Steve Martin
Steve Martin performs at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at The Empire Polo Club on April 28, 2012 in Indio, California.
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I can't say. I'm not allowed to ... But if Steve Martin wants to come on, I think we could arrange that. It's funny, we have a list of the dream people we'd love to get, and we've gotten many of them already. Larissa and I work together all day, every day, so we've had a bit of a mind-meld going on over the years. We have a lot of discussions about who we think would fit.
Ouch. The great bluegrass legend Doc Watson is gone. Check out the song ‘ Tennessee Stud ’ to get his essence.
Ouch. The great bluegrass legend Doc Watson is gone. Check out the song ‘ Tennessee Stud ’ to get his essence.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Steve Martin brings bluegrass to Tilles
Martin laughs at the surprising twist his career has taken in the past five years."There's a little phrase I repeat a lot," says Martin, calling in between rehearsals of Shakespeare in the Park 's "As You Like It," for which he composed a new score. "I can't Read more »
Around the web
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Film: Local Newswire: Steve Martin’s suburban Planes, Trains And Automobiles house on the market
The housing market may still look bad for most Americans, but in the last few years the real estate gods have looked favorably on people who are not only billionaires, but also love John Hughes films and the suburban Illinois houses those films inhabited. 6/1/12 from The A.V. Club Read more »
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Morning Shots: Protesting A Library 'Raid,' Summer Books, And Steve Martin
One of the most interesting reads of the day is about a rather upsetting event: a "midnight raid" that removed the books from the Kensal Rise Library in London during a dispute over its closing. Joan Bakewell's essay concludes, "the Kensal Rise story stand from NPR Read more »
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Pops goes presidential
31st annual Presidents at Pops last night at Symphony Hall, with Keith Lockhart, rear, doing the maestro thing. Funnyman Steve Martin heading into Symphony Hall for rehearsal with his band... • That Steve Martin made a special visit to the Paul Revere House from Boston Herald Read more »
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The Short List: 'As You Like It' Goes Southern
Sullivan sets the play's Forest of Arden in the rural American South, where bluegrass pickers pluck original songs composed by Steve Martin, comedian and banjo player. The romantic comedy has more cross-dressing than "Tootsie" and more mistaken identities from Wall Street Journal Read more »
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New York Funny Songs Fest on Lower East Side
song-and-dance gags into their acts. Certainly "Saturday Night Live" has produced its share, whether a spaghetti-limbed Steve Martin performing "King Tut" in pharaoh garb or Adam Sandler mewling "The Hanukkah Song. " But strapping on a guitar or plugging in from Albequerque Express Read more »