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Us actress Bea Arthur's topless portrait fetches nearly $2m
17 May 2013 1:17 AM, PDT | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
New York, May 17: A 1991 painting depicting actress Bea Arthur - best known for her roles in 70s and 80s shows 'Maude' and 'Golden Girls'- nude from the waist up was sold for nearly 2 million dollars at an auction in Manhattan on Wednesday.
According to Christie's, the John Currin portrait aptly named 'Bea Arthur Naked' was imagined from an image of the sitcom star with her clothes on, the New York Daily News reported.
The painting was described by Christie's website as both "nostalgic and repelling."
The 22-year-old controversial piece of art created a new storm after The Daily Beast's social media editors were locked. »
- Lohit Reddy
You missed buying a portrait of a naked Bea Arthur by a mere $1.9 million
16 May 2013 3:36 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
While one might assume it impossible to put a price on dreams, Christie’s did just that last night by affixing a $1.915 million tag on Bea Arthur Naked, John Currin’s infamous topless portrait of the late Maude star, once more standing up for women’s liberation by airing her unfettered breasts. If something seems weird or unsettling about that to you, you’re right: The painting fetched less than its estimated going rate of $2.5 million, a number Christie’s reached through a careful algorithm of calculating the rarity of ever seeing Bea Arthur’s breasts »
Bea Arthur nude portrait sells for $1.9 million, causes Facebook drama
16 May 2013 2:03 PM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
If you've got a couple million dollars laying around, you could have been the proud owner of a naked Bea Arthur painting. In an art auction (link contains painted nudity) Wednesday, May 15, a 1991 painting of the "Golden Girls" star topless sold for $1.9 million. The painting, simply titled "Bea Arthur Naked," is by artist John Currin.
Arthur never sat for the portrait, nor did she actually pose topless. Instead, Currin relied on a photo of a clothed Arthur for the basis of his piece. Though the painting is 22 years old, it's still causing a little controversy.
When the Daily Beast (link contains painted nudity) posted a link to an article about the work on their Facebook account, the site locked them out. In posting the link, a thumbnail image of the painting appeared, showing breasts. Facebook flagged the post as against the rules, placing them on a 24-hour ban. Of course, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy
23 April 2013 3:16 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
They're funny and passionate. One of them can even rock a pastel pantsuit. Hadley Freeman hails her female heroes whose accomplishments deserve some serious respect
These days, White is mainly known for two things: 1. Being old, and 2. Being funny about it. But there is so much more to her than geriatric self-mockery. Aside from her brilliant performances on The Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, White was one of the first women to take control of her own acting career by co-founding a TV production company in the 1950s. She was also nominated for the first best-actress Emmy in 1950, and her book about this period of her life, Here We Go Again: My Life in Television, is as funny as it is inspirational. Still sharp as a tack in her 10th decade, she is not only a hilarious actor but a hysterical off-the-cuff guest on American talk shows, »
- Hadley Freeman
'Bye Bye Birdie': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Classic Ann-Margret Musical
3 April 2013 5:54 PM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Today, it seems audiences know "Bye Bye Birdie" only from the prominent mention of it on "Mad Men," when the Sterling Cooper agency tried to copy Ann-Margret's minimalist opening number for a diet soda commercial. But when the movie musical premiered 50 years ago (on April 4, 1963), it was a huge smash. It made an instant star out of the Swedish-born actress, as well as boosting the fame of co-stars Dick Van Dyke and Paul Lynde. Based on the Broadway hit musical, "Bye Bye Birdie" was seen as a trenchant pop cultural satire at the time. Everyone knows that Conrad Birdie, the hip-swiveling rocker who is drafted into the Army, and who stages a publicity stunt on the Ed Sullivan show by agreeing to kiss a teen fan before reporting for duty, is inspired by Elvis Presley, who had to put his career on hold in 1958 when he was drafted. But »
- Gary Susman
Watch This: Amy Poehler Interviews Irma Kalish - Pioneer Comedy Writer
1 April 2013 7:00 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
For her super smart web series for girls, Smart Girls at the Party, Amy Poehler interviews Irma Kalish, a pioneer female comedy writer, who wrote for iconic shows such as Good Times, All in the Family, Maude and I Dream of Jeannie. It's a trip down memory lane for any sitcom loving kid who grew up in the 70s and 80s and watched lots of reruns. You can check out more of Smart Girls at the Party and Poehler's advice series Ask Amy here.
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- Kerensa Cadenas
Amy Poehler Loses It Over Her Writing Idol
29 March 2013 9:59 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
In the next installment of Amy Poehler's winning online interview series "Smart Girls at the Party," Poehler gets positively giddy interviewing an idol: Irma Kalish, who became the first woman to be made producer (and eventually executive producer) of a television series with her work on Good Times. She was also the head writer of 227, executive producer of The Facts of Life, and a writer on dozens of other now-classic comedies that were appointment viewing in the Poehler household, including All in the Family, The Bob Newhart Show, I Dream of Jeannie, The Love Boat, and Maude. Vulture has your first look at the interview, which includes this exchange about Poehler's favorite comedy, All in the Family: "Were the actors nice?" "The actors were nice ... " "You hesitated — who was your favorite?" "Norman Lear was my favorite." Don't forget to stay for the dance party. »
- www.vulture.com
Watch Amy Poehler Turn Fangirl Talking to Good Times and Facts of Life Writer Irma Kalish
28 March 2013 10:15 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
In the next installment of Amy Poehler's winning online interview series "Smart Girls at the Party," Poehler gets positively giddy interviewing an idol: Irma Kalish, who became the first woman to be made producer (and eventually executive producer) of a television series with her work on Good Times. She was also the head writer of 227, executive producer of The Facts of Life, and a writer on dozens of other now-classic comedies that were appointment viewing in the Poehler household, including All in the Family, The Bob Newhart Show, I Dream of Jeannie, The Love Boat, and Maude. Vulture has your first look at the interview, which includes this exchange about Poehler's favorite comedy, All in the Family: "Were the actors nice?" "The actors were nice ... " "You hesitated — who was your favorite?" "Norman Lear was my favorite." Don't forget to stay for the dance party. »
- Denise Martin
The 10 Greatest Celebrity "Pyramid" Players, In Honor Of The Classic Game Show's 40th Anniversary
26 March 2013 12:38 PM, PDT | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
You may have guessed that I'm a fan of game shows, but if you're a decent, totally American human being, you love game shows too. Thus, it's only right that you know today is the 40th anniversary of the first airing of Pyramid, the beloved franchise that eventually spawned the Dick Clark-hosted $20,000, $25,000 and $100,000 versions, as well as two recent incarnations starring Donny Osmond and Price is Right producer Mike Richards, respectively. The classic game of verbal clues and Egyptian iconography is just so addicting, and we're lucky that Game Show Network still airs it all the damn time.
For the record: The first-ever Pyramid celebrities -- when the show was filmed in New York -- were Rob Reiner and June Lockhart.
To celebrate the show's incredible run, I thought we'd rank the 10 greatest celebrities ever to lend their clue-giving skills to Dick Clark's game. My list includes mainly »
- virtel
Sony to Turn Good Times TV Show Into a Movie
13 March 2013 3:19 AM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
Sony Pictures and producer Scott Rudin (The Social Network) are planning to turn the 1970s TV show "Good Times" into a feature film. Phil Johnston (Wreck-It Ralph, Cedar Rapids) has been hired to write the script. "Good Times" focused on working-class couple James and Florida Evans as they raised three kids while struggling with hard financial times, unemployment and keeping their kids away from temptations that came with living in a Chicago housing project. The movie will be set in the 1960s. The show aired on CBS from 1974-79 and was one of many social aware sitcoms by Norman Lear that mixed comedy with serious issues. Others include "All In the Family," "One Day At a Time" and Maude." »
'Good Times' movie: Sony, Scott Rudin adapting '70s sitcom
12 March 2013 11:59 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Transforming a beloved TV show into a movie is a dicey proposition. For every 21 Jump Street, there’s an A-Team, a Bewitched, a (shudder) My Favorite Martian. But there are reasons to be hopeful about Good Times. EW has confirmed the Deadline report that Sony and Scott Rudin are teaming to bring the ’70s sitcom about a working-class black family to the big screen. The project is being scripted by Phil Johnston, who wrote the nifty little comedy Cedar Rapids and co-wrote Wreck-It Ralph.
And the source material offers lots of possibilities. Good Times was spun off from Maude — itself »
- Darren Franich
Sony Pictures, Scott Rudin Plot Feature Film Adaptation Of ’70s TV Series ‘Good Times’
12 March 2013 10:00 AM, PDT | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: Sony Pictures and producer Scott Rudin will turn the groundbreaking ’70s sitcom Good Times into a feature film. They’ve set a writer, Phil Johnston, whose most recent credits include Wreck-It Ralph and Cedar Rapids. Rudin will produce the family comedy with Eli Bush. While Rudin is selective about the remakes with which he becomes involved – Manchurian Candidate, Shaft and Sabrina – I think this has a lot of potential. The series, which aired on CBS from 1974-79, was one in a series of socially aware Norman Lear-generated sitcoms that pushed the envelope by mixing comedy with topicality and hot-button issues. Others included All In The Family (bigot patriarch), One Day At A Time (struggling single mother) and Maude. Good Times focused on working-class couple James and Florida Evans as they raised three kids while struggling with hard financial times, unemployment and keeping their kids away from temptations that »
- MIKE FLEMING JR
One Day at a Time Star Bonnie Franklin Has Died
1 March 2013 11:12 AM, PST | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Bonnie Franklin, who played divorced single mom Ann Romano for nine seasons on Norman Lear's One Day at a Time, has died, according to the Associated Press and multiple reports. She was 69 and passed away due to complications from pancreatic cancer. Franklin's Ms. Romano was part of a wave of strong female TV icons that rose up during the seventies and eighties: Maude Findlay, Alice Hyatt, Florida Evans, Mary Richards. What was special about One Day at a Time was that Franklin played a single mom by choice (she was one of the earliest small screen divorcees), and that the show never sugar-coated the challenges of raising kids solo. Those of us who grew up in the seventies being raised by single moms greatly appreciated Ms. Romano (and Franklin). »
- Josef Adalian
Remembering Conrad Bain, Michael Winner and More Reel-Important People We Lost This Month
31 January 2013 5:00 PM, PST | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
Reel Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies who have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in their own way. Conrad Bain (1923-2013) - Actor best known for his TV roles as Phillip Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes and Dr. Arthur Harmon on Maude. He also appears in the films Bananas, Postcards from the Edge, Coogan's Bluff and C.H.O.M.P.S. (see him in the trailer below). He died on January 14. (Deadline) Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012) - Composer nominated three times for the Oscar for his scores to Far from the Maddening Crowd, Nicholas and Alexandra and Murder on the Orient Express...
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- Christopher Campbell
Conrad Bain obituary
17 January 2013 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
American actor who tackled taboo subjects in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes
The actor Conrad Bain, who has died aged 89, found fame in middle age in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978-86). As Phillip Drummond, a white millionaire who fosters, then adopts, two orphaned black brothers, Bain was the straight man to the diminutive, wisecracking Gary Coleman, who played Arnold, the younger of the two boys. When his one-time housekeeper dies, the kindly widower Drummond takes Arnold and his brother, Willis (Todd Bridges), from their Harlem ghetto to his luxury Manhattan penthouse and brings them up with his daughter, Kimberly (Dana Plato).
Diff'rent Strokes tackled racial issues with humour and was courageous in confronting taboo subjects such as drugs, bulimia, sexual assault and paedophilia. The sitcom was devised as a vehicle for both Coleman, who had been spotted in television commercials, and Bain, following his co-starring role in the series Maude (1972-78) as Dr Arthur Harmon, »
- Anthony Hayward
Happy Birthday, Betty White!
17 January 2013 5:16 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Our favorite "Golden Girl" Betty White turns 91 on Thursday, Jan. 17. Happy birthday, Betty!
The celebrated actress and passionate animal-rights activist is embracing her eighth decade in the business, with a résumé that's overflowing with game shows, talk shows, sitcoms, animated series, hosting duties and one particularly foulmouthed film performance. She currently hosts the NBC reality show "Betty White's Off Their Rockers," which features senior citizens playing practical jokes on their younger counterparts.
"Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way," she told USA Today in 2010.
We aren't arguing otherwise. We fully expect White still to be going strong at 100. In the meantime, here are 10 fun facts about this wonderful woman.
1. Betty White was born in Oak Park, Ill. Her family moved to California during the Great Depression. She discovered her love for performing when she wrote and played the lead in a graduation play in junior high. »
- The Huffington Post
TV on Tap: Syfy Cancels "Alphas," Katie Finneran Gets a New Sitcom Role and USA is Developing a Morning Show for Late Night
17 January 2013 5:15 AM, PST | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
Archer returns tonight and in my house
so does the question, "They've got cell phones and Soviets? What year is this?"
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Vampire Diaries producer Julie Plec tells EW that spin-off series The Originals has been discussed for about two years, which I guess explains why the Originals stuck around long past their expiration date. Plec also says that Daniel Gillies would always be welcome on the spin-off, but that's up to Gillies.
This is turning out to be a week of the axe falling on cable shows. Yesterday it was bad news for Drop Dead Diva now, Syfy has cancelled Alphas.
Taking a cue from The Killing, TNT has ordered a pilot from Steven Bochco that will follow a murder investigation over a season. This isn't the first time Bochco has tried to tell a season-long story, in 1995 critics tried to convince viewers to pick up Murder One, which »
- LyleMasaki
‘Diff’rent Strokes’ Conrad Bain Passes Away Aged 89
16 January 2013 1:49 PM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Another television legend has sadly been taken away from us this week, with news that Conrad Bain – known for his role as Mr Drummond in Diff’Rent Strokes – has passed away aged 89.
Bain is known for his television roles, but it was his role as rich Manhattan man Phillip Drummond (the character who adopts the children of his late African American maid) that people will remember him for.
His daughter spoke about her father, comparing him to his famous role.
“He was a lot like Mr Drummond, but much more interesting in real life, he was an amazing father.”
Todd Bridges, who played Willis on the show, also spoke about his death:
‘I am deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Conrad as we were looking forward to celebrating his 90th birthday next month. In addition to being a positive and supportive father figure both on and off-screen, Conrad was »
- Lucy Cave
R.I.P. Conrad Bain
16 January 2013 11:20 AM, PST | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Conrad Bain, who played wealthy widower and adoptive father Phillip Drummond on the TV comedy Diff’rent Strokes, died Monday. He was 89. Bain passed away of natural causes at his home in Livermore, CA, his daughter Jennifer Bain tells The Associated Press. Bain made his New York theater debut in 1956 as Larry Slade in The Iceman Cometh at the Circle in the Square. He eventually ventured into TV, including the role of Dr. Arthur Harmon in the comedy Maude starring Bea Arthur which aired on CBS from 1972-1978. From Maude he went on to play his most famous role on Diff’rent Strokes, as the adoptive father of two young brothers played by Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges. The series aired for seven seasons on NBC (1978-1985) and one season on ABC (1985-1986). Before his roles on Maude and Diff’rent Strokes, Bain had appeared occasionally in films, including A Lovely Way To Die, »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
America’s Dad Diff’rent Strokes Actor Conrad Bain Passes Away At 89
16 January 2013 11:05 AM, PST | TheFabLife - Movies | See recent TheFabLife - Movies news »
As square white dads go, Conrad Bain was one of the best. While he had roles in everything from Dark Shadows to The Love Boat to Maude, his most famous part was that of Phillip Drummond, a millionaire widower who adopts African-American brothers Arnold and Willis after their mother passes away on Diff’rent Strokes. Bain himself passed away Monday night at a retirement home in Livermore, California. No further details about the actor’s death have been given. He was 89.
Starring opposite Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges for eight seasons of the wildly successful sitcom, Bain was America’s favorite uncool old dad from 1978 to 1986. “He was an amazing person. He was a lot like Mr. Drummond, but much more interesting in real life. He was an amazing father,” his daughter Jennifer told TMZ. Nice, nerdy and constantly wearing a cozy sweater, Bain always knew what Willis was talking about. »
- Halle Kiefer
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