Showbiz Boston

09/02/2025

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The city’s first film project of 2025 marks an ambitious joint venture between two local production companies to turn Worcester into a movie hub.

06/02/2025

The Harvard University Man/Woman of the Year always brings THE hottest entertainers of the year to Cambridge to be feted by Harvard boys in drag! Tradition!! 🤩😘

06/02/2025

The creator of this long time crowd pleaser is from Needham.

03/02/2025

From the Lost Boston page:
Izzy Ort's World-Famous Rough Place to Play!
Izzy Ort’s Golden Nugget, on the left, was a hopping place in the 1940s. Many well-known musicians played on two floors, among them Murray Onigman and his nineteen-piece big band “The Bob Murray Orchestra,” he sang lead on one of the earliest recordings in 1944 of the Bobby Troup Song “Route 66.”
In the main room at street level, and in a room upstairs called El Tropico, patrons had dancing to many jazz performers among them Sam Rivers, Ruby Braff, Herb Pomeroy, and Quincy Jones. Izzy Ort’s was one of the first strip bars in what would later become known as Boston’s Combat Zone. As a popular hangout for rowdy sailors, it was notorious among musicians for being a rough place to play.

28/01/2025

A reasonably good series in celebration of the Wang Theater's 100th birthday. Good Will Hunting and Glory are the best of the bunch, though we found the latest version of Little Women really good, though somewere critical of the way it altered the timeline of the book. Surprisingly it was the first version of the classic novel filmed in and around Boston. The Gibson House Museum did double duty as Louisa May's publisher in Boston and her New York rooming house. A replica of the Alcott's house was built nearby 'cos of course the real one was too small to accommodate cameras. Of course we love the beginning of Glory with Proper Bostonians drinking tea on Beacon Hill and the regiment marching off to war past the State House. Oddly we found ourselves on the very training ground for Civil War soldiers in Readville, when we went with a friend to pick up his Tesla by the Readville train station.And finally what does the Wizard of Oz have to do with Boston? Its stars, the Tin Man and the Scarecrow were Dorchester boys! Now listen for the Boston accent!!

A Weekend of FREE Movies!

10/01/2025

Update: Bette Midler lost her home of many years, and Dick van D**e and family were evacuated but the home was saved by a neighbor's hose.
Who's that blonde in the picture? Paris Hilton. Along with Anthony Hopkins, John Goodman, Billy Crystal and Mark Hamill.
"According to the BBC, Casino actor James Wood, Roseanne star John Goodman, Scary Movie‘s Anna Faris, The Princess Bride actor Cary Elwes, TV host Ricki Lake, Top Gun: Maverick star Miles Teller, and Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, and actor and TV host Cameron Mathison have also lost their homes in the wildfire."
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All the celebrities who have lost their homes in the destructive LA wildfire confirmed. Find out more here...

07/01/2025

The director of the Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown, James Mangold, has a varied filmography behind him, including a related music biopic, Walk the Line, about Johnny Cash, Marvel movies, and a Tom Cruise thriller, Knight and Day, shot in Boston. Also Girl, Interrupted, a memoir about her time in McLean Hospital, by Susannah Kaysen, who grew up on Sacramento St. In Cambridge. Dylan's adventures into the Cambridge folk scene were sadly not explored, but can be read about in the oral history of the Club 47, an incredibly important early folk club, Baby Let Me Follow You Down. Of course Joan Baez got her start at the Club 47. Her father was an MIT professor and she briefly attended Boston University. Many early folk musicians made the trek from Greenwich Village to play the Boston/Cambridge scene, and this book is copiously illustrated. Bob Dylan appears smiling! horsing around with his pals, including John Sebastian, later of the Lovin' Spoonful, and Jim Kweskin and Maria Muldaur. Book in comments.

Known for: Logan, Ford v Ferrari, Walk the Line

06/01/2025

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31/12/2024

1991 Five bucks

28/12/2024

17/12/2024

Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien dominated late night TV for years. Did you know they were both from the Boston area, Conan from Brookline and Jay from North Andover? Jay had his initial gigs opening for st*****rs in the Combat Zone and Conan of course was the chief of the Harvard Lampoon. And Doug Kenney went from the Harvard Lampoon to the National Lampoon which spawned not only the classic LP "Radio Dinner" but a whole industry that included the "Vacation" movies. Oh, and he wrote Animal House. Martin Mull started his career playing banjo and guitar at Harvard Square's Passim Coffeehouse. "Some of today's biggest comedians like Conan O'Brien, Denis Leary, Amy Poehler, and Lenny Clarke, kick-started their careers in Boston. Despite our seemingly tough exterior, Boston is a city that loves to laugh."

The comedy club scene is no laughing matter in and around Boston, with plenty of options for enjoying standup and improv

13/12/2024

Via Simmons College and Tufts University.

Gregory Maguire — author of the original novel — discusses all things “Wicked,” including his new book in the series hitting shelves soon.

06/12/2024

Mostly this page is focuses on the historical around Boston, but let's take a moment to look at an active filmmaker who's just written a helpful guide to working in the industry today.

"I’m also debuting the “Friendly Filmmaker Companion” in 2025, a special filmmaking production
workbook to help new filmmakers organize and take on all the steps of filmmaking without forgetting certain things that noobs sometimes forget.
Basically, 25 years of filmmaking experience boiled down into one guide book 🙂"

Continuing a series in collaboration with Hollywoot Film Group, meet Boston filmmaker Julia Tutko-Balena.