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SAG Awards 2013: Dick Van Dyke honored for life achievement
It was an emotional, nostalgic moment at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last year when Dick Van Dyke gave Mary Tyler Moore the guild's 48th Life Achievement Award. The two veterans, who had come to TV fame playing Rob and Laura Petrie on the landmark...
Tags: Screen Actors Guild, Mary Tyler Moore, Julie Andrews, Carl Reiner, Screen Actors Guild Awards
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PASSINGS: Doe Avedon Siegel, Dan Frazer
Doe Avedon Siegel
Model and stage, film, TV actress
Doe Avedon Siegel, 86, a model, actress and young muse for photographer Richard Avedon, died of pneumonia Sunday at Encino Hospital Medical Center, said her daughter-in-law Annette Siegel.
Born...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Drama (genre), Richard Avedon, Television, As the World Turns (tv program)
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Around Town: 'Mad, Mad World' and other comedy classics
24 FramesThe American Cinematheque is ringing in the New Year with some wild and crazy comedy classics... -
Aaron Ruben dies at 95; 'Andy Griffith' producer was an advocate for needy children
Aaron Ruben, a comedy writer, producer and director whose five-decade career included producing "The Andy Griffith Show" for the first five seasons and creating the spinoff series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," has died. He was 95.
Ruben, who devoted much of...Tags: Danny Thomas, Eddie Cantor, World War II (1939-1945), Children, Comedy (genre)
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PASSINGS: Bill Monroe, John Strauss
Bill Monroe
Host of NBC's 'Meet the Press'
Bill Monroe, 90, who hosted the long-running Washington political television show "Meet the Press" for nearly a decade, died Thursday at a Washington-area nursing home.
Monroe was the NBC show's fourth...Tags: Music Industry, Dance, Armed Conflicts, Awards and Prizes, World War II (1939-1945)
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Leonard Stern dies at 88; TV writer, producer also co-created Mad Libs
Leonard Stern, an Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and director whose career in television spanned "The Honeymooners," "Get Smart" and "McMillan & Wife" and whose additional career in publishing included co-creating the classic Mad Libs word game...Tags: Career and Workplace, World War II (1939-1945), Book, Television Networks, Steve Allen
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'Car 54, Where Are You?' The sitcom reconsidered
Show TrackerIn Sunday's Calendar I write about the great, undersung early-'60s sitcom "Car 54, Where Are You?," whose first season has just been released, by Shanachie Entertainment, for the first time on DVD. Set and filmed in the Bronx, both on...... -
Building that once housed the famed Beverly Hills Friars Club is being razed
L.A. NOWThe 1961 building in Beverly Hills that once housed the Friars Club, where Jack Benny, Gary Cooper and other Hollywood kingpins engaged in cheeky character assassinations at lavish, alcohol-soaked dinners, is being razed. Demolition of the building at... -
Joseph Stein dies at 98; adapted Yiddish short story into 'Fiddler on the Roof'
Playwright Joseph Stein, who turned a Yiddish short story into the classic Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and later wrote the screenplay for its successful movie adaptation, has died. He was 98.
His wife, Elisa Stein, said he died at Mount...Tags: Theater, Comedy (genre), Carol Channing, Henry Morgan, Sammy Davis Jr.
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PASSINGS: Richard J. Dorso, Elisabeth Sladen, Roy Edward Burris
RICHARD J. DORSO
Talent agent, TV exec, boutique owner
Richard J. "Dick" Dorso, 101, whose lengthy Hollywood career ranged from talent agent to television writer and producer to haberdasher, died April 6 at his home in Los Angeles, his family said....Tags: Culture, Diseases and Illnesses, Dance, Judy Holliday, Protestantism
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At 'Cast Party,' the mike is open and the party is on
By the time Liza Minnelli took the stage at Birdland, just after midnight, the party was in full swing: Michael Feinstein hugged the Broadway legend and a bubbly, upbeat crowd sang happy birthday to her.
Parker Posey performed a wild, gyrating dance to...Tags: Tony Bennett, Bars and Clubs, Eddie Cantor, Lifestyle and Leisure, Martin Short
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PASSINGS: Justin Mentell, Jack Brisco, Barry Blitzer
Justin Mentell
'Boston Legal' cast member
Justin Mentell, 27, an actor who appeared on the TV show "Boston Legal," was killed Monday in an SUV crash in Wisconsin.
The Iowa County Sheriff's Department said Mentell was killed when his SUV went down an...Tags: Vehicles, St. John's Health Center, Northern Illinois University, Television, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.
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