Links to the past, with relevance today: Looking back, 50 years later (Image via Paramount) NYT: Al Pacino, 81, reflects on the movie that gave him his career: The Godfather. Humble, 9 to 5 (Image via Twitter) TWITTER: Dolly Parton has begged off from consideration for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The late,…
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Vincent Irizarry, Soap Favorite, Undergoes Brain Surgery After Senseless Attack
UPDATED: He's doing better! (Images via Instagram) Vincent Irizzary, the Daytime Emmy-winning actor known for work on Guiding Light, Santa Barbara, All My Children, One Life to Live, The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful, is in need of your well-wishes. Irizarry in one of his many…
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Conrad Janis of ‘Mork & Mindy’ Dies @ 94
Conrad Janis, most familiar to TV fans as Mindy's music store-owning dad on Mork & Mindy, died March 1, just a few weeks after his 94th birthday. He gave good head shot. (Image via head shot) Janis, an accomplished jazz trombonist and art dealer with expansive knowlege of Modernist art, moved between the fields of…
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Cecil B. DeMille’s Female Max, Spielberg vs. Oscars, ‘Andy Warhol Diaries’ Coming & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: Rosson at her desk (Image via Brigham Young University) THE DAILY MIRROR: Remembering Gladys Rosson, who as Cecil B. DeMille's right-hand woman knew more about the great director's personal life and career than any other person alive. Fascinating summary of her mostly forgotten life. WoW: The true story…
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Johnny Brown from ‘Good Times’ Dies @ 84
Johnny Brown, who played the perennial punching bag Bookman on the classic Norman Lear (b. 1922) sitcom Good Times, died March 2 at 84. It was the best of times, it was the Good of Times (Image via CBS) His Broadway actress daughter Sharon Catherine Brown, 60, announced his passing in an anguished Instagram post on Friday:…
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Jerry Lewis: Predator, Tribute to Vanity 6, Queen Licks COVID & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: Holiday gets a lot off her chest with this. Gripping. (Images via video still & publicity photo) VANITY FAIR: If you're burned out by #MeToo, try not to be. There are myriad stories that we still need to hear. Vanity Fair's piece — and its accompanying video, featuring…
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Sally Kellerman of ‘M*A*S*H’ Fame Dies @ 84
Sally Kellerman, Oscar-nominated as Hot Lips Houlihan in M*A*S*H (1970), died Thursday at 84. Loretta Swit shared her condolences regarding Kellerman's death. (Image via Instagram) ExtraTV reported she had battled dementia and died in a care facility. Born on June 2, 1937, in Long Beach, California, Kellerman moved with her family as a girl and…
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Marla Gibbs on Her Never-Too-Late Start, Weitzes to Immortalize Grandma Lupita Tovar & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: There was always something about Mary. And Florence! (Image via NBC) THR: The Hollywood Reporter published a long Q&A with the legendary Marla Gibbs, 90. She talks about how she got her start in acting at 44, interpersonal relationships on The Jeffersons, her hot-and-cold relationship with Norman Lear…
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Harry Hamlin Reflects on 40 Years of ‘Making Love’
It has often been reported that Harry Hamlin regrets starring in the controversial gay romantic drama Making Love (1982) — but it's just not so. A love story for the '80s (Image via 20th Century Fox) "Regardless of the effect it had on my film career, I went on to have a great career —…
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Carleton Carpenter, Who ‘Aba Daba Honeymoon’-ed with Debbie Reynolds, Dies @ 95
Carleton Carpenter, who had been a living link Broadway's distant past — as well as to the Golden Age of Hollywood — died Monday at his home in New York state. He was 95. Carpenter in 2012 and in Sky Full of Moon (Images by Matthew Rettenmund & via MGM) Carpenter was born July 10,…
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