Other big names at the ceremony included actors Michael Douglas, Matthew Broderick, Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman.
Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick insist the concept of a film based on a musical has longevity.
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The hero, Clark (Matthew Broderick), is a quiet young man from Vermont who has just entered the N.
Smith-Cameron, Matt Damon, Allison Janney, Jean Reno, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Kieran Culkin, and Rosemarie DeWitt and Paquin impressively stands her ground with them all.
It stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, both of whom are nominated for the best actor in a musical award at the Tonys, which honour the best of the Broadway season.
Only one character seems burned by the shame of the system, and that is Fitzhugh (Matthew Broderick), who lost his job at Merrill Lynch and now faces eviction from the Tower.
Some producers say a Lebed movie would be like War Games, a 1983 film in which Matthew Broderick hacks his way into a military computer and almost starts World War III.
Nathan Lane, who stars as the about-to-pop Broadway impresario Max Bialystock, and Matthew Broderick, who plays the nervous, harried accountant Leo Bloom, are a great match, gleefully lobbing verbal volleys at each other.
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a screwball romantic comedy that takes place in the 1920s and tells the story of a female bootlegger who meets a wealthy, often-drunken playboy, played by Matthew Broderick.
But it was the 1983 movie War Games, in which Matthew Broderick's character breaks into the Pentagon's computer system and brings the world to the brink of nuclear destruction, that launched the career of many an adolescent hacker.
The Producers (Opens Dec. 21) Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are searching for a way to guarantee that their new musical, Springtime for Hitler, will become a catastrophic flop in the musical version of Mel Brooks' classic comedy.
Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ), for instance, hired Avantgarde, a San Francisco-based marketing company, to outfit stars like Matthew Broderick, Mario Batali and Peter Gabriel, among others, with its line of Treo smartphones.
But Matthew Broderick, as her husband, a Caspar Milquetoast with a flap of hair falling over his forehead, never seems to get into the movie at all, and, somewhere in the middle, the rusty gothic-horror mechanics underneath the comedy bring everything to a grinding halt.
At the time, people were unfamiliar with the concept of a computer password, which required structuring a scene early in the film in which the main character, played by Matthew Broderick, sneaks into his high-school principal's office to check out a piece of paper showing a list of random words.
"WarGames" director John Badham also worried that people would eventually tire of watching Matthew Broderick reading aloud from a screen, so he pushed Mr. Parkes and his co-screenwriter Lawrence Lasker to devise a way to make the computer talk, like HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey, " even though no such technology existed at the time.
McLane's other credits include the recent revival of "The Heiress" with Jessica Chastain, the current "Nice Work If You Can Get It" with Matthew Broderick, the last revivals of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" and "Follies, " the show "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" with Robin Williams, and the Tony winning revival of "Anything Goes, " which is currently on a national tour.
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