Nick Hornby

2013 TV upfronts: NBC revamps with family Thursday, Spader Monday

2013-05-13 12:23:00

NEW YORK -- In a time long removed from Michael Scott and must-see TV, NBC is hoping Michael J. Fox and Sean Hayes can help fill its Thursday night comedy void. The network on Monday unveiled its programming for the year ahead during its annual upfront...

2013 Upfronts: 'About a Boy' among five new series orders from NBC

2013-05-09 13:14:00

On Thursday NBC announced it was giving series orders to five pilots, including new shows from industry heavyweights J.J. Abrams, Jason Katims and James Burrows.� In “The Family Guide,” J.K. Simmons stars as a blind dad going through a...

'Playing for Keeps': Why does football keep sacking soccer at the box office?

2012-12-10 07:15:00

The last 15 years have been, in some respects, the glory days of sports movies. I don't mean this in a qualitative sense -- "Remember The Titans" isn't exactly "The Natural" -- but it's certainly a time when sports movies have prospered. There have been...

Freddie Mercury biopic moves forward; Sacha Baron Cohen to star

2012-10-15 13:35:00

Queen guitarist Brian May has reignited talk of a long-gestating Freddie Mercury biopic when he confirmed a shooting schedule and Sacha Baron Cohen’s participation as Mercury. While that information sinks in, think of Cohen, best known for his star-...

Morning books: Climate wars, Nick Hornby, Francis Moore Lappe

2012-03-05 16:36:06

Mark Z. Danielewski meets Biffy Clyro

2011-02-22 16:34:26

Anthony Bourdain comes to KCRW for Guest DJ Project

2010-07-28 16:35:36

Track-by-track: Beck, Nigel Godrich, Emily Haines, Bryan Lee O'Malley & Edgar Wright dissect the 'Scott Pilgrim' music

2010-08-14 16:35:39

Joan Didion Named Winner of Los Angeles Times Kirsch Award

2006-03-10 00:00:00

NEW YORK, March 10, 2006 � Joan Didion has been named the winner of the 26th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes' Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. The award honors a living author with a substantial connection to the American West whose...

Are you ready to rock?!

2005-05-22 00:00:00

If all the connections worked, I figured I could make it by bus Tuesday afternoon from the FlyAway depot in Van Nuys to LAX for the overnight flight to London's Heathrow Airport, where I could race through customs to the Tube (stick with the Piccadilly...

The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va., Lindsey Fleming column

2013-05-16 06:44:01

THE ONLY WAY THAT my life has ever resembled a rom-com -- besides those break-up montages of ladies eating ice cream in sweats while crying to classic cinema -- is that I have never been in a relationship for long with anyone who, on paper, is a well-...

NBC primetime schedule 2013-14

2013-05-13 16:32:33

Comedy Premise: An adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel (previously made into a 2003 movie starring Hugh Grant) about an overgrown man-child who strikes up an unlikely friendship with the 11-year-old son of the single mom who just moved in next door.

2013-05-10 23:15:25