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‘Last Picture Show’ Director Peter Bogdanovich Dies @ 82

‘Last Picture Show’ Director Peter Bogdanovich Dies @ 82
Peter Bogdanovich, the director who scored three classics in a row with the '70s hits The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc? and Paper Moon, died shortly after midnight on Thursday, January 6, of natural causes. He was 82. The director in 2013 (Image by Matthew Rettenmund) His daughter Antonia confirmed his passing, saying he…
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Joan Copeland, Broadway & Soap Actress, Sister of Arthur Miller, Dies @ 99

Joan Copeland, Broadway & Soap Actress, Sister of Arthur Miller, Dies @ 99
Joan Copeland, a longtime fixture of the New York stage who was the younger sister of playwright Arthur Miller (1915-2005), died early Tuesday, January 4, at 99. Born June 1, 1922 — exactly four years before her future sister-in-law Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) — Copeland's theater credits included Detective Story (1949), Not for Children (1951), Handful of…
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296 Legends Age 80+ Who Are Still With Us!

296 Legends Age 80+ Who Are Still With Us!
December 2022 With so many losses of beloved icons in 2021 — it started with Cicely Tyson and ended with Betty White — we can sometimes forget just how many other legends we do have left. Please, 2022, show some mercy! (Image via CBS) Betty was revered, and was arguably the most well-liked, intergenerational, awarded,…
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Thank You for Being a Friend, Betty White: Icon Dies @ 99

Thank You for Being a Friend, Betty White: Icon Dies @ 99
It's been a terrible year for so many reasons, and now we have another sad milestone — TV icon Betty White has died at 99, just weeks shy of her 100th birthday. A Rose by any other name (Image via NBC) TMZ reported the heartbreaking news that White died at her home in Brentwood. Variety reportsWhite is believed…
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Bridget Hanley of ‘Here Come the Brides’ Dies @ 80

Bridget Hanley of ‘Here Come the Brides’ Dies @ 80
Lovely actress Bridget Hanley, best known for her performance as Candy Pruitt on Here Come the Brides (1968-1970) opposite Bobby Sherman (b. 1943), died last week at 80. Hanley with co-stars Robert Brown (still with us at 95), Joan Blondell (1906-1979), David Soul (still with us at 78) and Bobby Sherman (still with us at…
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Linda Lavin Looks Back at ‘Alice’ 45 Years Later

Linda Lavin Looks Back at ‘Alice’ 45 Years Later
Lavin is remarkably forthcoming in this. (Image via video still) Annaleigh Ashford played moderator for an absorbing Paley Center chat with Linda Lavin on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of Alice that you will NOT regret, well, absorbing: https://youtu.be/NpYLu1NHBL4
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