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Posted Monday 10/09/17 at 3:47PM EDT
RIP Jack Good: TV music pioneer created Shindig! and put rock ’n’ roll on British TV
“He inspired my whole life” by creating Shindig! in the 1960s, Paul Shaffer says of Good , who died recently...
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Posted Friday 10/06/17 at 4:37PM EDT
Comedian Ralphie May dies at 45
The runner-up on the first season of Last Comic Standing in 2003, May went on to appear in many other...
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Posted Tuesday 10/03/17 at 3:33AM EDT
RIP Tom Petty: Remembering the music icon’s TV past
Petty, who died Monday night at age 66, was good friends with Garry Shandling (Petty played himself on It’s Garry...
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Posted Monday 10/02/17 at 6:58AM EDT
Monty Hall, the original host and co-creator of Let’s Make a Deal, dies at 96
Hall’s game show was an immediate success when it launched in 1963 and would host it through 1986.
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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner dies at 91
The iconic adult entertainment pioneer, who died Wednesday of natural causes at his Playboy mansion, was a frequent presence on...
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Posted Monday 9/18/17 at 1:40PM EDT
Emmy's "In Memoriam" left out too many notable deaths
Those who got snubbed include Happy Days star Erin Moran, David Letterman’s mom Dorothy Mengering, The Six Million Dollar Man’s...
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Posted Friday 9/15/17 at 10:40PM EDT
David Lynch pays tribute to Harry Dean Stanton: “There went a great one”
Stanton, who was just on Twin Peaks and who made a scary impression as the Big Love patriarch, died today...
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Posted Wednesday 9/13/17 at 10:02PM EDT
The Sopranos' Frank Vincent dies at 78
The actor known for his role as mob boss Phil Leotardo on the HBO series died in New Jersey today...
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Posted Tuesday 9/12/17 at 10:47PM EDT
Kathie Lee Gifford’s mother dies
Gifford’s mom, Joan Epstein, appeared with her daughter on Live and the Today show.
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Posted Monday 9/11/17 at 3:14PM EDT
Don Ohlmeyer, the NBC exec who resurrected the Peacock’s primetime lineup in the early ‘90s, dies at 72
When Ohlmeyer arrived as NBC West Coast president in 1993, he says “there was the smell of death” — despite Law...
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Posted Saturday 9/02/17 at 3:23AM EDT
Remembering Richard Anderson: His Six Million Dollar Man character was Generation X’s first real boss
“Oscar Goldman would forever remain a treasured role model for impressionable children of the mid-1970s,” says Hank Stuever.
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Posted Friday 9/01/17 at 3:24PM EDT
Shelley Berman dies at 92: The groundbreaking standup comedian played Larry David’s dad on Curb Your Enthusiasm
The New York Times reports that Berman, who was actually a “sit-down” comedian, “helped redefine stand-up comedy in the late...
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Posted Friday 9/01/17 at 1:58AM EDT
Richard Anderson, star of Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman, dies at 91
Anderson was a character actor who was most famous for his two TV roles playing “the government agent who doled...
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Posted Thursday 8/24/17 at 6:15PM EDT
Jay Thomas dies: Emmy-winning Cheers/Murphy Brown actor and Letterman staple was 69
Thomas, who died today after a battle with cancer, won two Emmys for his guest appearances on Murphy Brown, but...
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Posted Monday 8/21/17 at 9:16AM EDT
Jerry Lewis was an auteur with a long and shape-shifting career, from TV to the movies
Lewis’ insistence on doing it his way helped paved the way for the careers of people like Louis C.