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Ann Morgan Guilbert, whose TV credits spanned from The Dick Van Dyke Show to The Nanny and most recently Getting On, died on Tuesday after battling cancer. She was 87.

Guilbert’s first major TV role was on The Dick Van Dyke Show, as Millie Helper, wife of the Petries’ dentist neighbor Jerry. Following that run, her myriad TV credits included The New Andy Griffith Show, The Fanelli Boys, Pickett Fences and The Nanny (as the titular Fran’s Grandma Yetta).

In more recent years, Guilbert guested on shows such as Modern Family and Life in Pieces, as well as recurred...

Christopher Meloni has had the kind of varied, almost schizophrenic, and very vivid acting career in which the first thing you see him in would likely color your perceptions of him for years to come. I first encountered him in the sixth season of “1st & Ten,” a raunchy ‘80s HBO comedy about a pro football team whose cast at various points included Delta Burke, Shannon Tweed, O.J. Simpson and, for a season — as an ex-con quarterback calling himself Johnny Gunn — a young Meloni. (Here’s the opening credits for that season.) As a result of that and a few other sitcom roles immediately after, I thought of him as a comedy guy and was thrown when he would pop up playing intense dramatic roles in the ‘90s on shows like “NYPD Blue,” “Homicide” and, for a long and memorable stretch, “Oz,” HBO’s first original dramatic series, in which Meloni...

Christopher Meloni is returning to his comedy roots. The Law & Order: Svu alum has landed the starring role in Fox's adaptation of Justin Halpern's book I Suck at Girls, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The untitled comedy is described as a story about a boy becoming a man, and a man becoming a father, in a time before coming of age was something you could Google Meloni -- who began his career with roles in sitcoms The Fanelli Boys, Dinosaurs, The Boys and the cult feature Wet Hot American Summer, will star as

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