Get Smart (movie)

Steve Carell attempts to prove he's not a nice guy on 'Conan'

2013-03-15 14:57:00

Steve Carell: Hollywood's Mr. Nice Guy. "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" star headed to "Conan" on Thursday night to promote the magician comedy costarring Jim Carrey and apparently to tarnish his nice-guy reputation. He was successful with the former,...

Patt Morrison Asks: Inside guy, Buck Henry

2011-08-06 00:00:00

Buck Henry arguably made his showbiz debut at the age of 2, when his mother, the silent film star Ruth Taylor, took him to the Paramount lot to show him off. She denied then that she wanted him to go into movies. Sorry, Mom. Henry has become a polymath of...

My 100% perfect, peerless Emmy Award predictions

2009-09-18 16:33:03

'Get Smart' 86s box-office rivals

2008-06-23 00:00:00

Would you believe . . . $39.2 million? The old espionage spoof trick worked to push Steve Carell's "Get Smart," the big screen update of the 1960s spy sitcom, to the top of the box office over the weekend. Although reviews were mixed, the Warner Bros....

10 things you may not know about 'Get Smart's' Masi Oka

2008-06-19 15:06:00

Attention "Heroes" fans: Production on Season 3 is well underway, and four episodes are in the can. You may start snooping for spoilers�.now! Just don't ask for any from Masi Oka, the 33-year-old who plays time-traveler Hiro Nakamura and stars opposite...

Q&A with Mel Brooks

2008-05-19 14:16:00

Q: How would you describe "Get Smart" to those too young to remember the series? A: It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy. It has a wonderful fusion and special effects and comedy, which is very rare. Usually, when you get big...

'Pest Control' can't be exterminated

2008-01-22 18:03:00

You can't throw a skim latte in L.A. without hitting a writer who has a screenplay that's been stuck in the system since grunge was breaking. But there are very few who can say that in the intervening years they've turned the same story into a well-...

In 'Get Smart,' Steve Carell is a man with a mission

2008-05-04 00:00:00

STEVE CARELL is sipping coffee as he waits for a director to arrive so they can discuss a possible collaboration to follow "Get Smart," his big-screen star vehicle, which opens June 20. Carell's office du jour serves hash browns and scrambled eggs, and...

'Date Night'

2010-04-08 00:00:00

In a recent Entertainment Weekly interview, Steve Carell recalls co-star Tina Fey telling him: "I just want to go and do a movie and hang off the end of a car." This, of course, is the problem with being associated with successful, classy, verbally...

10 things you might not know about acronyms

2008-06-22 00:00:00

It was revealed this month that North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles has offered to replace about 10,000 license plates that include "WTF," because that's a popular text-messaging term for "What the ..." (well, you know). Here are some acronyms and...

Anne Hathaway will 'Get Happy' as Judy Garland

2009-03-23 00:00:00

First she got smart. Now Anne Hathaway will "Get Happy." Hathaway has been tapped to star as Judy Garland in the biopic, an adaptation of Gerald Clarke's 2001 biography. In an interesting twist, Hathaway will also reportedly star in a stage adaptation of...

Go ahead - 'Get Smart' and skip this flop

2008-06-20 00:00:00

Surely after the Speed Racer fiasco, Warner Brothers was ready to say "sayonara" to lame 1960s TV adaptations. But plainly there wasn't time for the studio to, ahem, Get Smart about that. Thus, we're treated to a big-budget, big stars, big explosions...

in 1999, she was immediately cast in the short-lived Fox series "Get Real." She has since starred in the family films "The Other Side of Heaven," "Ella Enchanted," "Nicholas Nickelby" and "The Princess Diaries.

2013-04-29 09:23:00

Box office bite Hudson has had exactly one film make more than $100 million, the romantic comedy "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days." Hathaway's commercial choices have done far better, starring in three movies that crossed the threshold: "Get Smart," "The Devil Wears Prada" and "The Princess Diaries.

2013-04-29 09:23:00

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson left the wrestling world to be a movie star. He's now starring in Michael Bay's "Pain & Gain." Other notable movies: G.I. Joe: Retaliation "Fast Five" "Tooth Fairy" "Get Smart" "The Mummy Returns"

2013-04-26 19:08:00