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...Five years and about 29 VH1 presidents ago, someone at the channel approached me about creating a show. So I pitched an animated sitcom in which I would interview two celebrities an episode and then build a flimsy plot around them involving a guy named Joel Stein who works at a magazine. If VH1 had wanted imagination, it would have gone to David Lynch...
...DIED. EARL HINDMAN, 61, actor best known for his intentionally obscured role as Wilson, a neighbor who offered backyard counsel to handyman Tim Taylor in the sitcom Home Improvement but whose face was forever hidden behind a fence; in Stamford, Connecticut...
Increasingly, the events that most deeply, if briefly, unite that floating mainstream are deaths: Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn. The intensity of response to the passing of John Ritter, a likable actor from a campy '70s sitcom, seemed to surprise even his fans. In a culture with few common cultural referents, the past is what we share the most. (Perhaps for the same reason, 2003's Broadway shows with broad mass appeal tended to be revivals like Long Day's Journey into Night and Wonderful Town--and the music business heaved up a slew of standards albums.) When...
...confirmed last week that Paltrow, 31, is expecting their first child next summer. The willowy actress, who adheres to a strict macrobiotic diet, had begun to draw attention for looking more curvaceous. Though mum on wedding plans, the couple have reportedly applied for a marriage license. Can a family sitcom be far behind...
...Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows, otherwise known as Ralph and Alice Kramden... lived in that dingy two-room apartment on Chauncey Street... and their best friends were already their upstairs neighbors, Ed and Trixie Norton (Art Carney and Joyce Randolph). Unlike most other sitcom couples of the '50s, the Honeymooners were not middle class but the working poor. Ralph earned $62 a week driving a bus; Norton worked, as he liked to say, as an engineer of subterranean sanitation-in the sewer system ... Ralph was even louder, brasher and more abrasive [then] ... Alice was also louder and more argumentative...