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Alfred Hitchcock himself is already a Pop! along with Psycho‘s Norman Bates, and now two more of the Master of Suspense’s iconic characters are getting Funko treatment.

The Birds‘ Melanie Daniels and Rear Window‘s Jeff Jefferies are set to join the Pop! line in June.

Tippi Hedren played Melanie in The Birds, making her film debut opposite Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, and Suzanne Pleshette.

In the 1963 film, a couple strikes up a relationship after a chance meeting at a pet store, but paranoia and hysteria ensue when all the birds they encounter afterward become violent.

Jimmy Stewart starred as Jeff in Rear Window, appearing alongside Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr.

In the 1964 film, a bored photographer recovering from a broken leg passes the time by watching his neighbors and begins to suspect one of them of murder.

Both classics are among the Hitchcock...

A popular collection of lifestyle items recently returned to Studio Ghibli's official online shop. Anime fans gearing up for their first spring outings can travel in style with special tote bags and lanyards depicting their favorite characters from My Neighbor Totoro, Howl'sMoving Castle, Spirited Away and Kiki's Delivery Service.

As featured on Donguri Sora, Ghibli's themed tote bags are soft, cotton-polyester canvas bags featuring designs based on famous moments from each of the aforementioned films. For instance, the "Your Name is Totoro!" bag depicts Mei and Totoro's first meeting inside the latter's character's tree. Kiki's "Departure Day" tote bag similarly tributes the scene where Kiki packs her things to prepare for her year-long training trip. Each bag contains a single, large pocket designed to fit A4-size documents and other school/work-related materials. The four corresponding cardholders (sold separately) feature matching colors and back designs. Cute character icons also...

From the beginning of the history of the television medium, situational comedies have been an integral part of the popularization of the technology. Sitcoms have existed across the entire history of TV, and still continue to capture audiences through popular series like Abbott Elementary, George & Mandy's First Marriage and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Some of the best sitcoms of all time are part of the first few decades of television, series that continue to hold up to this day. Old-school sitcoms capture the comedy styles of the decades that they were produced in, but the classic format of the genre makes all of them easy for modern audiences to dive straight into.

The Bob Newhart Show Featured a Classic Comedian's Dry Style

Over the history of the sitcom, many of the most classic series have centered around a titular character played by a nationally renowned comedian, with series like...

When Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense, released The Birds in 1963, film fans constructed theories about the movie's meaning. Although he alluded to the film being revenge for humans' treatment of birds, Hitchcock remained ambiguous about why flocks of aggressive avians swooped down to attack a population, adding fuel to the fire.

As time went on, more theories arose, linking the film to Sigmund Freud's psychology, female sexuality, humans' overall lack of respect for the environment, and more. There's also an undercurrent throughout the plot that represents the love between two people and a mother's jealousy. In the mysterious ending, there is no clear answer.

Some film buffs class Hitchcock's body of work as horror. Some disagree and file it under the thriller genre. Like many of his classic films, The Birds sits between the two. However, many agree on one thing: it's a twisted, chilling, and disturbing piece...

As the nights grow longer and the air turns crisp, it’s the perfect time to settle in with some of the best spooky films ever made. From eerie silent classics to modern horror hits, spooky cinema has evolved across decades, yet each era has its own spine-tingling gems. Whether you love atmospheric terror or heart-pounding scares, here’s a journey through the best films from the 1920s to today that will give you chills. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more on The Hollywood Insider’s vision, values and mission statement here – Media has the responsibility to better our world – The Hollywood Insider fully focuses on substance and meaningful entertainment, against gossip and scandal, by combining entertainment, education, and philanthropy. 1920s - 1980s ‘The Haunting’ (1963) Cast: Julie Harris,...

Horror movies have notoriously been snubbed by the Academy Awards, even though so many scary movies clearly deserved to win Oscars. This has become especially apparent with the power of hindsight, as years later, many of the actual Oscar winners have mostly been forgotten by viewers while these horror releases have endured through the ages. The sheer terror and emotion on display in horror movies were also ripe territory for fantastic performances that never got the accolades they deserved.

Many of the best horror movies of all time came out of awards season Oscar-less, and even though most viewers would agree they deserved the award, it seemed the Academy thought differently. Even the technical achievements of horror movies rarely got their due, as categories related to makeup, visual effects, and cinematography have been continually passed over in favor of more Oscar-friendly films. While its impossible to go back and change the past,...

Mitzi Gaynor, star of 1950s big-screen musicals including “South Pacific” and “Les Girls” and a series of beloved variety specials in the 1970s, died on Thursday. She was 93.

Gaynor’s management team, Rene Reyes and Shane Rosamonda, confirmed to Variety that she died of natural causes.

“For eight decades she entertained audiences in films, on television and on the stage. She truly enjoyed every moment of her professional career and the great privilege of being an entertainer,” Reyes and Rosamonda wrote in a statement on Gaynor’s X account. “Off stage, she was a vibrant and extraordinary woman, a caring and loyal friend, and a warm, gracious, very funny and altogether glorious human being.”

Gaynor starred as Navy nurse Nellie Forbush in the 1958 big-screen adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “South Pacific” together with Rossano Brazzi as French planter Emile De Becque and John Kerr as Lt. Cable. Gaynor sang...

Alfred Hitchcock: The Iconic Film Collection will collect six of the Master of Suspense’s classics on 4K Ultra HD + Digital: Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds.

Releasing on November 26 via Universal, the six-disc set is limited to 5,150. It’s housed in premium book-style packaging featuring artwork by Tristan Eaton along with photos, bios, and trivia.

In 1954’s Rear Window, “A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.”

It’s written by John Michael Hayes (To Catch a Thief), based on Cornell Woolrich’s 1942 short story “It Had to Be Murder.” James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr star.

Rear Window special features:

Audio commentary by Hitchcock’s Rear Window: The Well-Made Film author John Fawell Rear Window Ethics – 2000 documentary Conversation with Screenwriter John Michael...

Though the anime industry at large and Studio Ghibli films are produced and made in the same nation, neither could be more different. Ghibli fans may share Director Hayao Miyazaki's harsh sentiments on anime, but anime fans would push back with the good sides of the industry. Regardless of the culture, there are benefits to serialized stories as opposed to films and anime takes full advantage, producing the most detailed and inspiring stories.

Even the shortest anime series can be profound and carry layers of detail and meaning. Impressively, the limited run-time of films can do the same but in more subtle ways. Studio Ghibli films have amazed viewers with new open worlds to explore, the most beloved characters, and unexpected twists on romance and fantasy. As incredible as these films are, one title that could benefit from a deeper look into its setting, characters, themes, and genres is Spirited Away.

Peggy Moffitt, the iconic ’60s model who was also a contract player at Paramount and who appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up, died at her Beverly Hills home on Saturday from complications of dementia. Her son, Christopher Claxton, confirmed the news to the New York Times. She was 86.

Moffitt’s wide-ranging influence can be traced to the persona she created, often in collaboration with others. Her gamine, modern look was a construct made up of her signature pale skin, harlequin eye makeup, five-point Vidal Sassoon haircut and a sense of humor, all of which she never abandoned.

She had a cultural moment when, in 1964, she posed in a topless swimsuit from designer Rudi Gernreich. The controversial look referenced a schoolboy’s shorts, with thin suspenders rising in a “V” between the cleavage, but nothing else above the waistline. The resulting image, which ran in publications across the world, was condemned...

Horror films set in broad daylight subvert expectations, building suspense in unexpected contexts. Daylit terror scenes reveal our fear of what could be hiding in plain sight, not just the dark. The starkness of daylight horror scenes, from beaches to playgrounds, leaves viewers on edge.

While the horror genre is almost universally associated with things that go bump in the night, many directors have flipped this particular script on its head, subverting expectations with the starkness of the horrors they offer and in these cases, more is usually more. These scenes of day lit terror provide directors with room to play, building suspense through a particular context rather than a lack thereof.

This way, through gory or shocking scenes on beautiful beaches, lush meadows, or childrens playgrounds, the best horror films set during business hours remind us that what we really fear in the genre isnt the dark, but what could be hiding in it.

Bob Newhart had one of the most remarkable sitcom runs of all time, seamlessly transitioning from playing Bob (Hartley) on The Bob Newhart Show for six seasons to playing Dick Louden on Newhart for eight years. What did the shows have in common besides Newhart’s understated, stammering joke delivery? A conspicuous absence of smart-ass kids.

You heard that right, J.D. Vance. Bob Newhart made the conscious decision not to have children — on television anyway.

A childless couple was out of the ordinary for 1970s sitcom families. And it wasn’t because Bob and his on-screen wife Emily were having problems. “Somewhat radical for the time, they were shown sleeping in the same bed,” Newhart said in his memoir, I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!: And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny. “We were one of the first shows to suggest that Bob and Emily had a sex...

When Bob Newhart died July 19 at the age of 94, the world lost one of the last remaining comedians of a certain era. Predating “Saturday Night Live” and more contemporary avenues for comedy, the Chicago-born master of dry, deadpan wit came up through stand-up sets in his city, growing into a familiar face in the ’60s with appearances on variety series such as “The Ed Sullivan Show” and “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.” His debut live album “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart” was what shot him into full superstar status, becoming the first comedy album to receive the Grammy for Album of the Year; a feat most comedians ever seem unlikely to repeat today.

Of course, nowadays Newhart is remembered most vividly not for his live work but as one of the great stars of the sitcom genre. He had two short-lived series (“Bob” and “George and Leo”) that sputtered after...

Hollywood is in mourning after the death of comedy icon Bob Newhart, who passed away on Thursday aged 94. Friends and colleagues of the multi-award-winning comedian have now taken to social media to pay tribute to Newhart, including directors Judd Apatow and Paul Feig, and several members of The Big Bang Theory cast and crew.

Apatow, who helmed the documentary Bob and Don: A Love Story alongside Michael Bonfiglio about the life-long friendship of Bob Newhart and fellow comedic icon Don Rickles, referred to Newhart as his hero.

Bob Newhart was the kindest most hilarious man. He asked me to make a documentary about his friendship with Don Rickles. I was so lucky to get to spend that time with my hero. His brilliant comedy and gentle spirit made everyone he encountered so happy.

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In honor of the late Bob Newhart, NBC’s Saturday Night Live has shared a look back at his 1995 SNL opening monologue and two memorable sketches.

Newhart hosted Season 5, Episode 18 and Season 20, Episode 12. He died July 18 at 94.

The 1980 show included the famous/infamous “Weekend Update” segment “A Limo for a Lame-o,” which saw Al Franken taking on NBC president Fred Silverman and his executive lifestyle while the network suffered from basement ratings and a dismal financial outlook – a segment that Silverman was not too happy about.

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The ending to the 1995 show saw Newhart and guest star Suzanne Pleshette recreating their series finale ending to Newhart, which saw the actor-comedian waking up next to Pleshette and realizing it was all a dream – in this case, the “dream” was hosting SNL.

To honor Newhart, the long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series...

Bob Newhart, the iconic comedian and actor who launched a more than six-decade run in show business in 1960 with his introduction of a deadpan, stammering everyman character whose popularity he rode well into his 80’s with a Grammy-winning comedy album and a pair of beloved Emmy-nominated sitcoms, is dead. He was 94 and passed away at his home on Thursday following a short illness. His longtime publicist Jerry Digney announced his death in a press release.

Newhart burst on the scene in 1960 with his album “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart,” the first comedy album ever to top the Billboard charts. It won three Grammy Awards in ’61, including Album of the Year, Spoken-Word Comedy Album and New Artist. Newhart’s first two albums of comedy monologues (the second called “The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!”) in fact held Billboard’s top two spots simultaneously, a rare feat.

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There’s a generation who know him as Sheldon’s idol Professor Proton in an Emmy-winning turn on “The Big Bang Theory.” Another generation remembers him as Buddy’s adoptive dad in the film “Elf” (2003). Yet another generation grew to love him as writer-turned-innkeeper Dick Loudon, who’s surrounded by eccentric Vermonters on the sitcom “Newhart” (1982-1990). But before all those memorable characters, Bob Newhart won over audiences as psychologist Dr. Robert “Bob” Hartley on “The Bob Newhart Show,” which premiered 50 years ago on September 16, 1972.

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Emmy-nominated comedy, plus the 93rd birthday of the TV Academy Hall of Fame inductee, by touring our photo gallery ranking the 25 best episodes.

Set in Chicago, Bob splits time between his home life with his loving but sometimes flippant wife Emily (Suzanne Pleshette) and their neighbor and friend Howard Borden (Bill Daily), an airline navigator (later co-pilot) who drops in unannounced A Lot.

Newhart, Bob Newhart’s second CBS sitcom, ran for eight seasons and 184 episodes from 1982-1990, neatly surpassing the run of his first CBS sitcom, The Bob Newhart Show, which ran from six seasons and 142 episodes from 1972-1978. But the second show always lived in the shadow of the first. The Bob Newhart Show was viewed as a key piece of a new Golden Age of TV comedy in the Seventies — a whipsmart ensemble sitcom perfectly tailored to the sane man in an insane world sensibility of its eponymous star, who...

Actor and comedy legend Bob Newhart has passed away. Widely considered to be among the funniest on-screen personalities in television history, Newhart was 94 years old.

Per THR, Newhart died at his Los Angeles home on Thursday morning. According to his publicist, Jerry Digney, Newhart's passing came after the entertainer had been dealing with a series of short illnesses. Given how Newhart spent decades in show business, there are fans across the world who will undoubtedly be saddened by the news of his passing.

Newhart is especially well known for his hit television comedy series, The Bob Newhart Show, which featured the actor in the starring role from 1972 until 1978. During its run, the series became established as one of the most popular sitcoms to have ever aired on television. Newhart played Bob Hartley, a clinical psychologist, joined by a cast of co-stars that included Suzanne Pleshette, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace, Bill Daily,...

Bob Newhart, one of the most beloved stand-up comedians of all time, had passed away at 94. According to THR, he died on Thursday morning, with no cause of death listed. He was 94. Many of you reading this may know him best from his classic role in Elf, where he played Will Ferrell’s adopted North Pole father, but his legendary career went back decades, with Newhart an Emmy, Golden Globe and Grammy Winner. Originally an accountant by trade, Newhart used to pass the time at work by making crank phone calls. Soon, he developed a stand-up comedy act, which became a monster hit, leading to an album, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, which became the biggest-selling non-musical album of all time and won him three Grammys in 1961.

From there, Newhart became a popular talk show guest before moving into acting. In the seventies, he had a major hit. The Bob Newhart Show,...

Bob Newhart, an Emmy winner and nine-time nominee who helped launch the recorded comedy craze with two smash stand-up albums before starring in the revered TV shows The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart, died today at his Los Angeles home. He was 94.

His longtime publicist Jerry Digney said Newhart died after a series of short illnesses.

Newhart broke out in 1960 with a pair of No. 1 comedy albums — despite never having done stand-up before. The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart spent 14 weeks atop the Billboard 200 and stayed on that chart for more than two years. The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! arrived about 10 months later and also hit No. 1. The former won Grammys for Album of the Year, Comedy Album of the Year and Best New Artist and featured a slow-spoken still-cited monologue with Newhart as Abe Lincoln.

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Bob Newhart, the deadpan star of “The Bob Newhart” show, has passed away at the age of 94. The news of Newhart’s passing was announced by his longtime publicist Jerry Digney.

George Robert Newhart was born on September 5, 1929 in Oak Park, Illinois. The young Newhart was raised Roman Catholic, with his sister Mary Joan becoming a nun later in life. He enrolled at Loyola University of Chicago and graduated with a bachelor’s in business management in 1952. He was drafted into the Army and served in the Korean War until 1954. He attended Loyola University’s law school for a time but later dropped out. Newhart then worked as a clerk in an unemployment office and as an accountant.

In 1958, he took to being an advertising copywriter for a prominent Chicago film and television producer. In his free time he’d record scenarios and skits he’d utilize as audition tapes.

Bob Newhart, the beloved stand-up performer whose droll, deadpan humor showcased on two critically acclaimed CBS sitcoms vaulted him into the ranks of history’s greatest comedians, died Thursday morning. He was 94.

The Chicago legend, who won Grammy Awards for album of the year and best new artist for his 1960 breakthrough record, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, died at his Los Angeles home after a series of short illnesses, his longtime publicist, Jerry Digney, announced.

The former accountant famously went without an Emmy Award until 2013, when he finally was given one for guest-starring as Arthur Jeffries (alias Professor Proton, former host of a children’s science show) on CBS’ The Big Bang Theory.

In 1972, Mtm Enterprises cast the modest comic as clinical psychologist Bob Hartley, who practiced in the real-life Newhart’s favorite burg, Chicago. The Bob Newhart Show would become one of the most popular sitcoms of all time,...

In "The Simpsons" episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled", local TV star Krusty the Clown (Dan Castellaneta) finds that his show is losing viewers to "The Gabbo Show," a newly launched ventriloquist show on another channel. Within a matter of weeks, Gabbo eclipses Krusty, siphoning off the Klown's many celebrity guests and notable cartoon segment "The Itchy & Scratchy Show." Krusty tries to stay afloat with the animated Soviet import "Worker & Parasite," but the magic is missing. Krusty quickly runs out of money thanks to his gambling addiction, and seemingly goes to pot.

Luckily, the plucky Bart Simpson (Nancy Cartwright) encourages Krusty to get back on his feet and stage a star-studded comeback special. Krusty assembles a rogue's gallery of famous people, including Luke Perry (his miserable half-brother), Hugh Hefner, Bette Midler, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Surprisingly, Johnny Carson also appears, although not to tell jokes or do magic tricks. Instead,...

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Ballots were delivered to eligible Television Academy members as of yesterday (due back June 24th by 10 pm pt), and that means all the months of campaigning for nominations is now in the hands of Emmy voters.

Actually, this season has been a litte weird due to the strike-related delay of last year’s 75th Emmys to January 15, as FYCs and other related events to the 76th Emmy awards season were just beginning. On top of that, the 96th Oscar season was still going full-force until mid-March. It could all get very confusing, given that a number of people up for Oscars are also in the thick of the Emmys this year, meaning they have been in essentially non-stop campaign mode — for some even as far back as Cannes 2023, and for others since the Fall festivals officially kicked off Oscar season.

Studio Ghibli is one of the world's most famous and beloved movie studios. It is responsible for many iconic films, including Howl's Moving Castle, From Up on Poppy Hill, and My Neighbor Totoro. Due to this enduring popularity, several of the firm's most popular titles have been acquired by international distributors who have created English-dubbed versions of the movies.

Ghibli films often get some of the world's most famous English-speaking actors to voice the characters. However, dubbing is tricky, and while some Studio Ghibli dubs are excellent, others don't do the original films justice. But which Studio Ghibli dubs are worth watching, and which are better left on the shelf?

Related One Spirited Away Fan Theory Claims the Film Isn't the Innocent Children's Story We Thought It Was Spirited Away may seem like an innocent film. But one fan theory turns the film on its head. Disney's Spirited Away Changes...

CBS sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show" was a staple for American TV audiences of the '70s, thanks in large part to clever writing and Newhart's much-loved performance as psychologist and comedic straight man Bob Hartley. The show ran for six seasons from 1972 to 1978, but it had a surprisingly long pop cultural afterlife. Characters from "The Bob Newhart Show" have popped up in everything from "Murphy Brown" to "St. Elsewhere" to "Alf," though their most famous reappearance came in the jokey "Newhart" finale in 1990. In it, Newhart wakes up in bed next to his wife from the previous series and discovers that this entire sitcom was all an elaborate dream. "The Bob Newhart Show," it turned out, was his real world.

When it wasn't being resurrected for increasingly meta crossovers, "The Bob Newhart Show" was a pretty straightforward sitcom about the life of a mental health clinician and the assortment...

In September 2022, Studio Ghibli's coming-of-age masterpiece, Spirited Away, premiered in theaters throughout North America. Now, Fathom Events is kicking off its annual Ghibli Fest celebration with a fresh round of screenings for the beloved film.

As detailed in a recent press release, Fathom Events and its distribution partner, Gkids, will present screenings of Spirited Away at participating U.S. theaters from April 27 to May 1. As part of Ghibli Fest 2024, audiences will have the opportunity to view the film in its original Japanese version (with English subtitles) or watch the Disney-produced English dub starring Daveigh Chase (Chihiro Ogino), Jason Marsden (Haku), Suzanne Pleshette (Yubaba) and David Odgen Stires (Kamaji). Screenings will also include a special behind-the-scenes featurette about Studio Ghibli's theme park in Nagoya, Japan. The complete list of theater dates and times is listed below. According to the release, all time slots are equivalent to regional and local times.

Norman Jewison, the director of classics like In the Heat of the Night, Moonstruck, and Fiddler on the Roof, has died. Jewison was 97, and died peacefully at home, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Born July 21, 1926, in Toronto, Jewison started out as a director with Canada's national television broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, upon its creation in 1952. Six years later, Jewison was recruited by NBC and relocated to New York City, where he worked on variety shows and specials. A meeting with Tony Curtis led to Jewison directing his first feature, the Curtis/Suzanne Pleshette romantic comedy 40 Pounds of Trouble, in 1962.

Hayao Miyazaki's mystifying animated film Spirited Away made its debut over 20 years ago. Written by Miyazaki and inspired by the 10-year-old daughter of a close friend, Spirited Away follows Chihiro, voiced in the original Japanese by Rumi Hiiragi (Netto Koshien) and in English by Daveigh Chase (Lilo & Stitch), down the Japanese Shinto folklore spirit realm known as Kami. To save her parents from the powerful witch Yubaba, voiced by Mari Natsuki (Nobuta o Produce) and Suzanne Pleshette (The Birds), Chihiro will face more than any story's typical trials along the way: She will face herself.

Wolfgang Puck’s now-iconic Chinois on Main, which pioneered what came to be known as Asian fusion or Pacific Rim cuisine, has turned 40 this year. An entertainment industry haven since the day it opened in Santa Monica at the address of a former New Wave punk club, it’s since gone from radical to old guard. The restaurant’s starry clientele has ranged from Tom Selleck and Mike Ovitz to Gwyneth Paltrow and Frank Gehry (who is now designing Puck’s planned replacement of the oceanfront Gladstone’s restaurant along Pch).

Wolfgang Puck

Back in 1983, Angelenos first got a streetside sneak peek of Chinois in the months before its arrival, when the chef was buying a dozen ducks at a time from Chinatown wholesalers and blowing them up with a compressor at a gas station a few blocks down from Spago, the Sunset Strip restaurant that had earned him renegade...

Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic "The Birds" is a staple of Hollywood cinema, and it had to age a bit to earn its spot in the canon. The film only earned one Oscar nomination for special effects, but it is easily one of the most well-remembered works in the accomplished director's oeuvre. Almost half a century has passed since the film's release and many of its main actors are no longer with us. Most of them went on to have storied careers, some of them were already established figures of the entertainment industry, but unfortunately only two of them are still alive today.

Her character Melanie barely survives "The Birds," but Tippi Hedren is one of two stars in the film that has lived to see the 2020s. Hedren worked with Hitchcock again on his thriller "Marnie," but did not have much of a career afterwards. She did go on to...

Mark Goddard, who played Major Don West, the hot-tempered pilot of the Jupiter 2, on the 1960s CBS adventure series Lost in Space, has died. He was 87.

Goddard died Tuesday in Hingham, Massachusetts, his wife Evelyn Pezzulich told The Hollywood Reporter.

Goddard had worked as a regular on the Four Star Television series Johnny Ringo and The Detectives when he was approached by his agent about coming aboard the new Lost on Space, created and produced by Irwin Allen.

The sci-fi show revolved around the adventures of the Robinson family: Professor John Robinson (Guy Williams), his biochemist wife, Maureen (June Lockhart) and their children Judy, Penny and Will (Marta Kristen, Angela Cartwright and Billy Mumy).

Major West also was on board, as was a stowaway, Dr. Zachary Smith (Jonathan Harris), and a robot (designed by Forbidden Planet‘s Robert Kinoshita, played by Bob May and voiced by Dick Tufeld). Their space colonization mission,...

Sharon Farrell, who starred in many films in her long career in Hollywood, including opposite James Garner and Steve McQueen in the 1969 films ‘Marlowe’ and ‘The Reivers’ respectively, has died. She was 82. Farrell died on May 15 of natural causes at a hospital in Orange County. Her death was only recently discovered by relatives, who posted the news to Facebook, but they were unsure of the cause, as per Deadline.

Farrell had an extensive resume, but is best remembered for the film ‘It’s Alive’, in which she played the mother of a murderous deformed infant.

She also had roles in the films ‘The Stunt Man’, ‘Lone Wolf McQuade’, and ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ (1987).

In the horror thriller ‘It’s Alive’ (1974), written and directed by Larry Cohen and featuring special effects make-up from Rick Baker, Farrell’s Lenore Davis tries to protect the hideously deformed child she just had, even though the infant...

Sharon Farrell, whose long career included star turns in film, television, and on Broadway, died May 15 in Orange County. Her death at 82 was only recently discovered by relatives, who posted the news to Facebook, but they were unsure of the cause.

Farrell had an extensive resume, but is best remembered for the film It’s Alive, in which she played the mother of a murderous deformed infant. She also had roles in the films The Stunt Man, Lone Wolf McQuade, Marlowe, The Reivers (with Steve McQueen) and Can’t Buy Me Love (1987).

On television, Farrell recurred as Det. Lori Wilson in the final season of the original Hawaii Five-o. She was also Florence Webster on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1991-97.

Born Sharon Forsmoe on Christmas Eve in 1940 in Sioux City, Iowa, she moved to New York, where she acted and modeled.

She made her film debut in 1959’s Kiss Her Goodbye,...

Sharon Farrell, who starred as the mother of a murderous infant in It’s Alive and contributed strong supporting turns opposite James Garner and Steve McQueen, respectively, in the 1969 films Marlowe and The Reivers, has died. She was 82.

Farrell died unexpectedly May 15 of natural causes at a hospital in Orange County, her son, Chance Boyer, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Farrell also played a movie hairstylist in Richard Rush‘s The Stunt Man (1980), the ex-wife of Chuck Norris’ Texas Ranger in Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) and the mother of the cheerleader portrayed by Amanda Peterson in Can’t Buy Me Love (1987).

On television, Farrell recurred as Det. Lori Wilson on the final season (1979-80) of CBS’ Hawaii Five-o and was Florence Webster, mother of Tricia Cast’s Nina Webster, on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1991-97.

In the horror thriller It’s Alive (1974), written and directed by Larry Cohen and...

Fathom Events unearths a creepy lineup of tricks and treats this Halloween season, as Fathom Fright Fest rises again—terrorizing theaters nationwide beginning on Sunday, September 3.

Featured in this year’s event are two upcoming Screambox Original horror movies, the horror-comedy Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls and creature feature Shaky Shivers, which are joined by a pair of classics from horror mastermind John Carpenter plus The Exorcist, House of 1000 Corpses, and Hitchcock’s The Birds!

Tickets for the Fathom Fright Fest films will be available for purchase via the Fathom Events website. Make sure to sign up with your email so you’re alerted when they go up for grabs!

The complete 2023 Fright Fest Lineup is as follows (all times local)…

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If you haven’t yet seen Sunday’s series finale of “Succession” — spoiler alert! — here are some things that didn’t happen.

The screen didn’t suddenly go black while the Roy family ate onion rings at a diner in New Jersey. Roman didn’t experience an epiphany at a hippy retreat in California and dream up an iconic Coca Cola jingle. Kendall didn’t wake up in Suzanne Pleshette’s bed.

Exactly where “Succession’s” last episode will rank in the litany of TV’s greatest finales is for future pop culture historians to decide, assuming pop culture historians even bother to pay attention to that sort of thing in the future. Let’s face it, series finales — like the ones that ended “The Sopranos,” “Mad Men,” and “Newhart” — just don’t pack the same punch they used to, even for smart, buzzy, satirically dark dramas produced by the network formally known as HBO.

Ginnie Newhart, the wife of famed comedian Bob Newhart who came up with the innovative idea for how to conclude his Vermont-based sitcom by combining with it with his earlier Chicago-based show, has died. She was 82.

She died Sunday at their home in Century City after a long illness, publicist Jerry Digney told The Hollywood Reporter. She and Bob recently celebrated their 60-year wedding anniversary.

Bob Newhart starred for six seasons (1972-78) as clinical psychologist Bob Hartley on CBS’ The Bob Newhart Show opposite Suzanne Pleshette as his wife, then played Vermont innkeeper Dick Loudon on CBS’ Newhart for another eight seasons (1982-90), when his wife was played by Mary Frann.

In one of the most admired series finales in TV history, Newhart winds up with a cheeky scene in which Dick wakes up in the middle of the night as Bob Hartley — he’s in bed with Pleshette in...

It’s a hot soap from ’65, when movies promised raging passion but delivered cheap teases and hypocritical judgments. It’s Suzanne Pleshette’s only starring role, but it doesn’t exploit her bright personality, her sense of humor. John O’Hara’s tale hasn’t much pity for a promiscuous young wife who breaks the rules. Does nymphomania make her a social menace, or is she victimized by a script determined to put the blame on Mame? Costarring Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman and Peter Graves.

A Rage to Live

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1965 / B&w / 2:35 widescreen / 101 min. / Street Date December 28, 2022 / Available from [Imprint] / aud 34.98

Starring: Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves, Bethel Leslie, Carmen Mathews, Linden Chiles, James Gregory, Ruth White, Mark Goddard, Sarah Marshall, George Furth, Virginia Christine, Aneta Corsaut, Frank Maxwell, Almira Sessions.

Cinematography: Charles Lawton Jr.

Costume Designer: Howard Shoup

Art Director: James Sullivan

Film Editor: Stuart Gilmore...

Dubbing in anime is often downright awful, but certain old anime dubs have held up over the years by remaining iconic and well-made. Some anime series aren't quite as fortunate to have received such dedicated performances. However, many have stood the test of time as some of the most rewatchable series thanks to the excellent performances their English-language voice actors delivered.

Other anime dubs, such as Dragon Ball Z, rely more on nostalgia. While the series is a beloved classic and the core story is excellent, the English dub hasn't aged particularly well, making it difficult for new fans to get into. However, many of those same voice actors have returned for Dragon Ball Z Kai with sharper dialogue and improved performances, which has helped the franchise immensely.

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David Davis, the Emmy-winning writer and producer whose heyday in the 1970s included invaluable work on the enduring network sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show and Taxi, has died. He was 86.

Davis died Friday in Los Angeles, his daughter Samantha Davis-Friedman told The Hollywood Reporter.

Survivors include his wife, actress Julie Kavner, best known as the voice of Marge Simpson on The Simpsons. Davis recommended her for the part of Brenda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper‘s insecure sister on Rhoda — it was her first paying job as an actress — and they were together since 1976.

Rhoda “gave me my life, it gave me my career, it gave me the love of my life, David Davis,” Kavner said in a 2009 interview.

A member of the Mtm Enterprises production company founded by Grant Tinker and Mary Tyler Moore, Davis started out on Mtm’s inaugural series,...

Loosely based on Daphne du Maurier's classic horror story, "The Birds" remains one of Alfred Hitchcock's most popular films. The manic action scenes are still a visual feast for modern audiences that have mostly been raised on Michael Bay explosions and the CGI-heavy fight choreography of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When hundreds of bloodthirsty birds attack the small Northern California town of Bodega Bay, it looks and feels truly terrorizing. Hitchcock famously used real birds that actually attacked the actors in an effort to make a fairly ridiculous natural phenomenon appear a little more believable to the movie-going audiences of 1963. 

The abuse that lead actress Tippi Hedren endured has become the stuff of Hollywood legend. In the past, the starlet has had no qualms about calling out Hitchcock for his mistreatment. Nor should she. As the main performer on the call sheet, Hedren was expected to interact with actors Rod Taylor,...

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Mark Miller, who portrayed the patriarch of a castle-dwelling family on the 1960s NBC sitcom Please Don’t Eat the Daisies and co-wrote the Keanu Reeves-starring romantic drama A Walk in the Clouds, has died. He was 97.

Miler died Friday in Santa Monica of natural causes, a family spokesperson announced. Survivors include his daughter and Tony-nominated actress Penelope Ann Miller.

Miller also wrote, produced and starred in the classic family film Savannah Smiles (1982), which was inspired by and named for his youngest daughter. It’s the story of a runaway girl (Bridgette Andersen) who forms an improvised family with the two escaped convicts (Miller, Donovan Scott) who find her.

On Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, which aired for two seasons and 58 episodes from 1965-67, the native Texan played college professor Jim Nash opposite Patricia Crowley as newspaper writer Joan Nash. They are the...

There’s a generation who know him as Sheldon’s idol Professor Proton in an Emmy-winning turn on “The Big Bang Theory.” Another generation remembers him as Buddy’s adoptive dad in the film “Elf” (2003). Yet another generation grew to love him as writer-turned-innkeeper Dick Loudon, who’s surrounded by eccentric Vermonters on the sitcom “Newhart” (1982-1990). But before all those memorable characters, Bob Newhart won over audiences as psychologist Dr. Robert “Bob” Hartley on “The Bob Newhart Show,” which premiered 50 years ago on September 16, 1972.

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Emmy-nominated comedy, plus the 93rd birthday of the TV Academy Hall of Fame inductee, by touring our photo gallery ranking the 25 best episodes.

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Set in Chicago, Bob splits time between his home life with his loving but sometimes flippant wife Emily (Suzanne Pleshette) and their neighbor and friend Howard Borden (Bill Daily...

One of the most celebrated acting Emmy nominations in recent years was that of “Better Call Saul” cast member Rhea Seehorn in 2022. Her first of two Best Drama Supporting Actress bids for the series was especially well-received because she earned it after her portrayal of Kim Wexler had been ignored by the TV academy five times. Scroll through our photo gallery below to learn more about this and the other 25 instances of specific TV character performances that finally merited Emmy bids after six or more years.

Including Seehorn, 11 actors were first nominated for their respective shows’ sixth seasons, and the other 15 were forced to wait up to 12 years for their initial mentions. Among those who came close to this distinction by first being recognized five seasons into their performances are Tom Bosley (“Happy Days”), Mike Farrell (“M*A*S*H”), Mariska Hargitay (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”), and Suzanne Pleshette...

One of the most celebrated acting Emmy nominations in recent years was that of “Better Call Saul” cast member Rhea Seehorn in 2022. Her first of two Best Drama Supporting Actress bids for the series was especially well-received because she earned it after her portrayal of Kim Wexler had been ignored by the TV academy five times. Scroll through our photo gallery below to learn more about this and the other 25 instances of specific TV character performances that finally merited Emmy bids after six or more years.

Including Seehorn, 11 actors were first nominated for their respective shows’ sixth seasons, and the other 15 were forced to wait up to 12 years for their initial mentions. Among those who came close to this distinction by first being recognized five seasons into their performances are Tom Bosley (“Happy Days”), Mike Farrell (“M*A*S*H”), Mariska Hargitay (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”), and Suzanne Pleshette...

The always delightful Doctor Z hangs with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante while discussing a few of his favorite monkey movies.

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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Planet of the Apes (1968) – John Landis’s trailer commentary

Beneath The Planet of the Apes (1970) – John Landis’s trailer commentary

Escape From The Planet of the Apes (1971)

Battle For The Planet of the Apes (1973) – John Landis’s trailer commentary

Every Which Way But Loose (1978)

Any Which Way You Can (1980)

The Godfather Part II (1974) – Katt Shea’s trailer commentary

Schindler’s List (1993)

Godzilla Vs. Kong (2021)

King Kong Vs. Godzilla (1962) – John Landis’s trailer commentary

King Kong (1933)

Conan The Barbarian (1982)

Godzilla (1954) – Don Coscarelli’s trailer commentary

Godzilla Raids Again (1955)

Stalag 17 (1953)

In The Heat Of The Night (1967) – Michael Schlesinger’s trailer commentary

King Kong Escapes (1967)

Murders In The Rue Morgue (1932)

The Sorrow And The Pity (1972)

My Octopus Teacher (2020)

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Charles “Chuck” Fries, whose career as a television and film producer included a long list of classic shows, series and films, died Wednesday, his family announced. He was 92. No cause of death was given.

During a prolific career that spanned more than 60 years, he participated in the production of more than 5,000 series episodes, 140 television movies and miniseries and more than 40 theatrical films. His producing credits range from Tales of the Crypt and The Call of the Wild to TV’s The Amazing Spider-Man and The Martian Chronicles to Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean, Troop Beverly Hills and Screamers.

Born on September 30, 1928, in native of Cincinnati, Fries began his career at Ziv Television in 1952, where he worked on legendary syndicated shows like The Cisco Kid, Highway Patrol, Bat Masterson, and Sea Hunt. He moved to Screen Gems in 1960, where he was involved in the production of such classics as Naked City,...

Maverick meets Yojimbo in Burt Kennedy’s raucous horse opera about a confidence man working both sides of a small town feud. James Garner plays the conniving charmer and Suzanne Pleshette is the fiery belle determined to corral his worst instincts. Hollywood’s golden age is represented by a formidable duo, Marie Windsor and Joan Blondell.

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