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Ronnie Yeskel, the Emmy-nominated casting director who worked on the Quentin Tarantino films Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction and shows including L.A. Law and Curb Your Enthusiasm, has died. She was 76.

Yeskel died Jan. 4 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills after a long battle with cancer. The news was announced by casting director and AMPAS governor Richard Hicks, her former business partner.

Yeskel cast Kieran Culkin in his first lead role in Igby Goes Down (2002), and her film résumé also included Renny Harlin’s The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Booty Call (1997), Bean (1997), Permanent Midnight (1998), Forest Whitaker’s Hope Floats (1998), Ken Loach’s Bread and Roses (2000), Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), Waking the Dead (2000) and The Sessions (2012).

She cast seasons five, six and seven of NBC’s L.A. Law (1990-93) and the first three seasons (2000-02) of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, among many other shows. She...

Another Hollywood marriage bites the dust. Jeff Garlin, known for his roles on The Goldbergs and Curb Your Enthusiasm, filed for divorce from his wife, Marla Garlin, after 24 years of marriage on Tuesday, Sept. 4, Us Weekly confirmed. The news outlet has reported that the court documents said Jeff, 56, cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for their split. The couple previously wed on July 24, 1994, and separated on July 25, 2017. He previously proposed to Marla, also 56, at a Neil Diamond concert. "I wanted to pick a moment she would never forget," he told The New York Times in 2006. The former couple has two adult children together, two sons James, 22, and Duke, 18, so a custody battle won't be necessary. However, Us has reported that Jeff is willing to pay spousal support, but wants each party to pay their own attorney fees. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) During a previous interview, Jeff opened up about the secret to a successful marriage.

“I get it now, Ok? I didn’t get it before. I took myself too seriously, y’know? I didn’t know I was playing a character — I thought it was me. I get it now, Ok?”

Welcome to the current world of The Comeback‘s Valerie Cherish, a former sitcom star and a pioneer of the “celebreality” genre who was either too smart or too dumb, too proud or not desperate enough, to parlay her own humiliation into the kind of Real Housewives-ian, famous-for-being-famous, famous-even-if-it-leads-to-divorce/jail/addiction/misery/suicide brand of modern celebrity.

When Lisa Kudrow brought us this character almost a decade ago,...

Dan Castellaneta, best known as the voice of Homer Simpson in Fox's comedy series The Simpsons, has joined the cast of TBS' half-hour pilot The Jeff Garlin Project. Bob Einstein (Fox's Arrested Development, aka Super Dave Osborne) and Jackie Hoffman (FX's Starved) also have been cast in the pilot, which features Garlin (HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm) playing a version of himself. The project revolves around Garlin's fictional variety show and features flashbacks to the events of the past week that inspired that particular installment of the variety show. Castellaneta will play a snippy bank teller. Einstein plays the uncle of Garlin's wife (who is played by Garlin's real-life, Marla Garlin). Hoffman plays an annoying neighbor.