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The saga of Rick Pitino and the St. John’s Red Storm continues on Vice TV’s “Pitino: Red Storm Rising.” In “Picking up the Pieces,” the team prepares for a high-stakes showdown at Madison Square Garden, where they’ll compete in the Big East Tournament. With a 25-year NCAA Tournament win drought hanging over their heads, the […]

Pitino: Red Storm Rising: Picking up the Pieces...

The Young and the Restless (Y&R) spoilers for Thursday, January 30, promise some major bombshells in the land of Genao City.

A family picks up the pieces after a volatile situation is over, while a cop uncovers the truth, and someone is in for a major shock.

What’s set to unravel during Thursday’s show? Time to find out!

The Young And The Restless Spoilers – The Newman Family Recovers

Y&R spoilers for Thursday, January 30, reveal that the Newman family will try and recover from the whole “Ian Ward” (Ray Wise) situation.

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As fans know, the Wednesday, January 29 episode was explosive and ended with both Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) and Ian being shot.

The family called 9-1-1, so it looks like Victor will recover; however, Ian’s reign of terror, much like Jordan’s (Colleen Zenk) is finally over.

Elliott Gould, who starred alongside Donald Sutherland in Robert Altman’s 1970 war comedy Mash, shared a tribute to the beloved actor, who died on Thursday at the age of 88.

In a statement shared with Rolling Stone, Gould remembered his co-star and longtime friend. “Donald was a giant, not only physically but as a talent. He was also enormously kind and generous. Donald and I both had sons that were born just a week apart. We were young fathers at the same time,” said Gould.

He continued, “It’s never easy...

There are tons of collectibles to be found in Viewfinder and each chapter has its own unique collectibles. While the previous chapters had Rubber Ducks and Magnets, Chapter Three consists of Mahjong Tiles for players to find. There are seven in total spread out over the various levels.

The four Mahjong Tiles found in Chapter Three will be evenly spread out throughout the levels, so players will need to keep an eye out for all of them. Additionally, each one will be slightly different from the others, just as with the other collectibles of past Chapters. The achievement of Chapter Three for finding all four of the collectibles "Picking Up The Pieces".

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Where To Find All Mahjong Tiles

In Chapter Three, the seven Mahjong Tile Collectibles will be found in levels 1.1, 2.4, 3.2, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3, and 5.5. The first Mahjong Tile will be...

Dorothea G. Petrie, who won Emmys for producing “Love Is Never Silent” and ‘Caroline?,” died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, her family announced. She was 95.

Petrie began her career in New York as an actress and talent agent before putting it on hold to raise four children. She ended her hiatus in 1979 by writing the story for, and producing, the CBS film “Orphan Train,” starring Jill Eikenberry. She went on to produce “Angel Dusted” starring Jean Stapleton for NBC, “License to Kill” with Denzel Washington for CBS and “Picking Up the Pieces” starring Margot Kidder for CBS.

In 1986, she won an Emmy for producing NBC’s Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation “Love is Never Silent,” which also won an Emmy for director Joseph Sargent and nominations for stars Mare Winningham and Phillis Frelich. Petrie next produced “Foxfire,” the eight-time Emmy nominated film for Hallmark and CBS.

Dorothea G. Petrie, who won an Emmy award for the Hallmark drama Love is Never Silent, died at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 24 at age 95. Her family confirmed the death, which they said was by natural causes.

Petrie began her career in New York as an actress and talent agent before putting it on hold to raise four children. She ended her hiatus in 1979 by writing the story and producing the CBS film Orphan Train, starring Jill Eikenberry. She went on to produce Angel Dusted starring Jean Stapleton for NBC, License to Kill with a young Denzel Washington for CBS, and Picking Up the Pieces starring Margot Kidder for CBS.

In 1986, she won an Emmy for producing NBC’s Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation Love is Never Silent, which also won an Emmy for director Joseph Sargent and nominations for stars Mare Winningham and Phillis Frelich. Petrie next produced Foxfire,...

(Welcome to The Clock Tower, where we’ll break down the goings on of the The CW network’s Arrowverse. We’ll touch on things like themes, cultural impact, lead-ins to major events, ships, and more every week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled with spoilers. Proceed at your own risk.) The episodes that come after the annual […]

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Jewel has returned with her first new song in four years, the emotional piano ballad “No More Tears.” The track is for documentary Lost in America, which explores youth homelessness.

“No More Tears” offers a hopeful look at trauma and showcases the resilience of someone who has dealt with immense pain. “You see love is a mystery/And I still see its shining face,” she sings on the refrain. “There are no more sad songs, just blue skies/No more tears to cry”

Lost in America offers an in-depth look...

Fort Lauderdale, Fla – He was the heart throb-iest of the teen heart throbs when he came onto the scene in the early 1970s. David Cassidy was the driving force of the manufactured-for-tv pop act The Partridge Family, which provided a soundtrack for their era. Cassidy died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the age of 67, on November 21st, 2017.

David Cassidy fought the demons of his sudden fame for virtually the rest of his life after the Partridge Family era, admitting an alcohol problem after being arrested for a DUI in 2013. Earlier this year, he announced that he was living with non-Alzheimer’s dementia, which ran in his family. But during the burst of infamy he had in the early 1970s, there was no greater beloved pin-up teen than Cassidy, who ushered in a parade of dreamy 1970s boys like Donny Osmond, Vincent Van Patten, Leif Garrett and his half brother, Shaun Cassidy.

“Game of Thrones” has seven seasons down and one to go — hard to believe after six years and 67 episodes. “Got” will be remembered as a highlight of the Peak TV era, and IndieWire has already named it one of the best-directed series of the 21st century. But how does the series stack up when you pit all seven seasons against one another?

Below we’ve ranked the seven seasons of “Game of Thrones” from worst to best. It’s important to note that no season has been flat-out terrible; even the most uneven seasons included some of the most thrilling television moments of its year. With only six episodes left before “Thrones” signs off for good, here’s where the current seasons rank.

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“Blackwater” remains one of the show’s best episodes, a battle episode...

[Youtube "aq7tkMSInys"] Two years after the fatal accident that almost claimed his life, Tracy Morgan continues to keep people laughing. During an appearance on The View, the comedian spoke about hitting the road in his Picking Up the Pieces Tour and how the accident has changed his routine and outlook on life. Of course, he also kept the show's co-hosts cracking up. Morgan, 47, revealed that he talks about going to heaven in his stand-up routine. The comedian was in a two-week coma following the multi-car accident. "Yeah, I've seen a few people up there. I've seen Biggie Smalls - he looks good,...

Two years after the fatal accident that almost claimed his life, Tracy Morgan continues to keep people laughing.

During an appearance on The View, the comedian spoke about hitting the road in his Picking Up the Pieces Tour and how the accident has changed his routine and outlook on life.

Of course, he also kept the show's co-hosts cracking up.

Morgan, 47, revealed that he talks about going to heaven in his stand-up routine. The comedian was in a two-week coma following the multi-car accident.

"Yeah, I've seen a few people up there. I've seen Biggie Smalls – he looks good, he lost weight,...

Jewel and Ty Murray made an amicable split seem easy when they announced their divorce - but the singer insists it came with its challenges. "It's work. I don't want people to think it's effortless - it's work to do this because you obviously don't get a divorce because things are going well," the 41-year-old star says in the new issue of People. "But it's letting those things live in the past." The singer-songwriter and rodeo cowboy, 46, announced their split in 2014 and have since worked hard to maintain a positive rapport for their 4½-year-old son Kase. For Jewel - who's...

Jewel and Ty Murray made an amicable split seem easy when they announced their divorce - but the singer insists it came with its challenges. "It's work. I don't want people to think it's effortless - it's work to do this because you obviously don't get a divorce because things are going well," the 41-year-old star says in the new issue of People. "But it's letting those things live in the past." The singer-songwriter and rodeo cowboy, 46, announced their split in 2014 and have since worked hard to maintain a positive rapport for their 4½-year-old son Kase. For Jewel - who's...

Having weathered a public split, Jewel appears to have put the pieces back together: She's in a relationship and finally opening up about her new beau. "We've been together almost a year," the singer-songwriter says of football player boyfriend Charlie Whitehurst in the new issue of People. And while they've been dating for a considerable stretch, the Never Broken author - who is on her Picking Up the Pieces tour through May - says they made a point of keeping it under wraps in the beginning. "I was very slow about going public," says Jewel. "We're not people to go out on 'the scene.

Having weathered a public split, Jewel appears to have put the pieces back together: She's in a relationship and finally opening up about her new beau. "We've been together almost a year," the singer-songwriter says of football player boyfriend Charlie Whitehurst in the new issue of People. And while they've been dating for a considerable stretch, the Never Broken author - who is on her Picking Up the Pieces tour through May - says they made a point of keeping it under wraps in the beginning. "I was very slow about going public," says Jewel. "We're not people to go out on 'the scene.

Picking up the pieces from the Wither Storm finale, Telltale Games has rolled out the launch trailer for Order Up!, the fifth installment of acclaimed adventure title, Minecraft: Story Mode.

Available today across all compatible platforms, it should be noted that players will need to own at least one episode of Telltale’s Minecraft series, as Order Up! is designed to “bridge the gap between the Wither Storm story arc and three all-new adventures that will continue as post-season episodes set to release in the coming months of 2016.

Ivor and Jesse’s rollicking adventure continues with Order Up!, and you can get up to speed with all the happenings in Telltale’s pixelated universe via the episode’s official synopsis, below.

On a tip from Ivor, Jesse and friends head to an abandoned temple holding mysterious treasures. Ambushed by former Ocelot Aiden and his crew, our heroes find themselves in...

After Tracy Morgan triumphantly returned to television in October with a Saturday Night Live hosting gig, the comic will soon be back on TV on a more regular basis after Morgan signed on for a new FX sitcom from Key & Peele's Jordan Peele and Eastbound & Down writer John Carcieri. FX already gave the pilot the green light, with production on the still-untitled series set to begin this summer, Deadline reports. Both Morgan and Peele confirmed the project on Twitter.

The sitcom centers on a career criminal (played by Morgan) who...

Jewel has a new man in her life - Indianapolis Colts' backup quarterback Charlie Whitehurst. "They met in Nashville and have been dating for a while - they went to France together," a source close to the singer tells People. "He treats her amazingly well and is a great guy. She's really happy." On Sunday, Jewel, 41, shared a photo of herself with Whitehurst, 33, backstage at the Alejandro Escovedo Experience: The Leonard Cohen Influence in Austin, Texas. @robertpatrickT2 @cwhitey6 and I back stage to see @alescovedo for the Leonard Cohen Experience. Robert is singing! A photo posted by Jewel (@jewel) on...

Sergio Arau: Filmmaker, musician, band leader, song writer and visual artist.

I met him recently at the terrific Loft Film Festival in Tucson Az along with his wonderful charming and smart wife Yareli Arizmendi.

To get this out of the way, his dad is the famous Director Alfonso Arau. In addition to directing "Like Water for Chocolate"/ "Como agua para chocolate" (1992), his directing credits include "A Walk in the Clouds" (1995) with Keanu Reeves and "Picking Up the Pieces" (2000) with Woody Allen.

Sergio the son was born in Mexico City. His wife -- they met on the set of "Like Water For Chocolate" -- is the amazing Yareli Arizmendi. They are partners in "life and film".

Their first production was a cabaret show in Mexico. "Penny Envy" was the name of it and it satirized the Us-Mexico "free trade agreement" of 1992. Yareli wrote and performed the monologues while Sergio wrote the songs, sang and played the music. The show played both in the Mexico and the United States through the Performance Art Network. The show was in universities in California, NYC and Boulder.

Sergio attended Cuec Film School from 1976 to 1980. There he directed short films, one of which went to the Film Festival in Havana. He graduated with a feature script about kids in San Luis Potosi who kidnap the Virgin of Guadalupe. He was going to make it but then in 1982 the Us $ vs the Mx Peso had a 20 times increase and his budget went away.

His "day job" during film school was as a political cartoonist for two papers, La Jornada and Uno Mas Uno.

He stopped playing music all together after the infamous mass government killings of students in 1968 when the Mexican government tried to stop all protest rock n roll, so the music went underground. In 1983 he formed the band, Botellita de Jerez.

In 1985 the band opened Rockotitlan which to this date is recognized as the breaking ground and breathing room for the 80's rock scene and important contemporary Mexican bands such as Cafe Tacvba and Caifanes amongst others. The club had two unalienable rules: Music played must be original and compositions must be in Spanish.

He began in 1990 to make music videos of his songs. He did the concept, the visuals and music. He then began to direct for other groups and other genres.

In 1998 MTV awarded him best rock video award for the Cafe Tacvba version of "Alarmala de Tos" one of Sergio's original songs.

In 1992 he moved to San Diego and by 1994 was disconcerted by the the anti-immigrant sentiment whipped up by Governor Wilson's Proposition 187.

Yareli, as a way to deal with California's blind spot, came up with "A Day Without a Mexican." The idea that if California or the nation experienced one day without a single Latino, the reality of the valuable contribution and interdependence of all would sink in.

He and Yareli were financially backed in 1997 by the Fine Arts Center Museum of Chicago to secure the premiere of the short film "A Day Without a Mexican" in 1998.

At the Guadalajara Film Fest 1998, the short won the Audience Award. It was there that Alta Vista Films (producer of Iñarritu's "Amores Perros") approached the team to work on the feature-length version. Written by both, directed by Sergio and starring Yareli, the film, with a Us $2 million budget, was released in the U.S. May 14, 2004 and six months later in Mexico. It was Mexico's highest box office for that year. The film was Televisa's first distribution experience it in the U.S., where a limited release in California, Texas, Chicago yielded Us $4.5 million in theaters, and more than 500,000 DVD were sold.

Their teaser campaign consisted of a billboard in the heart of Hollywood that read: "On May 14 there will be no Mexicans in California." People reacted strongly to the message calling radio and TV stations. Viacom, owner of the billboard space, took it down after 3 hours fearing riots. As a result there was huge U.S. national press coverage including the Wall Street Journal featured story on page one and Dan Rather Evening news.

In 2007 he shot "Naco es Chido"/ "Kitsch is Cool", a Mexican "Spinal Tap" featuring his band, Botellita de Jerez. As a distribution strategy, he took the film on the road, screening it and following it up with a live concert with the band. This lasted for 3 years, 2010-2012.

He is currently working on the sequel: "Another Day Without a Mexican: This Time It's Personal."...

Last year, Tracy Morgan was fighting for his life after being critically injured in a car wreck that left his friend dead. Now, the comedian is back and, if you ask the audiences who've seen the sold-out first stops of his national stand-up tour, better than ever.

"I feel like a complete artist again," Morgan tells People.

With a triumphant return to Saturday Night Life, surprise appearance at the Emmy Awards and role in Lee Daniels' Richard Pryor biopic now on his resume, Morgan isn't slowing down following a miraculous recovery.

As the holidays approach, Morgan, 47, says he's grateful...

Picking up the pieces. Gwen Stefani shared more details about her shocking split from Gavin Rossdale, which she described as "unexpected" in a new interview with Kiis FM's JoJo Wright on Monday, Nov. 9. Stefani, 46, and the Bush frontman, 50, announced in August that they were splitting after 13 years of marriage. According to Stefani, however, the separation began long before they formally confirmed the news in a joint statement. "I had been writing because my life blew up," The Voice mentor told Wright. "Everybody knows that [...]...

Tracy Morgan will kick off a nationwide stand-up tour this upcoming winter, it was announced today. The “Tracy Morgan: Picking Up the Pieces” tour, as it's called, is set to begin February 5 at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. Morgan was in a coma for 2 weeks after a fatal June 2014 car accident in which a truck crashed into the back of a van he was a passenger of, while on the New Jersey Turnpike. James “Jimmy Mack” McNair (also a comedian) was killed in the crash. Morgan made a surprise appearance at the Emmy Awards last month, and returned to "Saturday Night Live" as guest host on October 17. Ticket prices range from $55 to $75 on Ticketmaster.com, with...

Tracy Morgan is ready to dive back in to stand-up following his recovery from a fatal six-vehicle crash that left the comedian in a coma. He's announced his spring 2016 Picking Up the Pieces tour, which will kick off at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana on February 5th.

In a press release, Morgan compared re-entering the world of comedy to riding a bike. "You don't forget where the pedals are," he said. Dates and ticket links are available on his site, with shows scheduled through May 28th and the promise of more to be announced.

Following his uber-successful hosting gig on “Saturday Night Live” this past weekend, Tracy Morgan is poised to take over the world all over again with a new comedy tour.

The “30 Rock” star, who was seriously injured in a deadly car crash in June 2014, will kick off his “Picking Up the Pieces” run at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana on February 5th, 2016 and will perform all over the USA and Canada through the month of May.

On Tuesday (October 20) Tracy took to his Twitter account to make it official- “Heading back out on the road to bring the funny. Come see me.” Stay linked to the GossipCenter for the official list of tour dates as soon as it’s announced!

Tracy Morgan is taking another step forward on the comeback trail. The “Saturday Night Live” alum, who last year was badly injured in a vehicle crash that left one person dead, will be hitting the road for a tour next year, the comedian announced Tuesday. “Heading back out on the road to bring the funny. Come see me,” Morgan wrote. Heading back out on the road to bring the funny. Come see me: https://t.co/4fBhXf3CoB #pickingupthepieces – Tracy Morgan (@RealTracyMorgan) October 20, 2015 The name of the road jaunt is, appropriately, Picking Up the Pieces. Also Read: Walmart Rips Its...

The Tracy Morgan comeback is in full swing: After the tragic accident on the New Jersey Turnpike that put him in a coma and killed his friend Jimmy Mack, the comic made a surprising and emotional appearance at the Emmy Awards. He since followed that up by hosting SNL this past weekend, doing a monologue with his 30 Rock colleagues and joking, "People are wondering, 'Can he speak? Does he have 100 percent mental capacity?' The truth is, I never did. I might even be a few points higher." Now he's following that with a stand-up tour: Tracy Morgan: Picking Up the Pieces, kicking off at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana, on February 5 and extending until the end of May. In a statement Morgan said that comedy was like riding a bike: "You don't forget where the pedals are." ...

Tracy Morgan is back at home on Saturday Night Live.

The comedian, 46, returns to the show this week for the first time since being injured in a tragic car accident that put him in a coma last year.

In his promos for the episode, Morgan has fun at the expense of castmate Bobby Moynihan by pretending the accident has affected his memory. Moynihan, 38, looks concerned when Morgan pretends not to remember that he once was an SNL regular.

"Did I used to work here? I can't remember anymore," Morgan says, before admitting he was just messing with Moynihan.

Later, when Moynihan says Morgan is "home,...

True success story! Tracy Morgan performed his first stand-up routine since his harrowing June 2014 accident on Monday, Oct. 12. The 30 Rock comic, 46, made a surprise appearance onstage at the typically star-studded Comedy Cellar in NYC, for his first show in nearly a year and a half. Following his set, Morgan tweeted a photo of himself doing what he does best — performing and making audience members laugh. My first time on stage in 16 Months at the #ComedyCellar! Picking up the pieces! pic.twitter.com/T2uD2Zndot — Tracy Morgan [...]...

Chicago – Jewel Kilcher has a long resume of accomplishments in her 20 year career as a singer/songwriter, producer, actress and poet/author. She has just released a new memoir entitled “Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story,” right next to her new album, “Picking Up the Pieces.” She appeared on behalf of the book at North Central College in Naperville, Ill., presented by Anderson’s Book Shop.

Jewel at North Central College, Presented by Anderson’s Bookshop, Naperville, Ill., on September 29th, 2015

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Jewel had modest roots, growing up in Alaska in frontier conditions. After learning the guitar in school, she famously lived in her car while performing in California music venues. After being discovered in 1995 – at age 19 – by manager Inga Vainshtein, she recorded her first album, “Pieces of Me,” at Neil Young’s ranch studio. The disk was a monster hit,...

It looks like Tracy Morgan may be squeezing in some extra funny time for his upcoming episode of SNL. The 46-year-old former 30 Rock actor posted a photo of himself, mic in hand, onstage at Comedy Cellar in New York City working on his craft—his first official stand-up comedy performance since a tragic car crash in June 2014 on the New Jersey turnpike left him hospitalized in a coma. "My first time on stage in 16 months at the #ComedyCellar!" Morgan tweeted. "Picking up the pieces!" The seasoned comedian looked comfortable in his element as he stood without a cane or any other assistive device, a sign that Morgan is officially ready...

Comedian Tracy Morgan made his return to the stage after nearly a year-and-a-half hiatus caused by a tragic car accident that temporarily put him in a coma last year.

Morgan celebrated his triumph with a Twitter post, sharing a photo with fans from his Monday night stand-up show at the Comedy Cellar in New York.

"My first time on stage in 16 months at the #ComedyCellar!" he tweeted. "Picking up the pieces!"

In the photo, the 46-year-old is shown performing on stage without any assistance.

My first time on stage in 16 Months at the #ComedyCellar! Picking up the pieces! pic.twitter.

My favorite Jewel song? "Intuition." There, I said it. Speaking of the yodeling '90s superstar, the "Howard Stern" regular appeared on the show Monday morning and spilled a little-known (if at all known) fact: Tupac Shakur invited her to Las Vegas with him the same weekend he was killed. Whaaat.  Given that the singer-songwriter was out promoting her new memoir "Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story" and accompanying album "Picking Up the Pieces," I'm going to assume this tidbit is included in the book. In any event, Howard did most of the talking as he recounted the episode as he understood it: "You met Tupac Shakur at the MTV Awards, this is a crazy story. You're at an after-party. He asks you to come to Vegas with him, and you decline. You kinda were like 'eh, that's not my thing.' Three days later Tupac was shot in Vegas.

Multiplatinum and Grammy-nominated artist Jewel — the small-town horseback rider who got her start in biker bars and eventually racked up more than 27 million worldwide album sales — has come a long way since her childhood in Homer, Alaska. With her 12th studio album, Picking Up the Pieces, being released Friday — 20 years after her debut effort, Pieces of You, hit shelves in 1995 — Jewel speaks to The Hollywood Reporter about the long, winding path that brought her this far and the sexual harassment she's had to endure since the very beginning. "The music industry is

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When RZA – co-founder of Wu-Tang Clan – stepped behind the lens for the first time back in 2012, he introduced the moviegoing audience to a pulse-pounding actioner in the form of The Man with the Iron Fists. Fast forward a little over two years and we’re now standing on the verge of the sequel’s arrival on DVD and Blu-Ray, and We Got This Covered has an exclusive clip to share with you for The Man with the Iron Fists 2.

Picking up the pieces from its predecessor, the martial arts follow-up will once again center around Thaddeus (played by the aforementioned RZA), who finds himself drawn into battle once more despite his best efforts to put his violent past behind him.

Rounding out the international ensemble are Dustin Nguyen (22 Jump Street), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (47 Ronin), Eugenia Yuan (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend), Pim Bubear (Ninja: Shadow of a Tear...

A decade before Ridley Scott brought Exodus: Gods and Kings to the big screen, he tackled another epic about religion, faith and pragmatism. Kingdom of Heaven was Scott's film about the Crusades, a rousing, rambunctious film that tried to be a follow up of sorts to his previous sand-and-sandles epic, Gladiator. The project itself actually came out of a failed attempt to tell the tale of Tripoli, a potential Russell Crowe starrer that fell into development limbo. Picking up the pieces of that production, Scott secured the services of a then-untried screenwriter William Monahan to abandon the Tripoli script and concentrate instead on the tale of Jerusalem during the Battle of Hattin during the 12th century. Monahan crafted a lengthy script that told not...

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After making a substantial profit at the box office during its Spring 2014 release (via Millennium Ent.), the mild media fury surrounding the continuing Mia Farrow/Woody Allen saga was still in popular parlance, which many assumed might hurt ticket sales. Apparently this wasn’t the case and critics and audiences seemed to embrace a chance to see Allen in front of the camera in a lightly entertaining role. Repeated viewings may crumble Fading Gigolo‘s mild comedic offerings, but its warm theatrical response should ensure a healthy shelf life.

John Turturro’s latest directorial effort was helped by the sizeable presence of co-star Woody Allen. But beyond drama from the gossip rags, Turturro’s got a perversely curious concept on his hands by casting himself as a reluctant gigolo with Allen starring as his affable pimp. That said, this central concept kinda sorta fizzles out as the film becomes a...

Picking up the pieces from the last grisly encounter, Saw III presents puzzle-setting, cancer-stricken sadist Jigsaw and his not-so-lovely assistant Amanda with a fresh batch of victims to play with. While a female doctor is forced to keep the sick puppy alive, a man driven to desperation by the death of his son is about to enter a whole new world of pain. More of the twisted same for gore lovers but those of a nervous disposition won't need telling to turn away now...

Fading Gigolo

Directed by: John Turturro

Cast: John Turturro, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Vanessa Paradis, Sofia Vergara

Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Rating: R

Release Date: May 2, 2014 (Chicago)

Plot: Fiorvate (Turturro) is pimped out by his friend Murray (Allen) when two women (Stone & Vergara) are interested in a threesome. Unexpectedly, Fiorvante falls for a reclusive widow (Paradis) who hasn’t been touched by a man since her husband died.

Who’S It For? Those who like seeing star-struck writer/directors sell their project’s souls to past influences.

Overall

An actor/writer/director once conceded that masturbation is “sex with someone I love.” Then what room does that leave for acting/writing/directing in a film in which your master played by Woody Allen sings your praises, and Sofia Vergara and Sharon Stone hype you up to be a stallion? And most importantly, where’s the comedy in that?

The masturbatory...

Lapsed Interest: Turturro’s Latest Doesn’t Live Up to Promise

There’s bound to be an odd draw to John Turturro’s latest directorial effort, Fading Gigolo, which may be helped or hindered by the sizeable presence of co-star Woody Allen. But beyond drama from the gossip rags, Turturro’s got a perversely curious concept on his hands by casting himself as a reluctant gigolo with Allen starring as his affable pimp. That said, this central concept kinda sorta fizzles out as the film becomes a more tender observation about loneliness and connection that lends the film a rather uneven tone, unable to satisfy either the audience seeking a frothy adult sex comedy or those surprised by a rather somber (yet more satisfying) subplot.

Forced to close his rare and used bookstore that has been in his family for generations, Murray (Woody Allen), has a proposition for his best pal,...

Woody Allen acts in so few of his own films these days that it's surprising whenever he takes on a project helmed by someone else. Yet last year, Allen appeared at Tiff in John Turturro's "Fading Gigolo" as the "manager," so to speak, of Turturro's character after he decides to become a professional Don Juan. Millennium Entertainment has released new stills exclusively to Indiewire. How's Woody going to fare under someone else's direction for the first time since 2000's "Picking Up the Pieces" and "Company Man?" Hard to say before the film's release on April 18, but for now, check out the stills below.

If The Face of Love proves anything, it is that Annette Bening is still one of the finest American actors working today. In Arie Posin’s new drama, which boasts shades of Douglas Sirk and an attempted Hitchcockian suspense, she gives everything to the role of Nikki Lostrom, a lonesome widow who pursues a relationship with a man who has an uncanny resemblance to her late husband.

In the opening scene, Nikki sits, sullen and anguished, by the pool of her immaculate Los Angeles home, gripping a glass of wine as she remembers finding her husband Garrett (Ed Harris) dead, strewn on the beach after drowning during a trip to Mexico. Distracted by these harrowing memories, she drops the wine glass. Picking up the pieces of broken glass, Nikki does not even grimace, even when she grips the shards so tightly her hand starts bleeding. Bening is a fearless actor...

Back in August, we showed you the first trailer for writer-director-star John Turturro's new comedy Fading Gigolo, just weeks before it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival. Today, we have the second trailer, featuring John Turturro as unconventional gigolo Fioravante and his friend/pimp Murray, played by Woody Allen, who acts in a film he didn't direct for the first time since Picking Up the Pieces in 2000. Sof&#237a Vergara, Sharon Stone, Vanessa Paradis and Liev Schreiber round out the supporting cast for Millennium Entertainment's upcoming comedy, hitting theaters April 18 in limited release.

Fading Gigolo comes to theaters April 18th, 2014 and stars Sofía Vergara, Woody Allen, Liev Schreiber, Sharon Stone, John Turturro, Vanessa Paradis, Max Casella, Jill Scott. The film is directed by John Turturro.

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Not since the forgettable 2000 comedy Picking up the Pieces has Woody Allen starred in a film he didn't direct. But John Turturro managed to coax Allen back into acting for Fading Gigolo with an enticing role: an elderly but novice pimp.

And it wouldn't have occurred if Allen and Turturro didn't happen to share a barber. Though Allen and Turturro knew each other somewhat (Turturro had a small part in Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters and was nearly cast in two other Allen films), they weren't close.

"I knew he liked my work," Turturro said in a recent interview. "But I don't sit next to him at Knick games.

Fading Gigolo premiered over the weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the film, Turturro plays a New York florist who begins making money on the side (with the help of Allen's character) by rendering his services to women. ...

How does an Average Joe get two mega, mega hotties like Sofia Vergara and Sharon Stone to want him? At the same time even? Easy. Charge 'em a thousand smackers for his "services" and pretend to be a total pro at the ménage à trois.

"You're an experienced lover. Why shouldn't you get paid for it?" That's the logic of Woody Allen's bookseller-made-pimp hustler character as he tells his sole client, John Turturro (who also wrote and directed the flick) as a shy but super cash-hungry fifty-something, that he's essentially signed him up for sex slave duty in this first trailer for "Fading Gigolo."

"Of course, I saw myself getting a small fee," he adds after coaxing the wary gent into the lascivious business scheme. Pretty soon, the ladies are ready to get a taste of the goods, so to speak, and it's up to Turturro's Fioravante to put...

The last time Woody Allen appeared in a movie not written or directed by him, it was for 2000's "Picking Up the Pieces" for director Alfonso Arau. The prolific writer/director had said he's open to acting in "other people's films" but no one has ever asked him except for a few movies in the last 30 years.

So now, enter John Turturro. His film "Fading Gigolo" has Allen playing a pimp with witty one-liners of course! Allen is co-starring with Sofia Vergara, Sharon Stone, and Turturro himself. "Fading Gigolo" will make its world debut at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Check out the trailer below:...