Robert MacNeil, the trusted son of a Canadian naval officer who spent two decades alongside Jim Lehrer delivering the nightly news to PBS viewers, died Friday, PBS announced. He was 93.
MacNeil died of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, his daughter, Alison MacNeil, told the Associated Press.
MacNeil and Lehrer first teamed to cover the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973, and their live coverage earned them an Emmy. In 1975, they launched a half-hour program that would become The MacNeil/Lehrer Report; it covered a single story in depth and collected more than 30 awards, including a Peabody, a DuPont and several Emmys.
The program in 1983 became The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, the nation’s first 60-minute evening news program. Rather than concentrate on one topic, it provided comprehensive coverage and analysis of the day’s important stories.
On the eve of his retirement from the broadcast in October 1995 to concentrate on writing, he was asked...
MacNeil died of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, his daughter, Alison MacNeil, told the Associated Press.
MacNeil and Lehrer first teamed to cover the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973, and their live coverage earned them an Emmy. In 1975, they launched a half-hour program that would become The MacNeil/Lehrer Report; it covered a single story in depth and collected more than 30 awards, including a Peabody, a DuPont and several Emmys.
The program in 1983 became The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, the nation’s first 60-minute evening news program. Rather than concentrate on one topic, it provided comprehensive coverage and analysis of the day’s important stories.
On the eve of his retirement from the broadcast in October 1995 to concentrate on writing, he was asked...
- 4/12/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chris Stirewalt, the garrulous political analyst, is best known, perhaps, for his tenure at Fox News Channel. He’s ready to make a name for himself in a new venue.
Stirewalt famously spent time on screen defending Fox News early — and eerily accurate — projection during the 2020 presidential election that then-President Donald Trump would lose in Arizona, a key state. By the time President Biden was ready to take his oath of office, Stirewalt had exited the Fox Corp. news unit after a decade-long run, fully prepared to put his TV news career in the rearview mirror.
On Sunday, he will have to look in the cameras once again.
Stirewalt is set to anchor “The Hill Sunday,” a bid by upstart cable-news player NewsNation to insert itself into the Sunday-news field typically dominated by decades-old programs with strong video imprimaturs. The anchor believes viewers still yearn for something that tones...
Stirewalt famously spent time on screen defending Fox News early — and eerily accurate — projection during the 2020 presidential election that then-President Donald Trump would lose in Arizona, a key state. By the time President Biden was ready to take his oath of office, Stirewalt had exited the Fox Corp. news unit after a decade-long run, fully prepared to put his TV news career in the rearview mirror.
On Sunday, he will have to look in the cameras once again.
Stirewalt is set to anchor “The Hill Sunday,” a bid by upstart cable-news player NewsNation to insert itself into the Sunday-news field typically dominated by decades-old programs with strong video imprimaturs. The anchor believes viewers still yearn for something that tones...
- 2/28/2024
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
There’s a generation who know him as Sheldon’s idol Professor Proton in an Emmy-winning turn on “The Big Bang Theory.” Another generation remembers him as Buddy’s adoptive dad in the film “Elf” (2003). Yet another generation grew to love him as writer-turned-innkeeper Dick Loudon, who’s surrounded by eccentric Vermonters on the sitcom “Newhart” (1982-1990). But before all those memorable characters, Bob Newhart won over audiences as psychologist Dr. Robert “Bob” Hartley on “The Bob Newhart Show,” which premiered 50 years ago on September 16, 1972.
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Emmy-nominated comedy, plus the 93rd birthday of the TV Academy Hall of Fame inductee, by touring our photo gallery ranking the 25 best episodes.
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Set in Chicago, Bob splits time between his home life with his loving but sometimes flippant wife Emily (Suzanne Pleshette) and their neighbor and friend Howard Borden (Bill Daily...
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Emmy-nominated comedy, plus the 93rd birthday of the TV Academy Hall of Fame inductee, by touring our photo gallery ranking the 25 best episodes.
SEE50 Greatest Male TV Stars Ever, Ranked
Set in Chicago, Bob splits time between his home life with his loving but sometimes flippant wife Emily (Suzanne Pleshette) and their neighbor and friend Howard Borden (Bill Daily...
- 9/5/2022
- by Susan Pennington and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Who knew when the year began that a sequel to a 36-year-old movie starring its 60-year-old actor who headlined the original would be the box office champ so far this year? But “Top Gun: Maverick” starring Tom Cruise, which was released Aug. 23 on digital formats while still flying high in theaters is not only the No. 1 film of the year with a staggering haul of 683.4 million domestically and 720 million overseas. And the acclaimed film didn’t even play in China or Russia. “Top Gun: Maverick” is also the biggest film of Cruise’s career which began in 1981 with Franco Zeffirelli’s “Endless Love.”
And with the digital release, let’s relive 1986, the year we first felt the need for speed and flew into the danger zone. The year the original “Top Gun” took our breath away.
Top 10 Box Office Hits
Top Gun (natch)
Crocodile Dundee
Platoon
The Karate Kid Part...
And with the digital release, let’s relive 1986, the year we first felt the need for speed and flew into the danger zone. The year the original “Top Gun” took our breath away.
Top 10 Box Office Hits
Top Gun (natch)
Crocodile Dundee
Platoon
The Karate Kid Part...
- 8/24/2022
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
It’s such fun flashing back to Emmy ceremonies of yesteryear, and it’s interesting to see how they have evolved over time, and reflect on how much TV has grown and changed. In the early years, the categories were much different, with no distinction between dramatic and comedic performances; instead, there was a category for “Outstanding Continued Performance” (which came from ongoing series) and a separate one for “Outstanding Single Performance”. Going back six decades, there were only three networks competing, but some of the biggest names in the history of the medium were on the ballot, and some legendary performers presented, when Johnny Carson, Bob Newhart and David Brinkley hosted the 14th Emmy Awards on NBC on May 22, 1962. Read on for our Emmys flashback 60 years ago to 1962.
Newhart was already making a name for himself in these early days of television. His variety series “The Bob Newhart Show...
Newhart was already making a name for himself in these early days of television. His variety series “The Bob Newhart Show...
- 7/14/2022
- by Susan Pennington
- Gold Derby
The fourth season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” is set in 1986. Talk about déjà vu.
The top movie of the year was “Top Gun” starring Tom Cruise and this year, the sequel “Top Gun: Maverick” is the top flick earning nearly 582 million in North America. “Cobra Kai,”the TV sequel to “Karate Kid,” is one of the most popular series on Netflix and several “Star Trek” series have blasted off on “Paramount+.
A handful the top ten TV series including “Cheers,” “Murder, She Wrote” and “The Golden Girls” are living on in repeats. One of the top series, “60 Minutes,” is still chugging away on CBS after 54 seasons making it the longest running primetime series on the small screen. And Michael J. Fox, who won the Emmy that year for “Family Ties,” will receive an honorary Oscar this fall.
So, in honor of “Stranger Things” let’s take the time...
The top movie of the year was “Top Gun” starring Tom Cruise and this year, the sequel “Top Gun: Maverick” is the top flick earning nearly 582 million in North America. “Cobra Kai,”the TV sequel to “Karate Kid,” is one of the most popular series on Netflix and several “Star Trek” series have blasted off on “Paramount+.
A handful the top ten TV series including “Cheers,” “Murder, She Wrote” and “The Golden Girls” are living on in repeats. One of the top series, “60 Minutes,” is still chugging away on CBS after 54 seasons making it the longest running primetime series on the small screen. And Michael J. Fox, who won the Emmy that year for “Family Ties,” will receive an honorary Oscar this fall.
So, in honor of “Stranger Things” let’s take the time...
- 7/11/2022
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
SAG-AFTRA’s unclaimed residuals fund has grown to roughly $76 million – up 60% from $48 million six years ago. According to the union, the fund now contains 124,000 separate accounts for members and others, living and dead, that it can’t locate. That’s up from 96,000 accounts in 2016.
“The funds may be unclaimed for a variety of reasons including a bad address or as a result of mail returned for other reasons; unresolved estate issues, or the funds may be in trust for an inactive or dissolved loan out corporation,” a spokesperson for the union said. “Most often, residuals may be waiting for a recipient or their agent to formalize a change of address or submit the appropriate paperwork to claim the funds. The union uses a number of tools to locate and get money to those individuals due unclaimed residuals including mail, email and telephone outreach to last known address and telephone number,...
“The funds may be unclaimed for a variety of reasons including a bad address or as a result of mail returned for other reasons; unresolved estate issues, or the funds may be in trust for an inactive or dissolved loan out corporation,” a spokesperson for the union said. “Most often, residuals may be waiting for a recipient or their agent to formalize a change of address or submit the appropriate paperwork to claim the funds. The union uses a number of tools to locate and get money to those individuals due unclaimed residuals including mail, email and telephone outreach to last known address and telephone number,...
- 1/10/2022
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Roger Mudd, the longtime CBS News correspondent and anchor who later teamed briefly with Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News, has died. He was 93.
Mudd died Tuesday of kidney failure at his home in McLean, Va, according to CBS News.
With a to-the-point style, Mudd was a familiar face for decades on network television, starting on CBS in the early 1960s, as he reported on Congress, politics and government. He became a star correspondent and filled in for Walter Cronkite in the anchor chair in the late 1960s and early 1970s and on the weekend CBS Evening News broadcasts.
But no moment stood out more in Mudd’s career than an interview he did in 1979 with Sen. Edward Kennedy, readying a challenge to President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination. Mudd’s question was short and a bit of a softball — “Why do you want to be president?” — but Kennedy...
Mudd died Tuesday of kidney failure at his home in McLean, Va, according to CBS News.
With a to-the-point style, Mudd was a familiar face for decades on network television, starting on CBS in the early 1960s, as he reported on Congress, politics and government. He became a star correspondent and filled in for Walter Cronkite in the anchor chair in the late 1960s and early 1970s and on the weekend CBS Evening News broadcasts.
But no moment stood out more in Mudd’s career than an interview he did in 1979 with Sen. Edward Kennedy, readying a challenge to President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination. Mudd’s question was short and a bit of a softball — “Why do you want to be president?” — but Kennedy...
- 3/9/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: John Slattery is setting up his second feature as a director, Maggie Moore(s), with fellow Mad Men alum Jon Hamm and Tina Fey.
The black comedy reps the reteaming of Hamm and Fey, the former who has starred on two of her series: in seven episodes of 30 Rock playing the characters of Abner, Dr. Drew Baird and David Brinkley; and as cult leader Richard Wayne Gary Wayne in 13 episodes of Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Maggie Moore(s) takes place in a dusty desert town where nothing ever happens, as a police chief is suddenly faced with the back-to-back murders of two women with the same name.
Endeavor Content is launching international sales at the European Film Market for Maggie Moore(s). Slattery’s feature directorial debut was the 2014 crime title God’s Pocket starring John Turturro, the late Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mad Men alum Christina Hendricks and Richard Jenkins.
The black comedy reps the reteaming of Hamm and Fey, the former who has starred on two of her series: in seven episodes of 30 Rock playing the characters of Abner, Dr. Drew Baird and David Brinkley; and as cult leader Richard Wayne Gary Wayne in 13 episodes of Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Maggie Moore(s) takes place in a dusty desert town where nothing ever happens, as a police chief is suddenly faced with the back-to-back murders of two women with the same name.
Endeavor Content is launching international sales at the European Film Market for Maggie Moore(s). Slattery’s feature directorial debut was the 2014 crime title God’s Pocket starring John Turturro, the late Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mad Men alum Christina Hendricks and Richard Jenkins.
- 2/23/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Following Alex Trebek‘s death on Sunday, the Television Critics Association has released the Jeopardy! host’s acceptance speech from earlier this year, when he received the group’s Career Achievement Award for 2020.
According to a new post on the TCA website, the association “voted overwhelmingly” to honor Trebek with this year’s award, citing “his unparalleled legacy as one of television’s most enduring and best-loved personalities.”
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According to a new post on the TCA website, the association “voted overwhelmingly” to honor Trebek with this year’s award, citing “his unparalleled legacy as one of television’s most enduring and best-loved personalities.”
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- 11/9/2020
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
This could be an election night like no other. Since television coverage began, several elections took until the next morning to declare a winner — 1960, 1968, 1976 — and, technically, a winner was never declared by the networks in 2000. Some — 1964, 1972, 1980, 1984 — were landslides, with a winner known early when polls closed in all states.
And, of course, there was 2016. Experts had warned that Donald Trump’s defeat was not a done deal with a tightening race in its final days. As hard as it might be to top the drama of that night, this year — despite a consensus on Joe Biden being ahead — the real-time story evolution could be filled with even more twists and turns, and the potential for confusion and misdirection is massive.
So how best to follow the results? Here are some hints I’ve learned from being a political junkie; my first viewing was as a seven-year-old in 1960, including the next...
And, of course, there was 2016. Experts had warned that Donald Trump’s defeat was not a done deal with a tightening race in its final days. As hard as it might be to top the drama of that night, this year — despite a consensus on Joe Biden being ahead — the real-time story evolution could be filled with even more twists and turns, and the potential for confusion and misdirection is massive.
So how best to follow the results? Here are some hints I’ve learned from being a political junkie; my first viewing was as a seven-year-old in 1960, including the next...
- 11/3/2020
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Norah O’Donnell told viewers on Monday that CBS Evening News was starting a “new era” with its first broadcast since officially moving to Washington, D.C., the only broadcast network newscast to originate from the nation’s capital.
CBS is hoping that leaving New York distinguishes the broadcast from ABC World News Tonight with David Muir and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, both of which beat CBS Evening News in the ratings. In the week of Nov. 18, World News Tonight drew 8.8 million total viewers, compared to 7.9 million for NBC and 5.6 million for CBS.
The move to D.C. has been in the works since O’Donnell was named anchor of the broadcast. Since she started in July, she has landed interviews with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, among others. The network also hopes that the move will help draw more big gets given the proximity to the White House and lawmakers.
CBS is hoping that leaving New York distinguishes the broadcast from ABC World News Tonight with David Muir and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, both of which beat CBS Evening News in the ratings. In the week of Nov. 18, World News Tonight drew 8.8 million total viewers, compared to 7.9 million for NBC and 5.6 million for CBS.
The move to D.C. has been in the works since O’Donnell was named anchor of the broadcast. Since she started in July, she has landed interviews with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, among others. The network also hopes that the move will help draw more big gets given the proximity to the White House and lawmakers.
- 12/3/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Journalist Cokie Roberts, who was a contributing senior news analyst for NPR, a regular round-table analyst for “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” and a political commentator for ABC News, among many other contributions during a four-decade career, has died. She was 75.
Roberts died Tuesday due to complications from breast cancer, her family confirmed.
“Cokie’s career as a journalist at National Public Radio and ABC News took her to the heights of her profession, and her success as an author on history and family put her on the best seller list. But her values put family and relationships above all else,” her family said in a statement. “We will miss Cokie beyond measure, both for her contributions and for her love and kindness.”
“Our dear friend and colleague Cokie Roberts passed away this morning in Washington, surrounded by her family and closest friends,” ABC News President James Goldston said in a statement Tuesday morning.
Roberts died Tuesday due to complications from breast cancer, her family confirmed.
“Cokie’s career as a journalist at National Public Radio and ABC News took her to the heights of her profession, and her success as an author on history and family put her on the best seller list. But her values put family and relationships above all else,” her family said in a statement. “We will miss Cokie beyond measure, both for her contributions and for her love and kindness.”
“Our dear friend and colleague Cokie Roberts passed away this morning in Washington, surrounded by her family and closest friends,” ABC News President James Goldston said in a statement Tuesday morning.
- 9/17/2019
- by Carmel Dagan
- Variety Film + TV
Cokie Roberts, a pioneering journalist who was perhaps best known for her savvy insight and analysis of politics, government and Washington D.C., has died at the age of 75, ABC News has announced. Her death was due to complications from breast cancer.
“We will miss Cokie beyond measure, both for her contributions and for her love and kindness,” her family said in a statement.
“Cokie Roberts will be dearly missed,” said James Goldston, president of ABC News. “Cokie’s kindness, generosity, sharp intellect and thoughtful take on the big issues of the day made ABC a better place and all of us better journalists.”
Roberts won many awards, including three Emmys, throughout her decades-long career, according to ABC News, which adds she has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting.
“We will miss Cokie beyond measure, both for her contributions and for her love and kindness,” her family said in a statement.
“Cokie Roberts will be dearly missed,” said James Goldston, president of ABC News. “Cokie’s kindness, generosity, sharp intellect and thoughtful take on the big issues of the day made ABC a better place and all of us better journalists.”
Roberts won many awards, including three Emmys, throughout her decades-long career, according to ABC News, which adds she has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting.
- 9/17/2019
- by Greg Evans and Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Journalists, public figures and Hollywood stars took to social media Tuesday to remember Cokie Roberts. The political journalist died of complications from breast cancer Tuesday morning. She was 75.
Roberts was best known for her work as a journalist on National Public Radio and ABC News. She began her 40-year career as a contributor for ABC's This Week With David Brinkley. She also worked as ABC’s chief congressional analyst and anchored This Week With Sam Donaldson from 1996 to 2002.
She was viewed as one of the smartest political commentators and pioneers for women in journalism.
Katie Couric took ...
Roberts was best known for her work as a journalist on National Public Radio and ABC News. She began her 40-year career as a contributor for ABC's This Week With David Brinkley. She also worked as ABC’s chief congressional analyst and anchored This Week With Sam Donaldson from 1996 to 2002.
She was viewed as one of the smartest political commentators and pioneers for women in journalism.
Katie Couric took ...
- 9/17/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Among the performers who got Emmy recognition for Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Masiel,” after not getting in for the first season, is Luke Kirby. Kirby scores his first Emmy nomination for Best Comedy Guest Actor for his portrayal of iconic comedian, Lenny Bruce, in the show’s Season 2 finale, “All Alone.”
SEEEmmy episode analysis: Rufus Sewell (‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’) charms as stubbornly drunk artist in ‘Look, She Made a Hat’
After being booted offstage for talking about her friend’s pregnancy in her act, Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) goes to grab a drink at a bar and discovers Lenny, who is already drunk. As Midge details her struggles in the business, Lenny describes his own issues including having a warrant out for his arrest in Chicago and that he’s broke from all the legal fees he’s incurred. They both express their deep frustrations with the limitations that are placed on them.
SEEEmmy episode analysis: Rufus Sewell (‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’) charms as stubbornly drunk artist in ‘Look, She Made a Hat’
After being booted offstage for talking about her friend’s pregnancy in her act, Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) goes to grab a drink at a bar and discovers Lenny, who is already drunk. As Midge details her struggles in the business, Lenny describes his own issues including having a warrant out for his arrest in Chicago and that he’s broke from all the legal fees he’s incurred. They both express their deep frustrations with the limitations that are placed on them.
- 9/5/2019
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Because they co-host the “Weekend Update” segment on “Saturday Night Live,” it makes perfect sense for Colin Jost and Michael Che to host the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards together on September 17. But over the last 20 years, this will be only the third time the Emmys have used more than one host, even though two or more hosts were the norm in the show’s first half-century. Here are 10 other notable hosting teams, some that make perfect sense and some that don’t.
1952: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
Lucy and Desi were clearly the first couple of television in its early days, so it was natural that they’d be co-hosts only the fourth time the Emmys were handed out – a show on which their show “I Love Lucy” also won the top comedy award.
1962: David Brinkley, Johnny Carson and Bob Newhart
Why three hosts? Because the 1962 show took...
1952: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
Lucy and Desi were clearly the first couple of television in its early days, so it was natural that they’d be co-hosts only the fourth time the Emmys were handed out – a show on which their show “I Love Lucy” also won the top comedy award.
1962: David Brinkley, Johnny Carson and Bob Newhart
Why three hosts? Because the 1962 show took...
- 9/5/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
By the early ‘80s, Melissa Sue Anderson was ready to get some dirt under Mary Ingall’s fingernails, and shed her squeaky clean image. Late in ’81 she would entertain horror audiences with her big screen turn in Happy Birthday to Me, but earlier that same year she stayed closer to home on the tube playing a big bad teenage witch in Midnight Offerings – a role which I’m sure Pa Ingalls would not approve of.
The telemovie premiered Friday, February 27th, 1981 on ABC. It’s neighbor CBS had the kings of Friday night, Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas going on, while poor old NBC had Nero Wolfe followed by that party animal David Brinkley. (Let’s just say the Peacock was still a few seasons away from working their way out of the cellar.) But ABC, for some reason, had always not only nurtured horror, but thrived on it – and...
The telemovie premiered Friday, February 27th, 1981 on ABC. It’s neighbor CBS had the kings of Friday night, Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas going on, while poor old NBC had Nero Wolfe followed by that party animal David Brinkley. (Let’s just say the Peacock was still a few seasons away from working their way out of the cellar.) But ABC, for some reason, had always not only nurtured horror, but thrived on it – and...
- 11/13/2016
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
If you are in your late forties to seventies and older, you remember a time when cable did not exist and news was delivered nightly and analysis given by the likes of Walter Cronkite or the Huntley-Brinkley Report with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. News anchors did their best to remain unbiased and it was very hard to glean what their political leanings were. They surely never did Times Square New Years’ Eve coverage with the Kathy Griffins of their day. People listened to them, and believed them.Brian Williams, currently embroiled in the career ending scandal of his life, is […]...
- 2/8/2015
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
John Ford’s My Darling Clementine is a prime example of the Great American Western, embodying all that is good and right and just about this once dominant cinematic genre. Now available in a beautiful new hi-def burn by Criterion, this 70 year old horse opera gleams with new life and luster, preserving in minute detail the sweep and grandeur of Ford’s bedrock moralist visions. My Darling Clementine stands as a testament to Ford’s unique ability to balance the mundane with the monumental in perfectly proportioned tension; his laconic cowpokes equally imperiled by a parched, unforgiving wilderness and the dark designs of its human intruders.
While most scripts strive for reduction, My Darling Clementine is a case study in art of narrative inflation. The film takes a relatively minor incident in American history – a violent misunderstanding between two shady factions popularly known as The Shoot Out at Ok Corral...
While most scripts strive for reduction, My Darling Clementine is a case study in art of narrative inflation. The film takes a relatively minor incident in American history – a violent misunderstanding between two shady factions popularly known as The Shoot Out at Ok Corral...
- 10/14/2014
- by David Anderson
- IONCINEMA.com
As a historical cinematic document that depicts the horrors of the Vietnam War with unflinching nerve and political consternation, Peter Davis’s Academy Award winning film Hearts and Minds stands unparalleled, forty years out still reverberating with the inherent subsequent amnesia of the war, its underlying capitalist ends and the shame of both of these truths, yet it’s very existence has been baptized in controversy since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival back in 1974. Taking a brazenly anti-Vietnam War stance, the film juxtaposes vacuous Us politicians with the ugly aftermath of the misguided conflict in regretful Us soldiers and heart-wrenching footage of Vietnamese civilians mourning the senseless loss of their beloved. Part retrospective assessment of the back-door politics that led to the American funding of the Indochina War and the subsequent militarization of South Vietnam, and part straight-laced propaganda, Davis’s equally lauded and hated documentary is a...
- 7/1/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 17, 2014
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The Vietnam War is examined in Hearts and Minds.
A startling and courageous film, Peter Davis’s landmark 1974 documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronted the United States’ involvement in Vietnam at the height of the foment that surrounded it. The film’s title is based on a quote from President Lyndon Johnson: the ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live out there.”
Using a wealth of sources—from interviews to newsreels to footage of the conflict and the upheaval it occasioned on the home front—Davis constructs a powerfully affecting picture of the disastrous effects of war.
The winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1975, the explosive and persuasive Hearts and Minds is an overwhelming emotional experience and one of the most important nonfiction film ever made...
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The Vietnam War is examined in Hearts and Minds.
A startling and courageous film, Peter Davis’s landmark 1974 documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronted the United States’ involvement in Vietnam at the height of the foment that surrounded it. The film’s title is based on a quote from President Lyndon Johnson: the ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live out there.”
Using a wealth of sources—from interviews to newsreels to footage of the conflict and the upheaval it occasioned on the home front—Davis constructs a powerfully affecting picture of the disastrous effects of war.
The winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1975, the explosive and persuasive Hearts and Minds is an overwhelming emotional experience and one of the most important nonfiction film ever made...
- 3/24/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The last time that This Week beat NBC’s Meet The Press in a November sweep in the 25-54 demo, ABC host George Stephanopoulos was working closely with Bill Clinton in the first year of the new President’s administration and David Brinkley was fronting the show. Otherwise, July 1993 is looking a lot like November 2013 for the pubic affairs show. For this year’s November sweep, the now-Stephanopoulos hosted This Week bested Meet The Press for the first time in 20 years. With a by 21,000 viewer margin of victory in the key news demo, This Week had 787,000 viewers in the demo over the sweep to NBC’s 766,000. back in the summer sweep of 1993, the Brinkley hosted This Week had 1.388 million in the 25-54 demo compared to Meet The Press‘ 1.135 million. Fast forward to 2013, it is worth nothing that the November 24th edition of Meet The Press was preempted by coverage of Formula 1 racing on NBC.
- 12/2/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
This September, "The Simpsons" will officially hit Season 25, making it an even quarter-century for the longest-running primetime animated show in television history. (It still has a few years to catch the 635 episodes of "Gunsmoke.")
Emmy-winning animator David Silverman has been with the show since the beginning, even before the beloved TV family had their own timeslot, when they were just a weekly segment on "The Tracey Ullman Show." In the years since, he's acted as a consulting producer, title designer, storyboard artist, "Spider Pig" lyricist, and directed episodes from Season 1 to the upcoming Season 25, along with the show's feature-length movie and Oscar-nominated short film. So, basically, we wouldn't want to be up against him on "Simpsons" Trivia Night.
With Silverman being honored as the keynote speaker at the second annual Toronto Animation Arts Festival International, HuffPost Canada TV spoke with the prolific animator about the show's early days, the origins...
Emmy-winning animator David Silverman has been with the show since the beginning, even before the beloved TV family had their own timeslot, when they were just a weekly segment on "The Tracey Ullman Show." In the years since, he's acted as a consulting producer, title designer, storyboard artist, "Spider Pig" lyricist, and directed episodes from Season 1 to the upcoming Season 25, along with the show's feature-length movie and Oscar-nominated short film. So, basically, we wouldn't want to be up against him on "Simpsons" Trivia Night.
With Silverman being honored as the keynote speaker at the second annual Toronto Animation Arts Festival International, HuffPost Canada TV spoke with the prolific animator about the show's early days, the origins...
- 7/25/2013
- by Rick Mele
- Huffington Post
Well if you hadn't really heard of Homeland prior to this weekend, you probably have by now. The Showtime series pulled off a major upset at the 64th Annual Emmy Awards last night, winning a large chunk of the major awards in the Drama category over favourites like Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones. Claire Danes and Damian Lewis both took home awards for Lead Actress and Actor in a Drama Series, while the show also broke Mad Men's four-year win streak for Outstanding Drama Series. Elsewhere, Aaron Paul won his second Emmy for his supporting performance as Jesse Pinkman on Breaking Bad, while Julia Louis-Dreyfus won Best Lead Actress in a Comedy for Veep. Modern Family still took the Outstanding Comedy Series, however, while the HBO movie Game Change took the Outstanding Mini-Series or TV Movie. Kevin Costner did manage to pick up some...
- 9/24/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
It seems like Jon Hamm just can't catch a break.
Every year that the so-called "most acclaimed drama on TV," "Mad Men," has been on the air, Hamm has gotten a lead acting Emmy nomination for playing the most important role on the show, Don Draper. And every single year, he's lost.
This is despite the fact that he's been asked to carry much of the emotional load in the heavy AMC drama. Even though during the first four seasons he's had to play the ups and downs of a man trying to figure out who he is while swimming in the shark-infested waters of 1960s advertising, he's gone home from the Emmys without the top prize.
The first three times Hamm lost, you could have jumped to the easy conclusion that Bryan Cranston's searing portrayal of Walter White in "Breaking Bad" was simply a better performance than Hamm's.
Every year that the so-called "most acclaimed drama on TV," "Mad Men," has been on the air, Hamm has gotten a lead acting Emmy nomination for playing the most important role on the show, Don Draper. And every single year, he's lost.
This is despite the fact that he's been asked to carry much of the emotional load in the heavy AMC drama. Even though during the first four seasons he's had to play the ups and downs of a man trying to figure out who he is while swimming in the shark-infested waters of 1960s advertising, he's gone home from the Emmys without the top prize.
The first three times Hamm lost, you could have jumped to the easy conclusion that Bryan Cranston's searing portrayal of Walter White in "Breaking Bad" was simply a better performance than Hamm's.
- 8/29/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Julian Goodman, a former president of NBC who tussled often with the Nixon administration and signed Johnny Carson to a record-breaking contract to remain on The Tonight Show, died Monday in Florida. He was 90. The NY Times said he died of kidney failure. Goodman became NBC’s president in 1965 and with other network bosses worked to end the Fairness Doctrine, which required broadcasters to give equal time to opposing political opinions. He also was the network chief who advocated for David Brinkley and Chet Huntley to anchor the 1956 Democratic and Republican national conventions, a team that went on to anchor NBC’s newscasts for 14 years. Goodman also had to apologize to viewers after NBC cut away from a national broadcast of an NFL game so the network could air the movie Heidi as scheduled — the network cut away from a game the Oakland Raiders won in the final minutes, angering sports fans watching the contest.
- 7/3/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
New York (AP) — Former NBC president Julian Goodman, who helped establish Chet Huntley and David Brinkley as a well-known news team and led the network from 1966 to 1974, died Monday. He was 90.
Goodman died in Juno Beach, Fla., where he lived after retiring as chairman of NBC's board in 1979, according to NBC.
Goodman, a native of Glasgow, Ky., joined the network at the night news desk in Washington in 1945. He rose through the ranks to become executive vice president of NBC News at the time Huntley and Brinkley were competitors to Walter Cronkite on CBS.
As network president, he later gave Johnny Carson a long-term contract to stay on the "Tonight" show and helped make the American Football League a force by broadcasting the upstart league. NBC televised the 1969 Super Bowl, in which the New York Jets beat the highly favored Baltimore Colts. Goodman was also at the helm during an...
Goodman died in Juno Beach, Fla., where he lived after retiring as chairman of NBC's board in 1979, according to NBC.
Goodman, a native of Glasgow, Ky., joined the network at the night news desk in Washington in 1945. He rose through the ranks to become executive vice president of NBC News at the time Huntley and Brinkley were competitors to Walter Cronkite on CBS.
As network president, he later gave Johnny Carson a long-term contract to stay on the "Tonight" show and helped make the American Football League a force by broadcasting the upstart league. NBC televised the 1969 Super Bowl, in which the New York Jets beat the highly favored Baltimore Colts. Goodman was also at the helm during an...
- 7/3/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Brian Williams cracked up "30 Rock" fans with his sketch on a live episode of the show on Thursday.
The show did one live version for the East Coast and another for the West Coast. Williams, who has made cameo appearances on "30 Rock" before, did a parody of "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" for audiences on the West Coast.
In it, he posed as legendary newsman David Brinkley opposite Alec Baldwin as co-anchor Chet Huntley. The two of them play sexist newscasters who have a hard time understanding that their reporter Jamie Garnett — who was played by Tina Fey — is actually a woman.
"Look honey, you have a dynamite shape, but you're gonna have to shut up and let a man tell us what's happening," Williams said. "Now, is your father or a policeman nearby?"
The episode consisted of sketches, and was based on Kenneth describing his favorite moments on live TV.
The show did one live version for the East Coast and another for the West Coast. Williams, who has made cameo appearances on "30 Rock" before, did a parody of "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" for audiences on the West Coast.
In it, he posed as legendary newsman David Brinkley opposite Alec Baldwin as co-anchor Chet Huntley. The two of them play sexist newscasters who have a hard time understanding that their reporter Jamie Garnett — who was played by Tina Fey — is actually a woman.
"Look honey, you have a dynamite shape, but you're gonna have to shut up and let a man tell us what's happening," Williams said. "Now, is your father or a policeman nearby?"
The episode consisted of sketches, and was based on Kenneth describing his favorite moments on live TV.
- 4/27/2012
- by Katherine Fung
- Huffington Post
Brian Williams cracked up "30 Rock" fans with his sketch on a live episode of the show on Thursday.
The show did one live version for the East Coast and another for the West Coast. Williams, who has made cameo appearances on "30 Rock" before, did a parody of "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" for audiences on the West Coast.
In it, he posed as legendary newsman David Brinkley opposite Alec Baldwin as co-anchor Chet Huntley. The two of them play sexist newscasters who have a hard time understanding that their reporter Jamie Garnett — who was played by Tina Fey — is actually a woman.
"Look honey, you have a dynamite shape, but you're gonna have to shut up and let a man tell us what's happening," Williams said. "Now, is your father or a policeman nearby?"
The episode consisted of sketches, and was based on Kenneth describing his favorite moments on live TV.
The show did one live version for the East Coast and another for the West Coast. Williams, who has made cameo appearances on "30 Rock" before, did a parody of "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" for audiences on the West Coast.
In it, he posed as legendary newsman David Brinkley opposite Alec Baldwin as co-anchor Chet Huntley. The two of them play sexist newscasters who have a hard time understanding that their reporter Jamie Garnett — who was played by Tina Fey — is actually a woman.
"Look honey, you have a dynamite shape, but you're gonna have to shut up and let a man tell us what's happening," Williams said. "Now, is your father or a policeman nearby?"
The episode consisted of sketches, and was based on Kenneth describing his favorite moments on live TV.
- 4/27/2012
- by Katherine Fung
- Aol TV.
Anything can happen on live TV — including Sir Paul McCartney being replaced by the buxom reality star with the big behind. And as it did in 2010, 30 Rock embraced that ethos last night, airing slightly different episodes for East and West Coast audiences. (Both versions are now available on Hulu.) So, what did you miss if you only saw the episode that aired in your time zone? Here are the major ways the West Coast Feed (Wcf) differed from the East Coast Feed (Ecf):
1. Kim Kardashian stepped in for Paul McCartney
In the Ecf, Kenneth shepherded the Beatle into Jack...
1. Kim Kardashian stepped in for Paul McCartney
In the Ecf, Kenneth shepherded the Beatle into Jack...
- 4/27/2012
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
“Live television? Who cares?” Kenneth cares! And so do I. Tina Fey & Co. totally delivered on their second installment of the 30 Rock live show, and it featured special guests galore: Amy Poehler, Jon Hamm, Jimmy Fallon, Donald Glover, Fred Armisen, and even Sir Paul McCartney. You know, because anything can happen on live TV! But on to the plot: In ”Live From Studio 6H” Jack broke the news to Liz that it was no longer financially practical to continue shooting Tgs live. Instead, they’d shoot the entire season of the show in two weeks. You know, like Wheel of Fortune or Fox News.
- 4/27/2012
- by Breia Brissey
- EW.com - PopWatch
Filed under: Features
The name David is king on TV, or nearly. Remember 'Starsky & Hutch'? Starsky's first name was David (who knew?). 'Dave' has had its own sitcom ('Dave's World', the '90s show starring Harry Anderson), and it is a go-to name for talk (nighttime's David Letterman and David Susskind, 'This Week''s David Brinkley and 'Today''s founding father, Dave Garroway).
One of the biggest TV stars of the last two decades, David Duchovny, (at right) once scored an Emmy nomination playing "David Duchovny." The 'X Files' and 'Californication' star made a riotous appearance on 'The Larry Sanders Show,' playing a side of "himself" that was strangely attracted to Larry.
Let's take a look at more TV Davids, Daves and, yes, even Davys.
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The name David is king on TV, or nearly. Remember 'Starsky & Hutch'? Starsky's first name was David (who knew?). 'Dave' has had its own sitcom ('Dave's World', the '90s show starring Harry Anderson), and it is a go-to name for talk (nighttime's David Letterman and David Susskind, 'This Week''s David Brinkley and 'Today''s founding father, Dave Garroway).
One of the biggest TV stars of the last two decades, David Duchovny, (at right) once scored an Emmy nomination playing "David Duchovny." The 'X Files' and 'Californication' star made a riotous appearance on 'The Larry Sanders Show,' playing a side of "himself" that was strangely attracted to Larry.
Let's take a look at more TV Davids, Daves and, yes, even Davys.
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- 3/3/2011
- by Jane Murphy
- Aol TV.
Industry remembers Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite, who earned the accolade “the most trusted man in America” for his earnest and stalwart style as the anchorman of the “CBS Evening News” for nearly two decades, died Friday. He was 92.
CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Et after a long illness with his family by his side.
Cronkite, recruited by Edward R. Murrow from the United Press wire service, joined CBS News in 1950. He served as “Evening News” anchor and managing editor of CBS News from April 16, 1962, to March 6, 1981. Beginning in 1937, his career spanned more than six decades in radio, print and TV.
During a period of great national stress -- like the one brought on by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 -- Cronkite’s demeanor soothed a nation whose sense of reality had been threatened. With his pipe in...
Walter Cronkite, who earned the accolade “the most trusted man in America” for his earnest and stalwart style as the anchorman of the “CBS Evening News” for nearly two decades, died Friday. He was 92.
CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Et after a long illness with his family by his side.
Cronkite, recruited by Edward R. Murrow from the United Press wire service, joined CBS News in 1950. He served as “Evening News” anchor and managing editor of CBS News from April 16, 1962, to March 6, 1981. Beginning in 1937, his career spanned more than six decades in radio, print and TV.
During a period of great national stress -- like the one brought on by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 -- Cronkite’s demeanor soothed a nation whose sense of reality had been threatened. With his pipe in...
- 7/17/2009
- by By Duane Byrge
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The producer of my old television show liked to reference what he claimed was Gene Siskel’s mantra: “Write it once, sell it five times”. Siskel apparently took great pride in being able to recycle reviews in myriad forms: in print, on the radio, on Siskel & Ebert and on Johnny Carson’s couch as a frequent guest of The Tonight Show. I am nowhere near as enterprising or as sought-after. But in this TV Club Classic piece I’m going to channel Siskel, another nice Jewish boy from Rogers Park, by recycling some observations I previously made in my original A.V Club review of Sctv and my radio review of the same for Npr. Namely, I would like to gush about the mind-boggling genius of the legendary David Brinkley pot sketch. Christ, this blog is so threatening to turn into the Rick Moranis Appreciation Society. That’s O.K,...
- 6/18/2008
- avclub.com
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