Valerie Faris News

Part biography, part live performance, Beauty Is Embarrassing is a funny, irreverent, joyful and inspiring portrait of Wayne White, a one-of-a-kind visual artist. As a designer, painter, puppeteer, sculptor, and musician, he has created some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture.The film traces White's career from his early work as an underground cartoonist in New York's East Village to his big break on Pee-wee's Playhouse, for which he won three Emmys. It follows his subsequent success designing and animating for other children's shows and music videos through a dark period of struggle and self-reflection, to his current incarnation as a respected painter and performer. Beauty Is Embarrassing premieres on Independent Lens, hosted by Stanley Tucci, on Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10 PM on PBS.

97.3 KBCO & Z2 Entertainment will present DeVotchKa to the Boulder Theater tonight, October 26th with March Fourth Marching Band & Saturday, October 27th with Land Lines. Tickets are $29.50 general admission.

97.3 KBCO & Z2 Entertainment will present DeVotchKa to the Boulder Theater on Friday, October 26th with March Fourth Marching Band & Saturday, October 27th with Land Lines. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, September 28, 2012 at 10:00 am for $29.50 general admission.

The team behind the 2006 independent hit film 'Little Miss Sunshine' haven't made a movie in the time since - but, as the Los Angeles Times reports, a new film is in the works. The film, which will be lead by 'Little Miss Sunshine' directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, will be titled 'He Loves Me' and will feature Paul Dano as a young writer.

Anthony Bregman of Likely Story and Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub of Big Beach announced today that Hugh Dancy ('Confessions of a Shopaholic,' 'Adam'), Kathryn Hahn ('Revolutionary Road,' 'Step Brothers'), Academy Award-nominated actress Shirley Knight, and Janet Montgomery ('Black Swan'), have joined the cast of the Jesse Peretz directed, 'My Idiot Brother,' a comedy about family and the sacrifices it takes to deal with them.

Broadway vet Paul Rudd will be teaming up with Zach Galifianakis yet again for the upcoming comedy 'Will,' which Perez Hilton summarizes as centering around 'Rudd whose life and destiny is being written by a scribe in Heaven played by Galifianakis. But one day the scribe stops writing and it's up to Rudd to go on about his day on his own.' Demetri Martin wrote the script and Little Miss Sunshine's Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton are directing.

Set to the classic Broadway show tune, 'Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better,' Gap's latest TV campaign for spring captures a sense of playful whimsy while focusing on Gap's new boyfriend trouser for women. The TV spot, starring acclaimed actors Claire Danes (Shopgirl, The Family Stone) and Patrick Wilson (Little Children, Running with Scissors), highlights Gap's refreshing, new take on iconic Gap khakis by marrying fresh modernity and nostalgic charm.

Little Miss Sunshine star Alan Arkin, who plays Grandpa in the hit film, has just been announced as the winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.