Posts with tag the facts of life
Posted Jun 24th 2008 2:00PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
To some people, George Clooney's affable good nature and sincerity comes off as smug over-confidence. I fall into the former rather than the latter category.
I think George is ambitious and grateful to be working in the business. I think he remembers
the years of struggling to become a star -- those years on
The Facts of Life and
Riptide and
E/R (the Elliott Gould sitcom, not the Emmy award-winning NBC medical drama).
Failures like
Leatherheads have to keep him humble. Anyway, his efforts to expand as an actor and director and producer strike me as someone who is wisely not resting on his laurels. That said, today it was reported that
Clooney's production company, Smoke House, is behind a new pilot for Showtime called The Fall of Bob. Continue reading Clooney gets The Fall of Bob on Showtime
Posted May 19th 2008 2:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Video, Music and Variety, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Oh, they don't make 'em like this anymore.
After the jump is a video from the NBC 60th Anniversary show in 1986 (very interesting). It's rather surreal. We get to see Bea Arthur, Nell Carter, Charlotte Rae (Mrs. Garrett from Facts of Life), Marla Gibbs, and Alfonso Ribiero sing a song about "family." That's the NBC family, that is, as all of them were starring on shows at the time (Facts of Life, Golden Girls, Gimme A Break, 227, and Silver Spoons). Punky Brewster herself makes an appearance too, but only to say three words and gives a thumbs up. Barbara Eden introduces the song. The most cringe-worthy moment isn't any of the singing, it's when Gibbs and Carter pass each other on the stairs and casually say that they love each other's shows.
Can you imagine a network doing this now? I want to see Hugh Laurie, Stewie, the guys from Prison Break, Marge Simpson, and Gordon Ramsay get on stage at the next Emmy Awards and sing about the FOX family.
[via Best Week Ever]
Continue reading NBC stars sing about family - VIDEO
Posted Apr 28th 2008 2:03PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Children, Reality-Free
Miley Cyrus is doing mea culpas all over the news about the racy photo shoot in
Vanity Fair, basically saying she's embarrassed, but blaming Annie Leibovitz for the pictures. Umm, Miley, you were there. You could have said, "Oh, no, I won't do photos like that cause I'm a Disney girl and
Hannah Montana can't do that, get it?" Whatever. Her story is getting press, but it's another
Disney Channel star, Brenda Song, who's filed a lawsuit. She really has a reason to gripe.
Brenda Song, who co-stars on
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody as London Tipton -- sort of a Blair Warner for today's teens (and if you don't know Blair Warner, you never watched
The Facts of Life), has filed a lawsuit with a company that used her image in an escort service print ad that appeared in
L.A. Weekly.
Continue reading Another Disney star in the news
Posted Feb 24th 2008 9:09AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities
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Posted May 31st 2006 1:25PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Talent, Celebrities
I feel sorry for people who have never been fired. I think it's something everyone has to experience, and I think that if you haven't been fired from at least one job in your life, there's a certain aspect of your personality that never developed, and you're going to be disappointed later in life in some way. (OK, I'll stop the psychoanalyzing now.)
The new book
Fired! by Annabelle Gurwitch, contains a series of essays from famous (and not-so-famous people) who have gotten fired. It's divided into five different sections: The Job So Terrible You Can Only Hope To Be Fired, The Firing You Didn't See Coming, The Time You Deserved To Be Fired, The Time Getting Fired Leads To Something Better, and The Time You Had To Fire Yourself. It's a funny book, but also one that happens to be helpful and more than a little insightful.
Felicity Huffman recounts the day she was fired from the Ed Asner sitcom
Thunder Alley; David Cross talks about the day he was fired from a law firm (after he was fired he said to his boss, "wait, I haven't had time to shit on your desk!"); New Yorker writer Andy Borowitz discloses that he was fired from writing for
The Facts Of Life because he didn't "get" Tootie; and
Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Feig recounts the horrifying story of how he was fired once from a gig as Ronald McDonald. Other essays in the book include those from Bill Maher, Brian Unger (fired from
Extra for wearing sweaters and having a big nose), Anne Meara, Tate Donovan, Judd Apatow, Jeff Garlin, Tim Allen, D.L. Hughley, Robert Reich, and Andy Dick. A very entertaining read.
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