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Paul Bogart dies at 92; Emmy-winning TV director
Paul Bogart, an Emmy Award-winning director who launched his career during the days of live television in New York and later was a prolific director on the groundbreaking 1970s sitcom "All in the Family," has died. He was 92. Bogart died of age-related...
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PASSINGS: Sid Melton, Leonard Stone, Liz Anderson, Thomas McNeeley Jr., George Rountree
Sid Melton
Character actor in dozens of TV, film projects
Sid Melton, 94, a character actor perhaps best known for his roles in the hit television shows "Green Acres" and "The Danny Thomas Show," died of pneumonia Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph...Tags: Celebrities, Myrna Loy, Ernest Tubb, Diane Keaton, Music
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Pop culture: A better way to sell the perks of aging to young people
Opinion L.A.We need promotional campaigns to make aging seem more appealing to young people, writes Ideas columnist Kevin Lewis, so that they strive to live longer and stop binge drinking to block out the unavoidable: Everyone gets old. Aging is not...... -
Steve Landesberg dies; comic actor played intellectual detective on sitcom 'Barney Miller'
Steve Landesberg, a comic actor who played the intellectual Det. Arthur Dietrich in the long-running ABC sitcom " Barney Miller," has died. He was believed to be 74.
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Steve Landesberg: In the Dec. 21 LATExtra section,...Tags: Max Gail, Comedy (genre), Barney Miller (fictional character), Bobby Darin, The Washington Post
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Edwin Newman dies at 91; NBC news reporter and commentator
Edwin Newman, known to several generations of television viewers as the dry-witted NBC reporter and commentator who covered coronations and assassinations and wrote two bestselling books on Americans' mangling of the English language, has died. He was 91....Tags: Walter Cronkite, Satellite and Cable Service, London (England), Martin Luther King Jr., Ingmar Bergman
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Rue McClanahan dies at 76; star of the hit TV series 'The Golden Girls'
Rue McClanahan, an actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as the sassy, man-crazy Southern belle Blanche Devereaux on the hit TV series "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 76.
McClanahan died early Thursday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital of...Tags: Surgery, Fox Broadcasting Company, Betty White, Off-Broadway Theater, Comedy (genre)
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'Golden Girls' leading lady Rue McClanahan dies at 76
Gold DerbyRue McClanahan, who died Thursday, won the Emmy Award in 1987 for starring as the vivacious Blanche Deveraux on the classic sitcom "The Golden Girls." As the man-eating Southern vixen, McClanahan found the leading role of a lifetime after decades as a... -
THE SCENIAC: Rue McClanahan - 'Golden' with the gays
Deborah Netburn, Times Staff WriterScientific tests would surely reveal that it is humanly impossible not to love "The Golden Girls"--the '80s era show about four older women who share a home in Miami--and for a certain type of gay man it is practically a prerequisite. So it should come...Tags: Celebrities, Gays and Lesbians, Pamela Anderson, Entertainment, Eyewear
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Actors, actresses and entertainers
Actors, actresses and entertainers Maila Nurmi, 85; actress created the character Vampira as hostess of late-night TV horror show (Jan. 10) Jack Eagle, 81; a comedian and actor who played Brother Dominic in a Xerox ad during the 1977 Super Bowl (Jan....Tags: Michelle Pfeiffer, It's a Wonderful Life (movie), Film Festivals, Career and Workplace, Celebrities
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Bea Arthur dies at 86; star of 'Golden Girls' and 'Maude'
Beatrice Arthur, best known as the acerbic Maude Findlay on Norman Lear's sitcom "Maude" and as the strong-willed Dorothy Zbornak on the long-running "The Golden Girls," died Saturday. She was 86.
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FOR THE RECORD: The obituary of...Tags: Lucille Ball, Celebrities, Betty White, June Allyson, Lotte Lenya
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Catching a new wave
Special to The TimesForty years ago, when he was all of 23, Miller Fong sketched a chair on an envelope and mailed it to his father in Hong Kong, where the family manufactured rattan and wicker furniture for its Los Angeles company, Tropi-Cal. The finished product —...Tags: Gucci Group NV, Economy, Business and Finance, Donna Karan, Companies and Corporations, Architecture
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Writers' Rejection of Pact May Further Slow Industry
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersBy a wide margin, members of the Writers Guild of America voted to reject a producers' contract offer and continue their 16-week-old strike against the motion picture and television industry, the union reported Thursday. Of 3,722 votes cast, 2,789, or...Tags: Movies, Career and Workplace, Unemployment, Unions, Lionel Chetwynd
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