Kingpin

..."Frasier." Harrelson demonstrated his range as an actor on the big screen with memorable performances in dramas, including "The Thin Red Line," "Kingpin," "Natural Born Killers," "Indecent Proposal" and "White Men Can't Jump." He earned...

In this article: Woody Harrelson, Twinkie, Zombieland, Cheers, Oscar, Woody Boyd, Tallahassee, Texas, and Junk food

"If I were in it, I would say they wanted Joe Pesci for the part and Woody called me up. And I know Woody, we did 'Kingpin' together and he's a great guy. And he said, 'Pal, would you ever like to play a Zombie?' Here's the deal.' And he goes,...

In this article: Bill Murray, Joe Pesci, Woody Harrelson, Zombieland, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Matthew McConaughey, Toronto International Film Festival, Wes Anderson, Emma Stone, and George Clooney

..."tough guy" character. The movie's best scene, which might arguably be one of the most refreshing and hilarious cameos in recent movie history, features one of Harrelson's former castmates. The sisters Wichita and Little Rock,...

In this article: Zombieland, Woody Harrelson, Little Miss Sunshine, Shawn of the Dead, Twinkie, Zombie, IP Address, and Night of the Living Dead

...of films. Among his many early works, Mr. Krevoy produced the blockbuster Farrelly brothers comedy Dumb and Dumber starring Jim Carrey as well as the Farrelly's follow-up, Kingpin '', starring Woody Harrelson and Bill Murray. Mr. Krevoy...

In this article: Academy Award, Cuba Gooding Jr., Orion Pictures Corporation, Hollywood, Farrelly brothers, and Kevin Bacon

...AMC Pipers Alley. The action is spread out among a pretty wide ensemble of comic actors, chief among them Woody Harrelson as another badly coiffed washout just slightly better off than his one-armed bowler from "Kingpin." Fresh from a...

In this article: The Grand, Zak Penn, Christopher Guest, Wisconsin, Oxygen, Annie Duke, Howard Lederer, Phil Gordon, Anchor Bay Entertainment, and Werner Herzog

...story of how the movie came together (and how it almost didn't). It all began in 1996 while Peter and Bobby Farrelly were working on the Woody Harrelson comedy "Kingpin." The brothers had a realization that nobody had ever done an...

In this article: Warner Bros, Bobby Farrelly, Jim Carrey, Farrelly brothers, Three Stooges, Curly, MGM, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, and Mike Cerrone

...(although he wound up bowling pretty well). Pitcher Ryan Dempster was a crowd favorite; he wore a tight polyester shirt and bellbottoms to look like Woody Harrelson's character in "Kingpin." Totally lost in translation: right fielder...

In this article: Mark Cuban, Chicago Cubs, Mark DeRosa, Kerry Wood, Ryan Dempster, Chicago, and Kosuke Fukudome

...bad-taste maestros Peter and Bobby Farrelly. An inspired parody of rags-to-riches sports dramas, Kingpin stars Randy Quaid as an Amish bowling hotshot and Woody Harrelson as the washed-up former champ with a rubber hand who grooms him for a...

In this article: Ghost, Woody Harrelson, Bill Murray, Oscar, The Sunday Times, Amish, Bernard MacLaverty, and Larry McMurtry

Kingpin (film) Kingpin is a 1996 slapstick comedy film, directed by the Farrelly brothers and starring Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel, and Bill Murray. It was filmed in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a stand-in for...

In this article: Amish, Reno, Nevada, Vanessa Angel, Randy Quaid, and Gene Siskel