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- via The New Yorker: Pulitzer Prize-winning author, novelist and essayist Philip Roth dies at age 85
- via New York Daily News: Television pioneer Clint Walker dies at age 90. For seven seasons Walker starred as Cheyenne Bodie in Cheyenne, the first hour-long Western series produced by Warner Bros. Television, and a series whose behind-the-scenes history was as interesting as the series itself
- via TCM: The Producers will be shown in select theaters nationwide Wednesday 6/3 and Sunday 6/6 to honor the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release. Event includes exclusive insight from Turner Classic Movies, including an exclusive conversation with Ben Mankiewicz and Mel Brooks
- via PBS: Peter Marshall, Nick Clooney to host Perry Como Classics: ‘Till the End of Time, a new special that will premiere during the weekend of Saturday 6/2 on most PBS stations
- via MPI Home Video: Coming Tuesday 6/12 to DVD: The George Carlin Commemorative Collection, all fourteen HBO specials plus much more from the stand-up genius
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via The New Yorker: Pulitzer Prize-winning author, novelist and essayist Philip Roth dies at age 85
https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/philip-roth-in-the-new-yorker
Posted in Celebrities
Tagged American ideals, American Pastoral, author, betrayal of American ideals, essayist, Goodbye Columbus, Jewish family, National Book Award, novelist, personal identity, Philip Roth, political zealotry, Portnoy's Complaint, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize winner, sex, The New Yorker
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via TCM: The Producers will be shown in select theaters nationwide Wednesday 6/3 and Sunday 6/6 to honor the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release. Event includes exclusive insight from Turner Classic Movies, including an exclusive conversation with Ben Mankiewicz and Mel Brooks
For tickets and more information, including whether it will be showing at a theater near you, go to https://www.fathomevents.com/events/tcm2018-the-producers-50th-anniversary?utm_source=tcm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the%2Bproducers&utm_term=announcement%2Bemail
via PBS: Peter Marshall, Nick Clooney to host Perry Como Classics: ‘Till the End of Time, a new special that will premiere during the weekend of Saturday 6/2 on most PBS stations
For more than fifty years, Perry Como ranked as one of America’s most successful and beloved entertainers. A big band singer in the late 1930s, a radio star in the 1940s and then a TV headliner for more than forty … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Television Star
Tagged 'Till the End of Time, (There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays, And I Love You So, big band singer, Bing Crosby and The Lennon Sisters, Carol Burnett, Catch A Falling Star, Dean Martin, Debby Boone, Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes, hosting duties, Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity), I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now, It’s Impossible, Jay Leno, Kathy Lennon, Lena Horne, Leonard Maltin, Magic Moments, Nick Clooney, No Other Love, Perry Como, Perry Como Classics, Peter Marshall, Prisoner Of Love, radio star, Regis Philbin, Richard Carpenter, Round & Round, Some Enchanted Evening, Steve Tyrell, Temptation, The Chesterfield Supper Club, The Lennon Sisters, The McGuire Sisters, TV headliner
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via MPI Home Video: Coming Tuesday 6/12 to DVD: The George Carlin Commemorative Collection, all fourteen HBO specials plus much more from the stand-up genius
MPI Home Video and The George Carlin Estate are proud to announce the GEORGE CARLIN COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTION, a 10-disc must-have DVD, CD and Blu-Ray boxed set featuring more than five hours of previously unreleased bonus material including rare performance footage from … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Television Star
Tagged 40 Years of Comedy, APT 2C, clean-cut, FCC, free speech controversy, freedom of speech, George Carlin, Grammy-winning American, Hollywood Palace, I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die, It’s Bad for Ya, Jon Stewart, Life Is Worth Losing, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, New York Times best-selling author, Patton Oswalt, Second Best Stand-up Comic of All Time, Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television, SiriusXM radio channel, stand-up comedian, suit-wearing, Talent Scouts, The Jackie Gleason Show, The Real George Carlin, U.S. Supreme Court
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TV CONFIDENTIAL commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley is available online for listening on demand. Guests include Steve Binder, director of Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special; actor Michael Dante (Kid Galahad, Winterhawk); film historian Tom Lisanti (Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies); and renowned Elvis Presley historian Cory Cooper help TV CONFIDENTIAL commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. Plus: A replay of our February 2017 conversation with Steve Binder, producer and director of Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special.
Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Film Stars, Television Star
Tagged Cory Cooper, death of Elvis Presley, Elvis, Elvis 1968 Comeback Special, Elvis Presley, If I Can Dream, Kid Galahad, Michael Dante, Steve Binder, Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies, Television Confidential, Tom Lisanti, TV Confidential, Winterhawk
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via TVWeek: NBC will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Elvis: The Comeback Special with an all-star concert that is scheduled to air in 2019. The two-hour special will also showcase rare Elvis footage and outtakes, plus interviews from those involved in the special, including director Steve Binder
NBC to Mark 50th Anniversary of Historic Music Event
via NPR: TV critic Eric Deggans on Brooklyn Nine-Nine moving to NBC, Murphy Brown returning to CBS and other takeaways from this week’s TV upfronts
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/17/611869617/fall-tv-preview-networks-stick-with-what-they-know
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Tagged Andre Braugher, Andy Samberg, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Candice Bergen, CBS, Eric Deggans, FOX, Murphy Brown, NBC, TV upfronts, upfronts, upfronts 2018
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Rest in peace, Joseph Campanella. Met him briefly on two occasions, once at a David Janssen convention in 1993, and again at an autograph show in 2010. He was kind enough to appear on my radio show once and it was a pleasure to chat with him. Class act.
Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Television Star
Tagged Bruce Geller, David Wolper documentaries, Ed Cooper, Intertect, Joe Mannix, Joseph Campanella, Mannix, Mike Connors, NAPA auto parts, Norman Lear, One Day at a Time, Quinn Martin, Richard Levinson, Television Confidential, The Bold Ones, The Doctors and the Nurses, The FBI, The Fugitive, The Lawyers, TV Confidential, William Link
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