Comedy Legend Anne Meara, Mother of Ben Stiller, Dead at 85

Actress and comedian Anne Meara, who came to fame in the 1960s as half of the comedy duo Stiller and Meara, has died, NBC News reports. She was 85.

Actress and comedian Anne Meara, who came to fame in the 1960s as half of the comedy duo Stiller and Meara, has died, NBC News reports. She was 85.

Attendees at last night's Valentino show got a welcome respite from Paris Fashion Week's endless parade of really, really, ridiculously good-looking models: Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson strutting down the runway in full Zoolander/Hansel mode. [Billy Zane voice] It's a walk off! It's a walk off.
Ben Stiller is working to turn Reality Bites, the 1994 cult comedy that he directed, into a sitcom on NBC. Stiller and the film's writer, Helen Childless, have partnered to produce the show, which will focus on recent college grad Lelaina Pierce, played by Winona Ryder in the film.
A trailer for Ben Stiller's upcoming movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, has arrived and it looks great. Great enough, at least, to forgive it for being one of too many trailers to feature a folk band enthusiastically shouting "hey!"
Fox's summer sci-fi comedy Neighborhood Watch has been renamed The Watch, after concerns that the film would remind people of the Trayvon Martin case. And it's tough to blame them: the original poster featured a "Neighborhood Watch" sign complete with a shadowy figure and bullet holes. Trayvon Martin was shot by…
The top movie this holy weekend was the threequel to the epic Meet the Parents trilogy, Little Fockers. Ben Stiller's never going away! Can't say the same for his friend Jack Black, though.
Today on Live!, Ben Stiller had the same conversation that you'll likely have with your own grandparents this holiday. Listen closely to Stiller's explanation when Regis asks, "What is a twitter account? Is it expensive to tweet?" Handy!
Today at Gawker.TV, Brian Williams returns to Late Night to slow jam the news, the finale of Hells Kitchen, all hell breaks loose on Morning Joe, Seth Rogen on Mythbusters, and the Stiller Family plays a round of charades.
Who needs The Fockers when you can have The Stillers instead? Jimmy Fallon brought back charades last night and with the Stiller Family. It was Ben and Jimmy versus Jerry and Anne. Watch inside to find out who won!
Pretty soon we'll all be living under her cruel, pop-Western rule. Also today: Steve Carell lines up another TV series, Noam Baumbach and Paul Thomas Anderson plan for the future, and some important young man news.
That's what the movies would have us believe, anyway. Also today: HBO goes on a comedy-ordering bonanza, Terra Nova is not on terra firma, neither is Law & Order, and a new reality show actually sounds... good?
Adedamola Olatunji lived in a small apartment on the South Side of Chicago. Where he pretended to be Ben Stiller, David Duchovny, Paul Haggis, Paul Schrader and Noah Baumbach and used their credit cards for iTunes and online dating.
This should almost be presented without comment. Words don't really do it justice unless there's some word beyond "really funny." Hislarical? Seriously, don't drink coffee while watching this.
Even though the film was not even nominated in the category, Ben Stiller presented the Academy Award for Best Makeup moments ago in full Avatar garb, and secured his place as the requisite king of awards show cameos. Video inside.