McGovern and MacLaine. Rahoul Ghose/PBS As one might have expected, Shirley MacLaine stole the show at the Downton Abbey press conference Saturday night at TCA. If anything, the 78-year-old Oscar-winner didn’t speak enough–and skipped the post conference social–but when she did talk she was blog gold. MacLaine will appear this coming season (beginning Jan. 6
“Stop tweeting my jokes, dammit!” Rahoul Ghose/PBS This is legendary comedian Dick Gregory. He’s mad I`m not at his TCA press tour session this morning. Calm down, Dick, I’ll be there soon.The summer 2012 Television Critics Association press tour kicked off this morning with Day One of two days of PBS. (The tour runs through
Ed McMahon and Johnny Carson at the start of their 30-year run It always surprises me that the kids don’t know Johnny Carson. My son is 19, born the year after Carson ended a 30-year run on The Tonight Show, and to him Carson is a footnote on The Simpsons. (A cartoon Carson is seen in
Seems Melissa Gilbert bonked her noggin on Monday night’s Dancing with the Stars. The former Little House on the Prairie moppet, now a sizzling 47, got thrashed around by dance partner Maksim Chemerkovskiy and had to get checked out at a hospital. The former Scree Actors Guild president is expected to remain in the competition.I’ve
Jones at the summer 2011 Television Critics Association press tour Like a lot of Boomers, I’m saddened to hear of the passing of Davy Jones Wednesday in Florida. The former Monkee apparently died of a heart attack at 66. He belted out “Daydream Believer” one last time at a concert in New York City less
The one and only. Photo: Rahoul Ghose/PBS PASADENA, CA–Tony Bennett forgot a few words to one of the songs he sang for critics attending the TCA press tour Thursday night–evidence that he is mortal.Otherwise, the legendary singer ran up the steps leading to the stage, in the dark, and belted out one show-stopping tune after
B-52s’ Pierson, Schneider and Wilson can still rock the Love Shack PASADENA, CA–Talk/singer Fred Schneider looks like Tintin at 60 and go-go babes Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson look like Snooki’s eccentric aunts but the B-52s got this TCA Winter press tour off to one hell of a start Wednesday. The ultimate party band that
Nothing says Canadian Thanksgiving like a documentary on a 200 year old war.I learned a lot about the War of 1812 interviewing Lawrence Hotz. He’s the producer/director behind tonight’s unique Can-Am co-production The War of 1812 (Buffalo PBS affiliate WNED 9 p.m.; check other PBS affiliates in your area).For one thing, the expression “the fog