Tag: tv
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ETHEL for PRESIDENT!
Randy Rainbow’s “Any Dem Will Do” In satirist Randy Rainbow’s video “Any Dem Will Do” none other than Ethel Mertz is on a laundry list of potential nominees for the Democratic nominee for President in 2020. Rainbow’s song parody uses two songs from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – “Any Dream Will Do” and “Joseph’s Coat.” Watch for…
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RIP James Lipton
1926-2020 James Louis Lipton was an American writer, producer, host, actor and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He was the executive producer, writer and host of the cable television series “Inside the Actors Studio” which debuted in 1994. He retired from the show in 2018. His production…
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RIP Robert Conrad
1935-2020 Robert Conrad (born Conrad Robert Falk) was an actor probably best known for his role as the sophisticated Secret Service agent James T. West in “The Wild, Wild West” (1964-68) and later as World War II ace Pappy Boyington in the television series “Baa Baa Black Sheep” (syndicated as “Black Sheep Squadron”) from 1976 to 1978.…
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RIP Kirk Douglas
1916-2020 Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch) was an actor, producer, director and author. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he made his film debut in 1946. He went on to become one of Hollywood’s most enduring and popular actors, earning three Oscar nominations and receiving an honorary Oscar in 1996. In…
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RIP Jane Milmore 1955-2020 Jane Milmore was a playwright, screenwriter, producer and actress. With her writing partner, Billy Van Zandt, she wrote more than 20 plays. In 1989, the two wrote the wrap-around material for the TV special “I Love Lucy: The Very First Show”, the first airing of the long-lost pilot. It earned…
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RIP Gene Reynolds
1923-2020 Although best known as the six-time Emmy-winning Producer of “M*A*S*H” (1972-83), he was also an actor who played the role of Mr. Taylor, who rents the Ricardo apartment when they move to Connecticut in “Lucy Hates To Leave” (S6;E16 ~ February 4, 1957). His wife (who wanted to cut the legs off Lucy’s new sofa)…
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RIP Fred Silverman
1937-2020 Fred Silverman was an American television executive and producer. Like Lucille Ball, he worked at all of the Big Three television networks. He was responsible for bringing to television such programs as the series All in the Family (1971–79), The Waltons (1972–81), and Charlie’s Angels (1976–81), among others. In 1977, Time Magazine declared him…
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RIP Gene London
1931-2020 Gene London (born Eugene Yulish) was the host of a long-running, Philadelphia local children’s show, “Cartoon Corners” (aka “The Gene London Show”) from 1959 to 1977. He was tall, slender, had dark hair and a soft-spoken manner. Sometime in 1967, Lucille Ball made a guest appearance on his show, one of her only appearances on…
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