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Kennedy Center Honors fetes new inductees, including Queen Latifah, Billy Crystal and Dionne Warwick
Read full article: Kennedy Center Honors fetes new inductees, including Queen Latifah, Billy Crystal and Dionne WarwickNew Kennedy Center honorees including comedian Billy Crystal and rapper and actor Queen Latifah have been feted at a star-studded event commemorating their lifetime achievement in arts and entertainment.
What's streaming now: Chris Stapleton, Call of Duty, 'The Killer,' Tim Allen's Santa return
Read full article: What's streaming now: Chris Stapleton, Call of Duty, 'The Killer,' Tim Allen's Santa returnThis weekโs new entertainment releases include country superstar Chris Stapletonโs fifth studio album, Michael Fassbender playing a hitman in David Fincherโs โThe Killerโ and Tim Allen putting on his Santa suit for season two of โThe Santa Clauses.โ.
Turner Classic Movies Festival heads to TCM and HBO Max
Read full article: Turner Classic Movies Festival heads to TCM and HBO MaxMacGraw and Glover will be honored at the Turner Classic Movies Festival. (AP Photo)Don't worry about making the trip to Hollywood for the Turner Classic Movies Festival this year โ it's coming straight to your living room. TCM said Wednesday that its 12th installment will run on both its cable channel and the HBO Max streaming service. Our approach gives fans even more movies, stars and unique presentations to choose from,โ said Pola Changnon, head of TCM, in a statement. โThe breadth of this festival will offer interest for every kind of classic movie fan โ whether theyโre new to this world or card-carrying cinephiles!โ
Facts and Figures about the 72nd Emmy Awards nominations
Read full article: Facts and Figures about the 72nd Emmy Awards nominationsIrons was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding lead actor in a limited series or movie on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. (Colin Hutton/HBO via AP)LOS ANGELES Notable facts and figures from Tuesdays nominations for the 72nd Emmy Awards:___WATCHMEN SOARS BUT ROOTS RUNS DEEPHBO's Watchmen led all shows with a whopping 26 nominations, but that doesn't come close to the record for a limited series. Another HBO limited series, 2008's John Adams, holds the record for limited series Emmy wins with 13, from 23 nominations. The work earned Aldrin and Collins 2020 Emmy nominations for best cinematography for a nonfiction program. The nominees for best supporting actress in a limited series also include 69-year-old Margo Martindale and 60-year-old Tracey Ullman for Mrs.
Carl Reiner, beloved creator of 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' dies
Read full article: Carl Reiner, beloved creator of 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' diesFILE - In this May 26, 1963 file photo, Carl Reiner shows holds two Emmy statuettes presented to him as best comedy writer for the "Dick Van Dyke Show," during the annual Emmy Awards presentation in Los Angeles. Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a second banana to Sid Caesar and rose to comedys front ranks as creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show and straight man to Mel Brooks 2000 Year Old Man, has died, according to reports. It starred Van Dyke as a television comedy writer working for a demanding, eccentric boss (Reiner) and living with his wife (Mary Tyler Moore in her first major TV role) and young son in suburban New Rochelle, New York. The Van Dyke show is probably the most thrilling of my accomplishments because that was very, very personal, Reiner once said. Reiner is the father of actor-director Rob Reiner.
Carl Reiner, comedys rare untortured genius, dies at 98
Read full article: Carl Reiner, comedys rare untortured genius, dies at 98(AP Photo/Harold Filan, File)NEW YORK Carl Reiner, who died Monday at 98, was the rare untortured genius of comedy, his career a story of laughter and camaraderie, of innovation and triumph and affection. Reiner died of natural causes at his Beverly Hills, California home, assistant Judy Nagy said. But CBS executives worried that Reiner would make Petrie seem too Jewish, so Van Dyke was cast instead. First lady Michelle Obama once joked that she preferred watching Dick Van Dyke to viewing her husbands debates. Reiner was the father of actor-director Rob Reiner, who starred as Archie Bunkers son-in-law on All in the Family and directed When Harry Met Sally... Rob Reiner said in a tweet Tuesday that his heart is hurting.