Holiday Viewing: Elf

One for the whole family

"...Favreau along with a cast including Bob Newhart, Ed Asner, Zooey Deschanel, Peter Dinklage, and Mary..."

Dec. 5, 2017 Screens Post by Mark Fagan

DVDanger: Brawl in Cell Block 99

Vince Vaughn and Udo Kier on being the heavy

"...I think I remarked early on that he and Bob Newhart probably have my favorite comic timing of any..."

Oct. 15, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin's Paramount Theatre Turns 100

As the grande dame of Austin theatres turns 100, it matters more than ever

"...the person who became the Paramount's greatest benefactor, Roberta "Bobbie" Crenshaw, but also tipped off Bernardoni when ABC Interstate..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

This Sixties satire of big business may be showing its age, but Archangel's production gives it some professional pizazz

"...feels as embalming as watching a rerun of The Bob Newhart Show. In short, we're willing to deal with..."

Aug. 1, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Smith

"And I told her ..."

Joshua Ferris brings his working writer's style to Austin

"...told her.” It was the literary equivalent of a Bob Newhart telephone call, putting all of the emphasis on..."

May 23, 2014 Books Post by Rod Machen

Austin Creative Alliance

After a decade of leading the arts service organization, Latifah Taormina retires

"...actor in films (The Graduate) and on TV (The Bob Newhart Show, The Odd Couple, Happy Days, credited as..."

April 29, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bill Cosby is a Very Funny Fellow, Part II

Jazz patron Bill Cosby's cutting contest

"...funny, but decidedly lowbrow. Drank a lot of water. Bob Newhart at the Paramount in 2005 proved the original..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

TV Eye

You might think a TV columnist without a TV has little to offer. Think again.

"...same bed, but middle-aged and childless (as in The Bob Newhart Show), or how Mary on The Mary Tyler..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Mothers & Fathers

Bill Cosby rang up Mother's Day at Bass Concert Hall with a real cell phone call to an audience member's offspring among two PAC-shaking hours of familial riffing via the vantage point of parent- and grandparenthood

"...Whereas Bob Newhart updated his trademark phone schtick with a cellular..."

May 13, 2005 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

TV Eye

Lots of midseason premieres in March. So, without much fuss, here's what's coming up ...

"...April 12: The Bob Newhart Show: The Complete First Season (Fox Home Entertainment;..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Get in the Ring

Scott Weiland calls Andy Langer out

"...Weiland news item in "TCB" added insult to injury. Bob Newhart is funny. That somebody thinks I look like..."

June 11, 2004 Music Feature by Andy Langer

TV Eye

A minute with Belinda Acosta: Norm Macdonald comes back in a big way.

"...as the perplexed Hooper, mixing in a bit of Bob Newhart with a touch of Andy Griffith and a..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

"...Witherspoon, Sally Field, Regina King, Jennifer Coolidge, Bruce McGill, Bob Newhart and Luke Wilson. There was something rather rousing..."

July 4, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Book Review

"Between its title and proximate April Fools' Day release, the casual observer might assume Gerald Nachman's Seriously Funny is some sort of joke book," writes Ken Lieck. "However, its subtitle and subject offer the advanced student of dry humor the opportunity to quip that no, it is the anti-joke book!"

"...his inner schlemiel. Mel Brooks, Ernie Kovacs, Godfrey Cambridge, Bob Newhart -- one after another rattling the cage of..."

April 18, 2003 Books Feature by Ken Lieck

TV Eye

"Down There" gets its proper due on HBO.

"...scripts for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show. In 1978 they became producers and head..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Richard Pryor ... And It's Deep Too! (Warner Archives/Rhino)

"...came late in the days when routine-oriented comics like Bob Newhart and Shelley Berman, whose acts consisted largely of..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Review by Ken Lieck

The Standards Between the Ditches (Abel)

"...sarcasm to make Violent Femme Gordon Gano sound like Bob Newhart. As such, they're more Bloodshot than Sun Records,..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Re-Re-Re-Reruns

"...38) doesn't count here. Bless NICK for having The Bob Newhart Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Mister Smarty Pants Knows

"...Bob Newhart used to be a bookkeeper...."

June 6, 1997 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Bonus Tracks

"...Relentless, issued in 1992, moves into the classic Shelley Berman/Bob Newhart-pioneered "collected routines" territory. From there, with the two..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

TV Eye

Austin Stories Chapter Ends

"...finales, like The Mary Tyler MooreShow, like M*A*S*H, like Newhart. The Larry Sanders Show went out with class because..."

June 5, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

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