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Coming-of-age tales are a dime a dozen and standard fare for the famed Nickelodeon network. The beloved staple of network television has dazzled children, tweens, and teens since 1979. Its name is on theme parks, toys, and media empires. Even now, over a decade since its rebranding, the network’s iconic “slime splat” motif is as famous as ever. Much of this fame comes from its beloved lineup of cultural touchstones — big names like Danny Phantom, Fairly OddParents, Rugrats, and SpongeBob Squarepants.

However, not all of Nickelodeon’s shows are massive hits. One of the network’s best coming-of-age tales ran for three seasons and spanned a mere four years of broadcasting space. As Told by Gingerwas just one of many shows bridging that tricky tween-to-teen age bracket. Even now, decades after its end, the show’s themes and ideas remain relevant. After all, growing up has always been hard. Everyone endures the same challenges.

It’s now been over 50 years ago that Goldie Hawn won her first Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for “Cactus Flower” (1969). One of the most successful comic actresses for decades, Hawn has been a staple on the awards scene, earning a second Oscar nomination (Best Actress for “Private Benjamin”) and a total of eight Golden Globe nods, plus one win (“Cactus Flower”). Let’s take a look back at 10 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.

In one of this year’s climaxes at the Tribeca Festival, Steven Spielberg showed off his first major studio theatrical release, Sugarland Express, which celebrates 50 years.

“You’re the first audience to ever see Sugarland Express in 50 years,” joked the 3x Oscar-winning filmmaker at the packed Bmcc screening in the lower west side of Manhattan.

How’s that? Spielberg said Universal pulled the movie out of theaters after two weeks as no one went to see it despite good reviews. The movie repped his first big screen release after cutting his teeth as a TV director, and it preceded his work on 1975’s Jaws, the blockbuster that would give definition to the word tentpole.

Sugarland Express failed at the box office per Spielberg, as audiences wanted to see a lighthearted Goldie Hawn in the movie, not to mention, it had a tragic ending.

Here are some of the memories Spielberg...

In 1964 Barbra Streisand became a star when she opened the original Broadway production of “Funny Girl” as real-life actress, singer and comedian Fanny Brice. Despite rave reviews, she ended up losing the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical to Carol Channing for “Hello, Dolly!” But in 1968 Babs made her motion picture debut in a film adaptation of “Funny Girl” directed by William Wyler, reprising her role as Fanny. She went on to win the Oscar for Best Actress (famously in a tie with Katharine Hepburn for “The Lion in Winter”). In 1970 Eileen Heckart was Tony nominated for her featured performance as Mrs. Baker in “Butterflies are Free,” but lost to her co-star Blythe Danner. But in 1972 Heckart reprised her role in a film adaptation, which won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

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Four years after “Black Panther” became the first Oscar-winning film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” cast member Angela Bassett has made history as the first person to achieve academy recognition for an MCU performance. Included among the numerous actors with whom she reunites in the 2022 sequel is Lupita Nyong’o, who first played her role of Nakia four years after earning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “12 Years a Slave.” If Bassett ends up prevailing in the same category this year, Nyong’o will be the 16th woman to have acted in a film that won the same Oscar she previously received.

Until this year, “12 Years a Slave” was the only acting Oscar-nominated film Nyong’o had appeared in. Two of her cast mates in the 2014 Best Picture winner – Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender – respectively competed for the male lead and supporting prizes but eventually...

Tuesday, October 18, will mark the 50th anniversary of the Quad Cinema opening its doors in New York City. Over the last five decades, the independent theater has established itself as a haven for cinephiles with its frequent showings of rare films, new restorations of classics, and indie hits. To celebrate the landmark anniversary, the Quad is devoting its Theater U to showing the four films that played when the theater first opened: “Butterflies Are Free,” “Play It Again, Sam,” “Slaughterhouse-Five,” and “The Gang’s All Here.”

Milton Katselas’ “Butterflies Are Free” tells the story of a romance that blossoms between a blind man (Edward Albert) and his neighbor (Goldie Hawn) after the man moves into his first apartment by himself. The film was an adaptation of Leonard Gershe’s hit Broadway play of the same name, with the playwright returning to write the screenplay. Eileen Heckart won an Oscar for...

Paul Thomas Anderson grew up in the San Fernando Valley, which played an important role in his 1997 breakthrough film “Boogie Nights,” which looked at Valley’s porn industry during the ‘70s and 80s. In his new United Artists release “Licorice Pizza,” Anderson returns to the Sfv for a nostalgia-tinged comedy-of-age story set in 1973 starring Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim. Both young performers received strong notices with the L.A. Times’ Justin Chang declaring Haim as the true star of “this boisterous, bighearted movie and its raison d’être.” And Bradley Cooper has earned positive notices for his funny turn as hairdresser turned film producer Jon Peters, who ironically was a producer on Cooper’s 2018 “A Star is Born.”

So, what was the world like in 1973? It was the year of Watergate, Roe Vs. Wade and “The Exorcist” hitting the big screen. Let’s travel back almost half a century to look at the top films,...

Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman’s work ethic and versatility were only exceeded by her love of basking in the showbiz spotlight. The legacy she leaves her fans after dying this week at the age of 94 is immense, as is her share of trophies that she earned over the course of her career that continued up to 2020.

Her path to fame started when she was a Miss America contestant in 1946 as Miss Illinois. That led to a scholarship under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City. She would make her film debut in Robert Aldrich’s disturbing film noir in which private eye Mike Hammer gives a lift to Leachman’s hitchhiker Christina, who has escaped a mental hospital wearing only a trench coat. She is duly tortured to death by a gang of men and her demise haunts the rest of the movie.

She paid her dues...

The Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts announces today An Evening of Wicked Fun Honoring Stephen Schwartz, a Spring Celebration fundraising event presented by the legendary House of Harry Winston, highlighting the work of the award-winning composer/lyricist of classic musicals including Wicked, Pippin, Godspell, Enchanted and more.

The evening will take place on Thursday, May 16, 2019, beginning at 6:30 pm at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and will feature performances from beloved artists including Idina Menzel, Megan Hilty, Andrea Martin, Liz Callaway, Angel Blue and many others! Proceeds from the night will support the artistic, education, and outreach programs of The Wallis which serve more than 70,000 audience members annually, including thousands of underserved students from throughout the greater Los Angeles area with limited access to the arts. Honorary Co-Chairs are Wallis Annenberg, Alan Menken, and Julie & Marc Platt. Event Co-Chairs are John Bendheim and Cathy Louchheim. Support...

Much like the Best Actress category, the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the 1970s went to some true living legends. This decade included the youngest acting winner in history, the shortest performance to win an Oscar in history, and the start for a woman who would go on to become the all-time nomination leader. So which Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner of the 1970s is your favorite? Look back on each and vote in our poll below.

Helen Hayes, “Airport” (1970)— Hayes won her second Oscar thanks to her role in “Airport” as Ada Quonsett, an older woman who makes a habit of being a stowaway on airplanes. She previously won an Oscar in Best Actress for “The Sin of Madelon Claudet” (1931). Hayes became the first woman to “Egot,” winning the grand slam of major awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.

SEEJessica Lange (‘Tootsie’) named top Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner of 1980s,...

During the 2000s, Blythe Danner was an Emmy Awards darling, earning six nominations, including two victories, over just four years. Now, after more than a decade-long Emmy absence, Danner is poised for a grand return, once again in Best Comedy Guest Actress for “Will & Grace.”

Danner’s portrayal of Will (Eric McCormack)’s mom Marilyn earned her nominations in both 2005 and 2006. The actress returned in the show’s recent season finale, “It’s a Family Affair.” Much to the chagrin of her son, she is invited by Grace (Debra Messing) to move into their apartment for an extended visit. Grace’s father Martin (Robert Klein) is also staying over and, as he and Marilyn invade their kids’ lives, Will and Grace strive to come up with a plan to respectfully kick them out.

Gwen Inhat of The A.V Club praised the performances of both Danner and Klein, writing “Martin and Marilyn,...

Goldie Hawn has a history of rocking the hell out of a swimsuit - just queue up Overboard or Butterflies Are Free on Netflix, or scour YouTube for some old episodes of Laugh-In. But even after decades of showing off her dancer's figure on screen, 71-year-old Goldie still isn't shy about slipping into a bathing suit for a day on the beach. It doesn't matter if she's rocking a teeny bikini and body paint in the '60s or sunbathing in a one-piece while vacationing with Kurt Russell - Goldie's got it. RelatedAge Is Just a Number! See Hot Stars Over 40 in Bikinis...

As previously noted March 25th and today, March 29th, are the most common days on which to hold Oscar ceremonies. Both dates have seen five Oscar nights in the Academy's 89 year history. But those Oscar anniversaries aren't the only thing worth celebrating today.

On this day in showbiz history...

Colonel James Stewart in 1945

1889 Oscar winner Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona, 42nd Street) born in Columbus Ohio

1919 Oscar winner Eileen Heckart (Butterflies are Free, The Bad Seed) Also born in Columbus Ohio. C'mon Columbus! You go with your Oscar winners.

1945 Jimmy Stewart becomes a colonel in the Us Air Force during World War II... ...

One of the gems that has made the Netflix corner of the Marvel Universe so special is Charlie Cox's portrayal of Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil. The actor, who was relatively unknown at the time of his casting, made an instant impact on audiences during the first season of that character's series. His commitment to the tricky role of a blind lawyer who defends innocent people by day and fights evil by night was evident as he excelled at both the emotionally vulnerable and physically demanding aspects of the performance.

Cox is riding high on the success of Daredevil, which had its second season earlier this year, and is now prepping to reprise the role in the epic crossover event The Defenders. In a chat with Screen Geek, the actor revealed where he'd love to go next, when Daredevil goes back to fighting crime all by his lonesome.

The actor...

Another forgotten gem from the mid-1970s receiving a new Blu-ray treatment is 1975’s Report to the Commissioner, a textured police procedural examining changing social mores and the generalized internal corruptions we’re used to in these scenarios, resulting in tragic circumstances thanks to the sincere ignorance of its protagonist. Yaphet Kotto, a regular supporting player in a number of Blaxploitation features from the decade, is a standout as a weary, sympathetic detective numbed by the machinations of law enforcement. It’s a greatly overlooked title of the era, featuring a variety of recognizable names in early roles as street hoods, and based on a novel by James Mills (The Panic in Needle Park, 1971), adapted for the screen by Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961) and Ernest Tidyman (Shaft; The French Connection, both 1971). Though its narrative is, at times, a bit rough around the edges, this deliberately paced thriller features rich characterizations and excellent chase sequences.

Which Noel do you prefer?

Birthday shoutouts go to Noel Fisher (above), who is 30, Dana Delany is 58, and Emile Hirsch is 29.

TV Line has a behind-the-scenes look at nest week’s 100th episode of Glee.

A lot has been written over the decades about murder victim Kitty Genovese and how accurate the “bystander effect” was, but I had no idea that Kitty was a lesbian, and on her way home to her partner when she was attacked.

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Ezra Klein defends his hiring of Brandon Ambrosino. “I don’t want to pretend that I have the context and the background to perfectly or authoritatively judge this debate,” Klein said. “But when I read his pieces, I didn’t come away with the impression that he holds an iota of homophobia.” Oh Ezra, you are officially off my long...

Wendy Hughes, who has died in Sydney aged 61, will be remembered by her peers as one of the finest actors of her generation.

Hughes won the AFI award for best actress for Careful, He Might Hear You in 1983 and was nominated on six other occasions, for Newsfront, My Brilliant Career, Lonely Hearts, My First Wife, Echoes of Paradise and Boundaries of the Heart.

.She was a brilliant actress who set the standard and was pioneering for her era,. filmmaker Philippe Mora, who was a close friend in the 1980s and early 1990s, told If.

.In my opinion without Wendy there would have been no Judy Davis, no Nicole Kidman and no Cate Blanchett. If timing had been different she would have been a major international star. As it is she leaves a legacy of perfect performances as one of Australia's greatest actresses..

Mora wanted to cast Hughes as the female...

Despite reaping a SAG bid, Oprah Winfrey was snubbed by the Golden Globes for her supporting performance in "The Butler." But how important is a Globe nomination when it comes to taking home Oscar gold? Turns out 20 performers have been embraced by the motion picture academy after getting the cold should from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. And half of those were winners of the Supporting Actress Oscar:  Shelley Winters, "A Patch of Blue" (1965) Sandy Dennis, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966) Estelle Parsons, "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) Helen Hayes, "Airport" (1970) Eileen Heckart, "Butterflies Are Free" (1972) Ingrid Bergman, "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974) Beatrice Straight, "Network" (1976) Geena Davis, "The Accidental Tourist" (1988) Marisa Tomei, "My Cousin Vinny" (1992) Marcia Gay Harden, "Pollock" (2000) It is w...

Today we are talking to a notable presence on Broadway and in Hollywood who has appeared in countless celebrated entities - ranging from her Tony Award-winning work in Butterflies Are Free and in the original cast of Harold Pinter's Betrayal on Broadway along with dozens of other credits to starring in feature films like The Prince Of Tides with Barbra Streisand, and, perhaps most famously the Meet The Fockers franchise to her newest star turn to date, that of featured player in the hit original Gershwin revue Nice Work If You Can Get It - the elegant and accomplished Blythe Danner. Discussing various roles in a number of wide-ranging projects that she has taken on over the course of her idiosyncratic career thus far - such as memorable turns in four Woody Allen films Husbands amp Wives, Alice, Crimes amp Misdemeanors and Another Woman and the classic movie musical...

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The complete legacy of one deadly experiment, 'Mimic: 3-film Set' (which includes Guillermo Del Toro's Director's Cut of Mimic) will be unleashed to DVD and Bly-ray on May 1. Read the official details below.

Audiences will experience thrills and chills from the franchise that brought the epic battle of man and nature to life as Lionsgate debuts the Mimic: 3-Film Set on Blu-ray Disc this May. Available for the first time as an HD collection, the set includes Mimic: The Director’s Cut, along with Mimic 2 and Mimic 3: Sentinel – both on Blu-ray Disc for the first time and available exclusively in the set. Telling the complete story of one deadly genetic engineering experiment, each film includes a host of special features, certain to excite and terrify fans of the sci-fi series.

Mimic: The Director’S Cut Synopsis

Directed by Oscar® nominee Guillermo Del Toro (Best Writing,...

Chicago – It is always a thrill to revisit the classic TV stars from the past, and there is no better place to do so than at the “Hollywood Celebrities and Memorabilia Show” in Chicago. Paul Michael Glaser (”Starsky and Hutch”), Tracey Gold (”Growing Pains’) and Pat Priest (”The Munsters”) were at the most recent show.

HollywoodChicago.com got the opportunity to interview these TV icons, and photographer Joe Arce captured their images with Exclusive Portraits.

The “Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show” is being retooled as “The Hollywood Show,” coming to Chicago in March of 2012. This biannual event is where attendees can meet TV and movie stars, plus get pictures and collect autographs. Click here for details about the show.

Paul Michael Glaser, Detective Dave Starsky on “Starsky and Hutch”

Being in one of the most famous cop partnerships in TV history is only one aspect of Paul Michael Glaser. He has...

My conversations with industry insiders and Academy members lead me to believe that Melissa Leo (“The Fighter”) remains the favorite to win the best supporting actress Academy Award, despite — or perhaps even because of — the recent brouhaha over her “Consider” advertisements. In terms of statistical analysis, though, one can find cause for both confidence and concern about her Oscar prospects…

Cause for Concern: The BAFTA-ampas Disconnect

British voters are believed to make up a sizable portion of the Academy, and BAFTA Award winners — which were announced after the Oscars prior to 2000, and have been announced before them since then — usually correspond with Oscar winners. Therefore, it is certainly noteworthy that BAFTA didn’t like Leo’s performance enough to even nominate her for its best supporting actress award, but did like the one given by Hailee Steinfeld (“True Grit“), her primary rival at the Oscars, enough to nominate her in its best actress category.

Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Little Fockers Starring Ben Stiller, two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro (The Godfather Part II, Raging Bull), Owen Wilson, two-time Oscar winner Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl, A Star Is Born — as songwriter), two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer, Rain Man), Teri Polo, Tony Award winner Blythe Danner (Butterflies Are Free), and Jessica Alba, Paul Weitz's Little Fockers is a sequel to Jay Roach's 2004 box-office hit Meet the Fockers. Little Fockers is also quite possibly one of the worst-received 2010 releases, earning a dismal 4% — you read it right, four percent — approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes' top critics. Additionally, Little Fockers was Wednesday's (Dec. 22) top movie at the North American box office, grossing $7.2m at 3,536 theaters according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. For a weekday (not everyone is on vacation), the Stiller-De Niro comedy boasted a solid [...]...

Goldie Hawn plays a quirky leading lady in this 1972 Oscar-winning film. Butterflies Are Free is the story of a blind man  who moves to San Francisco in a desperate act to seek independence from his over-proctective mother. In the city he meets a beautiful next door neighbor (Hawn) and sparks fly. It's a cute film, totally worth a watch and I'm surprised they haven't done a remake. If they do, it would be a nice twist on that Katerina Graham and Jesse Eisenberg movie pairing I mentioned last week. 

Anyhow, here's the trailer:

Available on Netflix.

This week's guessing game is inspired by the new drinking banner so here are women at bars and in kitchens or otherwise imbibing. Can you name the actress and her film?

A [Highlight for the answer] Goldie Hawn in Butterflies Are Free guessed by par3182.

B [Highlight for answer] Faye Dunaway in Three Days of the Condor guessed by Gregor.

C [Highlight for answer] Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl guessed simultaneously by Rose & Abstew.

D & E [Highlight for answer] Jean Smart and Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama guessed by marysunshine.

F [Highlight for answer] Lee Remick in The Days of Wine and Roses guessed by Nicholas.

All have been guessed now. How well have you been doing at this game? I'm curious how you silent observers are doing, too.

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Westport Country Playhouse's Gala 2009 will feature a star-studded evening of entertainment and conviviality on Monday, November 2, highlighted by special salutes to Mary Rodgers Guettel, composer, and Elisabeth Morten, Playhouse board of trustees chairman. Honorary gala co-chairs are Anne Keefe and JoAnne Woodward, former Playhouse artistic directors. Proceeds, in part, will support the Woodward Intern and Apprentice program, recently named in recognition of Ms. Woodward's interest in training the next generation of theater artists. The Playhouse's intern and apprentice program has been in existence since 1946.

A special tribute will be made to Ms. Rodgers Guettel, who began her theatrical career as a Playhouse intern in 1950, and went on to write the music for the Broadway hit, "Once Upon a Mattress." She is the daughter of composer Richard Rodgers. Stephen Sondheim, who also was in the 1950 Playhouse intern class, and Christopher Plummer, will be present to honor Ms. Rodgers Guettel.

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Acclaimed Hollywood acting teacher Milton Katselas, whose students included Gene Hackman, George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer, has died at the age of 75.

Katselas enjoyed a successful theatre, TV and movie directing career; winning a 1969 Tony nomination for his Broadway production of Butterflies are Free, and going on to make a film version starring Goldie Hawn.

But he is most famous as the charismatic founder of the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school, which he opened in 1978.

Alec Baldwin, Patrick Swayze and Anne Archer also owe their careers to Katselas, having studied at the Playhouse.

Baldwin once said of his former tutor, "Milton Katselas is everything you need in a professional acting teacher. Smart and opinionated. Creative and caring. But most of all, Katselas is clear. Of all the teachers I worked with, Katselas was the most clear in his evaluations."

Katselas died on Friday, from heart failure, at Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Actor Edward Albert has died of lung cancer in Malibu, California. He was 55. Albert, whose acting career took off in the 1970s after he starred in Butterflies Are Free with Goldie Hawn, died on Friday in his sleep. He starred with Liv Ullmann in the 1973 comedy 40 Carats and went on to appear in more than 120 movies and TV shows including Midway, The Greek Tycoon, The Ice Runner, Guarding Tess, Falcon Crest and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Albert was a dedicated environmentalist and worked with several groups, including the California Coastal Commission and the state's Native American Heritage Commission. He spent most of the last 10 years caring for his father, who had Alzheimer's disease and died at age 99 last year. Albert is survived by his wife, actress Kate Woodville; their daughter, Thais; and his sister, Maria Zucht.