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...most of his career, however, Kline has got nearly every job he wanted. The roll began with a Tony-winning supporting part as Bruce Granit, an egomaniacal actor in the 1978 musical On the Twentieth Century; that led sitcom producer Norman Lear to beg unsuccessfully for his services. Another Tony followed for his performance as the Pirate King opposite Linda Ronstadt in The Pirates of Penzance in 1981. Movie roles came just as quickly after he landed the highly coveted male lead in Sophie's Choice, opposite eventual Oscar winner Meryl Streep; in 1988 Kline won his own Academy Award...
Good news: fresh episodes of Bill Cosby's CBS sitcom will start taping this week. The show may be struggling in the ratings and a little short on yucks, but at least it will be a relief from the seamy, real-life family drama that America's favorite father has been starring in all summer...
...remarkable that we don't know more about one of Clinton's favorite eateries, since his life in Little Rock is otherwise an open book. His alleged girlfriends and alleged business associates from those days are as familiar to the American public as sitcom stars. Citizens who cannot name the Justices of the Supreme Court can rattle off the names of Hillary Clinton's law partners...
Having topped the Nielsens and the best-seller lists, Jerry Seinfeld has now earned a place in the casebooks of employment law. Last week a Milwaukee, Wis. jury awarded $26.6 million to a man who got fired for recounting a slyly bawdy episode of television's most popular sitcom to a female co-worker. The high-dollar verdict in favor of former Miller Brewing Co. manager Jerold Mackenzie, 54, suggests that "the pendulum is beginning to swing back" on sexual harassment, says Steven Berlin, a partner at the employment-law firm of Littler Mendelson, based in San Francisco. "Juries...
Lawrence, 32, is certainly a valuable property in Hollywood. He has succeeded in concert films (You So Crazy) and on TV (as star of the Fox sitcom Martin, which just ended a five-year run and has already earned $60 million in syndication sales). He starred with Will Smith in the 1995 hit Bad Boys and last year was star, director and co-writer of the dark comedy A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, in which he is wrongly arrested and tries to get a restraining order on a woman who is out to kill him. His new film...