Peter Boyle News

It isn't often I get excited about current TV. But tonight, for the next several Mondays at 10 p.m., I'll be front and center for new TNT drama Men of a Certain Age, the tale of three men approaching the dreaded half-century mark.

Melodrama with Sylvester Stallone portraying the rise and fall of a Jimmy Hoffa-type union leader.

The casts of "Glee" and "Precious" are guests. King of Queens 5:00PM - 5:30PM Doug helps a sportswriter cheat on the driver's exam.

Ray Romano at 2008's International Myeloma Foundation event. Actress Alex Meneses at 2008's International Myeloma Foundation event.

Although few people may be familiar with myeloma, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in Hollywood who isn't familiar with the late actor Peter Boyle -- the larger-than-life actor who cut a comedic swath through popular culture that included the tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" and the sitcom curmudgeon Frank Barone on ' Everybody Loves ...

November 7, 2009 -- Jenna Elfman at 3rd Annual Comedy Celebration For The Peter Boyle Memorial Fund and Myeloma Foundation at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles Jenna Elfman's soon-to-be-born baby may never be the same, after hearing so many filthy jokes and f-bombs through the placental wall on Saturday night! The lewd and crude had a field ...

Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant. In general, I think it's good to air it, say what's on your mind, but in the specific, I want Phil to just, for the love of God, zip it already.

Why is there a poster of Bono in the Naperville Municipal Center? The image of U2's lead singer graces one of more than a dozen posters set up on easels in the lobby.

Super duuuperrr! Microsoft today releases its latest operating system, Windows 7 , which has been earning positive reviews and is expected to erase bad memories about Vista, its reviled predecessor.

Maine Fast Fact : The University of Maine in Orono opened in 1868 as the Maine State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts but was renamed in 1897.

The Broadway smash "Young Frankenstein" is ALIVE and in Hartford. Actors are bringing the Mel Brooks classic to life at The Bushnell Theater for the Performing Arts for six nights only.

As high points of comedy go, the "Putting On the Ritz" routine in Mell Brooks's Young Frankenstein has to be one of the avalanche-inducing helpless-laughter pinnacles.

BELFAST : During the month of September, legendary comic geniuses are being spotlighted in the Belfast Free Library's Friday Night Flix film series.

In my favorite episode of The X-Files, a psychic played by Peter Boyle remarks, "You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified way than autoerotic asphyxiation." Leave it to comedian Bobcat Goldthwait to write and direct a humane and moving film commencing with that very indignity, and starring a sad, silvering Robin ...

With Abbott & Costello Meet the Wolf Man on one side and Scary Movie on the other, it's safe to call Mel Brooks ' affectionate 1974 burlesque the peak of the horror-spoof genre-but that's still a little like calling Jaws the best fish movie ever made.

Ask 411 Movies for 09.07.09: The Column That Sweeps the Leg! Posted by Leonard Hayhurst on 09.07.2009 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Muppets, the possibility of History of the World, Part II, the whereabouts of Billy Zabka, the search for Captain Kirk Chair Guy, alternate Planet of the Apes endings, Canadian television, good and bad children programming, the ...

Wherein our movie critic periodically shares what DVDs he's been viewing in his spare time ... "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" : A terrific, taut crime drama about informers and their pals.