Subject: Steve Martin

• Seriously, Hil, LYLAS

  July 12, 2006

• South By Southwest

  June 22, 2006

• Last Night: Van Halen at Toyota Center

  January 29, 2008

• Seven Deadly Sins: Celebrity Edition

  March 26, 2008

• Dental Damned

  David Atkins's Novocaine numbs even Steve Martin

  November 15, 2001

• Wagons Ho Hum

  September 8, 1994

• A Sad Fate

  September 8, 1994

• Lounge Act

  May 11, 1995

• Family Matters

  December 7, 1995

• Scary Carrey

  June 20, 1996

• For Groundhog Day -- The Five Best Movie Rodents

  February 2 marks that special days in Western civilization, in which we commemorate the mystical powers of a being emerging from a hole in the ground. No, I'm not talking about Easter, but rather Groundhog Day. And what better way to mark the annual resurrection of Punxsutawney Phil then listing some famous movie rodents?5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) A hundred computer generated squirrels pawing at a pre-adolescent girl before throwing her into a large pit ranks somewhere between m

  February 2, 2009

• Chart Check: Texans on Amazon.com

  [Rocks Off scrolled through the various Top Sellers lists on Amazon.com this afternoon to see which albums by Texas artists are moving, and where.] Top Sellers Overall 2. Steve Martin, The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo 7. Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel, Willie and the Wheel 14. Buddy Holly, Memorial Collection Top 40 2. Beyonce, I Am... Sasha Fierce 8. Jamie Foxx, Intuition MP3 Downloads 5. Beyonce, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" 30. Beyonce, "If I Were a Boy"

  February 4, 2009

• Rotation: Steve Martin's The Crow

  Steve Martin The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo (40 Productions) www.stevemartin.com The scenario sounds laughable: comedian Steve Martin, a banjo and 15 original bluegrass songs. Is he kidding? Actually, no. Most of The Crow plays with as straight a face as Joaquin Phoenix had when he fumbled through some lousy, substance-infused rap performances in Vegas. Unlike Phoenix, Martin the actor-turned-musician is not half bad. In fact, his album is more than half good. Hard to

  February 9, 2009

• Press Picks

  May 15, 1997

• Most. Boring. Oscars. Ever.

  Ugh! The only interesting thing about the whole damn show was the realization that Goldie Hawn looks like Mickey Rourke. Stop with the work, lady! Seriously. God love Hugh Jackman, but this is not the Tonys. Could that Beyonce "Best of the Musicals" number been any more cheese ball? I have expected Brad Pitt to jump up from his front row seat and start in on "When You're a Jet." Bleh. Speaking of, crazy about Jennifer Aniston and Earth Mother sitting right near each other. Was I the on

  February 23, 2009

• Money Changes Everything

  April 23, 1998

• Exodus Lost

  December 17, 1998

• Cyrano de Bergerac

  The Alley Theatre stages the woes of a large-nosed soldier in love

  October 2, 2008

• Logic Goes Out with the Intrigue in Ho-Hum "Thriller" Traitor

  Spy Vs. Why

  August 28, 2008

• “Perspectives 161: Tim Lee”

  Tim Lee steals celebrities’ identities on film

  May 15, 2008

• No Drama for Baby Mama

  Neither Tina Fey nor Amy Poehler seem the least bit invested in their surrogate mommy comedy

  April 24, 2008

• The Girl Next Door, Ford at Fox, Saturday Night Live: The Complete Second Season, The Wire: The Complete Fourth Season

  December 6, 2007

• The Force Is Strong With This One

  November 1, 2007

• Wars, Penguins and Gays: Oh, My!

  The year in review

  December 22, 2005

• Season's Greetings

  With summer almost over, the theater scene's heating up

  August 26, 2004

• DVDs

  March 8, 2007

• Low-Rent Scoundrels

  This Broadway show is a fun piece of fluff

  September 28, 2006

• Tortilla Flat

  Nacho's funnier than Napoleon, which isn't sayin' much

  June 15, 2006

• Kitty Litter

  Steve Martin's Pink Panther piddles on its predecessor

  February 9, 2006

• Wild, Then Crazy

  Steve Martin's May-December romance turns unseasonably cold

  November 3, 2005

• Festival Crashers

  A film fest descends on the Capital City

  October 20, 2005

• Excess Hollywood

  In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

  May 26, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  April 21, 2005

• Knotty Knickers

  The Underpants goes down in wild-and-crazy-guy style

  April 14, 2005

• Pantie Parade

  The Alley Theatre unveils Steve Martin's Underpants

  April 7, 2005

• Hang 'Em High, Mom

  Kids say the darnedest things

  March 3, 2005

• We Want the Funk

  Cecil's Tavern rises from the ashes with a new look

  April 22, 2004

• Shock and Awe

  The dark Buffalo Soldiers may be one of the year's best

  August 7, 2003

• Phat Chance

  Steve Martin almost gets Down with Queen Latifah, but they mostly strike out

  March 6, 2003

• Hanging Up

  TDCJ finally halts monitoring of attorney-client phone calls -- sort of

  January 17, 2002

• Letters

  Rockin' On, A Stark Affair, Wrong War?

  May 31, 2001

• Reptomania

  The Austin Lounge Lizards steal hearts and minds by feasting on sacred cows

  May 17, 2001

• The Theater Shopping Network

  Apparently What Women Want is a feature-length commercial

  December 14, 2000

• Fun with Rednecks

  Bill Engvall

  March 23, 2000

• Disney Lightens Up

  Fantasia/2000 strikes a better balance between serious and comic elements

  December 30, 1999

• Murphy Magic

  Eddie saves the comic Bowfinger from Steve's blahs

  August 12, 1999

• Out-of-Steppers

  Steve Martin misses the spark in this remake

  April 8, 1999

• Idol Beat: The One

  Mea culpa: Yi. I typed this entire post - then accidentally closed the Mozilla Firefox window and lost everything. Let this be a lesson to every blogger out there: compose in Word. For real.Photos by Ray Mickshaw/ FoxAmerican Idol winner Kris Allen practices his "Who, me?" showbiz face. Let's not belabor this: Kris Allen won. It is not, in fact, gay folks' time. I'm not especially surprised, but I am disappointed. What can you do, though? Adam Lambert will drop an amazing album someday. Kris wil

  May 21, 2009

• In Honor Of Will Ferrell: The Five Biggest "Summer Blockbuster" Duds

  That thud you heard last weekend was Will Ferrell's career settling noisily back to earth. With a budget estimated at over $100 million, Land of the Lost was supposed to propagate the 2009 summer blockbuster season (handily inaugurated by the new Star Trek) and continue Ferrell's successful box-office run. Surprisingly, American audiences seem to have tired of well-meaning doofuses who run into things and holler a lot, even when you throw in a T-rex. Ferrell, however, can assuage his hurt feeli

  June 10, 2009

• State of Shock

  July 2, 2009