Bullets Over Broadway News

Fiddler on the Roof opens Dec 8 and runs to Jan 10. Tue-Sat 7:30pm; Wed, Sat, Sun 1:30pm. $30-$225. The Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria.

" When it comes to this annual celluloid event, it's clear that the times they are a-changin' - " and that was more evident on Saturday than on the fest's previous two days.

With the release of 2012 today, one can't help but reflect upon the career of John Cusack and ask herself one simple question: why do I keep forgiving him these ills? I think it can be argued that we love John Cusack most transcendentally for his performances in the boutique sub-genre of socially-awkward romantic comedies.

How laid back can an actor be? Consider what John Cusack endures in the upcoming movie 2012.

Disappointing news for those wishing to see Chaim Topol perform the role he made famous in the film version of Fiddler On The Roof , as the performer notified producers of his upcoming Mirvish run in Toronto - " a stop in his North American part of his "Farewell Tour" - that he would have to withdraw from the role due to injury.

As foretold by the Mayans, Roland Emmerich's apocalypse-thriller 2012 arrives in theaters this Friday featuring John Cusack, an actor not typically known for sharing the screen with tidal waves and explosions.

Chazz Palminteri describes his 'Bronx Tale' as relevant, entertaining family story, not a gangster story MIKE WEATHERFORD MORE COLUMNS Preview "A Bronx Tale" 8 p.m. Wednesday through Oct.

Check out this story with accompanying photos at VegasDeLuxe.com . Ever since he began acting, Chazz Palminteri dreamed of playing Broadway and performing in Las Vegas.

The grand jury transcripts of the sex abuse case paint a far more damaging picture of the events that allegedly unfolded between the director and a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson's home in 1977.

Chazz Palminteri will write and co-produce indie drama "Wall Street Mafia" for Fiore Films, with lensing to start in New York in February.

Known for her bubbly onscreen persona, distinctively breathless baby-ish voice and eye-popping curves, actress Jennifer Tilly has made a career playing airheads with high-pitched voices and hearts of gold.

Tony winner Mary-Louise Parker will appear in conversation with musician Ryan Adams about his second book of poetry and fiction, HelloSunshine on Friday, September 25 at the New York Public Library.

Gee, this wig weighs a ton! What dope'd wear a thing like this? Rosco: Everybody used to wear them, Lina.

Although never "connected", actor Tony Sirico had his share of run-ins with the law before packing the pistol away to play hoodlums in the movies.

Woody Allen needs no introduction. Love him or hate him, he's been making movies since 1966 and has been a major factor in our cultural consciousness.

Woody Allen says he's not opposed to Broadway stage musical adaptations of his films, but insists he has no interest in writing or even seeing them.

Woody Allen has been gradually been moving out of the center ring of his own movies, with his last real starring role having been in 2002's "Hollywood Ending." Long before that, however, various actors have been seen as playing the Woody Role, although the director doesn't necessarily agree with that take.

On the eve of the release of Whatever Works , the 40th movie Woody Allen has directed, I thought it would be fun to rank every single one of his films in order of quality, from the sublime to the wretched.

This match made in Manhattan is such an obvious fit you wonder why Woody Allen didn't think of it sooner People like to kvetch: why doesn't Woody Allen make movies like he used to? Whatever happened to the zany intellectual who made us all feel like New Yorkers, as he mocked bourgeois pretension and his own neuroses in the same exasperated breath? ...

The new Woody Allen film, Whatever Works - his 40th for those keeping count - signals a return for the filmmaker in more ways than one.