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Mar 21, 2008

Mar 14, 2008 from OK! Magazine:
Spotted: Matthew Broderick having his beard shaved at the Art of Shaving on Madison Avenue in NYC.

Mar 12, 2008 from ComingSoon:
The only really new footage shown in Universal's international presentation at ShoWest was a first look at their first animated film The Tale of Despereaux directed by Gary (Seabiscuit) Ross and featuring the voice cast of Matthew Broderick, Robbie Coltrane, Frances Conroy, Emma Watson, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline, William H. Macy, Tracey Ullman and Sigourney Weaver. It's a fantasy fairy tale about two outcast mice named Despereaux Tilling (Broderick) and Roscuro (Hoffman) who travel on different paths on their quest to rescue Princess Pea (voiced by Emma "Hermione" Watson in her first non-Potter role).

Mar 11, 2008
"Bee Movie" is now available on DVD. The two-disc special edition features alternate endings, lost scenes, commentary by Jerry Seinfeld and the filmmakers, the “TV Juniors” segments that aired on NBeeC, Seinfeld’s in-costume flight over the Cannes Film Festival, an inside look at the cast, a music video, a DreamWorks Animation Video Jukebox, a look at the technology behind the film, the early live-action trailers and much more. The DVD is also available as a single disc.

Mar 10, 2008 from Broadway World:
This Monday evening, March 10th, Matthew Broderick, Sherri Sheperd, Rick Holmes and others joined a long list of stars performing in "Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words" at the Triad Theater. Produced by Angelo Fraboni, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel and Peter Martin, the show continues to draw top talent to its rotating cast and bold -faced names to its sold-out audiences. The event recently extended their run through March 24th due to the wild acclaim and success.

Matthew and Eugene Pack

from Sonoma News:
"Diminished Capacity" and "Then She Found Me" will play at the 11th annual Sonoma Valley Film Festival, which runs Wednesday, April 9, through Sunday, April 13. The festival this year takes place in the all-walkable Festival Village, with all screenings located around the Sonoma Plaza.

To order tickets, and also for complete film listings, screening times, events, childcare and celebrity appearances, visit www.SonomaFilmFest.org, or call the festival office at 933-2600.

Mar 9, 2008 from Variety:
The Gen Art Film Festival bows April 2 in Gotham with a screening of Sundance selection "Diminished Capacity," directed by Terry Kinney and starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda and Virginia Madsen.

Fest will host seven features and seven shorts from emerging North American filmmakers, followed by seven parties. Marking its 13th year, fest will feature one preem along with the pics that unspooled at Sundance, Slamdance, SXSW and Toronto. Screenings are held at Chelsea's Visual Arts Theater.

from AP:
NEW YORK - Jon Stewart will host the second biannual "Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Benefit for Autism Education" on April 13 at the Beacon Theater in New York. The show will air live on Comedy Central (8 p.m. EST).

The night will feature standup routines, sketches and short films from a gluttony of comic talent, including Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, Sarah Silverman and Amy Poehler.

Also appearing will be Matthew Broderick, Jonah Hill, Kevin James, Rosie O'Donnell and Susie Essman.

It's the second such benefit and was organized in part due to Robert Smigel, whose son, Daniel, is autistic. Smigel's most famous character, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, will also be attendance.

The night will raise money for schools and education programs for autistic children and adults. A portion of the proceeds will also go to the advocacy group Autism Speaks. The first "Night of Too Many Stars," held in October 2006, raised more than $2.6 million.

Mar 7, 2008 from Playbill:
Matthew Broderick will return for the March 10 performance of Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words at the Triad. Also set for the 7:30 PM performance are Kristen Johnston, Rachel Dratch, Rick Holmes, Kristen Wiig, Sherri Shepherd, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Richard Kind and Claudia Shear.

Mar 3, 2008 from Playbill:
By Seth Rudetsky - Now, that last story brings me to last week's Chatterbox. Around two weeks ago, I did a performance of Celebrity Autobiography with Matthew Broderick and asked him to do my Chatterbox on the 28th. He was very sweet and agreed readily. He told me to check in beforehand to double confirm. Of course, I waited 'til the night before and left a perfunctory message on his assistant's voice mail. She called me back in a panic. Matthew had to go to L.A. at the last minute and couldn't make it back to N.Y. to do my show. Ah! It was sold out, and I didn't want BC/EFA to lose out on all that money. I had to get a replacement whom the crowd would adore just as much. I thought of The Producers and remembered how much fun I had with Nathan Lane at my Sirius interview recently. I called his assistant, Andrea, and she told me that he's doing a reading all day long and starring in November at night. In other words, he's too busy/tired to do anything extracurricular. She said she'd ask him anyway, and 20 minutes later called me back in shock and said "He'll do it!" How amazing is that!?! I showed up at Don't Tell Mama's and Nathan immediately said, "I don't wanna talk about the stuff we did before. Ask me other stuff." Uh-oh. I'm old school. I thought the show was frozen. I'm used to going through a celeb's career from start to finish, but he said we should do it differently...and go backwards. Didn't he know Merrily We Roll Along flopped? I was panicked…but it wound up being an amazing/hilarious show.

Feb 26, 2008 from Playbill:
Matthew Broderick will sit down for a chat with host Seth Rudetsky at the Feb. 28 edition of Seth's Broadway Chatterbox. The weekly live talk show, which includes interviews and performances from Broadway stars, is held at 6 PM at the New York cabaret Don't Tell Mama. There is a $10 donation and a two-drink minimum. The donation goes directly to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the nation's leading industry-based, not-for-profit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organization.

Feb 25, 2008 from Playbill:
By Seth Rudetsky - One of the stars reading [Celebrity Autobiography] last week was Matthew Broderick, who is such a funny guy. He was devastated while he was performing because, as he told me, "I tripped on the way up to the stage and I never emotionally recovered." He said he felt the audience saw it happen and "I broke their trust…I broke their trust."

Feb 24, 2008 from Scotland On Sunday:
Sarah Jessica Parker met husband and fellow actor Matthew Broderick when two of her brothers who work in the theatre in New York introduced them. The pair married in 1997 in a deconsecrated synagogue in New York, the ceremony presided over by Matthew's sister, who is an Episcopal priest.

"I always considered myself a Jew," says Parker. "My original family name was Bar-Kahn, and both Matthew and I have Jewish mothers, so I'd say we are culturally Jewish."

Broderick, 46, had wooed his share of stars before he met SJP, dating Jennifer Grey and living with Helen Hunt for three years. Parker was with Robert Downey Jr for seven years and, briefly, Nicolas Cage (her co-star in Honeymoon in Vegas) and John Kennedy Jr.

The couple live in a townhouse in Greenwich Village, just round the corner from the brownstone building that was used as the exterior of Carrie's apartment in Sex and the City ("I walk by it literally every single day") along with their five-year-old son James and dog Sally. They love going to baseball games, ride a '63 Vespa, and have a family holiday house in Donegal. They are also both active in public life and SJP is a goodwill ambassador for Unicef. She has been a participant in the crusade against Aids and has lent her support to various other causes, such as Rock the Vote (youth voter registration) and the environment. In 1995 she was given the American Civil Liberties Union Award and has fought proposed cuts to benefits – a legacy of a childhood that saw her family having spells on welfare when she qualified for free school lunches.

...Like his wife, Broderick has been acting since he was a child (his mother is a screenwriter and his late father was an actor). Before they married, back in 1995, he and Parker starred opposite each other nightly in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Was it difficult working with someone with whom she was romantically involved? "Matthew is so charming that if he ran one of those gambling games on the street and you lost 40 bucks at it, you'd walk away laughing," she says. "Like any marriage in which both partners work, you have disappointments and thrilling moments. And we are both delighted by the good things that happen to each other. We've made our peace with all that actors' ego stuff but the real problem is, with our schedules, we don't get to see much of each other a lot of the time.

"Luckily, we don't have that LA celebrity thing to deal with. We don't go out much.

...Parker is still astonished at the huge popularity of Sex and the City – and the fact that it won over both critics and audiences alike. There are countless fan websites dedicated to SATC, and both she and the show have won numerous awards.

"I simply can't believe how well it has done. I have to admit I was more than slightly nervous before the show started," she laughs. "In fact, I said no to it at first. I had my doubts about being cast in a possibly long-term TV series. You simply couldn't know that people would find it saucy and smart or if they'd say, 'Well, this is just completely inappropriate. Who are these dirty, awful people who pollute our airwaves?'

Feb 21, 2008 from Broadway World:
One of the first things Jim Borstelmann remembers Stroman saying to him is “I love the way you move for being such a big guy.” At a husky 5’11”, he doesn’t look like your typical chorus boy. Matthew Broderick put it more bluntly. When they met doing The Producers, Broderick told Borstelmann that he and wife Sarah Jessica Parker had seen his previous show. “When Sarah and I went to Chicago,” he recalls Broderick saying, “I said to her: ‘You know what? I like the fat guy!’”

Feb 18, 2008 from Broadway World:
Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words, the acclaimed, long-running L.A-based comedy sensation returned to New York City at The Triad Theater (158 West 72nd Street). Celebrity Autobiography performs weekly on Mondays at 7:30PM through March 24. Tickets are scaled at $35 - $45 (plus a 2 dink minimum). A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit The Actors' Fund.

In appearance on Monday, February 18 were Broadway and screen-stars Donna Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Claudia Shear, Rachel Dratch Kristen Johnston, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel and Seth Rudetsky.

Celebrity Autobiography made its New York premiere run, following two sold out performances this past fall at the Zipper Factory. Created by Eugene Pack and co-produced and developed with Dayle Reyfel. Celebrity Autobiography has been a long running comedy hit in Los Angeles. Past guest readers have included Nathan Lane, Cheryl Hines, Bruce Vilanch, Niecy Nash, Andrea Martin, Gerri Halliwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Fred Willard, Kevin Nealon, Jay Mohr, Kel Mitchell, Doris Roberts, Laraine Newman and Julie Brown.

Tickets are available in advance through Smartix by phone at 212-868-4444 or online at www.SmartTix.com. For more information on The Triad visit TriadNYC.com

The Cast of Celebrity Autobiography: Richard Kind, Matthew Broderick, Claudia Shear, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Donna Murphy, Kristen Johnston, and Rachel Dratch

Feb 15, 2008 from Playbill:
Eugene Pack's Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words has extended its limited New York engagement at the Triad through March 24.

The popular series - which has been presented in numerous engagements in Los Angeles, New York and a Bravo television special – features a cast of performers reading from the autobiographies and memoirs of the famous and infamous.

Originally scheduled to conclude its run at the Triad on March 3, Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words has added an additional three weeks of Monday-night performances. The New York run began Jan. 28.

Slated for the Feb. 18 slot are two-time Tony Award winners Matthew Broderick and Donna Murphy, who will join two-time Emmy winner Kristen Johnston (The Women), Seth Rudetsky (The Ritz), Claudia Shear (Dirty Blonde), Dayle Reyfel, Jack Plotnick ("Reno 911"), "SNL"'s Rachel Dratch, Jason Sudeikis, Kristin Wiig and Celebrity Autobiography creator Eugene Pack.

Feb 14, 2008 from US Magazine:
"I always thought her beauty was kind of a secret; nobody seemed to get it," Matthew Broderick has said of Helen Hunt, whom he dated in the late 1980s.

Feb 13, 2008 from The Village:
Villager photographer Elisabeth Robert tells us when she was voting at P.S. 41 earlier this month, she recognized Matthew Broderick also casting his ballot at the Greenwich Village poll site. Apparently, so did all the female poll workers, who Roberts tells us were excitedly whispering among each other, “That’s Matthew Broderick!”

from PLAYBACK:stl:
Q: You've done so many things; what has been the highlight so far?

Carla Renata: I've had quite a few highlights. One of them was when I was in The Who's Tommy and I got to hang out with Pete Townsend. It was stupid; it was like, I'm hanging out with Pete Townsend, and Pete Townsend is partying with my dad! I mean, it was crazy. On my very first show on Broadway, which was a revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, I met Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Stamos, and Megan Mullaly, before she was on Will and Grace. Matthew is just the most wonderfully smart and generous actor I have ever worked with. It was just a thrill. My Broadway career is not over, but the parts I've experienced already have been marvelous. I remember meeting Gregory Hines, and I remember him standing at the side of the stage saying congratulations to every single member of the show as they came offstage. Alec Baldwin did the same thing. Those kinds of memories, you can't make that stuff up.

Feb 12, 2008 from Hollywood Reporter:
NEW YORK - IFC Entertainment has picked up all North American rights to Terry Kinney's quirky Sundance comedy "Diminished Capacity" starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda, Virginia Madsen and Dylan Baker.

The Plum Pictures feature, which premiered Jan. 21 at the Park City fest, stars Broderick as a Chicago newspaper editor who suffers a concussion and loses his memory. He takes a break to visit his senile uncle (Alda) in Missouri, and the pair end up on a road trip with his high school girlfriend (Madsen).

Feb 11, 2008 from Broadway World:
Broadway and screen-stars Kristen Johnston, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Seth Rudetsky, Jason Sudeikis, Joy Behar, Kristen Wiig, Rachel Dratch, Jack Plotnick, Richard Kind, Matthew Broderick and Molly Shannon performed in "Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words" on Monday, February 11 at The Triad Theater in New York City.

Matthew, Kristen Johnston, Jason Sudekis, and Rachel Dratch

Matthew, Jack Plotnick, and Eugene Pack

Feb 8, 2008 from Chicagoist:
Q: I have to ask you about a film that you were in a couple years ago, the adaptation of Marie and Bruce. Which is one of my favorite plays. I guess it played on the festival circuit for awhile and then it kind of vanished. I was wondering if you knew what happened to it.

BOB BALABAN: Yeah, I don't know what happened to it. I keep hearing that it's being re-released. I loved it. I think Matthew Broderick is great and Julianne Moore is always wonderful, as she is in this. I guess it's kind of a rarefied movie and there's just less and less room for these odd little independent movies. It's such a crowded and expensive marketplace to swim in. I must say that it's one of the reasons I'm pleased that Bernard and Doris is on HBO, where a large number of people will get to see it if they tune in. And they seem to be interested to do that. And these quirkier, little independent movies do sometimes get lost in the movie theaters. So I'm very, very happy that we get our lovely platform on HBO, where they're so good at getting movies out there and finding an audience for them.

Feb 7, 2008 from TODAY Show:
“Family Ties” creator Gary David Goldberg confessed that he wanted to cast another young actor, Matthew Broderick, who was then an unknown actor four years away from his breakout title role in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” in the role of Alex. But Broderick was acting in New York and didn’t want to move to California.

Michael J. Fox had auditioned for the role, but Goldberg thought he was too much of a smart aleck and rejected him. A production assistant nagged Goldberg into bringing Fox back for a second audition, at which he won the role.

Feb 6, 2008

(L-R) Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, J. Cameron Smith, Waleed F. Zuaiter, and Director Pippin Parker attend the opening night of "Betrayed" at Culture Project in New York City.

Matthew and Sarah pose with Mariska Hargitay and Scott Wittman. (Photos by Broadway.com)

Feb 4, 2008 from Variety:
LONDON - Anglo-German sales company K5 Intl. has picked up international rights to Joshua Goldin’s debut feature “Wonderful World.”

Pic, currently shooting in Louisiana, stars Matthew Broderick and Sanaa Lathan in a comic fable about a bitter and cynical man who falls in love with his African houseguest.

Producers are Miranda Bailey and Matt Leutwyler of Ambush Entertainment, and Glenn Williamson of Back Lot Pictures.

K5 Intl. was launched last January by veteran British sales agent Bill Stephens in partnership with Daniel Baur and Oliver Simon of German production and financing company K5 Films.

Feb 2, 2008 from TheaterMania:
Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick will appear in a performance of Celebrity Autobiography in Their Own Words, to play at 7:30pm on Mondays through March 3 at the Triad Theater. A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit The Actors' Fund.

Created by Eugene Pack, the show features both solo pieces and ensemble "chamber" pieces culled from the autobiographies of celebrities including Ivana Trump, Vanna White, Mr. T, Star Jones, Kenny Loggins, Tommy Lee, Sylvester Stallone, Zsa Zsa Gabor, David Cassidy, Neil Sedaka, Britney Spears, Madonna, Burt Reynolds, and Loni Anderson, as well as the infamous memoirs of Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher, and Debbie Reynolds.

Other rotating guests will include Joy Behar, Cheyenne Jackson, Tony Roberts, Kristen Johnston, Andrea Martin, Karen Ziemba, Rachel Dratch, Richard Kind, Seth Rudetsky, Carson Kressley, Jason Sudiekis, Kristen Wiig, and Jack Plotnick.

Jan 29, 2008 from Cleveland.com:
"Then She Found Me" will kick off the 32nd Cleveland International Film Festival on Thursday, March 6.

The romantic comedy is the directing debut of actress Helen Hunt, who stars as a woman confused by the foibles of adoption, birth parents and finding love. "Then She Found Me," based on the Elinor Lipman novel, is a rare departure for the festival because the film features a string of well-known names: Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick and Bette Midler.

Jan 21, 2008

(L-R) Virginia Madsen, Louis C. K., Matthew Broderick, and writer Sherwood Kiraly arrive at the premiere of "Diminished Capacity" held at the Eccles Theatre during the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2008 in Park City, Utah.

(L-R) Virginia Madsen, Alan Alda, Matthew, and Director Terry Kinney pose for a portrait at the Miners Club during the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. (Photos by Getty Images)

from EW Pop Watch:
"Feel free to laugh," said director Terry Kinney before the premiere of Diminished Capacity, his comedy about Alzheimer's, baseball cards, and going home again — and the audience was happy to oblige. Starring Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, and anchored by the always-excellent Alan Alda, the movie was warmly received by the folks at Eccles tonight, with one woman standing up simply to scream out "BRAVO!!" during the Q&A. I was sitting next to one of the film's financiers, and he told me beforehand that I was free to hate the movie — which is seeking distribution — but I didn't. It's my second head injury picture in as many days (after Smart People yesterday, coincidentally starring Broderick's wife, who you may have heard of), and I'd watch a third, at this rate. Seems the Broderick/Jessica Parker family figures the airfare to Park City was worth it. As Matthew said at the podium tonight, "This was a good weekend." Could get better: Buyers have yet to drop a big wad of cash on anything, and this project has talent to burn. Could it score the first big money on this special Sundance edition of Press Your Luck? Stay tuned. No whammies. —Whitney Pastorek

Jan 20, 2008

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker arrive at the premiere of "Smart People" held at the Eccles Theatre during the Sundance Film Festival, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by AP)

Jan 17, 2008

Matthew Broderick, Jerry Seinfeld, Neil Simon and Nathan Lane attend the "November" Broadway opening night after-party at Bond 45 on January 17, 2008 in New York City. (Photo by WireImage)

Matthew, Nathan, Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman. (Photo by Broadway.com)

from Playbill:
...Pretty much everyone was singing Lane's praises. Jerry Seinfeld arrived with a late chorus.

Matthew Broderick, Lane's other half in The Odd Couple as well as The Producers, was awed at the way Lane owned Mamet's words. "That's his genius. I'm sure they're all written down and word perfect. Nathan always stays right on it until he learns something exactly right."

Jan 10, 2008 from Hamptons Online:
Amagansett’s Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker are revving up for the launch of the new Gucci flagship store for a good cause. The Feb. 6 opening will benefit UNICEF of which Sarah Jessica is an Official Ambassador. Madonna will host the gala for the luxury house which will feature performances by Alicia Keys, Timbaland, and Rihanna. Matt and Sarah are co-chairing along with Drew Barrymore, Adrien Brody, Salma Hayek, Sting and Trudie Styler, Gwyneth Paltrow, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Tea Leoni, and Lucy Liu. Unfortunately, attendees will have to wait to visit the new store as the gala dubbed “A Night to Benefit Raising Malawi and UNICEF” will be held in a specially constructed arena on the North Lawn of the United Nations.