Loving this! It looks like And Just Like That …, the follow-up series to the Sex And the City series and feature films is really finding its footing in season three. I’ve always been team Aiden so great to see some of John Corbett in this trailer but that Carrie has a flirtation brewing. Have loved Seema (Sarita Choudhury) since I first saw her and feel she best fills the immense void we felt by the absence of Kim Cattrall. I’m now used to the new line-up, am happy to not see Che anymore, and no longer need Samantha to return – we have reruns for that!
Yesterday would have been Tony Dow’s 80th birthday. Sadly, the actor and sculptor died in 2023 just a few months after being diagnosed with liver cancer.
Reruns of the 1960s sitcom Leave it to Beaver used to air early in the mornings when I was in college and I remember watching the episodes before class and thinking they were hilarious.
I also seem to recall that as the Cleaver boys got older, Wally (played by Dow) developed into quite a hunk! Wally was the elder son of June (played by Barbara Billingsley) and Ward (played by Hugh Beaumont) Cleaver, and the brother of Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver (played by Jerry Mathers).
The classic sitcom ran from 1957 through 1963 and Dow was 18 when the show went off the air. He took a three year break from acting at that point to serve in the National Guard then returned to television with guest roles on such shows as Love American Style, Adam 12, The Mod Squad, The Hardy Boys, Knight Rider, Square Pegs, Murder She Wrote, Diagnosis Murder, Charles in Charge and Emergency!
But he wasn’t through being Wally quite yet. Most of the original cast reunited for 1983 television movie Still the Beaver which was so successful that it led to a whole other series called The New Leave it to Beaver which ran from 1985 through 1989.
Dow continued to act occasionally but has other skills as well. He was an accomplished sculptor and had also worked in visual effects on such television series as Doctor Who and Babylon 5.
In this week’s Today Show Sunday Sitdown, Saturday Night Live cast member Bowen Yang joins Willie Geist to talk about his role in the new film The Wedding Banquet, that is a modern reimagining of the 1993 Ang Lee film of the same name. Yang opens up about his road to “SNL,” coming out to his parents, and the blockbuster movie Wicked.
I don’t think the late, great Ann Miller really got her due during her lifetime for being the amazingly talented person she was. Born 102 years ago today, she could sing, act, and God she could tap dance.
For younger people who are not familiar with this showbiz legend, check out some of the clips below. I love her energy and her attitude.
She is best remembered for her work in the Classical Hollywood cinema musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. Her early work included roles in Frank Capra’sYou Can’t Take It with You (1938) and the Marx Bros. film Room Service (1938). She later starred in the movie musical classics Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949) and Kiss Me Kate (1953). Her final film role was in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001).
She was just 13 when she was discovered by Lucille Ball and was signed to a contract (she had a fake birth certificate showing her age as 18). The next year, In 1937, she played Ginger Rogers’ dancing partner in Stage Door which if you have never seen, you must! It stars Katharine Hepburn, Rogers, Ball, and Eve Arden, among others. Miller left RKO to go to Broadway where in 1939 she was a smash in George White’s Scandals. She returned to RKO with a $3,000 a week contract. Prior to the Broadway success, she had earned $150 a week.
Via Wikipedia: In 1969, she starred on Broadway in the musical Mame, in which she wowed the audience in a tap number created just for her.
1971 found her starring in an iconic television commercial for “The Great American Soup” (created by Stan Freberg), with Miller rising up out of the floor on top of an eight-foot high cylinder designed to look like a giant soup can. The ad was a spectacular song and dance number in the tradition of the movie extravaganzas which were her stock in trade.
In 1979, she astounded audiences in the Broadway show Sugar Babies with fellow MGM veteran Mickey Rooney, which toured the United States extensively after its Broadway run. Miller and Rooney were both nominated for Tony Awards and overall starred in the show for nine years.
Remembering the late Lyle Waggoner, many a gay boy’s first crush, was born 90 years ago today.
The handsome actor was best-known being a regular on The Carol Burnett Show, for playing opposite Lynda Carter on Wonder Woman, and for being the first Playgirl centerfold.
He had been suffering from a long illness when he died in 2020 at the age of 84.
Lyle did scores of TV guest spots in throughout the 70s and 80s then retired – except for occasional appearances – to run Star Waggons, a company that leases customized trailers for use by the entertainment industry.
CNBC reported in February 2016 that Star Waggons had 800 trailers and posted annual revenue of $17 million. Waggoner said a year later that he supplied 30 trailers alone for ABC’s Dancing With the Stars.
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