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Nov 30, 2009 from Theater Mania:
The New Group's world premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's play The Starry Messenger, at Theatre Row has extended one week, with the production to now close on Saturday, December 19.

from Sedona.biz:
SEDONA - Matthew Broderick stars in “Wonderful World” — a bittersweet comedy about families, friends and a frivolous fight against corporate institutions — which premieres in Sedona on Tuesday, Dec. 8. There will be two screenings of the film at 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. at Harkins Sedona Six Theatres.

The film is being presented by the Sedona International Film Festival in this one-night-only special engagement as part of its popular Second Tuesday Cinema Series. The Sedona premiere comes five weeks before the U.S. theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles.

Nov 24, 2009 from New York Magazine:
Martin Short gave a solo standing ovation at Matthew Broderick's new play.

Nov 23, 2009 from AP:
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – An eastern Ohio police chief was convicted of three felonies Monday but was acquitted of burglary charges in an alleged break-in at the home of a woman who carried twin girls for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.

A jury found suspended Martins Ferry Chief Barry Carpenter guilty of receiving stolen property, theft in office and tampering with evidence. He was acquitted on charges of burglary and unauthorized used of property or services.

Carpenter put his head in his hands after the verdict was read in Belmont County court.

"The bottom line is that there is a victim in this case whose privacy was so gravely intruded upon," Ohio Assistant Attorney General Emily Laube said. "If you can't trust the police, who can you trust?

Messages seeking comment were left for Carpenter's attorney, Dennis McNamara, and for Parker-Broderick spokesman Simon Halls.

Prosecutors alleged that Carpenter broke into Michelle Ross' home in May, took items related to her pregnancy and the surrogacy, and schemed with the Police Chief Chad Dojack of neighboring Bridgeport to sell the items to celebrity photographers.

Dojack faces trial in January on two counts of complicity to burglary and one count of complicity to receiving stolen property.

Carpenter had testified that he went into the home to check it out because he saw a door open. He said he took photos of a surrogacy file that contained two ultrasound pictures and of a plaster cast of a pregnant stomach but did not take anything from the home.

He said he showed the photo of the cast to paparazzi and to several other people and said he never discussed selling items from the home to the photographers.

When his lawyer asked if he was just "messing" with the photographers, Carpenter said "absolutely." McNamara said in closing arguments last week that Carpenter made a bad choice.

"Barry admits that he acted very stupidly, but denies that he acted criminally," he said.

Ross testified that she was staying in a West Virginia hotel around the time of the alleged break-in and that, when she returned, she noticed ultrasound photos, surrogacy files and tax information were gone, photos had been rifled through and the plaster cast, made when she was pregnant with her own son, was misplaced.

Jurors deliberated for about 12 hours on Friday and Monday.

Nov 19, 2009 from Playblog:
The New Group, which is premiering Kenneth Lonergan’s new play, The Starry Messenger, on Nov. 23 at Theatre Row, opted to have its opening-night party a week early and packed the house with assorted celebs and its own starry stock company: Bobby Cannavale, Josh Hamilton, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sam Trammell, Sam Rockwell, Natasha Lyonne, Rosie O’Donnell, Wallace Shawn, Kathryn Erbe, Joan Rivers, Leslie Bibb, Tate Donovan, Lisa Emery and Callie Thorne.

Matthew Broderick, a longtime pal of Lonergan who appeared in the writer-director’s film “You Can Count on Me,” plays a dullish, sparkle-free astronomy teacher at the Hayden Planetarium who stumbles into an extramarital affair (with Catalina Sandino Moreno, the Oscar nominee of “Maria Full of Grace”). J. Smith-Cameron — Mrs. Lonergan, ironically — plays a wife you’d want to run away from.

The tone of the play is serious and life-like, peppered with stingy zingers and measured sarcasm. For Broderick, the role is very heavy-lifting, Hamlet-sized and full of protracted speeches. Just getting through it is a major feat of memory.

One speech, he said, “is three solid pages of script — with very wide margins.”

Nov 18, 2009 from Broadway World:
Q: We'll be listening! I know you're seeing shows all the time, what was the last one that you caught on Broadway?

Rosie O'Donnell: I saw the Starry Messenger, the Matthew Broderick play and it was absolutely brilliant. I loved it and thought it was so absolutely beautiful and moving. It's two hours and forty-five minutes, which on the way in gave me a nervous headache -- what was I seeing? Nicholas Nickleby? How am I going to get through this? But it totally flew by and totally carries your interest.

Nov 17, 2009 from Playbill:
The cast of Kenneth Lonergan's The Starry Messenger, currently in previews at Theatre Row, enjoyed a pre-opening party Nov. 16 at Montenapo. The work officially opens Nov. 23.

from AP:
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — A paparazzo has testified that an Ohio police chief told him he had access to ultrasound photographs belonging to the woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.

Justin Steffman of New York testified Tuesday in the trial of Barry Carpenter, the suspended chief of Martins Ferry, where surrogate Michelle Ross lived. Carpenter and Police Chief Chad Dojack from nearby Bridgeport are accused of scheming to sell items from Ross' home.

A special prosecutor has said Carpenter entered Ross' home in May and removed items that identified her as the surrogate.

Nov 16, 2009 from AP:
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — One of two Ohio police chiefs accused of prying on a Hollywood couple's surrogate mother is scheduled to go on trial.

Barry Carpenter is on suspension as chief in Martins Ferry, the eastern Ohio town where a woman lived while carrying twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick. Carpenter and Chief Chad Dojack from nearby Bridgeport are accused of conspiring to steal items from the woman's home and sell them to celebrity photographers.

Jury selection is expected Monday, possibly followed by opening statements, in Carpenter's trial on multiple felonies, including burglary and receiving stolen property.

Nov 10, 2009 from Fredericksburg.com:
While "Marching Band" opened the festival at the University of Virginia, the new independent film "Wonderful World," with Matthew Broderick, was the 85th and final film of the four-day event, screened Sunday night.

The movie, which will be released Jan. 8, focuses on a former children's musician (Broderick) who has become jaded by the way he was treated by the business side of his industry.

It's an interesting role for the actor who also screened his earlier film "Election."

Broderick, now doing the play "The Starry Messenger" off-Broadway, said he took the "Wonderful World" role because he respects director Josh Goldin and because it's a role that made him stretch to portray a person both cynical and, down deep, hopeful.

Broderick was in a playful mood when he took questions from the crowd, especially tackling a question about whether he was actively seeking roles that came with low pay.

"No, I like getting paid!" he said, adding that he could assure the audience that his off-Broadway role was paying him "at least $40 a night, almost enough to get me to the theater and back home again."

Nov 9, 2009 from The Hook:
Traditionally, Sunday has been a slow day as the Virginia Film Festival winds down. This year, events with True Blood creator Alan Ball and actor Matthew Broderick made it a not-to-be missed day.

We’ve always wanted to hear an actor say this: “The performances made it all better— mine in particular,” quips Matthew Broderick after a 10th anniversary screening of Election.

How Broderick captured the character of civics teacher Jim McAllister: “Something about a short-sleeve button-down shirt with tie seemed to do most of the work.”

Nov 3, 2009 from The Faster Times:
“Next Fall,” which had a brief albeit extended run at Playwrights Horizon, is planning to move to Broadway in the Spring, opening at the Helen Hayes on March 11th.

Written by Geoffrey Nauffts, the artistic director of the Naked Angels theater company, it had some prominent backers: Among the donors listed as having contributed $5,000 are Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, Elton John and David Furnish, Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor Stiller, and David Schwimmer (all, not coincidentally, collaborators with Nauffts on other projects.)

Oct 30, 2009 from AP:
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – A prosecutor has dropped a case connected to two Ohio police chiefs who were accused of snooping on the woman who bore twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.

Special prosecutor Shawn Hervey said Friday he prefers to have Bruce Callarik testify in the other men's upcoming trials.

All three were charged with a scheme to steal items from the surrogate's eastern Ohio home and sell them to paparazzi.

Oct 28, 2009 from Time Out New York:
Kenneth Lonergan started The Starry Messenger—a bittersweet drama about the ennui of middle age—20 years ago. At the time, he thought that his old friend Matthew Broderick would be perfect for the part of the aspiring astronomer Mark, if only he were in his forties. Now he is. Broderick plays a morally flawed, but deeply sympathetic man who teaches at the planetarium but really wants to return to academia. He has a wife (played by Lonergan’s spouse, J. Smith Cameron) who communicates with him mostly about holiday plans, and he’s having an affair with a much younger woman that does not appear to have a future. Is it strange to have his wife play a person that his protagonist is cheating on? “It’s a little weird,” he confesses.

Oct 27, 2009 from Theater Mania:
The New Group's world premiere of The Starry Messenger, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, will now open on Monday, November 23 at 8pm. As previously announced, Merwin Goldsmith has replaced Jonathan Hadary in the production, and previews -- which began last night -- were also delayed.

from New York Times:
Kenneth Lonergan’s “The Starry Messenger,” had its first preview performance Off Broadway on Monday night, but the show turned out not to be quite ready for a paying audience.

Because of bumps in the rehearsal process and last-minute rewrites by Mr. Lonergan, a prompter sat in the front row with a script in case any of the actors needed to call out for a line. The production’s star, Matthew Broderick, ended up calling out for several lines — about 10, by the count of one audience member.

The actor Merwin Goldsmith, who joined the New Group production only last week in an ensemble role, used a script on stage to read his lines. Mr. Goldsmith replaced Jonathan Hadary, who left for another job, according to a spokeswoman for the show.

Before the play began on Monday night, Scott Elliott, the artistic director of the New Group, informed the audience at the Acorn Theater that a prompter was on hand and that the performance would be the first full run-through for the cast in front of an outside audience. In an interview Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Elliott said the prompter might be at performances through the rest of this week.

In the interview, Mr. Elliott said that Mr. Broderick’s role in the nearly three-hour play was “Shakespearean in size,” and that the actor was still adjusting to “chunks of dialogue moving around and being cut” by Mr. Lonergan, who is also the director.

Mr. Lonergan directed the films “You Can Count on Me” and “Margaret,” both of which he wrote, but has never directed a major production of a play before. He said in an interview last Thursday that he was “alternating between great hope and total despair about the show” — a comment that was only half tongue in cheek, if at all. He said that some members of the cast and production had been in a “panic” mode about the state of the play, but that this feeling was not uncommon in the days before performances started.

“I know it will come together,” Mr. Lonergan said, “but my inexperience with the production elements of staging a play has made me nervous. Being responsible for the whole thing is a challenge emotionally.”

Mr. Elliott said he could only recall one other New Group production where a prompter was on hand at performances; he wasn’t precisely sure which play that was. He said Mr. Lonergan and the cast had four and a half weeks to rehearse, which is fairly typical, but that Mr. Lonergan had spent much of the time rehearsing the original draft of the play before making cuts to it. The cuts are now underway, and there was not time to hold a full dress rehearsal or have an invitation-only performance before the first preview for ticket holders, Mr. Elliott said.

“This does happen from time to time, but I’m sure that as previews unfold, the production will only become stronger and stronger,” he said. “Kenny Lonergan is a great artist and a good, old friend, and I have confidence in him and in the production.”

Oct 26, 2009 from New York Magazine:
Q: Looking back at your career, it's been a tough few months for you with the deaths of John Hughes and Patrick Swayze, as well as Michael [Jackson].

Kenny Ortega: Three guys that were tremendous friends and who impacted my creative life enormously. Working with Patrick Swayze [in Dirty Dancing], this was the Gene Kelly of our generation; he made dancing accessible for every guy. And John Hughes made me a director. He put me on the streets of Chicago and had me as the second-unit director for Ferris Bueller's Day Off with the wonderful musical scene with the parade.

Q:Then you're the man to ask: How does Ferris Bueller get on that float without being arrested?

Oct 22, 2009 from Playbill:
The New Group's Off-Broadway world premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's The Starry Messenger, starring Matthew Broderick and Catalina Sandino Moreno, will start later than expected.

Previews — which were originally slated for an Oct. 24 start — will now begin Oct. 26. A New Group spokesperson confirmed to Playbill.com that the delay is to allow for an ensemble cast change; Merwin Goldsmith will replace the previously announced Jonathan Hadary.

Oct 18, 2009 from Sun Sentinel:
If memorable film festivals defy expectations, then the 24th Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival has a few things going for it. Among more than 100 films from 30 countries screening from Oct. 23-Nov. 11 are two featuring stars, Michelle Monaghan and Matthew Broderick, in against-type roles that offer audiences a surprise.

Broderick didn't learn any special skills for Wonderful World (which will screen after he receives a career achievement award Nov. 1), but he can empathize with being typecast. He's best known for his boyish charm (Ferris Bueller's Day Off), even if some of his performances (Glory, Election) were anything but boyish.

In Wonderful World he plays Ben Singer, a cynic who thinks the world is against him. His nature depresses his young daughter (Jodelle Ferland), and his only friend, Ibu (Michael Kay Williams), is in the hospital. Ben's perspective gets a twist when Ibu's sister, Khadi ( Sanaa Lathan), arrives from Senegal.

"I'm older now, so things have to change," Broderick said. "I always did more of a variety of things, but some things weren't successful and weren't seen. It doesn't seem like a departure for me, but I guess it is from the types of roles I've played."

Broderick continues to balance cinema and stage.

Oct 16, 2009 from AP:
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio – Trial dates have been set for two eastern Ohio police chiefs accused of snooping on a surrogate mother for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.

Martins Ferry Chief Barry Carpenter and Police Chief Chad Dojack from neighboring Bridgeport are accused in an alleged scheme to take things from the Martins Ferry home of the woman who recently carried twins girls for Parker and Broderick.

On Friday, Carpenter's trial was set for Nov. 16 and Dojack's for Jan. 12 in Belmont County Common Pleas Court.

Oct 12, 2009 from Daily Record:
Now filming the new Sex And The City movie, Sarah Jessica Parker has had to endure speculation about her marriage and controversy over her use of a surrogate mother.

Sarah, however, insists she is just part of a normal family living an ordinary life. And she is very clear that she and actor husband Matthew Broderick are rock-solid.

Sarah, 44, says: "I'm very happy. We're the everyman. We're just doing the best we can. Come back and check with me in 25 years and see who I'm married to. It will still be him."

She says: "We've been trying to expand our family for a number of years and we actually have explored a variety of ways of doing so. This was one of the things we discussed with seriousness that had real possibilities for us."

Sarah says her own childhood as one of eight kids has had a massive influence on her own methods of parenting and on her attitude to making her marriage work.

In the family, she is the tough parent, while Matthew spoils the kids rotten.

"Growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem-solving and how to share and compromise. And that's been helpful in my marriage," she says.

"But my husband, in terms of his upbringing, is in many ways the exact opposite because he's the only son and the baby. I'm pretty strict. Matthew is completely different. He is a pushover.

"Anytime James does something that is outside accepted behaviour, Matthew will explain it away based on age. He's the one who says yes to everything that I've said no to earlier."

But while she does have a go at Matthew's parenting skills, Sarah believes that's the only area in which she beats him.

She says "There's no question that he is the better actor. That's why the marriage works! Seriously, he's better at everything. Well, there are certain things that he can't do but that's only because of the gender issues."

Sarah says Matthew is also much more outgoing than she is.

"People think that Matthew's quite shy but I'm better at being shy," she adds. "People think I go out and I do stuff. I don't. I don't doanything. I've never understood the whole bar thing. I don't really drink.

Oct 10, 2009 from Daily Press:
Funny business is the theme for the 2009 Virginia Film Festival, Nov. 5-8 in venues throughout Charlottesville.

The 22nd annual festival will offer up some 80 films and more than 100 guests during discussions.

On the festival's closing night, Matthew Broderick will premiere his new film, "Wonderful World," at 5:30 p.m. in the Culbreth Theatre.

Oct 4, 2009 from New York Daily News:
Matthew Broderick was ­voted “Least Likely to be Serious” in high school, but things have certainly changed.

“He was obsessively funny — not serious at all,” the actor’s longtime pal, director Kenneth Lonergan, confided in a discussion at the 92nd Street Y on Wednesday. “But Matthew has mellowed a bit. He has some kids. Everyone gets older and gets tired of everything.”

Sep 30, 2009 from New York Post:
According to Victoria Gotti's new book, "This Family of Mine:"

* John Gotti and Brando hung out. Matthew Broderick once approached Gotti at a restaurant to ask if the godfather would have a drink with him and Marlon Brando. Gotti declined, but sent a bottle of bubbly to the actors. When Broderick made a second plea, Gotti brought Brando to his Ravenite Social Club. "That night, the reel-life godfather came face-to-face with the real-life godfather," Victoria writes.

Sep 29, 2009 from Variety:
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to "Wonderful World," starring Matthew Broderick. Magnolia will release the pic on VOD one month before its bow in early 2010.

Sep 25, 2009 from Playbill:
Matthew Broderick will join forces with his childhood chum Kenneth Lonergan for a production of The Starry Messenger, which will begin performances in late October. Broderick and Lonergan join host Leonard Lopate at the 92nd Street Y this Wednesday (Sep 30) to discuss the project. (8pm and 9:15pm, 92 Street Y, Lexington Ave and 92nd Street)

Sep 17, 2009 from Theater Mania:
Broadway stars Matthew Broderick, Carol Channing, Brian Stokes Mitchell, de'Adre Aziza, and Derick K. Grant have teamed with up Grammy Award winner Dan Zanes on the new Dan Zanes and Friends' children's album 76 Trombones, which will be released on November 17.

The CD will include new versions of such classic Broadway songs as "Hello, Dolly," "I Like Everybody," "I Don't Need Anything Bit You," "I Can Do That," "Before the Parade Passes By (featuring Matthew)," and "Tomorrow."

Aug 11, 2009 from AP:
LAKE FOREST, Ill. – Filmmaker John Hughes is being remembered by family and friends who gathered in a Chicago suburb for a private funeral.

The director of "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" died of a heart attack Thursday during a walk in Manhattan. The 59-year-old Hughes was in New York to visit family.

In addition to family and friends, colleagues such as Vince Vaughn, Ben Stein and Matthew Broderick gathered Tuesday at the Wenban Funeral Home in Lake Forest for Hughes' memorial service.

Stein, who played Ferris Bueller's teacher, was one of the speakers who paid tribute to Hughes.

He called the service "very touching" and said there was "a lot of crying."

Aug 7, 2009 from New York Post:
Mark Green's campaign to be elected again as public advocate is going Hollywood-on-Hudson. Last week, he received a $175 donation from Sarah Jessica Parker. Green helped her and Matthew Broderick execute their marriage papers in his public advocate office more than a decade ago. This week, the Green campaign is sending out an invitation to "Countdown to Victory," a Sept. 8 dessert party hosted by Alec Baldwin and Bobby Kennedy at the candidate's home.

Aug 6, 2009 from PA:
Matthew Broderick was among the stars to pay tribute to writer-director John Hughes, following his death at 59.

The youth impresario of the 1980s and 90s, who captured the teenage and pre-teen market with films like The Breakfast Club, died after suffering a heart attack during a walk in Manhattan.

Aug 4, 2009 from AP:
BRIDGEPORT, Ohio — One of two Ohio police chiefs accused of snooping on a celebrity surrogate mother has been placed on paid leave.

The village council in Bridgeport voted Monday to put Chief Chad Dojack on leave pending the outcome of the case, which involves the woman who carried twins for actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.

Dojack and Police Chief Barry Carpenter of neighboring Martins Ferry in eastern Ohio pleaded not guilty on Friday to several felonies. A special prosecutor said the men conspired to take items from the surrogate's Martins Ferry home to sell to paparazzi.

Aug 3, 2009 from FOX News:
Sighting: Matthew Broderick quietly reading the paper while on board the Hamptons Luxury Liner heading west to Manhattan from Amagansett on Monday afternoon.

Jul 30, 2009 from Variety:
Catalina Sandino Moreno, nommed for a 2005 Oscar for her role in "Maria Full of Grace," will co-star with Matthew Broderick in the New Group's Off Broadway production of Kenneth Lonergan's new play "The Starry Messenger."

Broderick has long been attached to the project, about an astronomy teacher who meets a young mother. "Messenger" is skedded to bow in October.

from AP:
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio — Two eastern Ohio police chiefs being investigated for allegedly breaking into a home to dig for celebrity tabloid material have been arrested on undisclosed charges.

Belmont County jail personnel confirm that Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter and Bridgeport Police Chief Chad Dojack were booked Wednesday night and released. The jail would not release charges.

A special prosecutor has said he was looking into allegations that the chiefs illegally entered the home of a woman carrying twins for actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick in May.

Jul 25, 2009 from Playbill:
Matthew Broderick heads the cast of Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words July 25 at the Bay Street Theatre.

In addition to Broderick (The Producers, The Philanthropist), the 8 PM evening features Jackie Hoffman (Addams Family, Xanadu, Hairspray), Sherri Shepherd ("The View"), Carson Kressley ("Queer Eye"), Alan Zweibel, Dayle Reyfel and series creator Pack.

Jul 10, 2009 from New York Times:
In the last few days, real estate and entertainment bloggers and columnists have been twittering en masse over rumors and reports that the ultimate Manhattan girl, Sarah Jessica Parker, and her husband, Matthew Broderick, had decided to abandon Manhattan, and their 20-foot-wide West Village town house, for a larger place in what, truth be told, is still an outer borough.

Was this a seismic cultural shift for New York? Inquiring minds wanted to know. (Try calling up Sarah Jessica Parker and Park Slope on the Web and count the listings.) But last week, the actual buyers of the house, on the corner of Prospect Park West and Carroll Street, stepped forward to say, that while they were familiar with “Sex and the City,” they were just ordinary people looking for a family-friendly neighborhood.

There was speculation that the limited liability company was named for Ms. Parker’s Pretty Matches Productions, which has optioned the rights to a new novel, “Prospect Park West,” by Amy Sohn. But the buyers said that Harken Pretty is an anagram of their first names.

Ina Treciokas, a spokesman for Ms. Parker, said that as of last week she had received only two calls about the town house, and had unequivocally denied that Ms. Parker had any connection to it.

Jul 9, 2009 from Access Hollywood:
Sighting: Jerry Seinfeld and Matthew Broderick having breakfast at Big John’s Pancake House in Montauk, where new dad Matthew’s eggs had to be returned and redone.

from The Art Newspaper:
Sarah Jessica Parker candidly admits she lacks art world experience so what is the inspiration behind the TV star’s new artist reality show, provisionally entitled The Untitled Art Project? It’s painter Patricia Broderick, her late mother-in-law who, says Parker, began enjoying recognition and success only after her death in 2003. “Her experience was meaningful in my thinking about artists who work in obscurity,” she told The Art Newspaper. Ms Broderick, mother of actor Matthew Broderick, studied with painters Rufino Tamayo and Vaclav Vytlacil, and lived with US Pop artist John Wesley for almost a decade before her death. Since 2006 her work has been represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York. This month Ms Parker’s production company, Pretty Matches, will cast 13 undiscovered artists set to compete for a gallery exhibition, a cash prize and a nationwide US museum tour. Ms Parker revealed that she will not host the series, but adds that a panel of art experts including collectors, curators, artists and dealers is currently being finalised. The show is scheduled to air on Bravo in autumn 2010.

Jul 3, 2009 from New York Post:
West Village diners are crying in their egg creams over news that their favorite neighborhood restaurant is about to become toast. The lease on Joe Jr.'s Diner on Sixth Avenue -- which for 45 years has served neighborhood residents and celebrities as James Gandolfini, Benjamin Bratt, Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker -- expired Monday.

Jun 30, 2009 from AP:

NEW YORK – A week after the birth of their twin daughters, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick debuted the babies in an official family photo. It's the first glimpse of Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick and Tabitha Hodge Broderick, born June 22 at an Ohio hospital to a surrogate mother. The photo, taken Monday in New York, shows a happy family: Parker and Broderick smile, each cradling a twin — she, Marion, he, Tabitha. Their 6-year-old son, James Wilkie Broderick, is in between mom and dad, gazing down at little sis Marion. Parker, 44, and Broderick, 47, follow the lead of other celebrity parents who have publicly released family photos in an effort to stave off the paparazzi by diminishing the value of exclusive shots of their newborn children. The couple did not profit from the photo, whereas, in recent years, celebrities have brokered million-dollar deals with celebrity magazines.

from Daily Mail:
Sarah Jessica Parker and her husband Matthew Broderick made a frantic plane journey from New York to Ohio to be at the birth of their new twin girls, it was revealed today.

The couple raced across the clock to make it to the hospital on time after receiving a phone call to notify them that the babies would be born a few weeks early.

'They were incredibly anxious they were going to miss the birth.'

'Sarah Jessica and Matthew spent a very tense flight wondering if the girls would already be born by the time that they landed,' a friend of the couple is quoted as telling Grazia magazine.

Jun 25, 2009 from Playbill:
Two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick will take part in the Bay Street Theatre Comedy Club presentation of Eugene Pack's Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words on July 20.

Celebrity Autobiography, which is currently playing an open-ended run Monday nights at Off-Broadway's Triad Theater, will spend one summer night in Sag Harbor to offer readings of the published life stories of the "famous and infamous."

The 8 PM presentation will feature Broderick, Rachel Dratch, Sherri Shepherd, Carson Kressley, Alan Zweibel, Dayle Reyfel and series creator Pack.

Celebrities whose personal stories are presented in the evenings include Elizabeth Taylor, Mr T, Tommy Lee, Sylvester Stallone, Ivana Trump, Vanna White, Star Jones, 'N Sync, Zsa Zsa Gabor, David Cassidy, Neil Sedaka, Britney Spears, Madonna, Kenny Loggins, Burt Reynolds, Loni Anderson, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.

from WTOV Steubenville:
Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and their newborn twin girls left East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry on Thursday.

Media from across the county had been calling the hospital to get information about the new babies. While fans and paparazzi kept watch on a limo parked in front of the hospital, the mother and babies were ushered out a side door with little fanfare. Broderick was not present during the departure.

The couple had brought in their own security to make sure onlookers were kept at a distance and the couple's privacy was protected.

"They left the same way they came in the door. They came in quietly, they went to the birth place, they bonded with their new babies and they left the same way," said Maggie Espina, spokeswoman for East Ohio Regional Hospital.

In the meantime, Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter remains under investigation in connection with possible wrongdoing against the surrogate.

Carpenter previously confirmed to NEWS9 he is under investigation and said he is facing allegations that he said are simply untrue. NEWS9 has been trying for weeks to obtain documents about the allegations, but the documents have not been made public.

Carpenter has not elaborated on the allegations against him, but said both he and his department are innocent of any wrongdoing when it comes to the surrogate mother. The chief said he expects the investigation to prove that.

Harrison County Prosecutor Shawn Hervey, who is a special prosecutor assigned to the case, had not released any new information about the investigation as of Thursday. Carpenter remains on the job while the investigation continues.

Jun 23, 2009 from AP:
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are the proud parents of twin girls delivered by a surrogate mother, a publicist said Tuesday, following a pregnancy that proceeded less than smoothly.

The girls were born Monday afternoon at an Ohio hospital, publicist Simon Halls said. Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick weighed 5 pounds and 11 ounces, and Tabitha Hodge Broderick weighed 6 pounds.

Hodge and Elwell are family names on Parker's side, Halls said.

"The babies are doing beautifully and the entire family is over the moon," Halls said in a statement.

Parker had complained last month to "Access Hollywood" that the surrogate's telephone and computer had been hacked into and that the woman had received threats.

Authorities also are investigating whether two police chiefs burglarized the surrogate's home in the eastern Ohio town of Martins Ferry so they could sell photos and other information to a tabloid.

The burglars were after "pictures, phone message, all those things" at the home of the surrogate, Michelle Ross, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press last week, speaking on condition of anonymity because no charges had been filed.

Jun 17, 2009 from Us Magazine:
Two police chiefs are under investigation for breaking into the Ohio home of Sarah Jessica Parker's surrogate mother to sell information a tabloid, Usmagazine.com has learned.

While not confirming specific details, Harrison County prosecutor Shawn Hervey tells Us: "The case revolves around a break in in Martins Ferry [County]. The matter is currently under investigation by the Ohio Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification."

Hervey is awaiting a report from the head of investigation before "deciding if charges are appropriate," he says. He expects to receive it within three weeks.

A law enforcement source tells Us the two police chiefs, reported as Chief Barry Carpenter of Martins Ferry and Bridgeport Chief Chad DoJack by local WTRF news, broke into the woman's home in May seeking information they could sell to a tabloid. The tabloid turned them into authorities after discovering how the material was obtained.

Carpenter told local WTOV station: "I'm 100 percent innocent in this and my department is as well."

Meanwhile, the surrogate mother of Parker and Matthew Broderick's unborn twin girls "packed up and left town," the law enforcement source tells Us.

Jun 11, 2009 from People:
Matthew Broderick, chatting with female pals over cocktails at the bar inside Commerce restaurant in New York City after appearing in the Cherry Lane Theatre’s one-night-only reading of the comedy Stan the Man. "People were surprised by how distinctive his sideburns are!" a restaurant-goer says of his facial hair, which he grew for his role in the 1970s-set play The Philanthropist.

Jun 5, 2009 from Playbill:
Naked Angels will present a by-invitation-only reading of Eugene Pack's Stan the Man June 8 in Manhattan.

The reading by the creator of Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words will be directed by Pippin Parker and will feature Tony winner Matthew Broderick, David Harbour and Bradley White.

from Global Voices:
A new website was launched last week where anyone from around the world can leave a 64-word message of solidarity for imprisoned Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The website 64forSuu.org is named as such to mark Suu Kyi’s 64th birthday on June 19.

Supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi can leave and view video, text, twitter and picture messages on the website. A sample of 64-word message of support:

"Nineteen years ago, the Burmese people chose Aung San Suu Kyi as their next leader. For most of those 19 years she has been kept under house arrest by the military junta that runs the country. We must not stand by as she is silenced again. Now is the time for the international community to speak with one voice: Free Aung San Suu Kyi."

Jun 2, 2009 from Broadway World:
Roundabout Theatre Company's The Philanthropist, will be featured on WOR's "Joan Hamburg Show" on Wednesday, June 3rd from 11:30-12:00PM on 710AM.

May 31, 2009 from Celebrity Baby Blog:
When 6 ½-year-old James Wilkie Broderick soon welcomes his new twin sisters, he’ll do so with a gummy grin! Proud dad Matthew Broderick revealed during a recent appearance on Live with Regis and Kelly that his son recently lost his first tooth, and his reaction was just what you would expect. “It was very fun to watch him wander around like this,” the 47-year-old said, demonstrating by putting his finger in the space where the tooth had been and looking dazed.

“I’d say, ‘James!’ And he’d say, ‘What? What?’ He couldn’t concentrate on anything else.”

The process was a slow one; Matthew went on to reveal that one night James visited he and wife Sarah Jessica Parker in their bedroom to give them an update. “I said, ‘How’s it feeling?’” Matthew recalled. “And his tooth was flat…like, parallel to the floor.”

May 28, 2009 from Hamptons:

Christie's is pleased to announce details of its first-ever Hamptons sale, an early summer auction of Fine and Rare wines hosted at an historic waterfront estate in Westhampton Beach, on June 6. The Atwater Estate is a majestic residence that stretches across more than 1,000 feet of coastline on Quantuck Bay in Westhampton Beach. The sale offers over 700 lots of blue-chip Bordeaux and Burgundies for investment, as well as great white Burgundy and California wines ready for drinking this summer. The star lot is a rare magnum of 1929 Grand Vintage Moet & Chandon champagne that has been autographed by a number of celebrities, including Tina Fey, Matthew Broderick, and Robert Downey, Jr. Proceeds from the sale of that lot will benefit the Motion Picture and Television Fund (MPTF).

May 26, 2009 from AP:
HIGHLAND PARK - A suburban Chicago home made famous in 1986 movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is up for sale for $2.3 million.

The 5,300-square-foot Highland Park house was the fictional home of Ferris Bueller's friend, Cameron Frye, played by actor Alan Ruck. In the movie, Frye accidentally sends his father's Ferrari through one of the house's glass walls and into the woods outside.

Sudler Sotheby's International Realtor Meladee Hughes says being in the home is like living in the tree house. She says there's been a lot of interest from buyers already.

May 20, 2009 from Access Hollywood:
On Tuesday, Sarah Jessica Parker expressed her outrage about how her surrogate — the woman carrying her twins — had been identified by the tabloids and followed by the paparazzi. Today, Parker handles the shots taken at her marriage.

"Do you have immunity to things said about you?" Access Hollywood's Billy Bush asked Parker on the set of her new movie "Did You Hear About The Morgans?"

"Am I immune to it? No. Do I read it? No," she said. "That doesn't mean I don't have an inkling or that I don't smell it around me … It's hard because things are hurtful and things are shocking."

Being targets for a tabloid is not new ground for Parker and Matthew Broderick, who just last summer faced reports about their supposed marital problems. Now, the salacious headlines have gone off on a tangent, outraging Parker. The focus: the surrogate mother who is carrying the couple's twins.

"How is Matthew in all of this? Is he furious? Because he doesn't seem like a man that would get furious and want to rip off heads?" Bush asked.

May 17, 2009 from US Weekly Issue 745 | Red Room:
Matthew Broderick bought pasta at an NYC Gourmet Garage.

from Independent:
Matthew Broderick keeps a full-sized ping-pong table in his home office.

May 15, 2009 from New York Times:
Though Matthew Broderick and Kenneth Lonergan have been friends since childhood (when we'd like to imagine they shared unannounced days off from school), the two have never formally collaborated onstage. Now they will: the New Group said that its 2009-10 season would include the long-gestating premiere of "The Starry Messenger," a play by Mr. Lonergan and starring Mr. Broderick. Previews are expected to start in October. The group said its fall season would also include a revival of the Sam Shepard play "A Lie of the Mind," to be directed by Ethan Hawke, and the premiere of a new musical based on the Dan Savage memoir "The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant."

from PopCrunch:
Although Sarah Jessica Parker's new twin daughters were conceived with the help of a surrogate mom, the Sex And The City actress has developed lots of late-night food cravings.

We hear SJP is driving hubby Matthew Broderick up a wall with her constant demands for odd menu items in the midnight hour.

A tattle tells The Globe's Loosch Lips Column: Sarah Jessica has been sending Matthew "out to buy her lemonade, watermelon, apple pie, and chocolate fudge at all hours of the night. Another time she wanted talcum powder, claiming she liked the taste of it when she was pregnant with son James."

May 12, 2009 from Playbill:
Horton Foote Jr. sang eloquently, often amusingly, for his father May 11 when the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Tony Award-nominated playwright from Wharton, TX — who died March 4, ten days shy of his 93rd birthday — received a heartfelt farewell at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center.

The immediate family was in attendance as well as Foote's expansively extended family of theatre. In addition to Foote Jr., a restaurateur and the proprietor of Tavern on Jane, his lawyer-brother, Walter Foote, and their playwright-sister, Daisy Foote, took turns at the podium. The other sister, actress Hallie Foote (who, like her father, is a current Tony contender for Dividing the Estate), executed a monologue from an early Foote play never seen in New York, A Coffin in Egypt.

from Broadway World:
The Actors Fund 2009 Spring Auction offers you a chance to Bid on Tickets to the Tony Awards, Meet the Stars, & VIP Show Visits

The Actors Fund, celebrating over 125 years of service in the entertainment business, is bringing some incredible items and experiences for you to bid on this spring. You'll be saying ‘lights, camera, action!' as you experience the thrill of live television with VIP tickets to CSI or the Jon Stewart Show, work on your acting chops with actor Matthew Broderick, or how about VIP tickets to the 2009 Tony Awards? There is also some extraordinary memorabilia up for bids - and the greatest part? 100% the proceeds will go directly to benefit the Actor's Fund - the nationwide organization that helps all professionals in the performing arts and entertainment industry.

May 5, 2009 from Broadway World:
For the June 2009 issue, Vanity Fair gathered 25 acclaimed Broadway stars of stage and screen for an original portrait taken by famed photographer Mark Seliger. The actors featured are now appearing on the New York stage in some of the hottest Broadway plays of the spring season.

For the shoot in late February, the actors arrived at Seliger Studios early in the morning for a light breakfast and a chance to catch-up with old friends, new friends and long-time colleagues. As they all started to fill the small studio space, their connection to each other was undeniable. Some had appeared together on stage or screen, some had passing social connections, and some met colleagues they long-admired for the first time. Since the photo shoot, the actors have met up with each other socially between performances and even had the chance to see their colleagues in action on stage.

The actors featured in the portrait include: 33 Variations' Jane Fonda, Colin Hanks & Samantha Mathis; Accent on Youth's David Hyde Pierce; Exit the King's Geoffrey Rush, Susan Sarandon, Lauren Ambrose & AndRea Martin; God of Carnage's Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini & Marcia Gay Harden; Impressionism's Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Andrè De Shields, Marsha Mason and Michael T. Weiss; Irena's Vow's Tovah Feldshuh; Mary Stuart's Janet McTeer & Harriet Walter; The Philanthropist's Matthew Broderick & Steven Weber; Waiting for Godot's Nathan Lane, Bill Irwin & John Glover.

To see this once in a lifetime gathering of actors, check out the June 2009 issue of Vanity Fair on stands Wednesday, May 6th. Click here for a special preview of the feature and footage from the shoot.

from OK! Magazine:
Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker celebrated the Tribeca Film Festival world premiere of Wonderful World with an after-party at B.R. Guest's brand new 675 Bar where they enjoyed a Stoli-infused popcorn specialty cocktail.

"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is now available on Blu-ray.

May 4, 2009 from Broadway World:
Lincoln Center Theater will host a memorial for the award winning writer Horton Foote on Monday, May 11 at 4pm at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street). Mr. Foote, whose most recent play Dividing The Estate was presented on Broadway to critical acclaim earlier this season by Lincoln Center Theater by arrangement with Primary Stages, died on March 4, 2009.

Among the family, friends and colleagues scheduled to remember the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning playwright and screenwriter are writers Edward Albee, Daisy Foote and Romulus Linney, actors Devon Abner, Elizabeth Ashley, Matthew Broderick, Robert Duvall, Hallie Foote, Roberta Maxwell, Estelle Parsons, Lois Smith and Harris Yulin, singers Meghan Andrews and Betty Buckley, theater producers Andre Bishop, Casey Childs and James Houghton and director Michael Wilson, as well as his two sons, Horton Foote, Jr. and Walter Foote.

May 1, 2009 from People:
The night before the news broke that Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are expecting twin girls via surrogate, Parker certainly looked like a mom-to-be: She was glowing and forgoing those famous Sex and the City cosmopolitans.

"She was in such a great mood, so sweet to everyone and so happy," says a guest who attended the party at 675 Bar for Broderick's film, Wonderful World, at the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday night. "They were tucked into a corner throughout the night. He drank martinis and she drank water. They were really loving and adoring. She did look beautiful."

According to friends, the actress has been ready for more children for a long time. "They've always wanted to become parents again," says a source who has known the couple for years. "They realized after the first or second year after [son James Wilkie] was born that it would be nice to have another baby."

Though "they've always talked about wanting [more] kids, it just wasn't happening," says a pal of Broderick's. Parker "had difficulty getting pregnant. So they went the surrogate route."

Friends say the couple love the roles of Mom and Dad. "They are great parents," says the source. "They have a good time with their son." The source adds, "Matthew is very hands-on. He loves to get on the floor and play with James. He's a kid himself so he loves to act like a kid with James. And James, of course, loves it."

So how is Parker preparing for babies? This week, she stepped out to do a little shopping at the Manhattan toy store, Kidding Around. Perhaps she just needed to buy a few things in pink.

from PopWatch:
And even though she's not a rock star, Sarah Jessica Parker certainly caused a flashbulb frenzy at the premiere of Wonderful World, a low-key drama that features a sad-and-sweet turn by her hubby, Matthew Broderick. SJP was every bit the doting wife -- petting Broderick's hair on the red carpet, clapping loudly when he took the stage for a Q&A after the screening, and cuddling at the after party in a West Village bar. (In retrospect, maybe they were buzzing with anticipation about the big announcement they'd make the very next day.)

from Us Magazine:
All of Hollywood is happy to hear that Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are expecting twin daughters -- especially her Sex and the City costar, Mario Cantone.

"That's very thrilling," he told Usmagazine.com at the Cosmetic Executive Women Beauty Awards in NYC on Friday. "I found out when everybody else found out. As my mother would say, 'I'm always the last to know!' I'm very excited for them."

He thinks that adding girls to the family is a good decision. "When you have a son, you do definitely want to have a daughter, too -- you want to even it out," he told Us.

The married couple -- who are already have son James Wilkie, 6 -- are excellent parents, Cantone -- who doesn't yet know if he'll be in the SATC sequel -- said.

"They're very loving people... They really take care of business in that area, I believe that," he said. "[James] is a wit, and he's got this intelligence. Look at his parents!"

Also offering up congratulations is the couple's friend, Jessica Seinfeld. The cookbook author -- who's married to comedian Jerry Seinfeld -- told Usmagazine.com how happy she was for the couple.

"I wish them all the best -- all the best!" Seinfeld told Us at an event for Starz' Head Case -- for which her hubby guest starred -- at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC on Thursday. "That is so very exciting, and I am just trilled for them both."

Apr 30, 2009 from OK! Magazine:
For some men, the prospect of becoming a dad to twin girls can be a little daunting, but not to Matthew Broderick, who announced on Tuesday that he and wife Sarah Jessica Parker are expecting a pair of little girls this summer.

OK! caught up with the 47-year-old star to see how he feels about the news. "We're very excited!" he beamed. And when we congratulated SJP on their latest addition to their family, the Sex and the City star grinned from ear to ear and said, "Thank you!"

from New York Daily News:
Now that Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are expanding their brood with surrogate twin girls, the actress is even more worried about how to juggle her job and her family.

Parker is filming "Did You Hear About the Morgans?" with Hugh Grant on the upper East side, while Broderick has been busy with Broadway's "The Philanthropist."

"It's been a complicated past few weeks," Parker told us at "The Philanthropist" premiere. "My main concern is that my husband and son [James Wilkie, now 6 years old] have enough time. I've felt very conflicted over the last few weeks.

"Hopefully, our son is feeling loved and taken care of. I can't really complain because it's my choice to work, but that doesn't mean I don't spend a better part of the day worrying about whether my family is getting enough [time] from me."

Now, with a double blessing set to arrive this summer, there will be even less of her to go around.

"Any complications or any anxiety I feel is normal," Parker said. "Any mother who wants to continue to work and have a career outside the home goes through this, so I feel very much a part of the sisterhood."

Parker's work schedule will certainly have her tied up over the coming months. Aside from "What About the Morgans?" she's in talks to appear in two more feature films, in addition to producing a new Bravo project, "American Artist" — a "Project Runway"-style show centered on the art world. She'll also start the much-anticipated sequel to "Sex and the City" this summer.

Broderick, meanwhile, has no films on the horizon. His next role may just be stay-at-home dad, which wouldn't bother James Wilkie at all.

"Once, when I got home [from rehearsal] at two in the morning, James came downstairs," Broderick told us. "I said, 'What are you doing up?' He just said, 'I want to see what the heck is happening!'"

As for all those reviewers who skewered Broderick for his turn in "The Philanthropist," well, James begs to differ. "He came to see Matthew during the day of the first previews," Parker said. "And he came home and told me, 'Papa knew his lines' and that he was 'dashing.' And that Matthew's accent was very good."

from Pacific Coast News:
NEW YORK - Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and their son James require a police escort to leave an art gallery in New York. Firstly Sarah saw her son James into to a car with his nanny. Then she returned through the crowd to the Tibor De Nagy gallery to find her hubby Matthew before the pair left together in a black limo. The gallery was showcasing artwork by Matthew's late mother, Patricia Broderick.

Apr 29, 2009 from People:
Broadway was buzzing Tuesday night over the news that Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are expecting twin girls.

A handful of fans congratulated the proud dad-to-be as he exited the stage door of the American Airlines Theatre after his performance of The Philanthropist.

"Thank you!" Broderick answered with a grin before stepping into a waiting car. The fans, it seems, learned the baby news before many of the couple's friends and colleagues.

"That's great news. I didn't even know about it," said Philanthropist costar Steven Weber, as he left minutes before Broderick. "[I'm] shocked!"

"I didn't know that! That's great!" said Sex and the City costume designer Patricia Field, who immediately envisioned the task of hiding Parker's pregnancy from the camera for the upcoming film sequel.

Told the couple was using a surrogate to carry the twins, Field, who spoke at the H&M Celebrates Matthew Williamson party on The Majesty yacht at the South Street Seaport in New York, breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "Oh, good!"

Friends of the couple say that while the news came as a surprise, it was, in a way, also expected. "They love kids and wanted more," says one friend. "They absolutely love being parents."

Adds another close pal: "They are very happy. They've wanted to become parents again for a while."

There is only one thing to worry about now, says Field: How to divvy up Parker's fabulous wardrobe and Manolo Blahniks for the future fashionistas. "It's going to be interesting," mused Field. "I think that she could have fierce daughters. Fierce daughters!"

Meanwhile, at the Tribeca Film Fest after-party at Bar 675, one partygoer observed the couple to be "in a great mood." "They were tucked into a corner throughout the night. [And] didn't leave each other's side for most of the night until she left. All the rumors of a breakup weren't true. But no one mentioned anything about [babies] and no one talked about it. It's crazy."

from WENN:
Sarah Jessica Parker can't wait to welcome her new baby twins into the world - because husband Matthew Broderick is such a fanstastic father.

Parker says, "To see my husband Matthew be the father I knew he would be, that makes me feel very lucky and privileged."

from INFGoff:
A woman spotted arriving at Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick's home in New York City today with baby clothes the day after Sarah and Matthew announce they are expecting twin girls by a surrogate.

Apr 28, 2009 from Entertainment Weekly:
Sarah Jessica Parker, 44, and Matthew Broderick, 47, are expecting twin girls via a surrogate. In a statement, their reps announced, "Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are happily anticipating the birth of their twin daughters later this summer with the generous help of a surrogate. The entire family is overjoyed."

A friend of the couple, who married in 1997, tells Entertainment Weekly exclusively that Parker and Broderick have been trying for years to add to their family ever since the birth of their son, James Wilkie, now 6. But the road hasn't been an easy one. "They had a lot of unsuccessful tries," says the friend. "They came to the conclusion that this was going to be the best alternative for expanding their family." The couple turned to a surrogate -- whose name and place of residence have not been disclosed -- last year. "They're over the moon and excited as any prospective parents would be," says the friend. "Their life is about to get a lot busier."

from Cinema Blend:
Matthew Broderick's world sure is wonderful. Everyone on the red carpet for the premiere of Wonderful World only had the best to say about him! The film's director, Joshua Goldin, was blown away by his abilities and Broderick's costar; Sanaa Lathan enjoyed the amusement he brought to the set. And, of course, Sarah Jessica Parker was thrilled to be walking the carpet to support her husband.

Apr 17, 2009 from New York Post:
Sighting: Sean Penn with buddies at Gallagher's Steak House as Matthew Broderick dined with a lady friend.

Apr 14, 2009 from Vanity Fair:
By Jim Windolf - Went to the first in-season game at Citi Field last night. My dad was kind enough to spring for the tickets. I liked the Jackie Robinson Rotunda, but my feeling on entering the new ballpark was not exactly awe. I felt as if I had stepped into the Rollercoaster Tycoon computer game. Maybe it was just the sound of the crowd and distant music.

First inning, third pitch of the game—Padres lead-off hitter Jody Gerut hit a bullet down the right field line for a home run. The crowd went silent. I looked back a few rows: Jerry Seinfeld was sharing a luxury box with Matthew Broderick. Jerry, in his old-school Mets cap, wore a deadpan expression. Broderick, with long sideburns similar to the ones he had in Glory, just looked stunned.

...The fans filed out, quiet, to Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind." Matthew Broderick stayed in his seat with a melancholy expression that could be called Met Fan Face. I've seen this expression a lot the last two summers, during the two collapses.

Apr 13, 2009 from Business Wire:
NEW YORK - Matthew Broderick will guest star as the voice of Max in a special "Father's Day" episode of Cyberchase premiering June 19 on PBS KIDS GO! (check local listings). In this exciting episode, Hacker sets out to ruin Father's Day while Max and the CyberSquad try to stop him.

"My son loves Cyberchase, so I was happy to lend my voice to the show," said guest star Matthew Broderick. "The best part is that I haven't told him I did it; I'm waiting to surprise him when we watch the episode together. I'm sure he'll be more impressed by it than any other work I've done!"

"We're thrilled to have Matthew Broderick as a guest star in this special Cyberchase episode," said Neal Shapiro, President and CEO of WNET.ORG. "Only on Cyberchase would Father's Day mix with math for a half hour of pure entertainment. As a dad, it's a series I'm proud to have in the WNET.ORG family of programs."

Cyberchase features a trio of smart, curious kids who outwit the dastardly villain Hacker (Christopher Lloyd) during his mad quest to rule Cyberspace. With help of their bird pal Digit (Gilbert Gottfried), the CyberSquad uses math and brain power to foil Hacker's evil schemes. This time, it's the annual Father's Day Parade in Tikiville, and Max (guest star Matthew Broderick) is this year's Cyber Dad of the Year. Max was once a schoolmate of Hacker's – and continually bested Hacker in all of their endeavors. Hacker has decided it's time to get even. His dastardly scheme is to replace Max with a Max robot and make the robot do awful things during the parade. The CyberSquad must use number patterns to crack a series of coded messages sent by Hacker to save the day in Tikiville. Matthew Broderick voices both the easy-going, likeable Max and the evil Max robot in this thrilling Father's Day Cyberchase adventure.

Apr 7, 2009
"The Tale of Despereaux" is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. Extras include two games and a making-of featurette.

Apr 4, 2009 from Newsday:
When Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunite at a show, it's kind of hard to pay attention to anything else. But there were lots of other great performances at the star-studded "Change Begins Within" benefit at Radio City Music Hall last night. (The crowd -- which included Jennifer Aniston, David Arquette, Michael J. Fox, Matthew Broderick, and Jason Bateman, as well as Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison -- was a star-studded as those on stage.) Luckily, the benefit for the David Lynch Foundation, which plans to use the funds to bring Transcendental Meditation techniques to one million children around the world, was filmed for a future special.

Apr 1, 2009 from A.V. Club:
A.V. Club: What was Marie & Bruce's path from stage to screen to DVD like? Wallace Shawn: Well, I can't conceal from your readers that I have been alive probably more than they think is appropriate. So I wrote the play in the late '70s, and it was performed in 1980 with Bob Balaban and Louise Lasser and many other wonderful people. If you believe as I do that movies can show any aspect of life, including the fact that people often have conversations that are very important in their lives, then you would agree that Marie & Bruce is a very plausible movie idea. And there was a time when John Malkovich was going to direct a movie of it. It was set up, paid for, all set to go, and it fell apart.

AVC: When was that?
WS: That must have been… somewhere back there in the past. That must have been 15 years ago, I'd say. Really. In the '90s, I think.

AVC: Would he have starred in it as well?
WS: Yes. That was going to be the idea. But that didn't happen, so it languished for a while. Julianne Moore had always loved that play, before she ever met me. She and I knew each other because we did Uncle Vanya together for years working with Andre Gregory. Louis Malle finally made the film of our work, Vanya On 42nd Street, so she said "If Malkovich is not going to do it, maybe it could be done in which I could play Marie." And I asked my friend Tom Cairns… This is, like all movie stories, you could spend 25 hours describing many different stages that Julianne and I went through. But ultimately I asked my friend Tom Cairns, who is an Irish director who has directed film, theater, and opera, to direct the movie. And he and I wrote a screenplay together, and we hired Matthew Broderick to be Bruce, and I think it's a great film. It's a masterpiece, but you kind of have to be prepared for a strange style, or it's going to seem like a big mistake. It's actually on purpose, the way it is. On purpose because I have a strange way of writing, and anybody who likes my writing would like this movie, but it's not a conventional drama. Certainly not a conventional comedy. It's in the very stagy style which happens to be how I write. It's quite passionate and beautifully acted, but it's not what people think of as realism.

AVC: It seems like there's an emotional realism.
WS: I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all. To me, the way I write is about life and is quite truthful, and I think there is a kind of brutal side to the relationship, and to the feelings, that makes it somewhat painful, but I think it's a very intense portrait of the relationship of two people. And also, a bit about what people feel like when they're alone, because it all takes place in one day, and during the day, they spend a lot of time alone in their different—you get to imagine what their fantasy lives are like, in a certain way.

AVC: Your plays are known for being dark and uncompromising. Do you think there's a reason you're drawn to that sort of material?
WS: Well I suppose I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I was a young boy, I suspected that there were passions seething underneath and not being mentioned, and that was something that came to preoccupy me. Somehow I had some drive to write down what people might really be thinking.

AVC: What do you think was lost and gained in turning Marie & Bruce into a movie?
WS: Well, I don't think too much was lost, because it's a very difficult piece to do as a play. What's gained is that you can have very intimate conversations in a film and you don't need to shout. In a play, people are trying to project their voices and trying to be understood by a large group of people, some of whom may be sitting very far away from them. And that technical requirement cuts into the intimacy of theater. You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play to people who are sitting maybe too far away from you. Film comes to you, and it can genuinely be intimate and acted very quietly and subtly. And I feel that's what Julianne and Matthew do. Also, of course, it's very fun to play around with having—there's a party in the movie, and we get to have a lot of people, which you couldn't really do in a play, and there's a dog who plays an important part who is only discussed in the play, and in the movie you can actually see that we have a very nice dog playing that role.

AVC: That's a golden retriever, right?
WS: It's a golden retriever, and he's quite a famous one. Trevor, whose résumé—well, he'd be a very good subject for Random Roles. [Laughs.] He's really been out there, he has quite the career.

AVC: The film was made in 2003. Why did it take so long to reach DVD?
WS: Obviously we had zero money to go through the process of finding the appropriate distributor, but people could not think of how to market it, how to tell people about it. Many people who saw it really didn't get it. For instance, it's supposed to be, in a very dark and odd sense, humorous—whatever that word means—as well as serious, and many people who saw it and expected it to be a regular romantic comedy or drama, like somebody's child is lost or kidnapped, it's not a drama and it's not a comedy, it's something. And the humor just went right past some people, and they just thought, "Well, this is trash. People don't really talk like this. These guys who must be incompetent clowns, because they can't even write dialogue that is like people."

AVC: It seems like all your plays have been divisive and have inspired intense reactions, favorable and negative.
WS: Unfortunately, yeah. All of my plays have puzzled some people, and I'm happy to say delighted a few, but a lot of people have just not seen how quite to look at them. And this film… if you like my writing, you'll like this film. If you don't, you won't like the film. It's pretty faithful to—it's a pretty uncompromising presentation of my way of seeing things, I suppose. To me, it's very charming and rather beautiful, and I find the two main characters so loveable, but I think that many distributors felt "I don't know how to sell this" and "I don't think enough people are going to like it," and ultimately I feel it's totally unjust. It's a miscarriage of justice that it was never theatrically released.

April 2009 from Ladies' Home Journal:
Q: So you're old-fashioned?
Sarah Jessica Parker: I might be pretty structured and Matthew might not be. I might believe in a set bedtime and no movies during the week.

Q: Do you and Matthew parent differently?
SJP: Yes. I think the last thing James Wilkie needs is two people like me. He thinks Matthew hung the moon, and I'm thrilled.

Mar 27, 2009 from Playbill:
"Broadway Backstage: Spring Preview," which will feature sneak peeks at several Broadway shows, will air in the New York metropolitan area March 28 on WABC-7 beginning at 7:30 PM ET.

Hosted by WABC-7 news anchor Lori Stokes and Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce, the half-hour program will spotlight such Broadway shows as 33 Variations, Accent on Youth, Exit the King, God of Carnage, Impressionism, Mary Stuart, The Norman Conquests, The Philanthropist, Rock of Ages and Waiting for Godot.

Expect interviews with Jane Fonda, Moises Kaufman, Geoffrey Rush, Susan Sarandon, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeremy Irons, Constantine Maroulis, Joan Allen, Janet McTeer, Matthew Broderick and Steven Weber, among others.

Mar 24, 2009 from Theater Mania:
Tony Award winner Nathan Lane will host Take Me Back to Manhattan, the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2009 Spring Gala, to take place at Roseland Ballroom on Monday, April 6.

The evening will feature an original musical revue created by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall, starring Brooke Shields, Audra McDonald, Kelli O'Hara, Mario Cantone, Boyd Gaines, Denis O'Hare, Katie Finneran, Jane Krakowski, and Martha Plimpton, performing songs by: Rodgers, Porter, Arlen, Berlin, Ellington, Gershwin and more.

Additional guest artists for the evening will include Alec Baldwin, Matthew Broderick, Cynthia Nixon, Michael Cerveris, Margaret Colin, Richard Thomas, and Bill Irwin, who will co-star with Lane in the Roundabout's upcoming revival of Waiting for Godot.

from Blu-rayDefinition:
After a nearly two-year postponement by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, the U.S. Civil War period drama starring Denzel Washington and Matthew Broderick has finally received an official release date from Sony.

The Blu-ray Disc of Glory will be released on June 2, 2009 with an SRP of $28.95 and is currently set to have the following features:

Mar 21, 2009

Mar 20, 2009 from AP:
NEW YORK – Liam Neeson looked distraught as he greeted grieving family members and friends who attended a private viewing for wife Natasha Richardson on Friday.

Neeson and sons — Micheal, 13, and Daniel, 12 — attended the viewing at the Upper East Side's American Irish Historical Society, as well as Richardson's mother, Vanessa Redgrave, and sister, Joely Richardson.

Also attending were Mike Nichols, Diane Sawyer, Matthew Modine, Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman and Mathilde Krim of the American Foundation of AIDS Research — amfAR, the charity for which Richardson had served on the board of trustees since 2006.

"She looked incredibly beautiful," Krim said, adding that everyone appeared to in shock and Neeson looked distraught as he received everybody.

Earlier Friday, friends continued to expressed their grief over her death from the fall she took on a ski slope.

"Natasha was a very close friend of our family, so it's been a very, very sad few days and I think it will stay that way for a good while," Matthew Broderick said.

Actor Jonathan Cake said: "I had dinner with her Saturday night. ... She left to ski the next day."

from Broadway.com:
The string of stars migrating from Hollywood to the Broadway stage lately has been fast and furious—and shows no sign of slowing, especially now that spring is officially here! The Roundabout Theater Company alone has over a half dozen familiar faces hitting the stage as the warm weather rolls in, including Matthew Broderick and Jonathan Cake in Brit comedy The Philanthropist, and Nathan Lane, Bill Irwin, John Goodman and John Glover in Samuel Beckett's famed Waiting for Godot. Both productions stepped out on March 20 to greet the press at The American Airlines Theater before heading off to rehearsals in preparation for their respective late-season openings.

Mar 19, 2009 from People:
As Broadway paid tribute to Natasha Richardson Thursday night with a symbolic one-minute dimming of its marquees, the late actress's husband, Liam Neeson, her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, and her sister, Joely Richardson, were comforted by Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick as well as fellow actor Ron Rifkin.

The Tony-winning Richardson, 45, died Wednesday from internal bleeding caused by the fall she took on a ski slope in Canada.

Richardson's family has requested that donations be made in her name to the amfAR foundation for AIDS research, according to family spokesman Alan Nierob, the Associated Press reports.

Mar 13, 2009 from New York Post:
By Cindy Adams - SO, what becomes a legend most? Dental surgery. This week I spoke with Matthew Broderick. Also Olympia Dukakis. Both open in plays next month. Both talked about their teeth. Oddly, I, too, am walking around like some puppet. With strings hanging out of my jaw. For one of us, it's periodontal. Another, just plain dontal. Try this message on my phone:

"It's Matthew. Couldn't call earlier. I was having a tooth pulled. And right now I have stitches in my mouth."

Then me on his answering machine: "It's Cindy. Let's do this tomorrow because I'm having a tooth pulled. And right now I have stitches in my mouth."

Finally, we connected. "The play 'The Philanthropist' is a limited engagement through July," he says. "I guess if it's an international smash hit, it'll run longer. I used to do long runs, but after six months it's a struggle. You're repeating yourself. In long run-it is, you go on autopilot and nobody pays attention to what they're saying anymore. You screw up, then everybody wakes up for the next two weeks.

"A Broadway show's exhausting in its relentlessness. No more normal dinner hour. You disappear from friends. I'm starting to get set for it. I'm like Bernie Madoff. Putting all my documents in order."

Would he do a long-term TV series like Sarah Jessica the missus?

"With children that's difficult because I'd have to be here. TV is not an appeal because much of it shoots in LA. I'm a New Yorker since I'm born. It's the best alternative for my life. Out there you're just staring at your wife and child. New York forces you to interact. My father used to say that in New York just buying a newspaper you get three conversations. I don't see anybody in my family picking up and moving to LA."

About the supermarket tabloids: "Yeah, they're bothering me lately. I'm having a little trouble with them. I try not to let it ruin my life, and you do try to insulate your child. Who knows what'll happen when he's old enough to read the stuff."

About the tepid reviews on his and Nathan Lane's "The Odd Couple" last year: "I think everyone just thought we were trading on our popularity from 'The Producers.' Strangely, Nathan and I talked of doing that together even before we did 'The Producers.' Listen, the city makes its own decisions about things and either collectively loves you or not.

"I remember the cover of The Post showing a long line at the box office during 'The Producers.' It was the hottest, most exciting experience of a lifetime.

Mar 11, 2009 from Hollywood Reporter:
NEW YORK - A host of high-profile premieres comprises the second wave of Tribeca Film Festival showings, which were announced Wednesday morning.

The New York festival announced films in several sections, nearly rounding out its 86-film slate. In its celeb-heavy Encounters section, Thomas Haden Church, Melissa Leo and Elisabeth Shue star in the world premiere of the coming-home drama "Don McKay."

Mar 10, 2009
"Marie and Bruce" is now available on DVD. This adaptation of character actor Wallace Shawn's play heads straight to DVD a few years after making the festival rounds.

Feb 27, 2009 from FOX News:
So what did little James Broderick do while mom Sarah Jessica Parker and dad Matthew Broderick attended the Academy Awards? His nanny took him to Legoland in Los Angeles.

Feb 11, 2009 from Variety:
"Rachel Getting Married," "Stop-Loss," "The Wrestler" and "Finding Amanda" drew the top feature film noms for the 2009 Prism Awards, which recognize movies and TV programs that address issues involving alcohol and substance abuse.

Matthew Broderick ("Finding Amanda"), Anne Hathaway ("Rachel Getting Married"), Ryan Phillippe ("Stop-Loss"), Mickey Rourke ("The Wrestler") and Brittany Snow ("Finding Amanda") are up for perf in a feature film.

On the TV side, drama series nominees include "Boston Legal," "The Cleaner," "Gossip Girl," "Life" and "Mad Men." Nominees for comedy series are "Desperate Housewives," "The Simpsons," "King of the Hill," "Californication" and "American Dad."

Feb 9, 2009 from Guardian:
Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America has garnered $5m in advance box office, nearly sold out its eight-week run, and attracted A-list attendees as varied as Jon Bon Jovi, Matthew Broderick, and the rapper Common. Broadway gossip maven and arch prognosticator Michael Reidel quoted an insider who remarked, "Nobody thought it would catch on the way it has. A one-man show in this market? And with Obama coming in? It just seemed old hat."

Feb 2, 2009 from Playbill:
The Roundabout Theatre Company's spring Broadway production of Christopher Hampton's The Philanthropist, starring Matthew Broderick, will also feature Jonathan Cake, Anna Madeley and Steven Weber, the not-for-profit announced. The complete cast will also include Tate Ellington, Jennifer Mudge and Samantha Soule.

Weber will play a friend of the leading character portrayed by Broderick, while Cake will play a writer. Madeley is the female lead, reprising a role she played in the 2005 staging of the play at the Donmar Warehouse.

Beginning Feb. 4, tickets will be available exclusively to American Express Card members online at www.roundabouttheatre.org, by phone at (212) 719-1300, or at the American Airlines box office (227 West 42nd Street). Ticket prices range from $66.50 to $111.50. Public on-sale begins Feb. 20.

Through ACCESS Roundabout, 100 tickets will be available for the first preview performance (April 10) for only $10 each.

Jan 30, 2009 from Theater Mania:
Matthew Broderick will join Mike Birbiglia on February 25 for "Awkward 10 Minutes with Mike," a Wednesday night talkback series produced in conjunction with Birbiglia's solo show, Sleepwalk With Me, currently running at the Bleecker Street Theater.

Birbiglia will interview a new guest each week about a personal story that they're uncomfortable about discussing in public. Additional February guests will include Judy Gold (February 4), John Oliver (February 11), and Michael Ian Black (February 18).

Jan 26, 2009 from New York Daily News:
Sarah Jessica Parker is trying to quell the pesky marital trouble rumors that keep dogging her. The "Sex and the City" star stepped out with hubby Matthew Broderick on Thursday to attend the Broadway premiere of "The American Plan," and the couple didn't leave one another's sides all night. "Sarah and Matthew were making a united front," one eyewitness says. "They didn't let go of one another's hands and were definitely trying to tell the world that they were just fine."

Jan 23, 2009 from Playbill:
Tony winner Matthew Broderick, Xanadu's Jackie Hoffman and "Ugly Betty" star Michael Urie will be part of the upcoming presentation of Celebrity Autobiography Jan. 26 at the Triad in Manhattan.

The celebrity-filled evening will also feature Autobiography creator Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Sherri Shepherd and Alan Zweibel. Show time is 7:30 PM.

from People:
On Thursday night, Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker turned a visit to Broadway into a romantic evening – complete with hand holding and downplaying rumors that their marriage is in trouble.

After watching The American Plan, a play starring Mercedes Ruehl and Lily Rabe, Parker told PEOPLE, "It was really lovely."

Parker, looking divine in a polka dot dress, white coat and spiky black heels, also gracefully addressed recent reports that she and Broderick were close to splitting. Pressed by reporters about the rumors, she said, "We don't even bother to address them." She added that the best part of being married is "being married."

Jan 4, 2009 from Chicago Tribune:
Throughout the campaign, stars such as George Clooney were careful not to be too public in their Obama support for fear of stirring up an anti-Obama backlash. "I think we were all quite aware that we didn't want to blow it for him by endorsing him too loudly," actress Sigourney Weaver said.

As it was, Republican presidential nominee John McCain aired an ad depicting Obama as a celebrity along the lines of Paris Hilton. Even now, Matthew Broderick, who made a "Ferris Bueller"-themed campaign message for Obama shortly before the election, said he is reluctant to attend the inauguration out of concern for the new president's image.

"I know it wouldn't look good if a lot of celebrities pushed out regular Joes to get on that lawn," said Broderick.

"With him, my instincts are celebrities ought to be a little more careful."