 ]]>Some people suspect that “Howards End” is gay porn.Such morons know right where they can stick movie director Jane Campion’s latest foray into period piece.The chaste is on in “Bright Star,” Campion’s touching drama about John Keats, the romance poet...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/10/meeting_keats_oh_that_ode_thin.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/QhdZmw7ojuM/the_little_girl_who_met_great.htmlExtra IddingsBill IddingsMon, 19 Oct 2009 20:33:44 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3788790 ]]>The pumpkins were bigger than her head.She could barely lift one. Using both hands, she got a handle on its stem.She gritted her teeth like Olympians outweighed by barbells they strain to jerk overhead.She finally got it off the grass.Hundreds...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/10/the_little_girl_who_met_great.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/7DwQnc_jzC0/a_contradiction_in_terms_polit.htmlExtra IddingsBill IddingsTue, 13 Oct 2009 22:53:17 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3764753 ]]>Mimi Kennedy tangles with James Gandolfini in "In the Loop," a political satire from director Armando Iannucci. The movie surmises how the United States and Great Britain plunged into our present war in the Middle East. New vistas of rude...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/10/a_contradiction_in_terms_polit.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/dZMpdhnDlWo/dont_pay_attention_to_damn_cri.htmlExtra IddingsBill IddingsTue, 13 Oct 2009 07:20:04 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3761417 ]]>Released this week straight to home video, Michigan filmmaker Richard Brauer’s “Mr. Art Critic” is the best advertisement for Mackinac Island since the 1980 romance “Somewhere in Time” planted the late Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer in northern...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/10/dont_pay_attention_to_damn_cri.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/ZOS4OV1PKIk/believe_it_or_dont.htmlExtra IddingsBill IddingsThu, 08 Oct 2009 19:09:56 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3742375 ]]>Contributed photo"Summer Hours” a French film starring Juliette Binoche.You can’t always believe what you read, no matter where it’s published.Therefore considerable confusion is running rampant about when a Muskegon art-movie house this weekend will show what it’s calling the “IFC...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/10/believe_it_or_dont.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/n3jgLdi8gvw/a_close_encounter_with_zakes_m.htmlBill IddingsMon, 05 Oct 2009 09:56:15 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3726443 ]]>Zakes MokaeShe used to live in Muskegon, and now lives in Africa. From the far side of the lobby of Steppenwolf Theatre in her hometown, Chicago, the former Muskegon Chronicle reporter knew she knew his face from somewhere. She couldn’t remember where. Maybe...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/10/a_close_encounter_with_zakes_m.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/o1R2S3QvBgc/who_is_that_guy_damfweknow.htmlExtra IddingsBill IddingsThu, 01 Oct 2009 13:04:18 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3707881 ]]>Contributed photoBuster Keaton (left) used to hang at the Elks Lodge in Muskegon. Anybody know who's with him here? One more time: Who’s the guy sitting next to Buster Keaton (left) in this old Muskegon photograph? Extra Iddings isn’t telling...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/10/who_is_that_guy_damfweknow.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/h8WL8oKblu8/a_place_that_made_the_great_st.htmlExtra IddingsBill IddingsThu, 01 Oct 2009 13:04:22 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3699063 ]]>Buster Keaton, "The Great Stone Face."Until one summer morning in 2001, Peter Scolari couldn’t find “Go West” anywhere. A Muskegon journalist just happened to have a copy of the 1925 Buster Keaton comedy, having purchased a videotape copy at the...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/09/a_place_that_made_the_great_st.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/AFSGHP30c9o/tv_or_not_tv_thats_a_question.htmlExtra IddingsMLive.com - Home Page - EntertainmentBill IddingsSun, 27 Sep 2009 22:10:39 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3694101 ]]>Dudes, you think Dominick Graham-Hyde should make your favorite local priest movie star? Me either, Dudeists, but where’s the harm in giving him a shot? If that doesn’t work, I might just have to move from West Michigan to Europe....http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/09/tv_or_not_tv_thats_a_question.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/AhchmPzfQEw/tony_manero_barely_staying_ali.htmlExtra IddingsBill IddingsThu, 01 Oct 2009 13:06:50 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3647907 ]]>Alfredo Castro stars in "Tony Manero," a film from Chile about a sociopath who dreams of becoming a celebrity. The disturbing, violent Chilean film "Tony Manero" exposes the dark underbelly of obsession festering into delusion. MOVIE TRAILER "Tony Manero" trailer...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/09/tony_manero_barely_staying_ali.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/kRztKEnIxKg/around_the_world_from_manhatta.htmlExtra IddingsBill IddingsThu, 01 Oct 2009 13:06:57 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3631853 ]]>www.msfilmfest.comIn the short flim "Boundary," the U.S. entry to the Manhattan Short Film Festival, directdor Julius Onah directs Alexander Siddig in a story about homeland security. RELATED CONTENT Check out trailers of some of the short films after the break....http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/09/around_the_world_from_manhatta.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/02lQR-EoirU/the_pledge_for_seeing_sorority.htmlExtra IddingsMLive - MoviesMLive.com - Home Page - EntertainmentBill IddingsThu, 01 Oct 2009 13:07:04 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3613400 ]]>From left, Briana Evigan (Greg's daughter), Rumer Willis (Bruce and Demi's) Leah Pipes and Jamie Chung scheme and scream through "Sorority Ro If all the snob sisters lining "Sorority Row" were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/09/the_pledge_for_seeing_sorority.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/zxFDFnxrBRw/back_on_the_boards_with_bergma.htmlExtra IddingsBill IddingsThu, 01 Oct 2009 13:07:11 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3584522 ]]> Three accomplished guys are going to open West Michigan's new theater season. This month and next, Andrew Bergman, Ken Ludwig and Stephen Sondheim will be represented on stages in Muskegon and Grand Haven. Two comedies and a musical will...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/09/back_on_the_boards_with_bergma.htmlhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/extra_iddings/~3/x3AE8WS2qMQ/where_did_south_haven_go.htmlExtra IddingsBill IddingsThu, 01 Oct 2009 13:07:16 PDTtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/extra_iddings//957.3582132 ]]>Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana star in "The Time Traveler's Wife." Movie adaptations of novels don't come much more disappointing than "The Time Traveler's Wife." Chicago author Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 bestseller is site specific. Her book's nooks are mostly in...http://blog.mlive.com/extra_iddings/2009/09/where_did_south_haven_go.htmlnonadult