After 10 seasons at the pressure cooker of Saturday Night Live, Cecily Strong comes well prepared, much loved and properly steeled to her New York stage debut as the solo star in an Off Broadway revival of Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Good thing, too, since jumping into a role so identified with the iconic Lily Tomlin must surely demand a degree of self-confidence to equal the comedy and acting chops required.
Tomlin was already a star when she performed the original Broadway production of The Search… in 1985, but her acclaimed, Tony-winning turn became an enduring showcase for the actress, a performance captured for a wider audience in a 1991 film adaptation. She even returned to Broadway in a 2000 revival.
Filling a role so thoroughly inhabited by its original performer – think Cassie Beck starring in the national touring production of What The Constitution Means To Me...
Tomlin was already a star when she performed the original Broadway production of The Search… in 1985, but her acclaimed, Tony-winning turn became an enduring showcase for the actress, a performance captured for a wider audience in a 1991 film adaptation. She even returned to Broadway in a 2000 revival.
Filling a role so thoroughly inhabited by its original performer – think Cassie Beck starring in the national touring production of What The Constitution Means To Me...
- 1/12/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
As if there were any doubt, Lily Tomlin reminded the world of her singular talents as she received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award on Sunday night in Los Angeles.
Taking the stage at the 23rd annual SAG Awards, the acclaimed actress, comedian, writer and producer accepted the honor from Dolly Parton, her longtime friend and costar in the 1980 comedy hit Nine to Five.
Tomlin took the stage to accept the award, joking that it came “just in the nick of time.”
“What a week this has been though. You are kind of anti-climactic,” she joked. “Doomsday clock moved...
Taking the stage at the 23rd annual SAG Awards, the acclaimed actress, comedian, writer and producer accepted the honor from Dolly Parton, her longtime friend and costar in the 1980 comedy hit Nine to Five.
Tomlin took the stage to accept the award, joking that it came “just in the nick of time.”
“What a week this has been though. You are kind of anti-climactic,” she joked. “Doomsday clock moved...
- 1/30/2017
- by Oliver Gettell and Jodi Guglielmi
- PEOPLE.com
When it comes to Hollywood relationships, Lily Tomlin and her wife, Jane Wagner, seem to have outlasted them all.
Tomlin says the secret to their 45-year relationship is simply a mutual “admiration and respect.”
Tomlin and Wagner — who is also the actress’ writing partner — tied the knot on Dec. 31, 2013. A few days before their wedding ceremony, they tried to go incognito to get their marriage license.
“We went in Van Nuys because if anyone should see us, we didn’t want them to write about us,” Tomlin tells People. “There were all kinds of young kids there getting married.”
A few days later,...
Tomlin says the secret to their 45-year relationship is simply a mutual “admiration and respect.”
Tomlin and Wagner — who is also the actress’ writing partner — tied the knot on Dec. 31, 2013. A few days before their wedding ceremony, they tried to go incognito to get their marriage license.
“We went in Van Nuys because if anyone should see us, we didn’t want them to write about us,” Tomlin tells People. “There were all kinds of young kids there getting married.”
A few days later,...
- 1/19/2017
- by miamcniecetimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
Los Angeles Times Lily Tomlin's classic one woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe is being relaunched in La as a 12 person play (!)
/Film Rogue One releases its final trailer. I'm personally not watching(I like to save something for the movie theater) but it's here if you want it
Variety Jk Rowling will never leave us alone. Five films are planned in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them franchise.
Tracking Board here's interesting news. Mark Rylance will team with Embrace of the Serpent director Ciro Guerra for a movie based on a 1980 Nobel prize winning book called Waiting for the Barbarians
Deadline Netflix in the lead to get The Helicopter Heist starring Jake Gyllenhaal
The New Yorker on Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize in literature
Interview talks to rising star Ben Schetzer (Pride, Goat, Warcraft)
The New Republic Miriam Bale on...
/Film Rogue One releases its final trailer. I'm personally not watching(I like to save something for the movie theater) but it's here if you want it
Variety Jk Rowling will never leave us alone. Five films are planned in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them franchise.
Tracking Board here's interesting news. Mark Rylance will team with Embrace of the Serpent director Ciro Guerra for a movie based on a 1980 Nobel prize winning book called Waiting for the Barbarians
Deadline Netflix in the lead to get The Helicopter Heist starring Jake Gyllenhaal
The New Yorker on Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize in literature
Interview talks to rising star Ben Schetzer (Pride, Goat, Warcraft)
The New Republic Miriam Bale on...
- 10/14/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
I don't keep a running list of all the people I have or haven't interviewed over the last 17 years. I think my first official Ain't It Cool interview was either with Brad Bird or maybe Neil Gaiman. Or was it Kevin Spacey? I have memories of many of the interviews I've done. Specific questions or reactions. But as many things as I remember, I'll bet I've forgotten five times more things, simply because of the sheer volume of all of the interviews I've done. There are people I know I've never spoken with, though, because if I had, those memories would not fade. And one of the people that I have always wanted to meet and talk to about their work was Lily Tomlin. I say "was" because as of last Friday, she is no longer on my "to do" list. We sat down to talk about her new film,...
- 8/19/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
What had ETonline readers buzzing this week?
1. Emily Maynard Engaged
Former Bachelorette star Emily Maynard is taking another shot at finding true love. The Southern belle has confirmed to Et that she's engaged to boyfriend Tyler Johnson.
This marks Maynard's fourth engagement. Her first fiancé, race car driver Ricky Hendrick, died tragically in a plane crash in 2004 before the couple could walk down the aisle. She and Hendrick had a daughter named Ricki, who is now age eight. Her second engagement came at the end of The Bachelor's 15th season when she accepted Brad Womack's proposal only to return his engagement ring shortly thereafter. In 2012, Maynard became engaged to Jef Holm on the season finale of The Bachelorette, but split up months later.
2. Plastic Surgery Addict Seeks 'Qqq' Breasts
One of the most bizarre obsessions to be featured on TLC's reality series My Strange Addiction is a mother of six who has already undergone at least...
1. Emily Maynard Engaged
Former Bachelorette star Emily Maynard is taking another shot at finding true love. The Southern belle has confirmed to Et that she's engaged to boyfriend Tyler Johnson.
This marks Maynard's fourth engagement. Her first fiancé, race car driver Ricky Hendrick, died tragically in a plane crash in 2004 before the couple could walk down the aisle. She and Hendrick had a daughter named Ricki, who is now age eight. Her second engagement came at the end of The Bachelor's 15th season when she accepted Brad Womack's proposal only to return his engagement ring shortly thereafter. In 2012, Maynard became engaged to Jef Holm on the season finale of The Bachelorette, but split up months later.
2. Plastic Surgery Addict Seeks 'Qqq' Breasts
One of the most bizarre obsessions to be featured on TLC's reality series My Strange Addiction is a mother of six who has already undergone at least...
- 1/11/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, who’ve been in a relationship for over four decades, were married on New Year’s Eve.
Lily Tomlin Marries Jane Wagner
Tomlin, 74, and Wagner, 78, tied the knot in a private ceremony in Los Angeles, the actress’ publicist Jennifer Allen told Us Weekly, adding, “They are very happy.”
"It was an eventful New Year's Eve," wrote Chicago Tribune gossip columnist Liz Smith last week before the nuptial news was confirmed. "My longtime friends, Lily Tomlin and her love, the writer Jane Wagner, got married on the eve of 2014...My wish is that their happiness will be as great as their combined talents."
Tomlin met Wagner for the first time back in 1971, when the duo worked together on Tomlin’s comedy album This Is a Recording. Proving their comedic chemistry, the album won the 1972 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording.
Wagner also wrote with Tomlin for...
Lily Tomlin Marries Jane Wagner
Tomlin, 74, and Wagner, 78, tied the knot in a private ceremony in Los Angeles, the actress’ publicist Jennifer Allen told Us Weekly, adding, “They are very happy.”
"It was an eventful New Year's Eve," wrote Chicago Tribune gossip columnist Liz Smith last week before the nuptial news was confirmed. "My longtime friends, Lily Tomlin and her love, the writer Jane Wagner, got married on the eve of 2014...My wish is that their happiness will be as great as their combined talents."
Tomlin met Wagner for the first time back in 1971, when the duo worked together on Tomlin’s comedy album This Is a Recording. Proving their comedic chemistry, the album won the 1972 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording.
Wagner also wrote with Tomlin for...
- 1/8/2014
- Uinterview
Lily Tomlin has married her longtime partner, Jane Wagner.
The 74-year-old actress/comedian wed Wagner, 78, in a private ceremony in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve, Tomlin's rep confirmed Tuesday to People magazine. "They're very happy," spokesperson Jennifer Allen told the publication about the couple, who have spent 42 years together.
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The two reportedly met while Tomlin was searching for a collaborator to help her develop her character of the wicked child Edith Ann.
The couple has collaborated on many professional projects written by Wagner, including Tomlin's Tony-winning one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, as well as the 1981 movie The Incredible Shrinking Woman.
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The 74-year-old actress/comedian wed Wagner, 78, in a private ceremony in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve, Tomlin's rep confirmed Tuesday to People magazine. "They're very happy," spokesperson Jennifer Allen told the publication about the couple, who have spent 42 years together.
Pics: They Dated?! Surprising Celebrity Hookups
The two reportedly met while Tomlin was searching for a collaborator to help her develop her character of the wicked child Edith Ann.
The couple has collaborated on many professional projects written by Wagner, including Tomlin's Tony-winning one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, as well as the 1981 movie The Incredible Shrinking Woman.
Pics: Matching Celebrity Couples...
- 1/7/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Show-stopping actress and comedian Lily Tomlin and her partner of 42 years, Jane Wagner, were married in a private ceremony in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve, Tomlin's rep confirmed to People on Tuesday. "They're very happy," says the spokesperson, Jennifer Allen. Besides their relationship, the couple's many celebrated collaborations, written by Wagner, include Tomlin's Tony-winning one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, which played on Broadway, toured and was filmed for the screen, as well as the movie The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Wagner, 78, was born and raised in Morristown, Tennessee. Tomlin, 74, is from Detroit. It...
- 1/7/2014
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden's God Of Carnage has become the most successful non-musical play ever staged at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre.
The production closed on Sunday after eight weeks, grossing over $7.5 million (£4.7 million). Almost 98,000 theatre fans saw the Yasmina Reza play, which also featured Jeff Daniels and Hope Davis.
The production picked up the Best Play Tony Award in 2009 when Gandolfini, Harden, Daniels and Davis starred in the show on Broadway.
The Ahmanson's previous top-grossing play was The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, which starred Lily Tomlin. That production earned $3.7 million (£2.3 million) for an eight-week run in the 2002-03 season, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The production closed on Sunday after eight weeks, grossing over $7.5 million (£4.7 million). Almost 98,000 theatre fans saw the Yasmina Reza play, which also featured Jeff Daniels and Hope Davis.
The production picked up the Best Play Tony Award in 2009 when Gandolfini, Harden, Daniels and Davis starred in the show on Broadway.
The Ahmanson's previous top-grossing play was The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, which starred Lily Tomlin. That production earned $3.7 million (£2.3 million) for an eight-week run in the 2002-03 season, according to the Los Angeles Times.
- 6/2/2011
- WENN
This week has been a bit of a bummer. We lost a great comedian, a great director and the one that hit me the most, a great editor in Sally Menke. It’s a devastating blow in the world of editing, mainly because she was one of the premier editors, considering she worked on every film with Quentin Tarantino. How does one write something about a specific person that meant the world to them but never met?
When I was younger and first saw Reservoir Dogs, I loved it for its basic violence, back and forth story, Mexican standoff and the character’s cool code names. I was only 12 years old but it struck a nerve in me that I couldn’t explain right away, but it had an effect on me. Such an effect that I was a die hard Tarantino fan from that day forward. But when I saw Pulp Fiction,...
When I was younger and first saw Reservoir Dogs, I loved it for its basic violence, back and forth story, Mexican standoff and the character’s cool code names. I was only 12 years old but it struck a nerve in me that I couldn’t explain right away, but it had an effect on me. Such an effect that I was a die hard Tarantino fan from that day forward. But when I saw Pulp Fiction,...
- 9/30/2010
- by James McCormick
- CriterionCast
Sally Menke, an Oscar-nominated film editor who worked on every Quentin Tarantino movie, was found dead Tuesday along a Griffith Park trail where she went hiking during a record heat wave. She was 56.
Menke, the wife of Oscar-winning director Dean Parisot, edited every Tarantino pic from "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) to last year's "In¬glourious Basterds," which earned her an Oscar nomination. She also received a nom for "Pulp Fiction" (1994).
Investigators suspect she died of hyperthermia Monday, when downtown Los Angeles was on its way to a record high of 113, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Fred Corral said. An autopsy is planned for Wednesday.
A Friars Club Roast of Tarantino, scheduled for Friday in New York with Samuel L. Jackson as roast master, was postponed. The director met with executives, "and it was immediately decided, out of respect for the sad loss, to postpone the roast," a Friars spokesman told The Hollywood Reporter.
Menke, the wife of Oscar-winning director Dean Parisot, edited every Tarantino pic from "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) to last year's "In¬glourious Basterds," which earned her an Oscar nomination. She also received a nom for "Pulp Fiction" (1994).
Investigators suspect she died of hyperthermia Monday, when downtown Los Angeles was on its way to a record high of 113, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Fred Corral said. An autopsy is planned for Wednesday.
A Friars Club Roast of Tarantino, scheduled for Friday in New York with Samuel L. Jackson as roast master, was postponed. The director met with executives, "and it was immediately decided, out of respect for the sad loss, to postpone the roast," a Friars spokesman told The Hollywood Reporter.
- 9/28/2010
- by By Georg Szalai and Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lily Tomlin, at 70, shows no signs of slowing down. In the 40 years since she became a household name on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Tomlin has appeared in rite-of-passage films such as Nine to Five and Big Business, won a Tony Award for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (written by longtime partner Jane Wagner), and returned to television as a regular on Murphy Brown, The West Wing, and Desperate Housewives, and early next year on Damages. Now Tomlin and Wagner are plotting to conquer Las Vegas (her show Not Playing With a Full Deck has a limited engagement November 10-18 at the MGM Grand), which, for edge-straddlers like these two, may be the final frontier.Advocate.com: Why Vegas? Why now?Lily Tomlin: Why not? Actually, it’s a fair question. I did make relentless fun of it years ago on a TV special (Lily: Sold Out,...
- 10/26/2009
- The Advocate
Lily Tomlin, at 70, shows no signs of slowing down. In the 40 years since she became a household name on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Tomlin has appeared in rite-of-passage films such as Nine to Five and Big Business, won a Tony Award for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (written by longtime partner Jane Wagner), and returned to television as a regular on Murphy Brown, The West Wing, and Desperate Housewives, and early next year on Damages. Now Tomlin and Wagner are plotting to conquer Las Vegas (her show Not Playing With a Full Deck has a limited engagement November 10-18 at the MGM Grand), which, for edge-straddlers like these two, may be the final frontier.Advocate.com: Why Vegas? Why now?Lily Tomlin: Why not? Actually, it’s a fair question. I did make relentless fun of it years ago on a TV special (Lily: Sold Out,...
- 10/26/2009
- The Advocate
Lily Tomlin, at 70, shows no signs of slowing down. In the 40 years since she became a household name on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Tomlin has appeared in rite-of-passage films such as Nine to Five and Big Business, won a Tony Award for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (written by longtime partner Jane Wagner), and returned to television as a regular on Murphy Brown, The West Wing, and Desperate Housewives, and early next year on Damages. Now Tomlin and Wagner are plotting to conquer Las Vegas (her show Not Playing With a Full Deck has a limited engagement November 10-18 at the MGM Grand), which, for edge-straddlers like these two, may be the final frontier.Advocate.com: Why Vegas? Why now?Lily Tomlin: Why not? Actually, it’s a fair question. I did make relentless fun of it years ago on a TV special (Lily: Sold Out,...
- 10/26/2009
- The Advocate
Lily Tomlin, at 70, shows no signs of slowing down. In the 40 years since she became a household name on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Tomlin has appeared in rite-of-passage films such as Nine to Five and Big Business, won a Tony Award for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (written by longtime partner Jane Wagner), and returned to television as a regular on Murphy Brown, The West Wing, and Desperate Housewives, and early next year on Damages. Now Tomlin and Wagner are plotting to conquer Las Vegas (her show Not Playing With a Full Deck has a limited engagement November 10-18 at the MGM Grand), which, for edge-straddlers like these two, may be the final frontier.Advocate.com: Why Vegas? Why now?Lily Tomlin: Why not? Actually, it’s a fair question. I did make relentless fun of it years ago on a TV special (Lily: Sold Out,...
- 10/26/2009
- The Advocate
Lily Tomlin, at 70, shows no signs of slowing down. In the 40 years since she became a household name on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Tomlin has appeared in rite-of-passage films such as Nine to Five and Big Business, won a Tony Award for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (written by longtime partner Jane Wagner), and returned to television as a regular on Murphy Brown, The West Wing, and Desperate Housewives, and early next year on Damages. Now Tomlin and Wagner are plotting to conquer Las Vegas (her show Not Playing With a Full Deck has a limited engagement November 10-18 at the MGM Grand), which, for edge-straddlers like these two, may be the final frontier.Advocate.com: Why Vegas? Why now?Lily Tomlin: Why not? Actually, it’s a fair question. I did make relentless fun of it years ago on a TV special (Lily: Sold Out,...
- 10/26/2009
- The Advocate
Lily Tomlin, at 70, shows no signs of slowing down. In the 40 years since she became a household name on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Tomlin has appeared in rite-of-passage films such as Nine to Five and Big Business, won a Tony Award for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (written by longtime partner Jane Wagner), and returned to television as a regular on Murphy Brown, The West Wing, and Desperate Housewives, and early next year on Damages. Now Tomlin and Wagner are plotting to conquer Las Vegas (her show Not Playing With a Full Deck has a limited engagement November 10-18 at the MGM Grand), which, for edge-straddlers like these two, may be the final frontier.Advocate.com: Why Vegas? Why now?Lily Tomlin: Why not? Actually, it’s a fair question. I did make relentless fun of it years ago on a TV special (Lily: Sold Out,...
- 10/26/2009
- The Advocate
Lily Tomlin, at 70, shows no signs of slowing down. In the 40 years since she became a household name on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Tomlin has appeared in rite-of-passage films such as Nine to Five and Big Business, won a Tony Award for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (written by longtime partner Jane Wagner), and returned to television as a regular on Murphy Brown, The West Wing, and Desperate Housewives, and early next year on Damages. Now Tomlin and Wagner are plotting to conquer Las Vegas (her show Not Playing With a Full Deck has a limited engagement November 10-18 at the MGM Grand), which, for edge-straddlers like these two, may be the final frontier.Advocate.com: Why Vegas? Why now?Lily Tomlin: Why not? Actually, it’s a fair question. I did make relentless fun of it years ago on a TV special (Lily: Sold Out,...
- 10/26/2009
- The Advocate
Veteran actress Lily Tomlin once risked the wrath of Katharine Hepburn when she invaded the Hollywood icon's personal space to plant several kisses on her face.
The Desperate Housewives star was appearing in a Broadway production of one-woman play The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe in 1985 when she discovered top movie stars Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep and Hepburn were sitting in the audience.
And Tomlin was so excited when Hepburn came backstage to meet her, she admits she may have overstepped the boundaries with the notoriously frosty star.
She explains, "One night I was on Broadway and Meryl Streep, Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand came. I didn't know. I heard someone coming up to the dressing room and I saw Katharine Hepburn's face coming towards me. And I grabbed hold of her face and started kissing her.
"If you know Katharine Hepburn, she would not like that. And she didn't do anything! I was kissing her and she was so gracious, she didn't really say anything unpleasant."...
The Desperate Housewives star was appearing in a Broadway production of one-woman play The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe in 1985 when she discovered top movie stars Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep and Hepburn were sitting in the audience.
And Tomlin was so excited when Hepburn came backstage to meet her, she admits she may have overstepped the boundaries with the notoriously frosty star.
She explains, "One night I was on Broadway and Meryl Streep, Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand came. I didn't know. I heard someone coming up to the dressing room and I saw Katharine Hepburn's face coming towards me. And I grabbed hold of her face and started kissing her.
"If you know Katharine Hepburn, she would not like that. And she didn't do anything! I was kissing her and she was so gracious, she didn't really say anything unpleasant."...
- 10/23/2009
- WENN
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