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Travelling On.(The Riches)(Television program review)
As a performer, the British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard is a warm-blooded snake: slithery, relaxed, and projecting good will. He'll wind himself around you, but he doesn't bite; he appears to like both himself and his audiences, though he will often toy with them. In his 1999 standup film, "Dress to Kill," shot in a San Francisco theatre, he tells a joke about the pop singer Engelbert Humperdinck's name. He adds off-handedly that Humperdinck is dead but quickly waves his hands and shakes his head to indicate that he's just kidding; then he nods to indicate that he wasn't kidding. He goes back and forth like this--he's dead, no he's not--four or five times, taking the ...
- From scam to sham: A family of grifters, led by Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver,...
- Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY) March 11, 2007 700+ words
...about? Could be Eddie Izzard. The lead actor of...family chronicle "The Riches" has most recently...thematic essence of "The Riches." Izzard, who won acclaim...South where "The Riches" plays out. Though Izzard's character, Wayne...
- Eddie Izzard: The Riches.(LEAD ACTOR: THE FRESHMAN CLASS)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Mclean, Thomas J. June 8, 2007 700+ words
Eddie Izzard came to "The Riches" in much the same way his character...Television topper Michael Rosenberg that Izzard first heard of the show, which had...said I'd like to do that story," Izzard says. As an exec producer on the show...
- Minnie Driver and Eddie Izzard at "The Riches" season two premiere screening.(V)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety March 18, 2008 700+ words
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Minnie Driver and Eddie Izzard at "The Riches" season two premiere screening at L.A.'s Pacific Design Center on Sunday.
- EDDIE IZZARD WORKSHOP.(Life and Arts)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) July 28, 2007 700+ words
Eddie Izzard rides a comic wave of his own invention. Without backup writers...movies and currently stars with Minnie Driver in the TV series "The Riches." Izzard will workshop a new solo show at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, 155...
- No Joke: Mr. Izzard Wants Your Vote.(Newsmakers; Q&A)(Eddie Izzard )(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Braiker, Brian April 28, 2008 700+ words
Byline: Brian Braiker Americans who know Eddie Izzard only as Wayne Mollow from FX's "The Riches" are about to see a lot more of him. This month he takes his new stand-up act, "Stripped," on the road. He also just finished...
- Transatlantic transvestite; Eddie Izzard is giving Hollywood stardom a rest...
- Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) November 6, 2009 700+ words
EDDIE Izzard has been in 'boy mode' so long that America...He landed the lead role in HBO series The Riches, as well as film roles alongside the likes...side of this approach is that the Eddie Izzard America knows is perhaps a less colourful...
- Eddie Izzard runs 1,100 miles for charity
- Newspaper article from: New Haven Register Al Santangelo September 16, 2009 700+ words
...LONDON -- Standup comedian Eddie Izzard completed a 1,100-mile run...feel ... exhausted," Izzard said, raising his hands in...front of assembled journalists. Izzard covered the country in seven...for his roles in FX's "The Riches" and Tom Cruise's World War...
- Ready, steady, Eddie; It may seem like he hasn't done stand-up for years, but...
- Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) October 31, 2009 700+ words
...was four or five," croaks Izzard, who is struggling with a cold...difficulties of his childhood, Izzard is keen to point out that he...of it, modern memories." Izzard's childhood recollections...crisis in HBO drama series The Riches, while in the film stakes h
