Who can forget Wilson Phillips' epic 1990 video for Hold On, with Chynna Phillips and bandmates Wendy and Carnie Wilson marching down a boardwalk in black power suits? Some day somebody’s gonna make you want to turn around and say goodbye.

The song has risen to sacred pop culture status, sprouting up in comedies like 2004’s Harold and Kumar go to White Castle and 2009’s Spring Breakdown. And in 2011, it had a prominent role in the smash hit Bridesmaids.

“We knew nothing about the story line or who was starring in it,” Phillips said recently by phone. “All we knew was that it was a comedy and they wanted to use Hold On and they were hoping and praying we would agree to be in the movie. We agreed to do it sort of blindly. We showed up on set and saw Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig and we started to put the pieces together. ... We were up until 4 a.m. just singing the song over and over and over again. We just loved it.”

Wilson Phillips -- now preparing an album of cover songs by their famous fathers, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and the Mamas and the Papas' John Phillips -- will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Capitol Theatre, 405 Cleveland St. in Clearwater. Tickets are $49-$79. Click here for details.

For more with Chynna Phillips, click here for Stephanie Hayes' full interview. ... Read more

If Jay Mohr told you that his podcast, Mohr Stories, is his favorite thing he’s ever done — more than Saturday Night Live, more than Jerry Maguire, more than his two books — you’d probably call him a liar. He knows that, even if he doesn’t understand it.

“There’s always a new wrinkle to negativity,” he said. “Out of all the things I could like about — I would lie on a credit report or something. I would be taller on my driver’s license. It doesn’t behoove me to go, 'Guess what? I’m lying about what I like!’”

Maybe it’s just that Mohr has always been that good at playing cocky and disingenuous. Even today, he says, “I get a lot of tweets from people: 'I’ve always hated you since Jerry Maguire,’” where he played the sleazy agent who fires Tom Cruise at lunch. “Do you hate Glenn Close because of the movie with Michael Douglas? Are you like, 'Glenn Close is crazy?’”

Mohr is 41, but he’s been in the public eye more than half his life. He started doing stand-up as a teen and had his first televised gig, on MTV, at 20. By 22, he was on Saturday Night Live — an experience he turned into the backstage memoir Gasping For Airtime. Movies and other TV shows have followed, but through it all, Mohr has stuck to his first love: Stand-up comedy. His prodigious gift of gab led him to start Mohr Stories, a 90-minute show on Kevin Smith’s Smodcast Network, that he says has led fans to see him in a new light.

As Mohr comes to the Mahaffey Theater for a stand-up show on March 15 (tickets are $35-$75; click here), he called us to talk about comedy, technology and Saturday Night Live.

Do you feel more comfortable in a theater than a club, or the other way around?

I feel comfortable in different ways. I love the intimacy of a club; however, I love the immediacy of a theater. It’s a one-off. You have one shot to make everyone as happy as possible. There’s no second show. There’s no going back to the hotel room and looking at your notes and realizing what you could change for the next time.

I’ve heard that it can throw off your timing, because the applause breaks are different, reaction times are a little bit different, you have to animate a little bit more to get people in the back row to see you. Have you found that to be the case at all?

I actually have not. But if applause throws off your timing, then you’re not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it. ... Read more

Kevin Costner and Modern West have performed in Tampa Bay. So have Jim Belushi and the Sacred Hearts. Gary Sinise must have seen those shows and thought: Why not me?

So on April 20, Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band will perform a free concert at Williams Park in downtown St. Petersburg as part of the seventh annual Sunscreen Film Festival, held April 19-22 in and around downtown St. Pete.

Named, obviously, for for the actor's Oscar-nominated role in Forrest Gump, the Lt. Dan Band performs covers of classic rock and funk tunes as well as modern hits by acts as diverse as Kelly Clarkson, Zac Brown Band, Evanescence and Beyonce. (Oh, to hear Gary Sinise sing Single Ladies...) The group regularly plays benefits for active duty military, and recently performed for troops in Kuwait. They're also the subject of a documentary, Lt. Dan Band: For The Common Good.

Though the concert is free -- and will also feature an appearance by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers cheerleaders -- you can purchase VIP tickets which include front-row access plus admission to an after party at Push Ultra Lounge. For info on those tickets, click here.

No other celebrity guests have been announced for this year's Sunscreen Film Fest, but a few usually show up. Click here for all the details on the festival.

-- Jay Cridlin, tbt*. Photo via Twitter. ... Read more

One of the things you see before you is coming to the Straz Center in Tampa. Sadly, it is not the porcupine. (Nothing against Kevin James; we just really like porcupines.)

Kevin James will perform stand-up (remember when he did that?) at the Straz Center on April 12 (the same night as Van Halen in Tampa). Tickets start at $39.50, and they go onsale at noon Feb. 6. Our pals at Things To Do have the scoop. ... Read more