Monty Python

In 1960, Hugh Hefner opened the first Playboy Club in Chicago, Illinios, beginning the expansion of the Playboy lifestyle, established through Playboy magazine. To celebrate this 50th anniversary, Playboy Enterprises will throw a big worldwide party, open two new clubs, and kick off the year-long festivities with an art exhibit in honor of its iconic Playboy Bunny. Appropriately, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania will mount the show, including Warhol's 1985 "Playboy Bunny" painting, March 27-June 19.  

"Players," the new Spike TV sitcom co-starring and co-created by Secaucus native Ian Roberts, follows the lives of brothers Ken and Bruce Fitzgerald who own a sports bar in Phoenix, Ariz. This being a comedy, naturally Ken and Bruce are polar opposites. Roberts plays the uptight and buttoned-down Ken, who envies his younger, free-spirited brother Bruce, played by actor/comedian Matt Walsh.  

Imagine a Carol Burnett sketch taken to the 10th power. Or "The Benny Hill Show" at its most demented. Now wrap that around a plot that revolves around errant plates of sardines.  

"We're making some announcements about Fable III and there's some very, very big things happening in Fable. Bigger than you think. And it's going to really upset people. I'm really scared when I go out and tell people what it is they're going to get super pissed off, they really are," he said. When the company released the first screenshots from the game , Peter explained that they decided to boot certain features in the game , such as experience points. In addition, the game was said to feature support for Microsoft's Natal.  

Flight of the Conchords' heart-throb Jemaine Clement is in line for Hollywood stardom. US entertainment sites are reporting Clement is being considered for a lead role in the long-awaited Men in Black III blockbuster. Clement and English funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen – star of Ali G, Borat and Bruno – are said to be the two favourites for the role, a character named Yaz. Hollywood A-lister Will Smith will again lead the cast for the latest movie in the smash hit series.  

The production company Entertainment St. Louis has announced plans to stage a blues festival this summer in downtown St. Louis and also to take over and move an existing (but as yet unnamed) jazz festival to an unspecified downtown location. The Riverfront Times' Nick Lucchesi was at the news conference on Thursday at which these and several other downtown events were announced, and posted about it on the A to Z blog here . "Mike Kociela and K. Sonderegger, who collaboratively operate Entertainment ...  

The City Theater Company regularly offers a platform to local playwrights. This year George Tietze is showcased with a set of six one-act plays that almost coalesce into something more unified. Tietze favors dark, harsh comedies, and these pieces generally manage to create some uncomfortable laughter and more than a bit of exciting theater, "G Dub" gets its initial performance in this production.  

The small team demoing the game made it clear just how seriously they're taking the project -- a kind of seriousness you wouldn't expect from a title that allows a ninja and Spartan to engage in a gory deathmatch. It is, at its heart, a strategic extension of the TV show; a program that takes historical data about the two combatants, enters said data into a game engine built by Slitherine Strategies, and runs 1,000 in-game simulations to determine who would come out on top in a hypothetical brawl. ...  

This will be a defining year for the world champion. His laidback approach conceals a thirst for success. Will he be a one-hit wonder or the legend who beat Hamilton?