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Feb 1, 2010 from Hollywood Reporter:
Matthew Broderick is coming to series television.

The actor, who had been courted by TV networks for years to headline a show, is attached to star in NBC's multicamera comedy pilot "Beach Lane," which was given the green light Monday.

"Beach Lane," from UMS, Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video and writer Paul Simms ("NewsRadio"), stars Broderick as a celebrity author hired by an irresponsible millionaire heir to run his struggling small-town newspaper in the Hamptons.

Broderick was approached to do the project months ago but would only commit after reading the final script.

His involvement in "Beach Lane" follows his guest stint on NBC's "30 Rock," which is exec produced by Michaels.

Jan 27, 2010 from Playbill:
Marisa Tomei, Matthew Broderick and John Slattery will appear in plays by Kenneth Longergan, Theresa Rebeck and Jon Robin Baitz for Naked Angels' The Issues Project: Collected Plays.

Presented Jan. 28 at 7:30 PM, the sold-out evening of short plays will benefit Naked Angels' New Play Development Fund. The performance is hosted and co-directed by Naked Angels artistic director Geoffrey Nauffts (Next Fall) and Pippin Parker.

The four plays and their casts include A Passion Play by Pippin Parker, featuring Marisa Tomei and Patrick Breen; Sex With the Censor by Theresa Rebeck, featuring Zachary Quinto and Jodie Markell; Beauty Runs on Light Feet by Kenneth Lonergan, featuring Lonergan and Kelly Wolf; Coq Au Vin by Jon Robin Baitz, featuring Matthew Broderick and John Slattery.

from Broadway World:
On Monday, January 25, a starry ensemble including Matthew Broderick, Jill Clayburgh, Josh Hamilton, Ethan Hawke, Marin Ireland, Natasha Lyonne, Marsha Mason, Laurie Metcalf, John Pankow, Sam Shepard, Reshma Shetty, Maggie Siff, Frank Whaley, Karen Young, Keith Carradine, Ann Harada, and Anika Larsen honored Robyn Goodman with the Michael Mendelson Award for Outstanding Commitment to Theater at The New Group's 2010 Gala Benefit. The Gala took place at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill in an dinner and auction event hosted by Wallace Shawn and Jeff Whitty.

Jan 22, 2010 from Shreveport Times:
Tickets are on sale now for two fundraiser screenings at The Robinson Film Center.

The screenings, held at 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Jan. 29 at 617 Texas St. in Shreveport, will feature the new film “Wonderful World,” which stars Matthew Broderick and written and directed by Joshua Goldin.

Both Broderick and Goldin will attend and host a live post-screening question-and-answer sessions after each showing.

Tickets are $75 each and include the screening and question-and-answer period. Tickets can be purchased by calling (318) 459-4122 or at the box office.

Jan 21, 2010 from Fashion.ie:
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick were out to support Victor Garber at the opening of his Broadway show "Present Laughter" on Thursday night.

Jan 14, 2010 from TIME:
“Who Do You Think You Are?” premieres Friday, March 5 (8-9 p.m. ET) and gives viewers an up-close and personal look inside the family history of some of today's most beloved and iconic celebrities. Among the celebrities featured are Matthew Broderick, Lisa Kudrow, Spike Lee, Sarah Jessica Parker, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields and Emmitt Smith. Ancestry.com is NBC's official partner on the series. From executive producer Kudrow - in conjunction with her production company Is or Isn't Entertainment and the U.K.'s Wall to Wall productions - “Who Do You Think You Are?” is an adaptation of the hit BBC television documentary series created and executive-produced by Alex Graham.

from Baltimore Sun:
Anne Bancroft's name comes up again in conversation when Mel Brooks talks about a ceremony he attended in December in Washington, when he was one of five American artists selected to receive the Kennedy Center Honors for 2009.

"I kept missing my wife a lot," he says. "Anne was a Democrat, and she would have enjoyed that night."

The televised ceremony featured a musical medley from several of Brooks' shows. At one point, the cameras panned to Brooks in the honorees' box where, with a huge smile on his face, he was mouthing the words to his lyrics along with the performers on stage.

"It was thrilling, absolutely thrilling," he says, "really the highlight of the year for me. I nearly cried when Matthew Broderick was singing, and I'm not a sentimental guy. Plus, in a few weeks, I can put the award they gave me on eBay. I should get a few thousand for it."

Jan 13, 2010 from AP:
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – A suspended Ohio police chief has been spared jail time for his part in snooping on the woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.

Under terms of his Wednesday sentence, Chad Dojack of Bridgeport in eastern Ohio must complete 50 days of house arrest, three years' probation and 100 hours of community service. He had pleaded no contest to dereliction of duty, a misdemeanor.

Dojack and Barry Carpenter, now ex-chief of nearby Martins Ferry, were accused of scheming to take things from the surrogate mother's Martins Ferry home last year to sell to celebrity photographers.

Carpenter was convicted of felony charges and sentenced to two years, eight months in prison.

Jan 11, 2010 from Splash News:
Matthew Broderick has shown off pictures of his twin daughters as he appears on US television.

The Ferris Bueller's Day Off star shared a snap of the girls, Marion Loretta and Tabitha Hodge, on The Ellen DeGeneres show today.

And he joked that the pair did not look that alike.

The proud dad said: 'They have very different hairdos, each of them.

'They're incredibly cute. They're bigger than that now. I think they're about four-months-old [here].'

Matthew, 47, also said he and wife Sarah Jessica Parker's son, James Wilke, seven, had welcomed the new additions to the family after being initially wary of them.

He said: 'He's coming around.'

TV host Ellen then gave him miniature pink and red high heels and handbags as gifts for the tots.

Jan 6, 2010 from WENN:
Matthew Broderick turned down repeat offers to star alongside his wife Sarah Jessica Parker in her hit TV show Sex And The City.

The couple has never appeared onscreen together throughout their 13-year marrriage, and Ferris Bueller star Broderick decided that wasn't going to change when his wife's TV show became a smash hit.

He reveals he has turned down every opportunity to appear alongside his spouse. He tells Us Weekly magazine, "We did a play together, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, but it's not really something we look for.

Jan 4, 2010 from Huffington Post:
A chance to be in a film costarring with Matthew Broderick? Michael Kenneth Williams figured someone was calling the wrong number.

So he blew off the first couple of phone messages from representatives of writer-director Joshua Goldin about the film Wonderful World, which opens Friday (1/8/10). It was only when Goldin himself reached Williams that the Brooklyn-born actor figured something might actually be up.

"I thought it was a mass call; I got intimidated because it was opposite Matthew Broderick," Williams recalls, adding that, when he first was notified of the audition, "I thought, I'm not going to waste my time. Then Josh called me back a few times and said he wanted me. So I went in."

In Wonderful World, Williams plays Ibou, Broderick's roommate, a Senegalese immigrant to whom the unhappily divorced Broderick regularly loses at chess. When Ibou suffers a health crisis, Broderick's character finds a purpose for his own confused life, fighting city hall on his roommate's behalf.

Williams worked on his character's accent while filming Spike Lee's Miracle of St. Ann in Tuscany two years ago: "I befriended a gentleman from Senegal. He taught me a lot about what sort of person this character was, how to pronounce the language. It was a lot of help. That accent was by far my biggest challenge."

The two characters seem unlikely friends, but, Williams says, "I guess that opposites attract. Plus Matthew's character needed a roommate, needed the money. They felt each other out and become friends over time."

And who is actually the superior chess player - him or Broderick?