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TheatreWorks' 8th Annual New Works Festival presents the incomparable Broadway and pop star Maureen McGovern in A Long and Winding Road: The Concert.

Oy. Just like Lloyd Bridges picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue in "Airplane!", looks like I picked the wrong day to spend eight hours behind the wheel of a car .

I've written a lot about science and scientists in movies. I have long hoped that real science would find its place in Hollywood, with TV shows and movies doing more to promote actual science and try to get it right.

Readers in the DC area will definitely want to check out the upcoming event on June 23 at the National Academies.

He's 55. of Julie Hagerty. Airplane's flight attendant is 54. of Wade Boggs, 51.

A quirky, offbeat performer, the tall, wispy Hagerty scored a hit with her first feature film, "Airplane!" , in which she was Robert Hays' leading lady, and was also memorable as the yuppie dropout with Albert.... A quirky, offbeat performer, the tall, wispy Hagerty scored a hit with her first feature film, "Airplane!" , in which she was Robert ...

With his keen eye for pop culture and irreverent humor, Eric Yahnker 's current exhibition of highly-detailed pencil drawings and conceptual sculptures at Ambach & Rice Gallery taps into a zeitgeist also seen in the work of contemporaries like Mathew Cerletty and Karl Haendel .

Ghost: An unlikely, though ultimately impressive, attempt to make a supernatural romantic drama in the vein of 1947's The Ghost And Mrs.

Screenwriters Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, and David Zucker devised what felt like a new generation of zany spoofs with their 1980 hit film Airplane !, shamelessly elevating corny humor to new heights.

What I'm about to write isn't a recommendation of the new parody film "Dance Flick," but more of a gentle warning that what the Wayans Brothers are serving up here isn't nearly as wrist-slittingly disgraceful as expected.

Essence Atkins, left, and Shawn Wayans star in "Dance Flick." I don't know where to begin.

By now, you've probably seen the ads featuring Mike Tyson in the upcoming movie "The Hangover." The comedic possibilities of Tyson jamming to Phil Collins' "In The Air Tonight" are endless, so here's hoping the rest of the movie comes through.

The late novelist Kurt Vonnegut was a Bush-hating leftist, but he once wrote a short story, "Harrison Bergeron," that was so conservative that NRODT reprinted it in the 1960s.

Welcome to the Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays, historical observances, etc., we couldn't cram into The Week in Preview.

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The Conclave has added noted screenwriter and humorist Pat Proft to the 2009 Learning Conference agenda, July 16-18 in Minneapolis.

On this day in 1989, Kareem left the court as the G.O.A.T. A His dominance in college basketball was just as towering, as the New York born Lewis Alcindor Jr.

Cop-film spoof from the Airplane team: a high-speed mix of the stupid and the clever -- into something either cleverly stupid or stupidly clever.

News flash: Leslie Nielsen came to Center Valley on Friday and no one got hurt. Translation: The actor famous for playing hilariously dangerous characters -- a disaster-prone detective, a fumbling exorcist, a batty vampire -- performed painlessly during a Q&A at DeSales University 's annual student film festival.

At age 83, Leslie Nielsen moves a little slower than he did in his films, but his sense of comedic timing hasn't lagged one bit.