Billy Crystal: Last News

It’s hard to imagine anyone but Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally, but apparently, Tom Hanks was also in the running for the role.

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan rom-com that could've been!Hanks' wife, Rita Wilson, is revealing the reason Hanks turned down a role opposite Ryan in the 1989 hit, . Appearing on Bruce Bozzi's iHeart Podcast,  on Tuesday, Wilson shared that Hanks was going through a divorce from his first wife, Samantha Lewes, at the time, and couldn't relate to Harry's storyline and his melancholic view over his wife Helen leaving him.Hanks divorced Lewes in 1987 after nine years of marriage, and went on to marry Wilson in 1988.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Bucky F*cking Dent,” the second movie written and directed by David Duchovny (the first was “House of D,” in 2004), is based on a novel by Duchovny that was published in 2016, and whether or not the story is autobiographical, it feels autobiographical, and I mean that as a compliment. Set in the summer of 1978, it’s framed around one man’s obsession with the Boston Red Sox — meaning, of course, the curse of the Bambino, going back to 1918, the last time (until 2004) the Sox won the championship. The man is Ted Fulilove, which is a terrible last name for a movie character, though he’s played by Duchovny as a cussed crab apple with an amusing misanthropic put-down for every occasion (like: “Closure’s for morons”). “Bucky F*cking Dent” has a handful of characters, but it’s essentially a father-son two-hander — one of those dramadies in which the dad is a heartless-on-the-surface coot who was no good when it came to how he treated his family, and the son is a lot nicer and more sensitive, but maybe too sensitive (as a correction to all that paternal dickishness). Which also means that he’s lost.

Uzo Aduba is expecting her first child!The celebrated actress debuted her burgeoning baby bump while she walked the red carpet at the 2023 Tony Awards at the United Palace Theater in New York City on Sunday.The alum — aptly decked out in a bright orange Christian Siriano suit ensemble — unbuttoned her suit jacket to give fans a better look at her burgeoning bump while she also cradled her stomach as she posed for snapshots and smiled.Aduba, 42, also posed for some sweet, beaming pics with her filmmaker husband, Robert Sweeting.The dad-to-be was all smiles as well, as he looked dapper in a traditional tuxedo that was the perfect complement to his ladylove's glow.Aduba first revealed that she and Sweeting had tied the knot in secret in September 2021, on their 1st anniversary.«When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible,» Aduba captioned a pic from her wedding day, quoting Nora Ephron's iconic line from the Billy Crystal-Meg Ryan rom-com   «For some, it feels like we wait our whole lives for our someone,» she shared.

at the Friars Club, where comedians throw their best jokes at each other.He portrayed himself on the 1996 “Seinfeld” episode titled, “The Friar’s Club.”Garrin recalled how Cooper’s memorable scene even came about.“I was sitting at his table in his kitchen and the phone rings, and it’s Larry David,” he said. “He picks up the phone, and he hangs it up.

Alison Herman TV Critic The Apple TV+ comedy “Platonic” is a reunion of the 2014 movie “Neighbors” (and its 2016 sequel “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising”), again pairing stars Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne with the writer and director Nicholas Stoller. But “Platonic” also models itself after another, more enduring classic: Nora Ephron’s “When Harry Met Sally,” a film explicitly referenced in the pilot of “Platonic” and the greatest work of art drawn from the essentially trite question of whether (straight) men and women can be friends. In “Neighbors,” Rogen and Byrne played spouses. In “Platonic,” they’re long-estranged besties who rekindle their codependent bond. As premises go, it’s a thin one. Ephron’s opus is now 34 years old, and even “When Harry Met Sally” was less seriously engaged with the idea of friendship between the sexes than using the setup as a showcase for Ephron’s wit, Meg Ryan’s charm and Ryan’s chemistry with Billy Crystal. “Men and women don’t really hang out with each other at our age,” says Sylvia (Byrne), a former lawyer who’s now a stay-at-home mother of three. Her argument is half-hearted, unconvincing and immediately dismissed by her husband Charlie (Luke Macfarlane), who encourages Sylvia to get in touch with craft brewer Will (Rogen) in the wake of his divorce. 

A beloved ballplayer and an iconic consumer device join a Hollywood satire by Charlie Day, an Emanuele Crialese film with Penelope Cruz and debuts from Sundance and Venice in a potentially strong specialty weekend that will test the appetite for indie film with no new franchise wide releases.

Mystery woman no more. Robert De Niro has kept his relationship with Tiffany Chen under wraps since the pair were first linked in 2021.

News broke today (May 9) that Robert De Niro is now a father to seven after welcoming another baby.

James Corden is leaving The Late Late Show much like he entered: with a bang.

Billy Crystal celebrated his 75th birthday in style.The iconic actor recreated a shot from his 1989 classic rom-com,, where he crouches down on the floor in white sneakers, jeans, and a white cable-knit sweater. On Tuesday, which marked his milestone birthday, Crystal tweeted the side-by-side images, writing, «Thank you all...»Thank you all… pic.twitter.com/EySEYTBJMcActor Ben Stiller replied to the tweet, writing, «Lots of love and respect @BillyCrystal.

Billy Crystal is feeling nostalgic on his birthday. The actor turned 75 on March 14th, and to celebrate, he recreated a moment from the beloved rom-com, "When Harry Met Sally…" Crystal donned a white sweater, jeans and sneakers, and took a photo of himself in a low squat, putting it side by side with a near identical looking moment in the movie.

Jimmy Kimmel took to the 2023 Oscars stage on Sunday, ready to bring the heat. In his third time as Oscars host, Kimmel was every bit the seasoned pro people expected, and he set the tone for the night with a funny and upbeat opening monologue.Taking a page out of Billy Crystal's old Oscars hosting handbook, Kimmel inserted himself into a scene from -- ejecting from a fighter plane, only to parachute down onto the stage of the Dolby Theatre in dramatic fashion.As for his monologue, it was gently playful, poking fun at some of the nominees but with a loving and playful tone.«This is, I think, a great piece of Oscars trivia: 31 years ago, in 1992, Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan were in a movie together — you remember what it was? ! Two actors from n are nominated for Ocars,» Kimmel said, with a laugh.

Hello, and welcome to Oscars Sunday on Deadline. Tonight we gather as another lengthy awards season draws to a close, and what a bizarre season it has been. Before the year started, who would’ve thought a pic like A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, a scrappy sci-fi comedy adventure about an Asian-American family, would go from outside underdog to odds-on front-runner? The film debuted last year out at SXSW but has stuck around, charming its way onto screens across the world and picking up top honors from all four major guilds — a sweep only four other films have ever achieved. But can it win Best Picture? That’s perhaps the biggest question still at play this evening.

From the Anne Hathaway–James Franco disaster of 2011 to David Letterman‘s “Oprah, Uma” joke in 1995, there has been no shortage of memorable host moments in Academy Awards history.

The opening of the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday is going to be a “moment,” the show’s producers promise.

The Midnight Special, the once hugely popular music program that featured such now legendary performers of the 1970s and early ’80s as David Bowie, Tina Turner, Elton John and too many others to list, is now available to watch on YouTube.

Rick Newman, the founder of New York City’s hugely influential Catch a Rising Star comedy club that provided a training ground for the stand-up comics who would change the landscape of entertainment in the 1970s, died Feb. 20 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 81.

Richard Belzer died Sunday, February 19, at his home in France. The actor was 78.

Richard Belzer, who played Detective John Munch on "Law & Order: SVU," was mourned by Hollywood friends following his death in France. He was 78. "He passed at home early this morning in the south of France – in his home in the south of France – with his family around him," longtime friend Bill Scheft confirmed to Fox News Digital.

Jimmy Kimmel is interviewing for the toughest job of his life – Oscar host!