Nia Vardalos News

Stagnant stand-up. Vardalos bombs in her follow-up to My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Nia Vardalos, who became an overnight sensation with 2002's massive hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is in danger of becoming a flash in the pan of legendary proportions.

ACTRESS Nia Vardalos is a shadow of the woman she was - seven years after making her name as the plump star of smash-hit comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Nia Vardalos, the woman behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding , is wrapping up an interview with a columnist at the Carlu in downtown Toronto.

Falling into it Stage veteran Estelle Parsons on August: Osage County and her "disgusting" career IphA©genie en Tauride Opera Atelier has taken a brave step in remounting its controversial production of Gluck's IphigA©nie en Tauride .

Late last week the fashion and beauty magazine industry in Canada was celebrated at the first annual P&G Beauty Awards.

When a friend passed along this trailer for "Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!" , I assumed, as we all would, that this was going to be some sort of over the top, super super G, insensitive, Nia Vardalos -like piece-of-shtick movie puke that would stink my entire office up with the scent of palpable corpse rot.

The following motion pictures are now available on home video: "Imagine That" - A formerly successful businessman watches as his own stock plummets, but his salvation may be found in his daughter's imagination in this fantasy-fueled comedy.

Video Event of the Week: Could Image's DVD of Adam Resurrected , the Paul Schrader -directed death camp survivor tale starring Jeff Goldblum , possibly qualify? Might Anvil! The Story of Anvil , the fabulous music documentary about the real-life Spinal Tap from VHI1 Films conceivably make the grade? Or to my absolute and utter shock, could Fox's My ...

Tour guide Georgia realizes the bus driver on her tour has Greek god tendencies in "My Life in Ruins," released on DVD Tuesday.

Nia Vardalos, who hit pay dirt by adapting her one-woman play, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, to the screen in 2002, is in the middle of a big fat career slump.

Nia Vardalos and Alexis Georgoulis star in 'My Life in Ruins, ' which is being released to DVD and Blu-ray disc on Oct.

Run a Quick Search on "My Life in Ruins" starring Nia Vardalos to Browse Related Products: DVD Features: Region [unknown] MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING's Nia Vardalos stars in this comedy as a tour guide in Greece who is forced to quit her job by a smarmy coworker.

New movies available today on DVD: “My Life in Ruins” In fashioning a comeback for Nia Vardalos, writer Mike Reiss has cribbed much from her “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” playbook.

Miss any of Ken Burns' acclaimed documentary mini-series THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA on PBS last week? It's on DVD now.

Reviewed by: Scott Chitwood Movie Rating: 5 out of 10 Extras Rating: 6 out of 10 Movie Details: View here Buy this DVD at Amazon.com Rating: PG-13 Starring: Nia Vardalos as Georgia Richard Dreyfuss as Irv Alexis Georgoulis as Poupi Kakas Alistair McGowan as Nico Harland Williams as Big Al Rachel Dratch as Kim Caroline Goodall as Dr.

This week's new releases, available Tuesday, are rated by Jay Bobbin of Zap2it on a scale of one to four, with H equivalent to a poor rating and *** meaning excellent.

IT'S been seven years since Nia Vardalos had the massive hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding .

MY LIFE IN RUINS PLOT In fashioning a comeback for Nia Vardalos , writer Mike Reiss has cribbed much from her "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" playbook.

My Life In Ruins ** Oct 2 2009 SHE'S fast becoming the Chesney Hawkes of immediately forgettable romantic comedies as My Big Fat Greek Wedding looks set to remain Nia Vardalos's one and only big fat hit.

In the interim, she wrote and starred in the ill-fated, spin-off television series My Big Fat Greek Life and the hit-and-miss drag queen comedy Connie and Carla, co-starring Toni Collette.