Melissa McCarthy

Baseball: The son of Biff from 'Back to the Future' leads Notre Dame

2013-05-14 19:24:13

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2013 TV upfronts: CBS unveils schedule with six new shows

2013-05-15 08:20:00

NEW YORK -- Wrapping up a season in which it will finish first in both viewers and the crucial adults 18-49 demographic that advertisers favor, CBS unveiled a fall television schedule with four new comedies and two dramas. For CBS, the win in adults 18-...

Hollywood bets big on blockbusters, starting with 'Iron Man 3'

2013-05-03 07:49:00

Summer is the season for blockbusters at the box office, and this year Hollywood is going all in. Midway through a year of declining attendance and ticket sales, the major studios are betting heavily on big-budget spectacles that can fatten the bottom...

Melissa McCarthy as an abusive coach is a slam dunk for 'SNL'

2013-04-07 08:04:00

Comic actress Melissa McCarthy is known for her physical game (last night's "Saturday Night Live" had her falling in heels and dancing about ham), so it was fitting that as the NCAA tournament is winding down, the highlight from this week's episode was...

Summer Movie Sneaks complete list

2013-04-28 00:00:00

The 2013 Summer Movie Preview is a snapshot of films opening through the end of August. Release dates (for Los Angeles) and other details, as compiled by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Sneaks list: In the...

Paul Feig puts 'The Heat' on funny women

2013-04-26 09:30:00

Not long after Paul Feig created the beloved cult TV series "Freaks and Geeks" in 1999, studios began barraging him with coming-of-age sex comedy scripts, even though "Freaks," with its sweet, sympathetic portrait of the perils of adolescence, was...

'Veep's' Tony Hale on man bags, ear hygiene, 'Arrested Development'

2013-04-22 08:00:00

He's the guy getting a lot of ear action. Tony Hale is back as the vice president's boy Friday in HBO's political comedy "Veep." In the midst of Washington chaos, he's never too far from Selina's (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) ear, ready to whip out hand...

Swoosie Kurtz picks herself up off cutting-room floor

2013-04-21 19:40:00

Swoosie Kurtz, who plays Melissa McCarthy's outrageous mother, Joyce, on the hit CBS sitcom "Mike & Molly," got her first lesson in the fickleness of show business more than 50 years ago in a production of Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" at...

Annette Funicello: From Mouseketeer to icon on screen

2013-04-08 12:37:00

Annette Funicello, who died Monday at age 70, will be forever remembered as the child performer from the "Mickey Mouse Club." And it was on this program, which aired in its original incarnation from 1955 to 1959, that the broadest range of the young star'...

Sandra Bullock's 'The Heat' to honor Boston cops with screening

2013-04-19 13:24:00

Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy's buddy cop comedy "The Heat" will be screened in advance for Boston police officers and FBI agents. The city was stunned Monday after twin bombings at the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured scores more....

MTV Movie Awards: 'The Avengers' takes top prize

2013-04-14 21:40:00

The young fans who helped turn "The Avengers" into a blockbuster flex their muscles again at the MTV Movie Awards Sunday, as the superhero flick took home the night's biggest prize. At the annual awards show, held at Sony Pictures Studio Lot in Culver...

'SNL' pays punk tribute to Margaret Thatcher

2013-04-14 08:26:00

“Saturday Night Live” host Vince Vaughn seemed to favor bizarre sketches (“How about a scene where a rich man comes down from a hill and dances with all the boys at the prom?” “What if there was a play where all the actors...

Kim Kardashian and Melissa McCarthy aren't exactly celebrities we usually compare. But at the MTV Movie Awards, the pregnant Kim K. wore a loose, plain black dress with big, gold jewelry. McCarthy's loose, plain black dress? Almost exactly the same. She wore about the same jewelry too.

2013-04-14 19:35:00

Actress and comedian Melissa McCarthy arrives at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City.

2013-04-14 00:00:00

10:30 p.m. Saturday, NBC Chicago-area native, "Mike & Molly" star and Oscar-nominated funny gal Melissa McCarthy returns to host and welcome musical guest Phoenix.

2013-04-01 09:47:00