latest flick, “Here Today.” The movie, the first he’s directed in two decades, follows a veteran comedy scribe, Charlie Burnz (played by Crystal), who is battling dementia.
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If you’ve ever found yourself sitting alone imagining comedy pairings that would make for interesting films and you came up with Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal, then this is your day! In the new film, “Here Today,” we finally get to see what happens when you combine the comedy stylings of an aging Crystal with a young, abrasive Haddish. It’s…something.
latest flick, “Here Today.” The movie, the first he’s directed in two decades, follows a veteran comedy scribe, Charlie Burnz (played by Crystal), who is battling dementia.
Angelique Jackson In the new movie “Here Today,” Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish play an unlikely duo who form a May-December friendship. Off-screen, the comedy stars have grown just as close.In fact, when Haddish celebrated her bat mitzvah in late 2019 with a star-studded shindig, Crystal was in attendance alongside Wanda Sykes, Common, Jimmy Kimmel, Chelsea Handler, Kevin Nealon and Sarah Silverman.
Billy Crystal plays Charlie Berns, a renowned writer of TV, films and Broadway plays whose heyday was in the 1970s and ’80s. Now, he’s a respected old fogey with a gig writing for a cable sketch show called “This Just In.” It airs on the “Funny Channel” — a misnomer if there ever was one.No wonder the overlong movie directed by Crystal doesn’t get laughs, because “Here Today” is also a dementia drama.
Billy Crystal's new dramedy,, begins with a scene so outlandish and so unbelievable that it could only be true. Crystal's character, veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz, sits down at a restaurant with Emma (Tiffany Haddish), who won their lunch in a charity auction.
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A sleepy and aimless stab at something earnestly “feel-good," “Here Today" is a wasted pairing of Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish that juggles dementia, grief and family squabbles about as adeptly as a daytime soap.“Here Today,” which opens in theaters Friday, is genial and gentle enough to make it mildly restive. It is, in scenes around leafy Brooklyn Heights, at least leisurely.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“Here Today,” starring Billy Crystal as a venerable TV comedy writer and Tiffany Haddish as the saintly, rough-around-the-edges street singer who becomes his unlikely pal, is a movie that feels like it could have been made 30 years ago: a friendly, adult-skewing, tart-witted but never nasty, jokes-and-hugs-built-around-a-serious-crisis character study that’s just ’90s enough to be comfortably old-fashioned, like an old pair of tasseled loafers.
The Last Black Unicorn author explained that she's not expecting to have a child naturally. “Let me tell you, if I get pregnant, that is all God—tearing down all walls, all barriers,” she joked during the interview.
Tiffany Haddish made an in-person appearance on Monday’s edition of “The Late Late Show”, joining host James Corden for a socially distanced conversation while wearing a bedazzled plastic face-shield.
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Tiffany Haddish is opening up about her plans to adopt.
Tiffany Haddish is living her best life.From hosting another season of to finding love with rapper Common, the comedian is basking in her blessings.
Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish joined forces for a wide ranging interview.
Tiffany Haddish and Common!The couple turned up the heat in their steamy #SilhouetteChallenge video in January — and fans loved it. So will the two ever collaborate again? The answer is yes!"[Yes], as far as I know from our conversation this morning," Haddish tells ET's Kevin Frazier while promoting her and Billy Crystal's new movie,.
Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal are teaming up for a new BFF comedy!
Billy Crystal returns in a new romantic comedy withTiffany Haddish as the duo form an unlikely friendship. The 73-year-old Crystal plays a veteran comedy writer who meets a New York singer (Haddish, 41), in the new trailer below.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterTracey Ashley is developing a comedy series inspired by her life and stand up at Fox with Wanda Sykes and Tiffany Haddish onboard as executive producers, Variety has learned exclusively.Title “Tracey’s Life Matters,” the single-camera show follows Tracey, a savvy, independent black woman, who moves with her white husband to his hometown in rural Indiana. There she must deal with a challenging career in sales and a mother-in-law who has “Karen-like” tendencies.