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Rednecks translate to greenbacks on TV
The singing vegetarian wanted nothing to do with the backwoods ducks. When Morrissey was scheduled to appear on Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show last month along with the cast of A&E's "Duck Dynasty," the '80s cult rocker issued an ultimatum: Boot the...
Tags: Television Industry, Jeff Foxworthy, Entertainment Events, The Beverly Hillbillies (tv program), Michael Rooker
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Hot Property: Actress Debra Messing hoping for an off-Broadway hit
Debra Messing, who stars on "Smash" as Broadway lyricist Julia Houston, has listed her showstopper in Bel-Air for $11.995 million. The traditional-style house, designed by architect Paul R. Williams and built in 1937, features bay windows, updated...
Tags: Television Industry, Entertainment Events, Back to the Future (movie), Christopher LLoyd, The Addams Family (tv program)
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Jim Nabors of 'Gomer Pyle' fame marries male partner of 38 years
Jim Nabors, beloved to audiences as TV's Gomer Pyle, has married Stan Cadwallader, his partner of 38 years. The wedding took place Jan. 15 in front of a judge at a Seattle hotel, said Hawaii News Now, which first reported the news Tuesday. Washington...
Tags: Jim Nabors, Same-Sex Marriage, Andy Griffith, Social Media
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Ron Howard, Les Moonves among TV Hall of Fame inductees
Director-producer (and "Happy Days" and "Andy Griffith Show" star) Ron Howard, sportscaster Al Michaels, CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves, CBS newsman Bob Schieffer and "Law & Order" mogul Dick Wolf will be inducted this year into the Academy of Television...
Tags: Gunsmoke (tv program), Mad Men (tv program), Dick Wolf , Barack Obama, 60 Minutes (tv program)
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Andy Griffith, folksy TV sheriff and comedian, dies at 86
Andy Griffith was starring on Broadway in the 1959 musical comedy "Destry Rides Again" when he told his agent that he was ready for a new challenge: He wanted his own television series. His chance came in 1960, when Sheldon Leonard, the producer of...
Tags: People (magazine), Television Industry, Comedy (genre), Radio, Jeff Bridges
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Ron Howard: What I learned from Andy Griffith
Early in the second season of "The Andy Griffith Show," I ventured a suggestion for a line change to make it sound more "like the way a kid would say it." I was just 7 years old. But my idea was accepted and I remember standing frozen, thrilled at what...
Tags: Academy Awards, Ron Howard, Politics, A Beautiful Mind (movie), Comedy (genre)
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George Lindsey dies at 83; 'The Andy Griffith Show's' Goober Pyle
George Lindsey, the Southern-born character actor who played dim hayseed Goober Pyle, the genial gas station auto mechanic on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Mayberry R.F.D.," died early Sunday morning. He was 83.
Lindsey, who later was a regular on the...Tags: The Rescuers (movie), George Lindsey, Alfred Hitchcock, Entertainment Events, Primetime Emmy Awards
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Doug Dillard dies at 75; banjo player, member of the Dillards band
Bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs answered a knock at the door of his Nashville home in 1953 to find an eager-looking banjo enthusiast on the porch asking Scruggs to put a set of his special tuner keys on the young man's instrument.
"He was so...Tags: Obituaries, Dillard's Incorporated, Bluegrass (genre), Popular Music (genre), Radio Industry
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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: Eddie Cantor, Comedy (genre), Death, Milton Berle, Television
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Don Knotts, star of 'The Andy Griffith Show,' dead at 81
Times Staff WriterDon Knotts, the saucer-eyed, scarecrow-thin comic actor best known for his roles as the high-strung small-town deputy Barney Fife on the 1960s CBS series "The Andy Griffith Show" and the leisure-suit-clad landlord Ralph Furley on ABC's '70s sitcom "Three'...Tags: Raleigh, Television Industry, Norman Fell, Comedy (genre), Tim Conway
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The case of the wasted winter, and now spring
I never could follow a "Perry Mason" plot. As a kid in the late 1950s I was too young and now, a half-century later, I guess I'm too old. A vital piece of information has just been introduced but I was busy admiring Della's dress or wondering if Paul...
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Wondrous whistler: Mount Airy man wins international title
Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.Several years ago, pianist Zachary Groff was faced with a conundrum. The violinist who was supposed to perform one of Beethoven's piano sonatas with him wasn't able to make it to their concert. So Groff, a graduate of UNC School of the Arts who...Tags: Music Industry, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Andy Griffith, Mount Airy, Entertainment
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