My name is Binki Shapiro, and I play in the band Little Joy. In an effort to raise money for the relief efforts in earthquake-devastated Haiti, I’ve rallied a bunch of artists to contribute custom-made artwork — t-shirts, tote bags and other personalized items — for the Crafts For A Cause auction. All proceeds will go to Artists for Peace and Justice, an amazing charitable organization founded by my dear friend Paul Haggis.
One item up for auction is the infamous “Shapes” painting from Parks and Recreation’s “The Camel” signed by Aziz Ansari, Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aubrey Plaza, Paul Schneider, Nick Offerman and Chris Pratt.
It’s official: Betty White will host NBC’s Saturday Night Live on May 8, WNBC News announced Thursday morning.
Besides featuring the Golden Girl, who was the subject of a Facebook campaign to get her the gig, the special Mother’s Day episode will also reunite six former female SNL cast members, most of whom happen to be moms: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch.
Aziz Ansari announced via Twitter that he, Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza and Nick Offerman will be at Largo this weekend in Los Angeles for a special show with Tig (The Sarah Silverman Program)!
Here’s the basics: What: Tig with the Cast of Parks and Recreation When: Saturday, March 13 @ 9 p.m. Where: Largo at the Coronet Address: 366 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048 Phone: (310) 855-0350 Cost: $25 | Get Tickets
Now available in the iTunes Store: Wild Girls Gone, an Upright Citizen Brigade feature movie starring Amy Poehler, Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and Matt Besser. It’s $9.99 to buy; $2.99 to rent.
Here’s a plot summary:
Watch the Wild Girls Gone trailer! In the Spring Break capital of White Sands, Florida, Sheriff Terry Moran (Matt Walsh) outlaws the town’s world famous Ass Contests in a bid to win the elderly votes in his campaign for mayor – even though he is married to the town’s former Ass Contest Queen, Doreen (Amy Poehler). Unhappy with how her husband and her town is changing Doreen breaks out of her bored drunk housewife existence to recapture her youth and sabotage her husband’s campaign. Meanwhile Stevie (Ian Roberts) a video store clerk and aspiring documentary filmmaker gets goaded into making a movie about Spring Break by his scheming stoner friend Ray (Matt Besser). But Stevie’s loft ambitions for a documentary about human behavior are constantly derailed by Ray’s offensive behavior, shady connections and criminal acts.
They’re talented. They’re loveable. They’re hard-working TV thespians. Yet they don’t always get the credit they deserve. Here are 10 (seven, with three Honorable Mentions) out of the many TV stars that are often underappreciated.
Amy Poehler – In addition to Tina Fey, Poehler is another funny lady and Saturday Night Live alum that has found success after SNL, though that success often goes unnoticed. Poehler currently stars as Leslie Knope, an over-enthusiastic deputy director of Parks and Recreation in a small town on, well, NBC’s Parks and Recreation. And although Fey became popular impersonating Sarah Palin, Poehler has Paula Abdul, Dennis Kucinich, Sharon Osbourne, Dakota Fanning and Michael Jackson under her belt, thank-you-very-much.
Photographer Howard Schatz had an idea: place actors in a series of roles and dramatic situations to reveal the essence of their characters. Such was the premise behind his book, In Character: Actors Acting, which captures some of Hollywood’s most emotive stars in the act of, well, making faces. Luckily for us, he continued the tradition for the pages of Vanity Fair. Here are some of the best.
Left: You are sneaking a peek, in the middle of the night, at your sweet new boyfriend’s computer … and discovering e-mails to and from his three current “other” girlfriends. Center: You are a Park Avenue matron, paying your husband a surprise visit at his office and discovering him on the couch in flagrante delicto with his secretary. Right: You are a disoriented homeless woman being arrested for loitering.
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