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A New Conversation with Dee Wallace

10 December 2009 12:55 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

If you've never seen Dee Wallace in a film then you probably don't watch movies, because at this moment she has 179 credits to her name as a professional actress, 18 of those projects yet to be released- which led me to first ask her where in the world she found the time to call me for a phone interview yesterday afternoon. She somehow made time for me to ask her a few questions about her career and life in the entertainment industry, and provided some really cool behind the scenes stories to some of the biggest movies ever made.

Dee Wallace has worked with directors like Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Joe Dante, Rob Zombie, and Blake Edwards- there's a reason that prestigious directors like these have called on her time and time again, and if you look at films like The Howling, Cujo, E.T., or The Frighteners , that reason will be clearly evident. »

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Veteran writer David Lloyd dead after a long illness

11 November 2009 3:33 PM, PST | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

David Lloyd was one of those TV writers whose work spread across the history of television. He worked on shows ranging from The Tonight Show in the 60s to Frasier in the 90s and early 2000s.

Lloyd died earlier today after a long illness.

Lloyd had a part in many memorable TV shows over the years, as a writer and/or a producer, including Cheers, Wings, Taxi, Lou Grant, Rhoda, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Phyllis, The Tony Randall Show, Dear John, The Dick Cavett Show, The Associate, and The Best of the West, and many other shows.

Ken Levine has a great tribute to Lloyd on his site, including a discussion of how Lloyd was as a writer. It includes an example of Lloyd's script for the classic Mary Tyler Moore Show episode "Chuckles Bites The Dust."

 

Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries, Reality-Free

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"Mary Tyler Moore Show" Brings Spunk To DVD

19 October 2009 4:54 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" Season Five is currently available on DVD.

Released on Oct. 6 through Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, the latest season of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" contains 24 episodes, including "Not Just Another Pretty Face," "A Son for Murray" and "Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcaster's School." All episodes are remastered in full screen 1:33 aspect ratio.

Following her stint as Laura Petrie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show," Mary Tyler Moore stars as Minneapolis television news associate producer Mary Richards, a single woman searching for love while juggling a career at Wjm-tv and numerous friendships. "Up" voice actor Ed Asner portrays her boss, Lou Grant, a hard-boiled TV news veteran whose gruff exterior counterbalances Mary's spunky personality. Also in the newsroom are writer Murray Slaughter (Gavin McLeod), snarky on-air talent "Happy Homemaker" Sue Ann Nivens (Betty White) and dimwitted anchorman Ted Baxter (Ted Knight). At home, Mary has »

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Season Five Of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" Comes To DVD On October 6

31 August 2009 5:47 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" Season Five will be coming to DVD on October 6 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The collectible three-disc DVD set will follow the trials and tribulations of Mary Richards, a rising associate producer at Wjm-tv who fights to make a place for herself in a man's world.

The series stars Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards, Edward Asner as her boss Lou Grant, Gavin MacLeod as news writer Murray Slaughter and Ted Knights as anchorman Ted Baxter. Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman also star.

The show won 29 Emmy Awards that include three for Outstanding Comedy and three Golden Globe Awards. The show ran from September 1970 until March of 1977.

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Sellers Snub Still Haunts Asner

26 May 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

TV and movie veteran Ed Asner is still bitter about missing out on a role in Peter Sellers' movie I Love You Alice B. Toklas - because he had to grovel for a $10,000 (GBP6,660) loan when he was snubbed.

Asner read for the role of Sellers' brother-in-law in the 1968 film but lost out to Herb Edelman - and the disappointment was doubled when the Lou Grant star stumbled onto the film's set on his way to beg his agent for cash.

He recalls, "I knew I'd lost the job and at the same time my family was moving to a larger house because we had three kids and I had to borrow $10,000 from my agent and he kept stalling me.

"On the day I went to get the cheque I was in an open elevator and I see these two figures come into the building dressed in tennis togs, who looked like two actors.

"I realised they were Peter Sellers and Herb Edelman and they were in the midst of shooting the picture which, if I had gotten, I wouldn't be making this goddamn trip down to my agent to pick up $10,000, which I had to practically grovel for. It's amazing how life moves." »

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Ed Asner Q&A

24 May 2009 12:38 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

Ed Asner is "dragging ass," as he puts it. On doctor's orders, he's been doing push-ups and hitting the elliptical machine, but exercise doesn't send him "out on wings of song." The irascible, self-deprecating 79-year-old, best-known for playing Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and the eponymous spinoff, has his biggest gig in years: voicing crabby Carl Fredricksen in "Up."

"Up" has such an unusual premise Pixar can't sell toys.

It once again shows the hostility I face in this life. »

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