Movies
Martin Balsam, the respected veteran character actor who earned a 1965 Academy Award as best supporting actor for “A Thousand Clowns,” has died.
Feb. 14, 1996
Television
Alice Krige and Martin Balsam have joined the cast of “Second Serve,” the TV movie in which Vanessa Redgrave is playing Renee Richards, who underwent a sex-change operation to become a woman.
March 2, 1986
Martin Balsam, Arthur Hill, Wilford Brimley and Michael Ironside are starring in an unusual movie for Showtime.
June 16, 1985
Tyne Daly of “Cagney & Lacey” is starring in a TV movie under the direction of her husband, Georg Stanford Brown.
July 19, 1987
Entertainment & Arts
In bringing to the screen his unabashedly sentimental, nostalgia-drenched 1968 play “The Goodbye People” (at the Beverly Center Cineplex) Herb Gardner has succeeded only in embalming it.
Feb. 14, 1986
Recently, I took some delight in the survival of a childhood chant that is generations old and still crops up in the mouths of babes.
April 30, 1986
Travel & Experiences
* Mary Hunter Wolf was, indeed, a very unique woman (obituary, Nov. 24).
Nov. 29, 2000
TBS celebrates April Fool’s Day on Monday with the premiere episodes of several classic comedy series: I Love Lucy (2:05 p.m.); Laverne and Shirley (2:35 p.m.); Beverly Hillbillies (3:05 p.m.); The Andy Griffith Show (3:35 p.m.); Happy Days (4:05 p.m.), and All in the Family (4:35 p.m.).
March 31, 1991
Woody Allen will be back behind the cameras next month--in a comedy--as director, writer and star of “Woody Allen ‘89” for Orion.
Oct. 9, 1988
“Cape Fear” was considered strong stuff for its suggestions of sexual violence when released in 1962.
Feb. 3, 1991