RIP to Room 222 and My Big Fat Greek Wedding star Michael Constantine! Gosh, I always associated him as an Ed Asner type, and here they have died in quick succession, and in their nineties. Laughing with Room 222 co-star Lloyd Hanes (1934-1987) (Image via ABC) Mr. Constantine died August 31 at 94 in his…
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‘Star Trek’ Sour Grapes, Belmondo Remembered, ABBA’s Next 2 Top 10s & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: NYP: The family of the late Gene Roddenberry is still steamed over William Shatner's anti-fan SNL sketch from ... 1986! Phil Hartman & William Shatner in the infamous 1986 sketch (Image via video still) VARIETY: A remembrance of Jean-Paul Belmondo. DO YOU REMEMBER?: Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart's…
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‘Today’s’ Willard Scott, 1st Ronald McDonald, Dies @ 87
Willard Scott did not make it to the front of the Smucker's jar. Famous for announcing the birthdays of centenarians using the sponsor's jelly jars on Today from 1980-2015, Scott died at 87 Saturday. https://youtu.be/PzlTcJGDrEA His death was announced by his friend and successor, Al Roker, on Instagram. Roker wrote: "We lost a beloved member…
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ABBA Is Back, Fran Drescher: That’s How She Became the President, Silent History & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: The ABBA members suited up to pose for "ABBA-tars" (Image by Bailee Walsh/Capitol) BOY CULTURE: ABBA is back! The '70s mega-success, a band that was steadily revived from the '90s on by the cover band Björn Again, by Erasure, by the films The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of…
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More Than Lily Munster: Celebrating Yvonne De Carlo
Trodding the boards in Follies (Image via Playbill) In honor of the great Yvonne De Carlo's birth anniversary (she would be turning 99 — five months younger than Betty White is), check out these videos, which illuminate some of the breadth of her talent beyond her charming and iconic performance as Lily on The Munsters. First…
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TV Icon Ed Asner Dies @ 91
Ed Asner, a TV icon for his performances on Mary Tyler Moore and Lou Grant, died Sunday at his home Sunday. He was 91. Didn't we all? (GIF via GIPHY) His family announced his death on Twitter, writing, "We are sorry to say that our beloved patriarch passed away this morning peacefully. Words cannot express the…
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Stamos’s Cure for Trigger Finger, Sirhan Sirhan to Be Freed?, Enos Envy & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: Full House-pital (Image via Instagram) PEOPLE: Even ailing, John Stamos, 58, looks good. He posted a selfie from a hospital bed following surgery for a condition known as "trigger finger." HUFF POST: Sirhan Sirhan, the 77-year-old convicted assassin of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), has been granted…
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‘Nevermind’ Child-Porn Suit, Capone’s Family Vault Opened, Josephine Baker to Be Interred at Panthéon & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: The most cynical lawsuit ever? (Image via Reddit) VARIETY: Now you've heard everything — Spencer Elden, the man who as an infant was immortalized on the 1991 album cover for Nirvana's Nevermind — is suing the band and various others for ... child pornography. Because showing him nude and…
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Patricia Hitchcock, ‘Strangers on a Train’ Star, Dies @ 93
Patricia Hitchcock, whose performance as a bespectacled Barbara in the film classic Strangers on a Train included participation in an iconic scene, has died at 93. Ms. Hitchcock through the years (Images via headshots) THR reports she died at her Thousand Oaks, California, home on Monday. The daughter of Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)…
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Christina Dearest, The Marcia Chronicles, ‘Addams’ Casting News & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: Christina gets schooled. (Image via eBay) EBAY: Here's a humdinger of a letter from 1952 — Joan Crawford writing a not-too-subtly bitchy note to her daughter Christina, chastising her for not writing more. Christina would have been 12 when she received it. VULTURE: Queen's Brian May speaks out…
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