-- Andy Griffith always saved room for Aunt Bee's rhubarb pie. The Brady bunch couldn't wait for Alice's meatloaf. It's not Sunday in Tony Soprano's house without gravy. And everyone knows that Don Draper enjoys an old fashioned now and then.
What you probably didn't know is just how robust an industry has been cooked up around helping fans eat like their favorite TV characters.
Because for about as long as viewers have been sucked into the lives of the Bradys, the Sopranos and the will-they-won't-they ups and downs of Rachel and Ross, a surprising number of them also have hankered for the characters' on-screen eats. And cookbook publishers have been happy to oblige.
Fans have responded. Ken Beck's 1991 "Aunt Bee's Mayberry Cookbook" has sold 900,000 copies. Michele Scicolone says her 2002 book, "The Sopranos Family Cookbook," has sold 10 times as many copies as her other cookbooks. Publisher John Wiley and...
What you probably didn't know is just how robust an industry has been cooked up around helping fans eat like their favorite TV characters.
Because for about as long as viewers have been sucked into the lives of the Bradys, the Sopranos and the will-they-won't-they ups and downs of Rachel and Ross, a surprising number of them also have hankered for the characters' on-screen eats. And cookbook publishers have been happy to oblige.
Fans have responded. Ken Beck's 1991 "Aunt Bee's Mayberry Cookbook" has sold 900,000 copies. Michele Scicolone says her 2002 book, "The Sopranos Family Cookbook," has sold 10 times as many copies as her other cookbooks. Publisher John Wiley and...
- 3/6/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
-- Andy Griffith always saved room for Aunt Bee's rhubarb pie. The Brady bunch couldn't wait for Alice's meatloaf. It's not Sunday in Tony Soprano's house without gravy. And everyone knows that Don Draper enjoys an old fashioned now and then.
What you probably didn't know is just how robust an industry has been cooked up around helping fans eat like their favorite TV characters.
Because for about as long as viewers have been sucked into the lives of the Bradys, the Sopranos and the will-they-won't-they ups and downs of Rachel and Ross, a surprising number of them also have hankered for the characters' on-screen eats. And cookbook publishers have been happy to oblige.
Fans have responded. Ken Beck's 1991 "Aunt Bee's Mayberry Cookbook" has sold 900,000 copies. Michele Scicolone says her 2002 book, "The Sopranos Family Cookbook," has sold 10 times as many copies as her other cookbooks. Publisher John Wiley and...
What you probably didn't know is just how robust an industry has been cooked up around helping fans eat like their favorite TV characters.
Because for about as long as viewers have been sucked into the lives of the Bradys, the Sopranos and the will-they-won't-they ups and downs of Rachel and Ross, a surprising number of them also have hankered for the characters' on-screen eats. And cookbook publishers have been happy to oblige.
Fans have responded. Ken Beck's 1991 "Aunt Bee's Mayberry Cookbook" has sold 900,000 copies. Michele Scicolone says her 2002 book, "The Sopranos Family Cookbook," has sold 10 times as many copies as her other cookbooks. Publisher John Wiley and...
- 3/6/2012
- by AP
- Aol TV.
Producer Daryl Roth announced today that Daytime Emmy Award-winner and One Live to Live star Robin Strasser, Erica Watson Precious, and TV icon Dawn Wells Gilligans Island will all join upcoming casts of the Off Broadway hit Love, Loss, and What I Wore, now in its third smash year. Strasser joins the February 2012 cast February 1 26 on the heels of the final episode of the long-running One Life to Live, and Wells joins the same cast having recently performed in the successful Chicago production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Watson will take part in the show beginning February 29, through April 1, and was also part of the shows Chicago run.
- 1/9/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Chicago – The Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show kicks off on Saturday, October 1st, and for the final time it will be hosted by Ray and Sharon Courts. The dynamic duo has been bringing this show to Chicago, which connects fans with celebrities for autographs and photos, for nearly 20 years.
The show will go on in the area, as Ray Courts told HollywoodChicago.com that he has sold the rights to the event, but this will be the last for him and his wife Sharon. They began the show in 1990, and has been bringing to Chicago since 1993. Besides the celebrity guests, a collectors market with a wide range of movie posters and memorabilia is also part of the event.
Scheduled to Appear: Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall from ‘Laverne & Shirley’
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
Schedule to appear this weekend, on October 1st and 2nd, is “The Fonz” himself,...
The show will go on in the area, as Ray Courts told HollywoodChicago.com that he has sold the rights to the event, but this will be the last for him and his wife Sharon. They began the show in 1990, and has been bringing to Chicago since 1993. Besides the celebrity guests, a collectors market with a wide range of movie posters and memorabilia is also part of the event.
Scheduled to Appear: Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall from ‘Laverne & Shirley’
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
Schedule to appear this weekend, on October 1st and 2nd, is “The Fonz” himself,...
- 9/30/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Getty Florence Henderson, Sherwood Schwartz and Dawn Wells
Actress Florence Henderson, in an email to Speakeasy, has responded to the news that Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of “The Brady Bunch” and “Gilligan’s Island,” has passed away.
Henderson, who played Carol Brady on “The Brady Bunch” during its entire run from 1969 to 1974, wrote:
Sherwood Schwartz changed my life! It was he who chose me to be the iconic mom, Carol Brady, on the Brady Bunch.
Sherwood was a wonderful writer and Producer but more importantly,...
Actress Florence Henderson, in an email to Speakeasy, has responded to the news that Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of “The Brady Bunch” and “Gilligan’s Island,” has passed away.
Henderson, who played Carol Brady on “The Brady Bunch” during its entire run from 1969 to 1974, wrote:
Sherwood Schwartz changed my life! It was he who chose me to be the iconic mom, Carol Brady, on the Brady Bunch.
Sherwood was a wonderful writer and Producer but more importantly,...
- 7/12/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Photo by Gary Rutkowski
Between living in the Los Angeles area and writing about pop culture as a career, we have had a lot of brushes with celebrity this year. In the past twelve months we've conducted more than 110 interviews with big stars, rising stars and wanna be stars. From the red carpet at the Emmys to jury duty with a pop culture twist, it's been a year filled with idols, unknown gems and several random encounters. Here's our top ten.
10. The Pop Culture Trifecta — Nellie, Mary Ann and Cissy
We hit the pop culture trifecta the night we went to a book signing including Alison Arngrim (Nellie from Little House on the Prairie), Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island) and Kathy Garver (Cissy from Family Affair). And if we had to choose the best moment of the night it would have to be Alison telling us all about...
Between living in the Los Angeles area and writing about pop culture as a career, we have had a lot of brushes with celebrity this year. In the past twelve months we've conducted more than 110 interviews with big stars, rising stars and wanna be stars. From the red carpet at the Emmys to jury duty with a pop culture twist, it's been a year filled with idols, unknown gems and several random encounters. Here's our top ten.
10. The Pop Culture Trifecta — Nellie, Mary Ann and Cissy
We hit the pop culture trifecta the night we went to a book signing including Alison Arngrim (Nellie from Little House on the Prairie), Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island) and Kathy Garver (Cissy from Family Affair). And if we had to choose the best moment of the night it would have to be Alison telling us all about...
- 12/23/2010
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
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