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Happy Birthday, Lionel Stander!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 11th 2020

Lionel Stander, the character actor best remembered by fans as chief-cook-and-bottle-washer Max on the TV detective drama H

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 8th 2020

The glamour of the motion picture industry often disguised an uncomfortable truth—that it was an enterprise that rarely ha

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 6th 2020

His creator described him as “a buccaneer in the suits of Savile Row, amused, cool, debonair, with hell-for-leather blue ey

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 25th 2019

“The young man who embodies the sprig is what is usually and mercifully described as inadequate,” noted legendary critic Al

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 16th 2019

She possessed one of the most distinctive voices heard over the radio airwaves—but you might be surprised to learn that the

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 14th 2019

When actress-singer Lillian Randolph—born on this date in 1898—got word of auditions for The Great Gildersleeve, she was w