When I was living in LA in the mid-’80s I got to know a technical co-ordinator/assistant director named Rick Beren who worked on Cheers. Young and not above camping out on a contruction site to save a dime, he and his girlfriend lived on his boss’s very modern-looking house in the heart of Beverly Hills
Celebrate one of television’s greatest stars a day before his 100th birthday with the American Masters special “Starring Dick Van Dyke.” The two hour presentation premieres Friday night starting at 9/8C and will also be available at pbs.org/americanmasters and the PBS App The two hour celebration has no new interview with Van Dyke. The beloved
As the front cover of People magazine recently declared, Dick Van Dyke really has had the time of his life. Celebrate his centennial with three friends of this podcast: former New York Times TV critic Bill Carter, Dick Van Dyke Show expert and “Walnut Times” publisher David Van Deusen and Cinecon president and fellow film
As somebody who collects 16mm film, I’m always on the lookout for surviving remnants of past TV glories. Exhibit One for today: this YouTube video featuring a fresh transfer to digital of some 1973 footage shot 50 years ago in Minneapolis. The producers of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, James L. Brooks and Allan Burns,
It wasn’t easy being Mary Tyler Moore. Sure, she starred in two of TV’s most beloved sitcoms. She won Emmys, Golden Globes and a special Tony and had the respect of her peers as well as her colleagues. But oh, the heartaches. It was a good thing she had spunk. Past TV biographies have skimmed
CBS is suddenly selling more properties than Frank Leo & Associates. On the heels of the news that CBSViacom had reached a deal to sell their Manhattan headquarters comes word that the media giant has also put its 40-arce, Studio City, Calif., production centre on the block. This will be heartbreaking news to Jim Belushi.
Who is the greatest TV actor of all time? In an article by Ben Lindbergh published in the latest issue of The Ringer, the nod goes to Ted Danson Although Linbergh is looking more at quantity rather than quality, he builds a pretty good case. Danson’s latest series, Mr. Mayor, premiered Thursday night on NBC
Carl Reiner, who passed away Monday at 98, wrote books well into his nineties. There was, “I Remember Me,” then, “I Just Remembered” and a third biography, “What I Forgot to Remember.” “I don’t know what to do now,” he told his friend of nearly 70 years, Mel Brooks. “You’re too busy to die,” replied