These Are the Nights You Say Weeee!

Whoopi Goldberg, Jeremy Piven and Mrs. Sting (a.k.a. Trudie Styler) were among the boldface names to show up at the Ziegfeld theater last night for the premiere of the Monty Python documentary Almost the Truth: The Lawyer's Cut Edition. The film, produced by Bill Jones and Benjamin Timlett, stars the five surviving members of the British comedy troupe, which was founded forty years ago. Next week, the Independent Film Channel will broacast all six hours of the documentary, to be meted out in one-hour doses over six nights. The network's Python-athon will also include airings of the troupe's films, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian and Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. That should be enough to woo you away from Jay Leno for a spell.

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Drew Lachey, on the Brighter Side of Life

Drew Lachey, Bebe Neuwirth and Cheyenne Jackson were among the headliners appearing in this morning's "Broadway on Broadway" performance, held in the heart of Manhattan. More than 200 of the Great White Way's actors showed up in Times Square, hailing from shows including Avenue Q, Chicago, In the Heights, Spamalot, Xanadu and Young Frankenstein. The free extravaganza, hosted by Lachey, was the seventeenth annual outing for Broadway on Broadway. For fans of big-budget musicals, the show is one of the year's easy-on-the-wallet must-sees. After all, without spending a dime, where else could you find a Greek muse masquerading as an Australian on roller skates in the same space as a medieval knight plucked from the wacky collective genius that is Monty Python?