This coming Sunday after 60 Minutes, CBS News will premiere the one-hour special Rob Reiner: Scenes from a Life. The acclaimed actor-writer-director was found murdered in his home last Sunday along with his wife and fellow activist, Michele Singer Reiner. The couple’s younest son, Nick Reiner, 32, has been arrested and charged with the slayings.
UPDATED. When the world goes mad, you have the clowns to give you hope in humanity. John Candy, rising like the warmest summer sun with the recent release of the documentary John Candy: I Like Me. Dick Van Dyke, also beloved. He made it to 100 Saturday, and young and old felt their hearts lifted
The Super Bowl is rolling around again (Sunday, Feb. 9, Fox, CTV, TSN). That means more Super Bowl ads. But why wait till the big game? One commercial has been made available to screen right now (above). Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal put on a Mayo clinic when they return to Katz’s Deli in New
Some of the people who make the TV we love pass away so soon we can’t believe it. Then there are those legends who live so long, we’re surprised that they pass away at all. Norman Lear died Tuesday, Dec. 5 in Los Angeles at 101. His face, under that trademark floppy off-white hat, would
Many of the TV icons I grew up with are dropping like flies. Poor Tony Dow, for example. The Leave it to Beaver brother clings to life after already being declared dead in many premature on-line reports. It’s wonderful, then, to celebrate the impressive and productive longevity of Norman Lear. The producers of such shows
New Rule: stop being shocked every time Bill Maher says something that skates over the hard line that is cancel culture. That is, after all, his job. Yes, he’s made some egregious mistakes in the past. He claimed that Islam, “has too much in common with ISIS.” In 2017, he used the N-word to make
Want to hear something funny? The National Comedy Center just inherited Carl Reiner’s complete comedy archives. The interactive museum, located in Jamestown, N.Y. — birthplace of Lucille Ball — announced Friday that it will become the official home of Reiner’s TV and film scripts, creative papers and other memorabilia. His multiple Emmy Award-winning career in
TV legends Norman Lear and Rob Reiner do Nixon and Haldeman BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–TV’s top stars and showrunners turn up year after year at the Television Critics Association Awards–and they don’t come for the hardware.It happened again Saturday as one A-lister after another took the stage at the Beverly Hilton ballroom to accept whats Louis