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Past & Curious: Nichelle’s Agony, Sly’s Ancient Turtles!

Past & Curious: Nichelle’s Agony, Sly’s Ancient Turtles!
Links to the past with relevance today: Nichols is in a bad way — and you feel for her. (GIF via GIPHY) PAGE SIX: Nichelle Nichols, 86, can be heard screaming for her life in a heartbreaking recording leaked in the midst of a struggle over whether she needs a conservator. The Star Trek icon…
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Past & Curious: Princess Diana’s Death Exploited by Theme Park!

Past & Curious: Princess Diana’s Death Exploited by Theme Park!
Links to the past with relevance today: Who would pay to enter? (Image by Rick Laney) DAILY BEAST: For some reason, some people think we want to pay to enter a 20,000-s.f. space called National Enquirer Live!, in which the death of Princess Diana (1961-1997) is recreated ... tastefully. She's still here, but that song…
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Past & Curious: Grandpa Robby, Marla Is Overcoming & More!

Past & Curious: Grandpa Robby, Marla Is Overcoming & More!
Links to the past with relevance today: Teenage heartthrob now "Gramps"! (Images via tear sheets) CLOSER: Robby Benson is now 63 ... and a proud grandpa! Well, shoot! (GIF via GIPHY) EW: Harrison Ford, 70, says "nobody" should be the next Indiana Jones. Asked and boulder-crushed! I'd like to blow out those tan lines! BOY…
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Past & Curious: Norman Lear Reboot, All-the-Way Mae & More!

Past & Curious: Norman Lear Reboot, All-the-Way Mae & More!
Links to the past with relevance today ... Woody Harrelson is Archie Bunker — I can see it! (Image via ABC) EW: Watch the star-studded cast of Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons — which airs Wednesday — get psyched up to step into some…
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Past & Curious: Day’s Grandson Barred from Seeing Her? + More

Past & Curious: Day’s Grandson Barred from Seeing Her? + More
Links to the past with relevance today: Melcher hadn't seen his grandma in over a decade (Image via headshot) FACEBOOK: Doris Day's (1922-2019) only grandchild, Ryan Melcher, has unloaded on Facebook, claiming he was kept from her by "a former fan turned manager" who wanted to know why he would even want to see her,…
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Iconic Funnyman Tim Conway Dies @ 85

Iconic Funnyman Tim Conway Dies @ 85
Tim Conway, a legendary comic known for his hysteria-inducing bits on The Carol Burnett Show, has died, People Magazine reports. He was 85. Mr. Tudball (Image via CBS) Due to legal wrangling within his family, his rep's statement was unusually worded, noting that Conway had "suffered complications from Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) and had no…
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Past & Curious: Cattrall Is ‘Filthy Rich, Day’s Gone By & More!

Past & Curious: Cattrall Is ‘Filthy Rich, Day’s Gone By & More!
Links to the past with relevance today: Natch. (GIF via TheHeterophobicGuy) TV LINE: Kim Cattrall, 62, is heading to TV in Filthy Rich, a show that is a remake of a New Zealand hit, not a remake of the fondly remembered, short-lived, Delta Burke (b. 1956) sitcom. Pajamarama (Image via video still) PEOPLE: Doris Day,…
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Doris Day, One of the World’s Most Beloved Stars, Dies @ 97

Doris Day, One of the World’s Most Beloved Stars, Dies @ 97
Doris Day, the woman who made iconic marks in the worlds of music, radio, movies and television — and one of the most famous animal advocates in history — has died. She was 97. Doris Day: April 3, 1922-May 13, 2019 (Image via headshot) The Doris Day Animal Foundation announced her passing early Monday in…
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Peggy Lipton of ‘Mod Squad,’ ‘Twin Peaks’ Dies @ 72

Peggy Lipton of ‘Mod Squad,’ ‘Twin Peaks’ Dies @ 72
Blonde, waifish actress Peggy Lipton, known for her role as Julie Barnes on the counterculture-absorbed The Mod Squad, has died. At your service in Twin Peaks (Image via ABC) She was 72, and the cause — according to family members — was colon cancer, which she had first battle in 2004. Lipton, first at teen…
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Sal Mineo/Don Johnson Play Thought Lost Is Found

Sal Mineo/Don Johnson Play Thought Lost Is Found
Sal Mineo (1939-1976) experienced a meteoric rise in the film world thanks to Rebel Without a Cause (1955), but one of his latter-day passion projects was the 1967 stage play Fortune and Men's Eyes by John Herbert (1926-2001). Men's thighs The play, about a newbie in a prison, is rife with queer themes and was…
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