When the animated short “ Peace, Love and Understanding ” premiered theatrically in 1992, the world got its first look at a bearded hippie musician named David Van Driessen. Seconds later, a truck crushed him flat. Two obscure glue-sniffing kids, watchin

Reprise Theatre Company, which is under the artistic direction of Jason Alexander, has announced that it will enter "into an exploratory phase in order to assess its future programming and the funding of that programming." This phase, according to a Feb.

Reprise was once in the business of offering concert-like stagings of overlooked or fuzzily remembered musical theater gems. Since Jason Alexander became artistic director in 2007, the company has attempted to pull off fully staged revivals of gargantuan

Four nights too late for Valentine's Day, "Second Honeymoon" (8 tonight on Hallmark) offers a grown-up variation on "The Parent Trap." After 20 years of marriage, Maggie (Roma Downey, "Touched by an Angel") and George (Tim Matheson, "The West Wing") deci

Occupy Austin and City Hall are reassessing tactics and regrouping after the eviction of the protest Feb. 3. A new city policy enacting a curfew at City Hall between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and banning tents and sleeping bags from the grounds has forced Occup

NBC currently sits in 4th place in the ratings among the broadcast networks. The lowly last place is a tough place to be. Especially for a network that dominated just around a decade or two ago. So it's hard to blame NBC for resorting to going back in ti

When it comes to Academy recognition, Midnight In Paris writer-director Woody Allen’s view isn’t that far from the Groucho Marx philosophy held by his Annie Hall alter ego Alvy Singer: Allen would never want to belong to a club that would want someone li

OK, so the title character is a monkey, but if you can get past this obscure scenario, this is an entertaining family comedy starring Jason Alexander and Faye Dunaway. An orang-utan trained to be a thief by his master befriends two boys and creates havoc

WHEN Charlie Buchner, 16, and Casey Rosengarten, 12, knocked on celebrity doors to ask for recipes for a sandwich book to aid the Little Dreamers charity, they ended up dreaming big. Jason Alexander, the neurotic George Costanza in Seinfeld, has contribu

Confessed triple-murderer Jason Alexander Downie. Picture: supplied Source: The Advertiser Man guilty of murdering Andrew, Rose and Chantelle Rowe DPP asks Supreme Court to re-arraign Downie to plead again Fears letters Downie wrote to family indicate a

Jason Downie has pleaded guilty to the grisly Kapunda triple murder. Source: The Advertiser CONFESSED triple-murderer Jason Alexander Downie will be asked to plead guilty for a third time so prosecutors can be certain he is genuine. In an unusual move, D

Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell and Lin-Manuel Miranda appear on the Sondheim rivial of "Merrily We Roll Along" at New York City Center. The "Encores!" Photo: Peter Cunningham/Encores!

PROSECUTORS want a 19-year-old who pleaded guilty to murdering three members of a family at Kapunda to re-enter his pleas to ensure he is unequivocally admitting his guilt. Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Pallaras says Jason Alexander Downie has

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has questioned the legitimacy of a teenager's guilty pleas to murdering three family members at Kapunda in South Australia. Jason Alexander Downie, 19, pleaded guilty to three counts of murder. He admitted in cou

Jason Downie - the man charged with the Kapunda triple murders. Source: The Advertiser PROSECUTORS have questioned the legitimacy of Jason Alexander Downie's confession to the Kapunda triple murder. Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Pallaras, QC, h

Jason married Britney for a mere 55 hours in Vegas. Britney Spears’ childhood friend Jason Alexander - who infamously married the singer for 55 hours, says he was “in love with her” and calls their annulment “bullsh*t. He says he was summoned by the ‘Rad

Before Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, the most notorious short-lived celebrity marriage was between Britney Spears and Jason Alexander. Alexander, a childhood friend of Spears, married her in a spontaneous Las Vegas ceremony in 2004. Their marriage w

London - Britney Spearsâ ex husband Jason Alexander has opened up about the pairâs short-lived marriage, which lasted only 55 hours, insisting that he was in love with the singer. In an new interview with ABCâs â20/20â show, Alexander said that the decis

In 2004 Britney Spears married longtime friend Jason Alexander in an overnight wedding in Las Vegas and now nearly 8 years later Alexander is speaking out about that short-lived arrangement, calling it “bullshit.” Speaking to ABC’s 20/20 this week Jason