I loved the Emmys! My review here. Who wants to tell her?! (Image via NBC) The In Memoriam was gorgeously sung and conceived. However, unless I am wrong — and there is no full video for me to check yet — I believe these 23 people were left out, and some are real shockers. (I'm…
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Ryan O’Neal, ’70s Superstar, Dies @ 82
Ryan O'Neal's acting career began in 1960, with a bit part on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. With Tony Dow on 'Beaver (Image via video still) It is interesting to think of him on shows like that and Leave It to Beaver, on which he appeared in 1961, considering the mega-star he became a…
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Tatum O’Neal Fights to Repair Father-Daughter Bond, Remembering Diahann Carroll & More
July 17, 2023 (Images via Paramount & by Matthew Rettenmund) THR: Tatum O'Neal nearly died from a major stroke, but having survived, she's tried to patch up the fractured relationship she has with her famous dad, Ryan O'Neal, now past 80. Ryan is quoted as having said something heartbreaking in the piece: “I had this…
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Betty White’s Home Razed, Terry Moore on ‘Unthinkable’ Things Howard Hughes Did, Little Richard’s Legacy & More
April 22, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: Moore a few years ago and (inset) in Silent Life (Images by Matthew Rettenmund & Dave Friedman) PEOPLE: Actress Terry Moore, 94, opens up about her relationship with the late Howard Hughes — to whom she has claimed she was married — telling People he…
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What’s Up, Child Actor Dies, Roe v Roe & More — Past & Curious
Links to the past, with relevance today: Just what the Doc ordered (GIF via GIPHY) NYT: A revisitation of the screwball pastiche What's Up, Doc? (1972). Are you a fan? (I never was! I'm sorry!) PEOPLE: Little Richard, who died this month at 87, was buried after a short service in Alabama. KENNETH IN THE…
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Past & Curious: ‘Butch’ Shocker, Notre Dame Gutted & More
Links to the past with relevance today: Classic team (Image via 20th Century Fox) EW: Ninety-year-old Burt Bacharach admitted at the TCM Classic Film Festival this weekend that "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" almost didn't make the cut in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Nailed it! (Image via Fortune Creative) THE GREEN…
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Streisand Replies to Oscar Nominee’s Fan Letter 47 Years Later
If you haven't seen Can You Ever Forgive Me?, please do — both Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant (not to mention Jane Curtin!) are brilliant in this true story about a woman who resorts to forgery when her sheer talent isn't enough to put food on the table. Both leads are Oscar-nominated, but it…
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