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Co-Stars Pay Tribute to Actor Boyle
14 December 2006 (WENN)
Late Young Frankenstein star Peter Boyle is being remembered publicly by the cast of the Us TV comedy show that earned him seven straight Emmy nominations, as "a great dad." Brad Garrett and Doris Roberts who played Boyle's son and wife respectively in TV hit Everybody Loves Raymond have paid tribute to the 71-year-old actor, who died on Tuesday night after a long battle with heart disease and cancer. Garrett, 46, says, "I think of Peter and I smile. I laugh and I think about what I learned from him as an actor and a human being. He was a compassionate man and a great dad. I knew that he was ill but he was strong and he fought it. He's in a better place where he won't be suffering." Roberts, 76, adds, "He was quite ill, so it was not a surprise. When you work with someone for almost a decade it's like family. He was my great buddy. We loved him."

Screen Actors Guild Nominations Go Sideways
11 January 2005 (IMDb News Flash)
Perennial awards favorite Sideways dominated the Screen Actors Guild nominations with a field-best four nominations, including Best Ensemble Cast. The Alexander Payne comedy also nabbed three individual acting nominations as well for lead Paul Giamatti and supporting players Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen, putting it just ahead of a number of films that received three nominations each, including The Aviator, Finding Neverland, Million Dollar Baby, and Hotel Rwanda; all those movies also earned Best Ensemble nominations alongside Ray and Sideways. Jamie Foxx was once again the actor of the hour, taking home three individual nominations for Ray, Collateral, and TV movie Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story as well as an Ensemble nod for Ray. Foxx was followed by Hilary Swank, who received two solo nominations, for Million Dollar Baby and HBO movie Iron Jawed Angels, and an Ensemble mention for Million Dollar Baby.

With their film nominations, the SAGs threw a number of new names into the awards season mix, including Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace), James Garner (The Notebook), Freddie Highmore (Finding Neverland), Cloris Leachman (Spanglish), and Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda). A few noticeable absentees included Liam Neeson (Kinsey), Javier Bardem (The Sea Inside), and the entire cast of Closer, an actor-driven movie if there ever was one. On the TV side, familiar shows (The Sopranos, Everybody Loves Raymond, etc) rubbed elbows with a handful of newcomers, including Arrested Development and Desperate Housewives, and Patricia Heaton pulled a Hilary Swank of her own, getting two individual nominations for Everybody Loves Raymond and TV movie remake The Goodbye Girl as well as an Ensemble nomination for Raymond.

The SAGs will be handed out on Saturday, February 5. Here's the (very long) list of film and TV nominees:

FILM

Male Actor in a Leading Role: Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda; Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland; Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator; Jamie Foxx, Ray; Paul Giamatti, Sideways

Female Actor in a Leading Role: Annette Bening, Being Julia; Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace; Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake; Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby; Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Male Actor in a Supporting Role: Thomas Haden Church, Sideways; Jamie Foxx, Collateral; Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby; James Garner, The Notebook; Freddie Highmore, Finding Neverland

Female Actor in a Supporting Role: Cate Blanchett, The Aviator; Cloris Leachman, Spanglish; Laura Linney, Kinsey; Virginia Madsen, Sideways; Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda

Ensemble Cast: The Aviator; Finding Neverland; Hotel Rwanda; Million Dollar Baby; Ray; Sideways

TELEVISION

Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries: Jamie Foxx, Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story; William H. Macy, The Wool Cap; Barry Pepper, 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story; Geoffrey Rush, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers; Jon Voight, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries: Glenn Close, The Lion in Winter; Patricia Heaton, Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl; Keke Palmer, The Wool Cap; Hilary Swank, Iron Jawed Angels; Charlize Theron, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Male Actor in a Drama Series: Hank Azaria, Huff; James Gandolfini, The Sopranos; Anthony LaPaglia, Without a Trace; Jerry Orbach, Law & Order; Kiefer Sutherland, 24

Female Actor in a Drama Series: Drea De Matteo, The Sopranos; Edie Falco, The Sopranos; Jennifer Garner, Alias; Allison Janney, The West Wing; Christine Lahti, Jack & Bobby

Male Actor in a Comedy Series: Jason Bateman, Arrested Development; Sean Hayes, Will & Grace; Ray Romano, Everybody Loves Raymond; Tony Shalhoub, Monk; Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men

Female Actor in a Comedy Series: Teri Hatcher, Desperate Housewives; Patricia Heaton, Everybody Loves Raymond; Megan Mullally, Will & Grace; Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City; Doris Roberts, Everybody Loves Raymond

Ensemble in a Drama Series: 24; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Six Feet Under; The Sopranos; The West Wing

Ensemble in a Comedy Series: Arrested Development; Desperate Housewives; Everybody Loves Raymond; Sex and the City; Will & Grace

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: James Garner

The Winners
22 September 2003 (StudioBriefing)
The following were the winners in the drama and comedy categories:

DRAMA Series: The West Wing. Lead Actor: James Gandolfini, The Sopranos; Lead Actress: Edie Falco, The Sopranos; Supporting Actor: Joe Pantoliano, The Sopranos; Supporting Actress: Tyne Daly, Judging Amy; Directing: The West Wing: "25"; Writing: The Sopranos: "Whitecaps"

COMEDY Series: Everybody Loves Raymond; Lead Actor: Tony Shalhoub, Monk; Lead Actress: Debra Messing, Will & Grace; Supporting Actor: Brad Garrett, Everybody Loves Raymond; Supporting Actress: Doris Roberts, Everybody Loves Raymond; Directing: Curb Your Enthusiasm: "Krazee-Eyez Killa." Writing: Everybody Loves Raymond: "Baggage."

Everybody Loves Money
26 August 2003 (StudioBriefing)
Production of the second episode of the eighth season of Everybody Loves Raymond began Monday, without co-star Brad Garrett, who continues to hold out for more money. Garrett's character has been written out of the first two episodes. Meanwhile, Daily Variety indicated today (Tuesday) that CBS may be willing to double Garrett's income and that Garrett, along with Patricia Heaton, Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts, will receive a share of the producers' "backend" profit, retroactive to season one, that could eventually be worth $15-20 million to each of them.

Sickout at 'Raymond'?
19 August 2003 (StudioBriefing)
Representatives for Doris Roberts and Peter Boyle have denied that the two Everybody Loves Raymond cast members are participating in a sick-out to back fellow cast member Brad Garrett, who is demanding a pay increase. A spokesman for Roberts said that she had been sidelined because of a recent knee injury, and a source close to the show told the Hollywood Reporter on Monday that Peter Boyle had experienced adverse reactions to a prescription drug. (Daily Variety described the illnesses as "awfully coincidental.") Meanwhile, Patricia Heaton has returned to work on the show after another illness, allowing production to resume.

'Everybody Loves Raymond' Sees More Delays
18 August 2003 (WENN)
Production on the season premiere of Everybody Loves Raymond was pushed back again Tuesday after Patricia Heaton called in sick for the second day in a row. Her two-day absence, officially due to a migraine headache, has added to already-existing problems between the show's bosses and her co-star Brad Garrett, who was written out of the first episode of the new season after he refused to return to work until TV network CBS discussed his pay rise. Garrett's representatives say in a statement, "CBS elected to make a one-year deal with Ray Romano making him the highest-paid sitcom actor ever. Ray deserves every penny, plus the profits he will earn. At the same time, despite our repeated attempts to discuss Brad's salary over the past even months, CBS has refused to talk to us. Brad earns less than 10 per cent of Ray's salary and is the lowest paid member of a grossly underpaid supporting cast." Garrett's representatives at Raw Talent agency add, "If we don't come to a fair deal, we feel comfortable walking away." CBS responds, "We have accommodated Brad's request to negotiate new contracts twice over the past four years. The most recent agreement calls for Brad's services through the eight season of Everybody Loves Raymond. It is unfortunate that he is not honoring his contract." Sources say Heaton and co-stars Doris Roberts and Peter Boyle are also unhappy with their pay-checks.

TV Reviews: 'The Early Show'
29 October 2002 (StudioBriefing)
Despite an anchor team of four persons rather than the previous two, the CBS Early Show is merely the same-old same-old, critics and media analysts appear to agree. (So, apparently, did the guests on the first show featuring the news lineup on Monday. When one of the hosts, Rene Syler, thanked Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts, two stars of Everybody Loves Raymond, for appearing, Boyle -- who traces his roots to the improvisational group Second City -- responded, "We knew you needed our help.") Robert Bianco in USA Today called it a "witless two-hour jumble, overstuffed with too many hosts, too many sets and too little sense." Adam Buckman wrote in today's New York Post: "For the show's new edition, CBS doubled the number of co-hosts to four and somehow managed to slash the excitement in half. ... Well, CBS, your reputation for producing boring morning shows is safe." At the rival New York Daily News, TV critic David Bianculli had the identical reaction. "CBS gave America a new wakeup call yesterday -- but it may've had viewers reaching for the snooze button instead." Verne Gay in Newsday commented that the show offered up "the usual forced jocularity and banter -- and, yes, forced jocularity and banter between four anchors is even more annoying than forced jocularity and banter between two." And Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, told the Boston Globe: "To really make a splash, they need to do something spectacular to get people to tear themselves away from Matt [Lauer] and Katie [Couric of the Today show.] The bottom line is, it was just an OK show."

'Raymond' Star Blasts Hollywood Ageism in D.C.
5 September 2002 (StudioBriefing)
Everybody Loves Raymond mom Doris Roberts told a hearing on "Ageism in the Media and Marketing" in Washington Wednesday that Hollywood studios, in their effort to Court young audiences, have cast out many older actors and forced those who are still working to appear in demeaning roles. Roberts, speaking before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, said "My peers and I are portrayed as dependent, helpless, unproductive and demanding," pointing out that she herself was recently offered a role in a film playing a "horny grandmother who spewed foul language" and chased boys. Accepting an Emmy in 2001 for her performance in Raymond, Roberts startled viewers by delivering an equally blistering condemnation of ageism in Hollywood.

The Top Winners
5 November 2001 (StudioBriefing)
Among the top Emmy award winners: Comedy series: Sex and the City, HBO; Drama series: The West Wing, NBC; Miniseries: Anne Frank, ABC; Movie: Wit, HBO; Actor, comedy series: Eric McCormack, Will & Grace, NBC; Actor, drama series: James Gandolfini, The Sopranos, HBO; Actor, miniseries or movie: Kenneth Branagh, Conspiracy, HBO; Actress, comedy series: Patricia Heaton, Everybody Loves Raymond, CBS; Actress, drama series: Edie Falco, The Sopranos, HBO; Actress, miniseries or movie: Judy Davis, Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, ABC; Supporting actor, comedy series: Peter MacNicol, Ally McBeal, Fox; Supporting actor, drama series: Bradley Whitford, The West Wing, NBC; Supporting actor, miniseries or movie: Brian Cox, Nuremberg, TNT; Supporting actress, comedy series: Doris Roberts, Everybody Loves Raymond, CBS; Supporting actress, drama series: Allison Janney, The West Wing, NBC; Supporting actress, miniseries or movie: Tammy Blanchard, Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, ABC; Performance in a variety or music program: Barbra Streisand, Barbra Streisand: Timeless, Fox; Writing, Comedy series: Alex Reid, Malcolm in the Middle ("Bowling"), Fox; Drama series: Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess, The Sopranos ("Employee of the Month"), HBO.