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Martin Short replacing Nathan Lane in 'It's Only a Play'

By C. Molly Smith on Nov 6, 2014 at 6:43PM

Martin Short is returning to the stage, according to The New York Times.

Short will take the lead in the Broadway comedy It’s Only a Play beginning Jan. 7 2015, following Nathan Lane’s departure on Jan. 4. The Tony Award-winning actor last appeared on Broadway in 2006’s Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me.

The play’s run at the Schoenfeld Theater has also been extended through Jan. 18. It was originally scheduled to run through Jan. 4. It will then move to the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, beginning Jan. 23 with performances set through March 29, 2015.

'Time' goes behind the scenes of riveting 'Serial' podcast

By Teresa Jue on Nov 6, 2014 at 6:16PM

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“Serial” has taken over the podcast world with its riveting investigation into the mystery of how a then-17 year old Adnan Syed was convicted of the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. Time goes behind the scenes with “Serial” host and executive producer Sarah Koenig to see how the pieces do – and don’t – fall into place.

“There’s definitely something here that I don’t understand, and that the public never got to hear. Something is missing in this story. Something’s not quite right,” Koenig tells Time.

The first spin-off from the classic This American Life radio show, “Serial” takes a deep dive into the murder’s fallacies in the judicial process. Koenig tells Time about how errors and oversights made on behalf of Syed’s attorney may have been the deciding factor in his conviction.

Read Koenig’s entire interview with Time, and see what she thinks about expanding the podcast into a series.

Brett Favre was the third choice for his 'There's Something About Mary' cameo

By Jonathon Dornbush on Nov 6, 2014 at 6:03PM

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Though Brett Favre’s film career begins and ends with his cameo in There’s Something About Mary, he almost never even had that role.

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Tim & Eric shill Totino's Pizza Rolls in the weirdest way possible

By Teresa Jue on Nov 6, 2014 at 5:30PM

Professional weirdos Tim and Eric get real strange, real fast, in their new ad for Totino’s Pizza Rolls.

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The 'Interstellar' plot set to '2001: A Space Odyssey' actually makes sense

By Jonathon Dornbush on Nov 6, 2014 at 5:21PM

If someone has writen or spoken about Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, there’s a good chance a mention of Stanley Kubrick’s seminal 2001: A Space Odyssey is not far off. CutPrintFilm took the allusion one step further and mashed up the two films to show, unsurprisingly, that they have quite a bit in common.

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New Broadway production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' coming in 2015 with Danny Burstein

By Esther Zuckerman on Nov 6, 2014 at 4:33PM

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It’s been more than 10 years since a revival of Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway, so tradition (get it?) foretells that it’s time for another. READ FULL STORY

Monty Python reunion: And now for something completely insulting

By Clark Collis on Nov 6, 2014 at 3:15PM

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For this year’s annual reunions issue, Entertainment Weekly spoke with all five surviving members of Monty Python about their Eric Idle-directed shows last summer at London’s massive O2 arena, the legendary comedy team’s first live performances in more than three decades. In the hope of provoking some of the semi-friendly badinage for which they are famous, we also asked the quintet—Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, and Terry Jones—which other Python member irritated them most in the course of rehearsing and performing Monty Python Live (mostly) One Down Five To Go. You can read the troupe’s answers below.

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'The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask' is coming to Nintendo 3DS

By Joshua Rivera on Nov 6, 2014 at 3:14PM

When the Nintendo 3DS first launched in 2011, Nintendo re-released one of its most beloved games alongside it: 1998’s The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Naturally, this prompted questions about that game’s 2000 follow-up—The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Would that game be re-released as well?

Last night’s Nintendo Direct webcast kicked off with an answer: absolutely.

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Marvel reveals the 'Secret' behind all of those mysterious teasers

By Joshua Rivera on Nov 6, 2014 at 2:10PM

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If you’ve been following comic book news recently, you’re probably aware of the dozen or so teaser posters Marvel has been releasing one at a time over the past few weeks, with little to no contest. Today, the publisher released a video that reveals what they’ve been building to this whole time.

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