The Big Easy News

Kelly McGillis appeared briefly as a character in Family Guy's "Hannah Banana" episode S08E05 .

Hugh Jackman plays a cop in his new play, A Steady Rain , so at last night's premiere run, Ellen Barkin reminisced on her training for The Big Easy .

Dennis Quaid, the star of th sci-fi thriller Pandorum, has been a film, stage and TV actor since he was a teenager, fronts a respected rock band, writes music for the movies, has directed two films, been on Broadway and won Emmys.

Photograph by: Pandorum, Alliance Atlantis The once cantankerous Dennis Quaid likes to have fun these days.

McBride received widespread acclaim for his superb debut feature, "David Holzman's Diary" , which was shot on a budget of only $2,500 and influenced both by the cinema verite movement and the French New Wave..... McBride received widespread acclaim for his superb debut feature, "David Holzman's Diary" , which was shot on a budget of only $2,500 and ...

Actress Sandra Bullock and her husband, Jesse James , have bought an ornate, 6,615-square-foot historic home in the New Orleans Garden District for $2.25 million.

Hailing from a big state known for its bigger-than-life characters, Texan Dennis Quaid was a common sight in dramatic sports films, and certainly no stranger in the role of "roguish charmer" and "Western renegade." His.... Hailing from a big state known for its bigger-than-life characters, Texan Dennis Quaid was a common sight in dramatic sports ...

A chubby, sympathetic character player , Ned Beatty had performed in more than seventy plays when John Boorman spotted him on Broadway in "The Great White Hope" and signed him for.... A chubby, sympathetic character player , Ned Beatty had performed in more than seventy plays when John Boorman spotted him on Broadway in "The Great White Hope" and ...

Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin in 'The Big Easy.' After reading my Hollywood South movie locations tour in Saturday's Living section, actor Jim Chimento -- who played the dead body found in the Piazza d'Italia at the beginning of the locally shot 1987 neo-noir drama "The Big Easy" -- e-mailed me, recalling his time on the movie.

Actor Dennis Quaid's twins are to be given $500,000 by a US hospital that gave them an accidental drugs overdose, legal papers show.

An endearing film, television and stage actor, John Goodman skyrocketed to leading man status on the strength of his meat-and-potatoes, regular-guy affability and easygoing charm.

A tough, no-nonsense blonde of the Barbara Stanwyck school of acting, actress Ellen Barkin made her belated acting debut at the age of 26 in a 1980 New York stage production of "Irish Coffee;" later appearing in the original off-Broadway presentation of "Extremities." She learned the ropes as a cast member of the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" ...