Alan Arkin News

"Carny": Webster University Film Series presents this documentary following five carnival workers through a season of the fair circuit.

Directed By: Peter Segal Written By: Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember; Based on the TV series and characters created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry Runtime: 110 min.

Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 try and thwart the global takeover threats from KAOS.

For anyone familiar with the older credits of co-stars Alan Arkin and Terence Stamp, it's their performances that provide the true joy of Get Smart .

Dressed to kill: Agent 99 and Maxwell Smart suit up for the fight against KAOS. Warner Bros.

Photos courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Terry Crews, left, is CONTROL Agent 91 and Dwayne Johnson plays the apparently indestructible Agent 23 in "Get Smart," based on a long-running '60s TV series.

Two big star-driven studio comedies invade North American multiplexes on Friday giving audiences even more choices during what has been a scorching hot June box office.

IN PLAYING the Chief, head of the super-secret spy agency CONTROL in the new movie version of the classic spoof TV show "Get Smart," Alan Arkin naturally endures his share of exasperation with the ...

By that, they mean to remain faithful to the show's satirical tone while grounding the action, suspense and peril in reality.

The TV remakes are coming! The TV remakes are coming! Every summer in the past decade, it seems, we've been reintroduced to at least one classic television series that has been reinvented for the big screen.

'It's been 42 years since Alan Arkin first took a lead role in a film, but he admits, in an L.A. hotel room, that he is still not completely sure if he will work again.

Alan Arkin, left, is the Chief of CONTROL and Steve Carell is Maxwell Smart, but one of these men had out-of-control giggling on-set. Would you believe the movie makeover of television's Get Smart could be ...

When: Previews at 8 tonight; opens at 8 p.m. Saturday and continues at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through July 12; with 2 p.m. matinees June 15 and 22 and July 6. Where: Long Beach Playhouse Studio Theatre, ...

“I guess I just changed too late.”

Inspecting the cast of characters, the reader might wonder, too, if the book had been adapted into some long-forgotten film comedy, directed by someone on the order of Gene Saks or Herbert Ross during the era ... via Chicago Tribune

“It's like putting on a funny face and going out in front of people and going, 'yaaaaaa.'”

John Phillip Law, the strikingly handsome 1960s movie actor who portrayed an angel in the futuristic 'Barbarella' and a lovesick Russian seaman in 'The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,' has died. He was 70.

Law died Tuesday at his Los Angeles home, said his daughter Dawn Law. The cause of death was not announced.

With his vivid eyes, blond hair and imposing physique, Law was much in demand by filmmakers in the late 1960s and early '70s.

He gained wide notice in 1966 with Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner and Theo Bikel in 'The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,' Norman Jewison's Cold War comedy in which a Soviet submarine runs aground off a peaceful New England island town. Read more

“She's pretty sassy with Susy at first”

Nolan, familiar to regular LCT patrons as the hairdresser in the 2006 presentation of "Steel Magnolias," portrays recently married Susy Hendrix, a young woman blinded in an auto accident. via The Lebanon Daily News

“She has very natural instincts about how to be real and just doesn't stress out about it at all.”

Abigail Breslin is at the airport waiting to fly to Las Vegas to collect the Female Star of Tomorrow award at a convention of movie theater exhibitors. via SFGate

“What does not kill me makes me stronger”

Here's what happened: Hillary R. Clinton pulled an Al Gore the other day and allowed as to how something had happened to her in Bosnia which, in fact, had not. via Hugh Hewitt

“There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.”

Today is Wednesday, March 26, the 86th day of 2008 with 280 to follow. The moon is waxing. via Daily India

“A Boy Called Hate", which marked the film acting debut of his son Scott in the title role, and subsequently appeared as a gangster in "Bottle Rocket”

After some stage experience, James Caan began his film career with an uncredited bit part in "Irma La Douce" . Tall and curly-haired, with a ruddy complexion, Caan gained prominence in the early 1970s with two ... via Hollywood.com