Area road trips May 28, 2009
Academy Award-nominated actor Chazz Palminteri returns to the stage from a successful run on Broadway in A Bronx Tale, opening Tuesday at the State Theatre (651-989-5151) in Minneapolis and running through June 7. At the Orpheum Theatre (651-989-5151) in Minneapolis, Broadway s longest running show, Phantom of the Opera, continues through June 7. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Au revoir, Aujourd'hui May 26, 2009
" Perhaps it was the previous night's shindig at Foxwoods that tuckered Tila out. She spent her Saturday night at the opening of Ed and Joe Kane's new casino nightclub, Scorpion Bar. Also at the Foxwoods Scorpion Bar party was Godsmack singer Sully Erna and former Patriots player Christian Fauria with his wife, Rhonda.Dining Nantucket style Todd English hosted two VIP dinners at his new Nantucket restaurant, Figs at 29 Fair. Guests included food maven Dun Gifford, Channel 2's Russ and Marian... (Boston Globe)
Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 10-16 May 7, 2009
Actor Chazz Palminteri is 57. Musician Mike Oldfield is 56. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Springsteen tickets selling at reduced rates Apr 3, 2009
7:30 p.m.: "Jolene," shot in Arizona and stars Chazz Palminteri, Dermot Mulroney, Theresa Russell and Denise Richards. 7:40 p.m.: "The Poker Club," with Johnathon Schaech in attendance. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
The gang's all here in 'A Bronx Tale' Apr 3, 2009
With his restaging of ''A Bronx Tale,'' Chazz Palminteri returns to where it all started for him ... When Chazz Palminteri wrote "A Bronx Tale," back in the 1980s, he must have known he was understating the case ... The Chazz Palminteri who stands onstage here is not the young Turk of 1989, any more than he's the 9-year-old boy at the center of the first part of the action, or the 17-year-old self who takes over later on. (Boston Globe)
Characters welcome Apr 1, 2009
Sonny, Jimmy 10 to 2, Eddie Mush, Frankie Coffee Cake, and Bobo are a few of the colorful characters inhabited by Chazz Palminteri in his one-man show, "A Bronx Tale." Based on his '60s Bronx childhood, the Oscar-nominated actor wrote and first performed the play in 1989. The film followed in 1993, and Palminteri brought the hood to Broadway a couple of years ago where it had a successful run. (Boston Globe)
Critic's picks - theater Mar 30, 2009
Chazz Palminteri tours in his one-man show, based on an incident from his childhood. March 31-April 5. (Boston Globe)
Chazz Palminteri revisits his old neighborhood Mar 22, 2009
Chazz Palminteri greets old friends Chiara and Jerome, who run Gino's Pastry Shop in the Belmont section of the Bronx where Palminteri grew up ... "Chazz Palminteri is pointing to a spot on East 187th Street in the Bronx a few yards down from its intersection with Cambreleng Avenue. It was there, back in the early '60s, that a neighborhood wise guy gunned down a man in broad daylight who had come out of his car with a baseball bat to beat another man in a car vying for the same parking... (Boston Globe)
