Ben Stiller

Speed-dating the stars: talking life, death, and anything but movies

In interviews with The Meyerowitz Stories’ Dustin Hoffman, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Emma Thompson, the stars riff on family, art and happiness

Twitter vs. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

A Ben Stiller movie reveals problems in online film criticism

Being Canadian: Doc asks A-list comics, regular citizens about national identity

‘Late at night, if I get on a subway car and there are some Canadians on…I get off’

Eddie Murphy short-changed in ‘Tower Heist’

Murphy plays second fiddle to Ben Stiller in a role that starts strong but fizzles in the end—just like the movie

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Year in pictures – Oscars

Maclean’s presents the best photos of 2010

Opening Weekend: boundary issues in ‘Chloe’ and ‘Greenberg’

Amanda Seyfried and Ben Stiller to take a walk on the wild side with auteurs Atom Egoyan and Noah Baumbach.

The Method in Robert Downey Jr.’s madness

The Iron Man of acting delivers the world’s first DVD commentary in verbal blackface.

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This Will Totally Save Reality TV From Destruction, or “I Am Not Evil, I Am Not the Devil”

NBC has decided that the best way to combat the reality ratings decline is to develop a reality show for Tony Robbins. Really? Tony Robbins? His company always comes off in infomercials as a low-budget version of the Unification Church, and I don’t see anybody giving Sun Myung Moon his own reality show. Oh, and make sure you read some of the comments to the TV Week article:

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Robot, Go Home!

While we count the seconds until 90210, we should take time to remember The Ben Stiller Show‘s “Melrose Heights 90210,” where Stiller, co-creator Judd Apatow (in the first of his many TV cult flops) and their writers satirized the original 90210’s relentlessly pro-social messages, and Janeane Garofalo parodied Shannen Doherty’s weird line deliveries. This is the second of the two Melrose Heights sketches, where Vaughn (Bob Odenkirk) is shunned by his fellow students because they think he’s… a robot. The combination of melodrama with hit-you-over-the-head PSAs was a staple of Fox’s early programming — 90210 picked it up from 21 Jump Street — and also of Canadian programming (that’s kind of the Degrassi formula, but in a grittier way), but it’s what the producers of new 90210 are apparently trying to stay away from. For now at least.