Much has been said since Robin Williams' death on Monday of his contribution to movies. Certainly, his performances in such films as "Aladdin," "Mrs. Doubtfire," and "Good Will Hunting" are likely to endear him to new fans among moviegoers for generations to come. But it's easy to forget that he also made indelible contributions to the world of TV throughout his four-decade career. Older viewers remember his starmaking turn as a lovable alien on "Mork and Mindy," but that was only one instance of many where he changed the medium in ways large and small that will continue to be felt for a long time to come. Here are some of those ways.
"The Richard Pryor Show." Imagine an era when you could have seen Richard Pryor and Robin Williams doing sketch comedy together every week in primetime. That era really happened; it lasted just four weeks in 1977. That's...
"The Richard Pryor Show." Imagine an era when you could have seen Richard Pryor and Robin Williams doing sketch comedy together every week in primetime. That era really happened; it lasted just four weeks in 1977. That's...
- 8/15/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Amanda Bynes has been placed on an immediate, extended 30-day psychiatric hold, ahead of a planned conservatorship hearing Friday morning in L.A. Doctors at the psychiatric hospital where the troubled actress has been held the last two weeks determined she was not well enough to leave the hospital to attend the hearing, where Bynes's parents are trying to win temporary conservatorship. Bynes's doctors went to the judge overseeing the actress's case, sources told TMZ, and the judge traveled to the hospital to conduct an emergency hearing. After that meeting, the judge granted the doctors' request. According to the law, doctors...
- 8/9/2013
- by Wade Rouse
- PEOPLE.com
Exclusive: John Lee Hancock is returning to television. The Blind Side writer-director has teamed with Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Dan McDermott’s recently launched TV company for an untitled crime drama project that has been sold to ABC. Hancock is set to write, direct and executive produce the drama, which centers on an unorthodox protagonist described as Walter Mitty of the crime world. Hancock will executive produce with di Bonaventura and McDermott for ABC Studios where Di Bonaventura Pictures Television is under a 3-year deal. Hancock dabbled in TV in the late 1990s with brief stints on Falcone and L.A. Doctors, which he created, but has spent the last decade in movies, most recently writing and directing The Blind Side. After several years of struggling to get the movie made with Julia Roberts turning down the lead and 20th Century Fox dropping the project altogether, Hancock saw his film rake...
- 9/14/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
We just alerted Nasa that they might be seeing a few unidentified flying objects shooting past the moon in a few moments. Those’ll be the eyebrows that flew off our foreheads upon reading Bristol Palin’s plastic surgery denial. “I had corrective jaw surgery,” Palin tells Us Magazine about her new slimmer face and more prominent jaw. “It’s not plastic surgery. Yes. It improved the way I look, but this surgery was necessary for medical reasons…so my jaw and teeth could properly realign…I don’t obsess over my face.” Funny how only celebrities seem to require procedures that make them better looking, while the rest of us end up with weird scars. It defies the law of statistics, is all.
Personally, when we think jaw surgery, we think the “Kanye-West-car-accident, jaw-wired-shut-while-you-sip-pancakes-through-a-straw” kind, not the glossy nubbin on the end of Palin’s head. But what do we know?...
Personally, when we think jaw surgery, we think the “Kanye-West-car-accident, jaw-wired-shut-while-you-sip-pancakes-through-a-straw” kind, not the glossy nubbin on the end of Palin’s head. But what do we know?...
- 5/11/2011
- by Halle Kiefer
- TheFabLife - Movies
Some stories to start the week with:
Real Housewives of New York City star Bethenny Frankel welcomes a daughter, Bryn — People Do you steer clear of celeb baby names when naming your newborn? — lilSugar Another 170,000 baby cribs are recalled — Chicago Breaking News Nyclu files a complaint on behalf of a mother fired for pumping on the job — Nyclu.org Did L.A. doctors set up a beauty salon in a room for high-risk newborns? — Los Angeles Times...
Real Housewives of New York City star Bethenny Frankel welcomes a daughter, Bryn — People Do you steer clear of celeb baby names when naming your newborn? — lilSugar Another 170,000 baby cribs are recalled — Chicago Breaking News Nyclu files a complaint on behalf of a mother fired for pumping on the job — Nyclu.org Did L.A. doctors set up a beauty salon in a room for high-risk newborns? — Los Angeles Times...
- 5/10/2010
- by Kate
- People - CelebrityBabies
'Burn Notice' just ended its third season and now comes word that they're adding a new regular character to mix with Michael, Fiona, Sam, and Madeline.
Coby Bell, who had regular roles on such shows as 'Third Watch,' 'The Game,' and 'L.A. Doctors' (no, I don't remember that 1999 show, though it sounds like something that should have been a hint, doesn't it?) will join the cast as Jesse Garcia.
The Hollywood Reporter describes the character as "a cocky and sarcastic counterintelligence expert with a chameleon-like ability to assume different cover identities and an intense desire to see bad guys punished.' Wait, that sounds a lot like Michael! He finds himself in Miami, too, and hooks up with the gang for what I'm assuming will be lots of action.
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Coby Bell, who had regular roles on such shows as 'Third Watch,' 'The Game,' and 'L.A. Doctors' (no, I don't remember that 1999 show, though it sounds like something that should have been a hint, doesn't it?) will join the cast as Jesse Garcia.
The Hollywood Reporter describes the character as "a cocky and sarcastic counterintelligence expert with a chameleon-like ability to assume different cover identities and an intense desire to see bad guys punished.' Wait, that sounds a lot like Michael! He finds himself in Miami, too, and hooks up with the gang for what I'm assuming will be lots of action.
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- 3/9/2010
- by Bob Sassone
- Aol TV.
Writer-producer Michelle Ashford has been tapped as writer and co-executive producer of the 10-hour HBO miniseries revolving around the legendary journey across the western U.S. by explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the early 1800s. Edward Norton and Brad Pitt are executive producing the still-untitled miniseries, based on the book Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Stephen F. Ambrose. The project will be produced as a co-venture of HBO and National Geographic. National Geographic Feature Films president Adam Leipzig and National Geographic Ventures Tim Kelly are exec producing alongside Norton and Pitt. The book chronicles the historic three-year expedition Lewis and Clark began in 1803 at the behest of President Jefferson to map what was then largely untamed wilderness to facilitate the then-young nation's westward expansion. The project has been in development at HBO for nearly a year. Ashford's recent credits include serving as a writer-producer on the 2002-03 NBC drama series Boomtown and the 1998-99 CBS drama L.A. Doctors. She's repped by WMA.
- 5/31/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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