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Hockey pro Russ Courtnall passes off to pop star Britney Spears
Pop star and singing competition judge Britney Spears has bought the Thousand Oaks home of former professional hockey player Russ Courtnall and his wife, actress Paris Vaughan.
The property came on the market in August at $8.5 million and was withdrawn...Tags: Entertainment Events, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Academy Awards, Bonanza (tv program) , Jane Fonda
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Emmys should do wonders for ‘Homeland’ DVD sales
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe Emmys used to bring attention to struggling series. Emmy victories helped “All in the Family,” “Cheers” and “Hill Street Blues” overcome weak ratings. These days, the Emmys may bolster the little-seen cable drama or... -
Tonight: What are ‘The Greatest TV Shows of Our Time’?
The TV Guy - Orlando Sentinel‘Saturday Night Live' in the early years, from left: Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin. Courtesy Everett Collection THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: It's a grand night for TV nostalgia. The Tuesday highlights:... -
Jane Fonda and music producer Richard Perry buy in Beverly Hills
Actress Jane Fonda and music producer Richard Perry have bought an estate in Beverly Hills for $7.3 million. The Trousdale Estates property was the longtime home of Emmy-winning television director John Rich.
The two-story home, built in 1961 and...Tags: Entertainment Events, Nancy Reagan, John Rich, Academy Awards, Bonanza (tv program)
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'All in the Family: The Complete Series'
Rarely has a show changed the face of television as much as producer Norman Lear's adaptation (for CBS) of a British comedy. Carroll O'Connor's unapologetically bigoted Archie Bunker became one of the medium's iconic characters, frequently mixing it up...
Tags: Sally Struthers, Sammy Davis Jr., Jean Stapleton, Norman Lear, DVDs
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'Jeffersons' star Sherman Hemsley, 74, got his start in theater
Behind many notable television careers is a theater background, and Sherman Hemsley, who died this week at 74, was no exception. The star of the long-running CBS sitcom "The Jeffersons," Hemsley got his start on the stage, including studying at the...
Tags: Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Obituaries, Television Industry, Norman Lear
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Sherman Hemsley: A deluxe spot in TV history
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelWhen news came that Sherman Hemsley had died, I thought first of the “Jeffersons” theme song. It's a boisterous hymn to progress with the lines ”we're movin' on up … to a deluxe apartment in the sky … we finally got a piece... -
Actor Sherman Hemsley, aka Mr. Jefferson, Dies at 74
CNNEL PASO, Texas -- Sherman Hemsley, who played the brash George Jefferson on "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons," died Tuesday at 74, his booking agent said. Hemsley played Jefferson, a wisecracking owner of a dry cleaning business, on "All In the...Tags: Tyler Perry's House of Payne (tv program), Manhattan (New York City), Isabel Sanford, ABC (tv network), Marla Gibbs
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Sherman Hemsley dies at 74; star of TV's 'The Jeffersons'
Sherman Hemsley, who was rooted in the minds of millions of television viewers as Archie Bunker's bombastic black neighbor, George Jefferson, in"All in the Family" and later as the star of his own long-running sitcom, "The Jeffersons," has died. He was...
Tags: Death of a Salesman (play), Jean Genet, Manhattan (New York City), Isabel Sanford, ABC (tv network)
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Patt Morrison Asks: Norman Lear, TV's seriously funny icon
Television comedy can probably be divided into two eras: B.L. and A.L. — Before Lear and After Lear. Norman Lear's seminal 1970s sitcoms —"All in the Family" and its offspring, from"Maude" to "The Jeffersons" — used the laissez-passer of...
Tags: Rush Limbaugh, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, South Park (tv program), Charlie Chaplin
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John Rich dies at 86; director of landmark sitcoms
As a top television comedy director who won an Emmy directing "The Dick Van Dyke Show"in the early 1960s, John Rich was faced with a tough choice in 1970.
On the same day he received a phone call from Mary Tyler Moore wanting to set up a meeting to...Tags: Henry Fonda, John Rich, Pension and Welfare, Politics, Mary Tyler Moore
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Mary Tyler Moore's taboo-breaking shows seen in new light
In recent months the name Mary Tyler Moore has been bandied about with unexpected regularity bordering on reckless abandon. This is not just because she recently made her first TV appearance in many moons on pal Betty White's show "Hot in Cleveland" or...Tags: Career and Workplace, Valerie Harper, Entertainment Events, Unions, Gavin MacLeod
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