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Every week she was billed above the then-young John Travolta as one of the co-stars of the 1970s hit “Welcome Back, Kotter.” Actress Marcia Strassman, 66, who played Gabriel Kaplan’s wife, Julie, on the show, has died, reports the Associated…
“Sales in [Comcast’s] NBCUniversal entertainment group [in the third quarter] inched up 1.2 percent, to $5.92 billion, with increases in its broadcast television and theme parks groups offsetting declines in its filmed entertainment business,” reports The New York Times. The…
ABC announced toward the end of the day on Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, that it has made the first cancellation of the 2014-2015 fall television season. “ABC has pulled the plug on freshman comedy ‘Manhattan Love Story,’” reports The Hollywood…
The President of the Professional Golfers Association (PGA), Ted Bishop, “has been removed as president of the PGA of America over a sexist tweet directed at [English golfer] Ian Poulter,” reports the Associated Press. Bishop was unhappy about comments Poulter…
Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert “is preparing to deliver more lumps of coal this Christmas,” reports the New York Post. That means more layoffs and store closings for the retailer. Reports CNN Money, “Sears is closing 77 Sears and Kmart stores…
Social media has been on overdrive this week after Academy Award-winning actress Renee Zellweger hit the red carpet at an event in Beverly Hills on Monday and revealed a new look. The big surprise is that her face didn’t look…
Our headline was taken from a line written by David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the editor of the New Yorker. Remnick, in a remembrance posted on the website of the New Yorker, is referring to the death of…
Over his years on late-night TV, David Letterman has elevated various members of his working staff to fan favorites by giving them airtime and having fun interactions with them. One of those has been Tony “Inky” Mendez, who, until he…
If this is the digital century, whose early days will be remembered by the coming of age of such companies as Amazon, Google and Netflix, Christine Merrifield will surely have an honored space among the pioneers. Merrifield is the president…
Turner Broadcasting has taken a write-down of $400 million on programming expenditures, reports our good friend Cynthia Littleton for Variety. The story reports: “Sources say a significant portion of the write-down is coming from two megabuck off-network acquisitions that have…