The Phineas Periwinkle Variety Show

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Community will be losing a cast member, and it’s… the one that you were thinking: Chevy Chase. The 69-year-old actor, who stars as the wealthy, grumpy and bigoted Pierce Hawthorne, is exiting the NBC comedy by mutual agreement, sources close to the show confirm. (Deadline first reported the news.)

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Gary Collins, an actor who was the longtime host of the syndicated TV show “Hour Magazine” and a former master of ceremonies for the Miss America Pageant, died early Saturday in Biloxi, Miss. He was 74.

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In 2011 Collins moved to Mississippi, the home state of his wife, Mary Ann Mobley, an actress and Miss America 1959.

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From 1980 to 1988, Collins served as host of the TV talk show “Hour Magazine,” a gentler version of the genre that avoided some of the controversial topics tackled by Phil Donahue, Geraldo Rivera and other tabloid programs.

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Collins had also been emcee of the Miss America Pageant in the 1980s and hosted other televised variety programs.

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Richard Pryor, 1975.

This is Christine Willes from the TV show “Dead Like Me”.

If you’ve never seen it, you should try to find it & watch it, because it’s awesome.

(Source: beingdeadlikeme, via lolzpicx)

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

‘The Jeffersons’ Star Sherman Hemsley Dies

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“The Jeffersons” star Sherman Hemsley has died at the age of 74.

The actor passed away at his home in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday…

Born in Philadelphia, Hemsley got his break in show business in the early 1970s, making his Broadway debut in a production of the play “Purlie.”

Bing video: Sherman Hemsley on ‘Jeffersons’

It was during his stage stint that he caught the eye of TV writer and producer Norman Lear, who reached out to Hemsley and asked him to star as George Jefferson in the sitcom “All in the Family.”

Hemsley was reluctant to quit the theater and held off on the role for two years before taking Lear up on the standing offer.

Although Jefferson was just a secondary character on the show, Hemsley’s comedic timing convinced Lear to develop a spin-off series titled “The Jeffersons” in 1975, allowing the actor to really shine on camera.

The program became one of Lear’s most successful projects and remains the longest-running sitcom with a predominantly black cast in U.S. TV history, airing from 1975 to 1985. […]

Picture Credit: 

Sherman Hemsley, left, and Isabel Sanford in “The Jeffersons” (©CBS)

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

(CNN) — Film and television actor Ernest Borgnine, who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of a lovelorn butcher in 1955’s “Marty,” has died at age 95, his manager said Sunday.

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He made the move to films and then television in 1951, racking up more than 200 credits in projects ranging from the era of live television drama to the children’s cartoon “SpongeBob SquarePants.” (He provided the voice for Mermaid Man.)

He starred in the 1962-66 sitcom “McHale’s Navy,” was one of the original celebrities on the game show “The Hollywood Squares” and played William Holden’s right-hand-man in Sam Peckinpah’s revisionist Western “the Wild Bunch.” He also was a regular on the 1980s television drama “Airwolf” and a frequent guest star on a variety of shows.

In addition to his Oscar for “Marty,” Borgnine was nominated for three Emmys — the most recent in 2009, for a guest spot on the hospital drama “ER” — and won a life achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2010. 

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Former teen idol Don Grady, who played Robbie Douglas on “My Three Sons,” died Wednesday at 68 after suffering from cancer. Barry Livingston, who played Grady’s younger brother on the classic ’60s show, confirmed the death to the Associated Press.

“It’s the oldest cliché in the world when TV brothers start referring to each other like biological brothers, but he was the oldest, and somebody I looked up to and learned from a great deal about life,” Livingston says.

The actor was most well-known for his role as Robbie Douglas in “My Three Sons” and was one of the original Mouseketeers on “The Mickey Mouse Club.” He joined the show when he was only 13 years old.

Grady landed his role on “My Three Sons” in 1960 and pursued a career in music when the show ended in 1972. […]

Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who was among the schemers in the 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” and a decade later began kissing thousands of female contestants as host of the game show “Family Feud” has died. He was 79.

Dawson, also known to TV fans as the Cockney POW Cpl. Peter Newkirk on “Hogan’s Heroes,” died Saturday night from complications related to esophageal cancer at  UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, his son Gary said.

The game show, which initially ran from 1976 to 1985, pitted families who tried to guess the most popular answers to poll questions such as “What do people give up when they go on a diet?

He made his hearty, soaring delivery of the phrase “Survey says…” a national catchphrase among viewers.

Dawson won a daytime Emmy Award in 1978 as best game show host. Tom Shales of The Washington Post called him “the fastest, brightest and most beguilingly caustic interlocutor since the late great Groucho bantered and parried on ‘You Bet Your Life.’” The show was so popular it was released as both daytime and syndicated evening versions. […]

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