Links to the past ...
DO YOU REMEMBER?: Classic-TV names popped up on the list for Season 27 of Dancing with the Stars: John Schneider () and the reclusive Nancy McKeon () will strut their stuff.
TVLINE: Doug Davidson, 63, has been dropped from The Young & the Restless after a 40-year run. He confirmed the departure via Twitter.
THE FILM EXPERIENCE: Celebrating perverse director Brian De Palma's 78th birthday with a list of his twisted best!
EW: Rob Reiner, 71, goes "Couch Surfing" with Entertainment Weekly, saying — among other things — that Jack Nicholson (b. 1937) did his famous A Few Good Men (1992) scene multiple times off-camera before giving the same performance, with the same intensity, on-camera.
KENNETH IN THE (212): Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's (b. 1947) searing essay about her experience with deposed CBS tyrant Les Moonves (b. 1949) has everyone guessing which TV actress he allegedly fired, then tongue-kissed against her will.
USA TODAY: Candice Bergen, 72, who had defended Moonves, seems to be evolving in her thinking.
#OnThisDay in 1916, Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Cardiff. #RoaldDahlDay2018 pic.twitter.com/o9lhDWPvnU
— Deirdre Heenan (@deirdreheenan) September 13, 2018
BBC: Happy Roald Dahl day! The author was born 102 years ago this day:
THE AMAZING KRESKIN: The Amazing Kreskin, 83, is launching a tour.
CLOSER: It's been 15 years since John RItter (1948-2003) died of an aortic dissection at just 55 years old.
GREG IN HOLLYWOOD: Watch Neil Meron (b. 1955) honor his late producing partner Craig Zadan, who died at age 69 on August 20, while picking up their Emmy for the TV version of Jesus Christ Superstar (2018).