La Cage Aux Folles-related stories
Posted Dec 11th 2009 2:29PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries, Reality-Free
"It's Burke's Law." That was the opening tag for one of three successful TV series that starred Gene Barry, one of the classiest actors to appear on screen. On
Wednesday, TV star Gene Barry died at at 90 of undetermined causes. He was living in an L.A. rest home, but I will remember Gene Barry as the man who made
Burke's Law, Bat Masterson and
The Name of the Game memorable TV entertainment.
Barry was also well-known as the original star of the 1953 version of
The War of the Worlds, and when Steven Spielberg remade the film in 2005 with Tom Cruise, he gave Gene a quick cameo. In addition to being a versatile leading man -- capable of playing a bad guy, a bon vivant, cops, spies, gentlemen, gunslingers, and magazine publishers -- Gene Barry also was a song and dance man. In 1984, he was one of the toasts of Broadway in
La Cage aux Folles. Currently Kelsey Grammer is about to play Gene's role in a 2010 spring revival.
Continue reading TV star Gene Barry passes away at 90
Posted Dec 7th 2009 10:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
On October 14,
Kelsey Grammer was telling the media to tune in to his ABC sitcom Hank because the show was getting better and better. More funny, he said. Well, now that Kelsey has accepted the fact that
Hank is dead and buried -- except for whatever episodes ABC burns off down the road -- Kelsey's may be singing a different tune.
Kelsey pulled the plug on Hank because it wasn't funny. That's according to an interview he did in which he claims that after the Thanksgiving episode, he returned to work and the show was just not getting any laughs. "Honestly, it just wasn't very funny ... We finished and I was like, 'Oh boy, there wasn't a laugh in the house on this one.' And I called the president of Warner Brothers ... and I said, 'Listen, when can we put a bullet in this thing?'"
Continue reading Kelsey Grammer's big news is that he yanked Hank
Posted Nov 30th 2009 7:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Well, what do you do when your last two TV series flamed out, leaving you scratching your head and wondering why the public isn't getting you like they did before? If you're
Kelsey Grammer, you head to Broadway. With the ABC sitcom
Hank firmly in his rear-view mirror,
Grammer will star on Broadway in a revival of La Cage aux Folles.
Could Kelsey be taking advice from
David Hyde Pierce, his brother Niles on
Frasier? Since that series ended, David's had two hit shows on the Gay White Way,
Spamalot and
Curtains. The latter resulted in David winning a Tony award.
I'd like to think that Grammer's taking somebody's sage advice.
La Cage is a no-brainer.
Continue reading Kelsey Grammer's going Broadway in La Cage Aux Folles
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