It all started, Columbus recalled, when fellow Chicagoan John Hughes sent him the script of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, which Hughes was set to produce, and asked him to direct it. Columbus ...

Steve Martin had been honing his singularly silly stand-up act for a decade before the world truly caught on. That’s not surprising, as Martin’s comic persona was itself a put-on, a layered ...

Alone in the heart of the forest, one man spends 60 days shaping a secret underground house by hand - every wall carved from ...

Setting poor grammar and punctuation aside, “STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces” joins the recent Paul Simon documentary in providing a big streaming canvas to let a star open up about his life ...

These days, we don’t think of Steve Martin as an innovator. Not when he’s starring in standard family fare like the Cheaper by the Dozen and Pink Panther remakes. But when Martin was first getting ...

It’s been a wild and crazy life. Steve Martin stays busy at age 80, but not too busy to reminisce a little. “I shot a little one-day scene at Disneyland on my birthday, Aug. 14, and it was in the ...