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Severin Unleashes Two More Huge Releases From Russ Meyer’S Bosomania! With Motorpsycho & Up!

“The films of Russ Meyer must be seen to be believed – exploitation entertainment that not only transgresses but achieves artistic transcendence“

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‘Great to see Russ Meyer’s movies getting the treatment they deserve from Severin Films…. scanned in 4K from the original negative… they look gorgeous! I was surprised how detailed these are… Great stuff for fans of Russ Meyer and exploitation cinema’

Following their celebrated release of The Vixen Trilogy from Severin Films – in collaboration with The Russ Meyer Charitable Trust – the company is bringing two more landmark films from the vaults of iconic American auteur Russ Meyer: 1965’s action-and-violence saga Motorpsycho and the erotic comedy Russ Meyer’S Up! co-written by Roger Ebert.

Both titles have been restored and scanned in 4K from their original negatives with hours of new and archival Special...

Severin continues their good work in bringing hitherto largely unavailable Russ Meyer titles to home video in glorious new 4K restorations. Their latest releases are Motorpsycho, a gritty genre mashup that’s been unjustly dismissed as merely a “dry run” for the better known Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, and the late-period gonzo comedy Up!, involving, among other things, leather gimp masks and an orgy-loving Adolf Hitler.

Motorpsycho, from 1965, starts off as a rip-roaring exposé of a renegade biker gang led by troubled Vietnam vet Brahmin (Stephen Oliver). He’s joined by Slick (Thomas Scott), who has a fondness for his transistor radio, and Dante (Joseph Cellini), whose major signifier as a character is that he spouts off in Italian when he gets excitable. These two are, in true Meyer fashion, little more than caricatures, but Brahmin actually gets to display some nuance in his role. Mind you, these are far...

The Young and the Restless has fans wondering whether Heather has been left for dead. Sharon initially wanted to seek revenge on Daniel, but she ended up killing Heather.

Or so it seems. Sharon could have us all fooled. She blacked out during the attack, which means there’s more to the story. Heather’s whereabouts could bring her mom, April, back into the fold.

Who is April?

Actresses Patricia Albrecht, Janet Wood, Cindy Eilbacher, and Rebecca Staab portrayed the character April Stevens. She last appeared on the show in 2008. At the time, Heather’s (Vail Bloom) paternity was called into question. April told Heather that Paul Williams (Doug Davidson) was her biological father.

This revelation allowed Heather to rebuild a relationship with her father. Paul eventually moved off the canvas. His last appearance on the CBS show was in 2020. He was officially written off as having left Genoa City.

The Big Bang Theory presented a stunning ensemble of actors. But in the world of television, where shows are premiered every now and then, comparisons are inevitable. The same happened to Tbbt as well in a past interview. Interestingly, the show was being compared to the likes of other sitcoms such as Three’s Company and Friends.

Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki in The Big Bang Theory || Credits: CBS

But while Johnny Galecki welcomed the Friends comparisons, he looked quite annoyed when Tbbt was compared with the John Ritter starrer.

Johnny Galecki Looked Visibly Annoyed With Three’s Company Comparisons With Tbbt, but Not Friends

After Friends ended in 2004, people thought for the longest time that no other show could level up to the benchmark it had created in the genre. But The Big Bang Theory, released in 2007, shifted that perspective to a good extent. Fans will have their own...

The premise of the 1977 sitcom "Three's Company" -- adapted from the 1973 British series "Man About the House" -- would likely never fly in 2024. Roommates Janet (Joyce DeWitt) and Chrissy (Suzanne Somers) require a third roommate to pay rent in their expensive Santa Monica apartment. They stumble across Jack Tripper (John Ritter), an aspiring culinary student whom they get along with. It so happens, though, that the building's landlord, Mr. Roper (Normal Fell), is ultra-conservative and refuses to let unmarried men and women share his apartments. To get around this contrived contingency, Janet and Chrissy tell Mr. Roper that Jack is gay. This satisfies the landlord but opens Jack up to homophobic jibes.

Fell eventually left the series and was replaced by the high-strung Mr. Furley, played by Don Knotts. Mr. Furley, it seems, required the charade to continue. Somers also left the show in its last two seasons and was...

Particularly in the age of streaming, it's hard to imagine another show living a life like the one that "Three's Company" did throughout the late '70s and early '80s. Spanning eight seasons and more than 170 episodes, it's the kind of run that relatively few scripted TV shows can ever claim, but especially now. It also made absolute stars of its cast, perhaps most notably Suzanne Somers, who recently passed away at the age of 76. She played the lovable Chrissy Snow alongside John Ritter's Jack Tripper and Joyce DeWitt's Janet Wood. But it turns out that Somers' life-changing casting happened essentially by accident.

Former President of ABC Entertainment Fred Silverman, speaking in an archival interview shared by the FoundationINTERVIEWS YouTube channel, discussed his lengthy career in television. When the subject of "Three's Company" came up, the executive explained that he "was very involved in the casting of Suzanne Somers.

One fictional apartment in Santa Monica, California is a little less funny now. Suzanne Somers passed away at the age of 76 on October 15, 2023. She was one of the main cast members in the 1970s/80s series "Three's Company" alongside John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt, playing the joyful and (as much as I hate this word) ditzy Christmas "Chrissy" Snow. As someone who watched the show as a very tiny person, I've seen most of the episodes. What I didn't know was that Somers was also playing another character, hiding in plain sight the whole time.  

"Three's Company" was based on the British show "Man About the House," and ran on ABC from 1977-1984, with Somers playing her role in seasons 1-5, leaving after contract negotiations failed. The show centered around two women, Chrissy Snow and Janet Wood (DeWitt), who lose their roommate and need someone to take over her portion of the rent.

Name a classic show and, for all its success, you're likely to find a mess of behind-the-scenes drama between the network and its star actor(s). The acclaimed hit series "Three's Company" was no different, although the reason for why late star Suzanne Somers was ultimately fired from the production more than halfway through the show's acclaimed run is certain to raise eyebrows. In fact, it remains every bit as insidious now as it was at the time.

Somers sadly passed away this week at the age of 76, leaving behind a wide-ranging legacy that largely stems from giving one of television's most famous performances. As the "dumb blonde" Chrissy Snow, Somers made up the all-important third leg of the trio that also included co-stars John Ritter as Jack Tripper and Joyce DeWitt as Janet Wood. Together, the three formed the backbone for "Three's Company" and its premise of three singles...

Hollywood is mourning Suzanne Somers, star of sitcoms “Three’s Company” and “Step by Step,” who died Sunday after a long battle with breast cancer. The actor would have celebrated her 77th birthday on Monday, Oct. 16.

Somers was known for her roles as bubbly “dumb blonde” Chrissy Snow in “Three’s Company” and single mom Carol Foster Lambert in “Step by Step.” Somers left “Three’s Company” in 1980 when her request that she be paid the same as her male co-star, John Ritter, was denied. After the end of “Step by Step” in 1998, Somers transitioned to a career in health and beauty, becoming the national spokeswoman for exercise device the ThighMaster. Over time, she built a fitness empire from TV infomercials and an expansion into e-commerce. She also made an appearance in 2015 on Season 20 of “Dancing with the Stars.”

Fran Drescher, Kathy Griffin and Barry Manilow are among those who have paid tribute to Somers.

Suzanne Sommers, star of the classic ABC sitcom Three’s Company, has died. She was 76 years old. Somers died on Sunday at home in Palm Springs, California, passing away one day shy of her 77th birthday, according to The New York Times. “Suzanne Somers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours of October 15. She survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years,” publicist R. Couri Hay said in a statement to Page Six. Everett Collection “Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband, Alan [Hamel], her son, Bruce [Somers Jr.], and her immediate family,” the statement continued. “Her family was gathered to celebrate her 77th birthday on October 16. Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly.” On Three’s Company — which aired from 1977 to 1984 — Somers starred in the first five seasons as Chrissy Snow (pictured above), who shares...

Suzanne Somers, who parlayed TV stardom in the sitcom hits “Three’s Company” and “Step by Step” into a personal fortune as a health and fitness pitchwoman and author, died Sunday in Palm Springs, Calif. She was 76.

“Suzanne Somers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours of October 15th. She survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years,” Somers’ longtime publicist R. Couri Hay wrote in a statement on behalf of the actress’ family.

“Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her immediate family,” the statement continued. “Her family was gathered to celebrate her 77th birthday on October 16th. Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly.”

The leggy blonde first attracted attention with a small but eye-catching role on the big screen, as the nameless beauty in...

Los Angeles, Nov. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Classic sitcom fans will be delighted to find Three’s Company star Joyce DeWitt in two new films streaming this holiday season. The 73-year-old mid-westerner who played Janet Wood for eight seasons on the ABC hit series affects a Southern accent in both a delightful holiday musical called “A Scattered, Smothered & Covered Christmas” and a feel-good romcom called “Ask Me to Dance.”

Kay Gobbell and Joyce DeWitt in “A Scattered, Smothered & Covered Christmas” one of two currently-streaming holiday films starring DeWitt.

In the musical DeWitt plays a waitress named Rita who finds herself assigning good deeds to guardian angels as they mix with the lively third shift at a Nashville Waffle House. She is dealt a Christmas Eve surprise when another lady-in-limbo assigns her the task of finding her lonely widower a new wife. The musical features a book by Kaine Riggan and a score by dozens...

Becoming a part of the popular conversation in the mid-1970s was the phrase "Jiggle Television," which was designed by NBC to be an insult to ABC's programming of the time. Instead, it became a short-hand, if you will, to describe shows like Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman, the ladies of Charlie's Angels, and, of course, Three's Company. The latter focuses on Chrissy Snow (Suzanne Somers), Janet Wood (Joyce DeWitt), and Jack Tripper (John Ritter), living together platonically and pretending that Jack is gay to keep their landlords, the Ropers (Norman Fell and Audra Lindley), at bay. The show would turn out to be a combination of slapstick humor and sexual innuendo usually arising from misunderstanding — and it was a huge hit. "If you look back to '70s sitcoms," explains Chris Mann, author of 1998's Come and Knock on Our Door: A Hers and Hers and His Guide...

Rob announces his cast for Woman of the Year at Feinstein's54 Below, Joyce DeWitt is a goddess, Rob gets starstruck over Janet Wood, Angela Bower is Miss Mannerly, who's nice vs who isn't, Judith Light takes out the ladies who lunch, the genius of John Kenrick, the definitive musical theatre website, greasing the lightning again, Sandy's cousin needs a girlfriend, and the class of Rydell High needs social security.

Director Jonathan Demme, who won an Oscar for directing the 1991 Best Picture winner The Silence of the Lambs, has passed away earlier this morning at the age of 74. According to a source close to the family, the filmmaker passed from esophageal cancer and complications from heart disease. The filmmaker had been treated for esophageal cancer in 2010, and while he did recover, the cancer came back in 2015, and sources said his condition had deteriorated in recent weeks. We have assembled a number of tweets below from filmmakers and actors paying their respects to this iconic director.

IndieWire first broke the news this morning, as tributes have started to flood in from filmmakers such as Edgar Wright, James Wan and actors such as Denis Leary, Michael Chiklis and many more. Jonathan Demme was born February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York to Dorothy Louise (Rogers) and Robert Eugene Demme, a public relations executive.

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Chicago – “The Hollywood Show” is an exciting gathering of celebrities and memorabilia for movies, TV and pop culture fans. The latest edition is coming up – March 24th-26th, 2017 – at the Hyatt Rosemont/Chicago O’Hare Airport Hotel in Rosemont, Ill. Among the TV and film stars scheduled to appear is Ed Asner (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show”), Stefanie Powers (“Hart to Hart”), Angie Dickinson (“Police Woman,” original “Ocean’s 11’), Dawn Wells (“Gilligan’s Island”), Charlene Tilton (“Dallas”) and Richard Chamberlain (“Dr. Kildare,” “Slipper and the Rose”). Detail link below the Slideshow.

To give you an example of the celebrities that appear at The Hollywood Show, photographer Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com took Exclusive Portraits at last year’s Fall show in September. Click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through the slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below.

Previous | Image 1 of 6 | NextREUNION: Priscilla Barnes, Joyce DeWitt, Richard Kline and Jenilee Harrison of ‘Three’s Company.’

Chicago – The first invitation to “c’mon knock on our door…” happened 40 years ago Today as “Three’s Company” premiered on ABC-tv on March 15th, 1977. The misadventures of three roommates – two girls and a guy – featured John Ritter as Jack Tripper, Joyce DeWitt as Janet Wood and Suzanne Somers as Chrissy Snow. Joining them was wacky best friend Richard Kline as Larry Dallas, and when Suzanne Somers left the show after Season 5, her role in the threesome was taken by Jenilee Harrison as Cindy Snow and then Priscilla Barnes as Terri Alden. DeWitt, Kline, Harrison and Barnes reunited last September at “The Hollywood Show,” and photographer Joe Arce captured their reunion Exclusively for HollywoodChicago.com.

“Three’s Company” was a silly-but-popular show, and escalated the careers of John Ritter and Suzanne Somers initially,...

New Line Cinema is in negotiations to acquire the rights to classic sitcom Three's Company and has hired screenwriters Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein (He's Just Not That Into You) to author the script for a film adaptation. Robert Cort (Cocktail, Runaway Bride) will produce the project, which will be set in the 1970s, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Three's Company, which aired from 1977 to 1984 on ABC, focused on an unlikely trio of Santa Monica roommates: two single women and a man pretending to be gay in order to circumvent the era's narrower housing norms.

Three’s Company was the ‘Friends’ of its day; a sit-com about three twenty-somethings sharing an apartment in Santa Monica California going through the ups and downs of life for the singles set of the late 70s. The American version of the UK show ‘Man About the House’, Tc was considered a groundbreaking show. Hard to believe just over 30 years ago men and women living under one roof as platonic friends was not only a novel idea for television, but a shocking and controversial premise. Juvenile jokes, double-entendres, and ridiculous plot-lines were all part of the fun, but Tc was also a true reflection of the shifting morals and values of young America arriving in the last days of disco and jiggle TV.

Several pilots were made with different actors before John Ritter, Joyce Dewitt and Suzanne Somers were selected to play the roommates we came to know and love.

Three’s Company, “A Man About the House”

Written by Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke, Don Nicholl, Michael Ross, Bernard West,

Directed by Bill Hobin

Aired March 15th, 1977 on ABC

Three’s Company was the ‘Friends’ of its day; a sit-com about three twenty-somethings sharing an apartment in Santa Monica California going through the ups and downs of life for the singles set of the late 70s. The American version of the UK show ‘Man About the House’, Tc was considered a groundbreaking show. Hard to believe just over 30 years ago men and women living under one roof as platonic friends was not only a novel idea for television, but a shocking and controversial premise. Juvenile jokes, double-entendres, and ridiculous plotlines were all part of the fun, but Tc was also a true reflection of the shifting morals and values of young America arriving in the last days of disco and jiggle TV.

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Good afternoon everyone!

Happy birthday to Guinevere Turner, Joan Collins, Jewel, Lea DeLaria and Laurel Holloman!

Tony award winner Lea DeLaria posing with "Grey’s Anatomy" star Sara Ramirez

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Forbes has released its 2013 "World’s Most Powerful Women" list. Who ranked where? Spanx founder Sara Blakely came in at # 90 (she’s #1 on my list), Ellen DeGeneres placed at #51, Lady Gaga took #45, Angelina Jolie claimed the #37 spot and Hillary ‘My Dream Girl’ Clinton ranked at # 5.

Congratulations to DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi for making Forbes' 2013 "World’s Most Powerful Couples" list!

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Speaking of Forbes, J Crew’s Creative Director Jenna Lyons and out New York politician Christine Quinn were featured in the magazine’s "10 Power Women In-The-Making: Women To Watch."

Glee’s Lea Michele...

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Happy birthday to Jamie King, Judy Davis, Valerie Bertinelli, Jan Hooks and Joyce "Janet Wood" DeWitt!

Rave reviews are in for Fiona Shaw’s performance in The Testament of Mary. Shaw’s one-woman show can be seen at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York through June 16.

I'm loving Lana Del Rey's new song for The Great Gatsby soundtrack. What do you think?

On yesterday’s Jeff Probst Show, Ufc Champion Ronda Rousey demonstrated her infamous "armbar" move on yours truly. (Fast forward to the 5:30 mark to see Rousey kick my ass.)

A Pennsylvania principal has banned a trans teen from running for prom king. Issak Oliver Wolfe, a senior at Red Lion Area Senior High School in York, Pa, has been widely embraced by his classmates and teachers and opted to run for prom king.

The Russ Meyer Show Featuring Kitten Natividad takes place in St. Louis this Friday, June 15th at The Way Out Club. Details at the end of this article.

Article by Jim Batts, Dana Jung, and Tom Stockman

Russell Albion “Russ” Meyer was born in California in 1922 and spent WWII as a combat photographer. In 1953 Playboy magazine debuted and Meyer was one of its first centerfold photographers. Meyer had a knack, and a passion, for photographing gorgeous, busty women and felt that the gals in the nudist camp movies that were popular in the ’50s were far too plain-looking for his tastes. In 1959, Meyer scraped together $24,000 and made The Immoral Mr. Teas, a quaint, colorful, and cartoonish movie about a nerdy fellow whose life is constantly interrupted by beautiful large-breasted women in various stages of undress. There was no sex in Meyer’s film and he made no pretense of presenting nudity as a lifestyle choice,...

by Chris Wright, MoreHorror.com

What a delightfully freakish treat I received when I started watching this early 1970s gritty flick! When I first turned this on, I was expecting utter rubbish but to my surprise it was nice. It has a similar gritty nature to same year release “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” Ironically, this movie was released months before the latter film as it also involves a backwoods family. This movie has alternate titles in record such as “The “Folks at Red Wolf Inn” and “Terror House.” It’s not widely known and has very limited releases. If you happen to discover an old copy, you shall be in a rare breed of owning a release!

The plot involves spring breaker Regina (Linda Gillen), who receives a letter informing her that she won a getaway leisurely vacation at a small by-the-ocean hotel resort. She is immediately rushed there quickly...

Veteran actress Joyce Dewitt has been hit with two charges of driving under the influence (DUI) following her arrest in her native California earlier this year.

The 60 year old, best known for her role as Janet Wood on hit 1980s TV show Three's Company, was arrested in El Segundo on America's Independence Day after driving past a traffic barricade.

The actress was taken into police custody after reportedly failing field sobriety tests and was later released on $5,000 (£3,330) bail.

A complaint filed on Tuesday by the Los Angeles County District Attorney shows she had been driving with a blood alcohol level of .15 - twice the state's legal limit.

She has been charged with one count of driving under the influence and one count of driving while having a blood alcohol content (Bac) of .08 or higher, reports TMZ.com.

Veteran actress Joyce Dewitt had an Independence Day to remember - she was busted for driving under the influence (DUI) in California.

The 60 year old, best known for her role as Janet Wood on hit 1980s TV show Three's Company, was pulled over by cops in El Segundo on Saturday afternoon after driving past a traffic barricade.

DeWitt smelled of alcohol and failed field sobriety tests, according to TMZ.com, prompting police to take her into custody.

She was released hours later after posting $5,000 (£3,330) bail.

It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another Dream Cast, in which we take a classic movie or TV show -- perferrably something with Xer appeal that we can either trash or have fun with -- and recast a hypothetical (or sometimes not so hypothetical) remake with actors working today. This week: Three’s Company, the 1977-84 ABC sitcom about a straight man who pretends to be gay so he can share a Santa Monica apartment with two straight women. (If you have a suggestion for a classic TV show or movie we could play Dream Cast with, feel free to email me.) I remember being a small, stupid, uncritical child and loving this show. I’m not sure whether I understood, at the time, much of what passed for humor here. Did I know what it meant when people said a man was gay, or why mistaken sexual...