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If you like comedy, PR or the occasional inside scoop on the entertainment world,
then drop by for a daily dose written by me, Kambri Crews, producer and publicist to comedians and more!
Thursday, March 31, 2005
THURSDAY, MARCH 31ST - APRIL 2ND
Chamberlain Bros. International Student Film Festival
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street
New York, NY 10013
6:30pm to 8:30 pm
$5.00
Email CBFILMFEST@TRIBECACINEMAS.COM for tickets and more information. [UPDATE: March 31st - Sold Out!]
 This three-day festival celebrates the talents of the best and brightest student film makers (including several student Academy Award nominees and medal winners)--it also launches the publication of its accompanying book and DVD project, The Chamberlain Bros. International Student Film Festival (with an introduction by legendary film director Roger Corman).
Award-winning films include: Enlightment by Tanon Sattarujawong, Perils in Nude Modeling by Scott Rice, The Plunge by Todd Schulman, The Reunion by Ben Epstein, Toxin by Chris Folkens, and Zeke by Dana Buning.
--Kambri
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Friday, March 25, 2005
Tuesday Night
Tuesday, March 29th - Sob Stories "When I'm 64"
PSNBC, network television's only performance and development lab, presents Sob Stories  with host Christian Finnegan.
The Marquee
356 Bowery (btwn Great Jones & E. 4th St)
8:00 PM
$5.00 - NO drink minimum!
This month's theme: Getting Older
Mar. 29th - SOB STORIES "WHEN I'M 64"!!!
Find another gray hair? Worried about your 401(k)? Biological clock ticking like a time bomb? Make hay while the sun shines as guest comedians lament the perils of aging.
Christian Finnegan (VH1's Best Week Ever) hosts The Sklar Brothers (ESPN), Tony Camin (The Marijuanalogues), Kimberlee Auerbach (The Moth, Lifetime, MTV) and Ophira Eisenberg!
--Kambri
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Thursday, March 24, 2005
Free Moving Screening
MONDAY, MARCH 28TH & TUESDAY, MARCH 29TH
Sony Pictures Classics invites you and a guest to a special advance screening of Kung Fu Hustle from writer/director Stephen Chow. Visit www.sonyclassics.com/kungfuhustle for more on this award winning action-comedy.
Kung Fu Hustle has been rated R by the MPAA, so entrants must be ages 17 or above or accompanied by an adult.
Monday, March 28, 2005 or Tuesday, March 29, 2005
8:00 PM Screening
Sony Screening Room
550 Madison Avenue
7th Floor
New York, NY
RSVP Essential: 212-981-5291
--Kambri
Invitations are on a first come first serve basis.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Ballyhoo Promotions scored this article in today's Houston Chronicle, my hometown paper.
--Kambri
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Saturday, March 19, 2005
You Make the Call
If ever a picture were to beg for a caption contest, this photo of Coach Pat Summit is the one:
--Kambri
Come on, send in those entries. Winner gets a prize!
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Friday, March 18, 2005
Here are two more great videos backstage at the Jeff Foxworthy Roast:
Christian Finnegan interviews Jeff Foxworthy.
Christian Finnegan interviews comics from the North.
--Kambri
Link - 10:57 AM -
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Emporio Armani was packed with the glamorous swathed in riches and imbibing on abundant free booze. Invited by the lovely Syl Tang of Hipguide, I accepted the opportunity to mingle and get to know her. Unfortunately, people weren't in the mingling mood. It was more a "stand here and see who notices me" crowd. We managed to ease our way out after about 45 minutes of standing there and hardly getting noticed and headed over to the grand opening of PS450.
The owners were gracious and the space is lovely and the crowd was much more social. Unfortunately, this included a few overly drunk men one who kept grabbing my arm and once declared in a heavy accent, "I am from Israel. Why do you want to talk with those people when you could be here with me? You should be a model. Come to my agency tomorrow."
Yeah. I'll be there. Does anyone fall for that line other than the women who really should be models?
But, yeah, lovely space and great service from the entire staff.
[Photos from the evening courtesy of Joonbug.]
--Kambri
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
The Clip Joint!
Back from St. Louis and knee deep in business for Ballyhoo Promotions. I'm sorry to miss The Clip Joint tonight as I'll be at Emporio Armani for the Gen Art Film Festival opening night party. But YOU should go to The Clip Joint and have a good time for a good cause. Here are the detailss:
New School Comedy, Old School Style.
Todd Barry headlines this comedy/variety show at the Knitting Factory. Comics Matt O'Brien and Rory Albanese host Todd and other acts in a show that takes you back to the days when people got dressed up to go see comedy.* Visit www.theclipjoint.ws for more information including photos from the last two SRO events.
All profits go to a Parkinson's research charity to be named. Check back for more information.
*Suits optional.
The Knitting Factory
Main Performance Space
74 Leonard Street
New York City , NY 10013
8:30 - $15 (includes a free issue of Jest Magazine!)
212-219-3132
--Kambri
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Friday, March 11, 2005
That's My Boy!
--Kambri
Watch it!
Link - 9:57 AM -
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Ciao, Ciao
Off to St. Louis with Mssr. Finnegan. Yes, for those attentive readers, this means we will be out of town during the premiere of Comedy Central Presents: Christian Finnegan.
We did watch the advance tape, so all is not lost. But it would be nice to be home with friends during such an occasion. Oh well. Assuming our careers continue on their current paths, there will be many celebrations to come.
Meanwhile, enjoy this clip and interview courtesy of Comedy Central.
And this cringeworthy clip of Christian interviewing comics backstage at the Jeff Foxworthy Roast.
--Kambri
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Ah, the Perils of Live Television
Yesterday on the Today Show, Katie Couric reported from the plaza. The crowd poised eagerly behind her remained relatively silent as she plowed through her copy. Then this little exchange happened:
Katie: "Now it's time for us to go to our resident clown in Washington. Do you know who that is?"
Random Crowd Guy: "The President!" He yelled without missing a beat.
Stunned and amused, Katie said, "Nooooo, it's Willard Scott!!!"
--Kambri
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Save the Date
April 7, 2005, is the official launch date and party for Jest Magazine. Do you have any liquor connections? We're looking for a sponsor. Email me at kambri@kambricrews.com.
I Saved Your Life, Now Let's Eat!
Lunching at Ben Benson's today, we saw a man choke then receive the Heimlich from his lunch partner. It was all so quick and surreal. His mate sat back down, he did too, then they sat there in silence for a brief moment sipping water. Then they finished lunch.
I don't know how I would feel about that. Wow, I almost just died, but didn't, so I'm going to finish my delicious steak. It makes sense...steak lunch at BB's isn't cheap and, well, you're going to have to eat again sometime. Why not seconds after you nearly choked to death?
--Kambri
Once gave the Heimlich to my chihuahua, Paquita.
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Monday, March 07, 2005
Comedy Central Presents My Right Shoulder
I snagged an advance copy of Christian's Comedy Central Presents in hopes of copying and sending it out to various PR contacts. Of course we watched it. Of course Christian cringed through much of it. Of course it's great. I hope you agree. Catch it Friday at 10:00 PM EST on Comedy Central or at least TiVo the thing.
--Kambri
In the audience, my right shoulder looks tan and shiny.
Link - 8:42 PM -
Sunday's NY Post
I scored Christian a shout out in Michael Starr's column (for his Comedy Central Presents which premieres this Friday), but I never managed to get a copy of the NY Post in order to clip it. It's eluding me online as well. Anybody got a copy I can borrow?
UPDATE: Never mind. It's in today's New York Post which I have in my grubby little hands. Here's the link.
--Kambri
Link - 9:46 AM -
Friday, March 04, 2005
Gospel of Jack 3:4
Mike: My son is starting a T-ball league today.
Jack: Good, now you'll find out if he's gay.
--Kambri
Link - 5:50 PM -
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Ode to My Grandma
Before New York and before Cincinnati, I was living in Columbus, Ohio with not much to do other than drink and eat and sleep and work. What a dull town for a post-college age woman with no interest in children or marriage. Needless to say, I found myself drinking, eating, sleeping and working too much. With no theater scene to be found, I landed a role as "promoter". A couple of NASCAR events and lots of Stoli vodka later, I invited my mom and her mom to come visit.
Even being 78 years of age and deaf, never once did Grandma say "No" to an invitation to tag along with me to every seedy night club I worked hawking the new flavored vodkas Stoli had to offer.
One night, we found ourselves at Columbus's infamous Red Party held at the biggest gay bar in town. There were drag queens doing dead-on impersonations of Whitney Houston, Liza, Barbra and the like, lots of leather and latex and much gratuitously exposed male skin.
Minutes after we arrived, we spotted a man and woman speaking in sign language. "What were the chances?" We marveled. I approached the couple and introduced them to Grandma. The man, Brian, spent a good, long time chatting with Grandma and they hit it off. "What a nice boy," she signed to me.
Throughout the evening Brian became progressively drunker and began acting how, I suspect, he would have acted earlier had it not been for the distraction of a 78 year old deaf woman in a gay nightclub during the Red Party.
He began making out with another man whose name I never got and performing an extremely provocative and graphic striptease / lap dance for his suitor just inches away from Grandma who watched intently. At one point she turned to me and signed, "I have never seen a man strip and dance like this before. Oh sure, I've seen women strip, but never a man!"
"Really?" I asked, surprised to learn something salacious about her past. "You've seen women strip before? When?!"
"Last week."
Just like that she reinvented herself to me. Here stood before me a woman who wasn't afraid of trying something new without judgment, defying convention of what a mature lady should do and, well, just having a plain old good time.
I'm so happy she lived to appreciate the internet, wasn't afraid of the technology and allowed it to open the barriers to her deaf world by using it to its fullest capacity. I'll miss her and her emails and taking her on adventures, pushing the envelope of what is a proper thing to do with a Grandma and having her say "Yes" to every invitation to a plain old good time.
--Kambri
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