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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick stories: 17 news summaries

(Newser) - John Hughes was the undisputed king of '80s teen comedy writes Time in a look at the late producer/director's most classic moments.
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off,  "Bueller...Bueller...Bueller?": Matthew Broderick's direct address to the audience on how to fake a sick day, followed by an empty
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film director • Matthew Broderick • Molly Ringwald • John Hughes • 1980s

(Newser) - Actors John Hughes made famous in the '80s are paying tribute to the late director, People reports. "I was stunned and incredibly sad to hear about the death," says Molly Ringwald, a Brat Packer who rose to fame with Hughes by starring in Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast ... More »

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film director • Matthew Broderick • Molly Ringwald • John Hughes

GOSSIP ROUNDUP

 Beyoncé, 
 Lady Gaga 
 Top VMA Noms 

Britney secures her comeback with seven nods

Aug 4, 09 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Beyoncé and Lady Gaga lead the pack with nine MTV Video Music Award nominations each, People reports. E! adds another notable: Britney Spears, with seven. The awards are set for Sept. 13. Elsewhere:
  • One of the two police chiefs charged with breaking into the home of Matthew Broderick and
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entertainment • Britney Spears • OJ Simpson • celebrity • Sarah Jessica Parker • Video Music Awards • Beyonce • Matthew Broderick • Guy Ritchie • Jay-ZTV • Lady Gaga • Sherlock Holmes

(Newser) - A pair of Ohio police chiefs have been arrested for allegedly breaking into the home of Sarah Jessica Parker's surrogate mother to hunt for tabloid fodder they could sell for profit, AP reports. The woman gave birth to Parker and Matthew Broderick's twin girls last month. Local officials confirmed that... More »

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police • tabloids • Sarah Jessica Parker • police chiefs • Matthew Broderick • surrogate mother

 SJP Introduces Twins to World 

First family photo released

Jun 30, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick introduced their week-old twin girls to the world yesterday via the first official photo, Us reports. Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge Broderick were born June 22 to a surrogate mom in Ohio, and joined the couple’s 6-year-old son James Wilkie. Parker is... More »

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entertainment • twins • celebrity • Sarah Jessica Parker • Matthew Broderick • celebrity baby

 Broderick 
 'Very Happy' 
 to Meet Twins 

Happy couple looking forward to having newborns home

Jun 24, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Matthew Broderick is “very happy” about the birth of his twins, he tells People. The new dad met them in Ohio, where they were born to a surrogate mother Monday night, before returning to New York for his Broadway play last night. The girls’ nursery is ready, and their... More »

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entertainment • twins • celebrity • Sarah Jessica Parker • Matthew Broderick • surrogates • celebrity baby

(Newser) - Nothing too exotic for these guys. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick's new baby girls are named Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick and Tabitha Hodge Broderick. Hodge and Elwell are names from Parker's side of the family, says a family rep. The couple hired a surrogate mother, who gave birth to... More »

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twins • Sarah Jessica Parker • Matthew Broderick • surrogate mother

(Newser) - Sarah Jessica Parker’s surrogate mother gave birth to twins last night, sources tell CBS affiliate WTRF-TV. Security is tight around the eastern Ohio hospital, with additional guards brought in to handle the media. Parker and her husband, Matthew Broderick, are expected to make an announcement before leaving the hospital... More »

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twins • baby • Sarah Jessica Parker • Matthew Broderick • surrogates • celebrity baby • mother

(Newser) - The Chicago-area house immortalized in a glass-breaking, Ferrari-plunging shot from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is for sale, the Arlington Heights Daily Herald reports. “It’s spectacular inside,” said the realtor offering the glass-walled modern home at $2.3 million. “It’s like living in a tree... More »

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real estate • film • Chicago • Matthew Broderick • Alan Ruck • Ferris Bueller's Day Off • John Hughes

 What Recession? 
 SJP Plans $18K Nursery 

Actress plans to shell out on clothes, too

May 25, 09 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Jessica Parker is going all Carrie Bradshaw on her twins’ nursery. Her purchases so far total more than $17,500, Bang Showbiz reports, and include a $5,800 day bed, a $6,300 armoire, a $4,700 double crib, and a $1,600 rocking horse. “Sarah Jessica and... More »

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entertainment • twins • celebrity • Sarah Jessica Parker • Matthew Broderick • celebrity pregnancy • celebrity parents • celebrity baby

 Celebs Lead 
 Ping-Pong 
 Renaissance 

Nerdy game gets a trendy makeover

May 17, 09 8:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forget dusty suburban basements: Ping-pong, once the sport of nerds and misfits, is enjoying an unlikely image makeover at the hands (and paddles) of A-list devotees flocking to trendy ping-pong clubs, reports the Independent. At the star-studded opening of exclusive new ping-pong hall SPiN, in New York, Susan Sarandon... More »

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entertainment • Matthew Broderick • Susan Sarandon • table tennis • Emma Watson • Jay-ZTV • ping-pong • Ed Norton

(Newser) - Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker are expecting twin girls this summer via a surrogate mother, reports E! Online. The couple—Broderick is 47, Parker 44—have a 6-year-old son and have been trying unsuccessfully for another child. "They could have kept trying on their own," says a... More »

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twins • Sarah Jessica Parker • Matthew Broderick • surrogates • mother

Movie Review

 Despereaux a Beautiful Mess 

Too many subplots in Mouse's tale

Dec 19, 08 3:20 PM CST
(Newser) - The Tale of Despereaux is a beautiful movie. It looks “like an illuminated manuscript come to life,” writes Adam Markovitz in Entertainment Weekly, its visuals obviously inspired by Flemish artists. “Too bad the story’s such a mess.” At the heart of the story... More »

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movie review • Dustin Hoffman • Matthew Broderick • animated movie

Want the Day Off? Anyone? Anyone?

Bueller video: Skip work or school today, and volunteer for Obama

Nov 4, 08 8:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Ferris Bueller didn’t believe in -isms, only himself, but actor Matthew Broderick believes in Barack Obama. In a campaign video, Broderick urges people to emulate Ferris and “Take the day off”—only this time, to volunteer for Obama. “Life moves pretty fast,” he says, reprising... More »

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Barack Obama • Matthew Broderick • Election 2008

 Broderick to 
 Return to 
 Broadway 

"The Philanthropist" opens next April

Oct 7, 08 9:35 AM CDT
(AP) - Matthew Broderick will return to Broadway next spring in a revival of "The Philanthropist," a comedy by English playwright Christopher Hampton. Broderick, in his first Broadway appearance since the 2005 revival of "The Odd Couple," portrays Philip, an insular college professor. Directed by David Grindley, the... More »

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theater • Broadway • celebrity • Matthew Broderick

Sex and the City Star Misses ... the City

On eve of movie release, Parker recalls bygone Manhattan

May 5, 08 2:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - When Sarah Jessica Parker laments the old Manhattan that is slowly eroding—coffee shops and bodegas closing, Sex and the City bus tours parked outside Magnolia Bakery—her husband, Mathew Broderick, tells it to her straight: “That’s your fault!” New York magazine sits down with the star,... More »

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television • New York City • New York • HBO • Sex and the City • celebrity • Sarah Jessica Parker • Matthew Broderick • movies • Carrie Bradshaw

Young Frank's a Broadway Flub

Mel Brooks' Producers follow-up wears his jokes thin, critics say

Nov 9, 07 7:46 PM CST
(Newser) - Mel Brooks wowed 42nd Street with his musical debut The Producers, but follow-up Young Frankenstein fell flat at last night's opening, says Time's Richard Zoglin. Without Brooks' freshman hit, Young Frank might be “reasonably entertaining”; instead it demands comparison and ends up mere “shtick." Its brilliant film... More »

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Broadway • Mel Brooks • The Producers • Young Frankenstein • Andrea Martin • SCTV • Nathan Lane • Matthew Broderick

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