Sam Kinison may have gotten his start on the small screen, but a long-gestating biopic of the late comedian is now headed to the big one. HBO Films has attached Tom Shadyac ("Bruce Almighty") to ...

HBO Films has decided to give the bigscreen treatment to the late Sam Kinison. The company’s developing a biopic of the outrageous comic with Tom Shadyac attached to direct and Rich Wilkes writing.

Sam Kinison: Why Did We Laugh is a 1999-released biographical documentary. It follows the life and career of late comedian and actor Sam Kinison. He was known for his distinctive style of comedy, as ...

No matter how praiseworthy HBO's forays into motion pictures might be, their films like Temple Grandin and You Don't Know Jack are almost always confined to the small screen. However, it looks like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s hard to imagine Sam Kinison growing old and mellowing out. The infant Sam arrived in East Peoria nearly 62 years ago. That’s ...

Good morning, troops. It’s Thursday, Dec. 8. It also would have been the 63 rd birthday of Sam Kinison, who aside from Richard Pryor is the most famous comedian the Peoria area has produced. The son ...

WHAT IT’S ABOUT Sam Kinison was among the biggest standups in the world when he was killed in a head-on collision on a remote stretch of highway in California on April 10, 1992. He was 38. This covers ...