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Lynne Marie Stewart, the veteran actress best known for her work on Pee-wee’s Playhouse and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, among dozens of other projects, has died. She was 78.

Stewart died Friday, according to a spokesperson for the comedy sketch troupe The Groundlings. The cause of death wasn’t immediately available.

“We are heartbroken to hear of the passing of our dear sweet Lynne Stewart,” The Groundlings shared in a statement. “She wasn’t just the most beautiful woman in all of Puppetland — she was the most beautiful woman that we ever met, inside and out. Her warmth, humor and unforgettable presence lit up a room and brought joy to so, so many. She will be deeply missed, but her light will continue to shine through the laughter and love she gave us all.”

Born on Dec. 14, 1946, in Los Angeles, Stewart had an extensive acting career. In her early acting days,...

Actor Mark Harmon is best known for playing the role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the procedural drama NCIS. However, the veteran actor also has a hidden connection to the paranormal drama series Supernatural. In the latter series, actor Jim Beaver appeared as Bobby Singer, an important supporting character.

Jim Beaver played Bobby Singer in Supernatural (Credit: Warner Bros).

During an interview, Beaver revealed how Harmon played a major role in his casting on Supernatural. At the same time, Beaver revealed that his character was a last-minute addition to the series but ended up becoming one of his most popular roles. Here is what Beaver had to say about his casting as Bobby Singer on Supernatural.

NCIS Star Mark Harmon Was Linked to Jim Beaver’s Supernatural Casting

Actor Mark Harmon is best known for playing Leroy Jethro Gibbs in NCIS. However, before his time on the long-running series, Harmon...

Today, audiences are being gently reminded to Always bet on Jax as the first trailer for Reasonable Doubts second season has officially arrived. The gang is ready to get back into the courtroom with another high-profile case but it doesnt end there as after the doors of the courthouse close for the day, they each have their own struggles to deal with at home. This season sees the return of Emayatzy Corinealdi (The Invitation) as the lawyer at the center of the drama, along with an ensemble consisting of McKinley Freeman (Hit the Floor), Tim Jo (Pitch), Angela Grovey (Joyful Noise), Thaddeus J. Mixson (Candy Cane Lane), and Aderinsola Olabode (Love). Joining the cast to shake things up in the shows sophomore batch of episodes is Boyz n the Hood, Like Mike, and Ladder 49 star, Morris Chestnut, who will join ranks with Corinealdis superwoman lawyer as defense attorney Corey Cash.

It was a night of firsts, lasts and an upset win as TV’s finest gathered together to celebrate the 45th Primetime Emmy Awards on ABC on September 19, 1993. Even the host made history — in more ways than one. Read on for our Emmys flashback 30 years ago to 1993.

For the first time ever, the ceremony was hosted solely by a female — who was also, ironically, the unluckiest actress in Emmy history. Up for her 13th Emmy nomination that evening, Angela Lansbury guided the ceremony with her usual grace. Lansbury passed away in 2022, with the record of most Best Drama Actress bids as well as the record for most overall nominations without a win at 18. However, she wasn’t the only one nominated at this ceremony who has never won despite numerous nominations, or the only one to lay claim to an unfortunate record.

After a stellar year in 1992, reigning Best Drama...

Lee Lawson, best known for her long-running role as Bea Reardon on soap opera The Guiding Light, died on May 22 at the age of 80.

Lawson played Reardon on the CBS soap from 1981 to 1990. The show ended in 2009.

Her daughter, Leslie Bova, shared the news in a Facebook post that revealed her mother had cancer and Covid-19 before her death.

“Rest, you brilliant woman ❤️,” Bova wrote Tuesday. “Thank you, mom. R.I.P.”

Lawson was born Oct. 14, 1941, in New York City, and made her debut on the CBS soap Love of Life in 1965. She also appeared in ABC’s One Life to Live in 1979 (as Wanda Webb Wolek) before beginning her role on The Guiding Light as the owner and operator of a 7th Street boarding house (and a single mother of seven).

The role saw her appear in more than 50 episodes of The Guiding Light, which was the second longest-running drama in American television history,...

Cinema Napa Valley announced the lineup of filmmaker tributes taking place virtually at this year’s Napa Valley Film Festival from Nov. 10-14. Video tributes will play following screenings of the honorees’ work and include conversations with them.

This year, in addition to the annual Napa Valley Filmmaker Awards, the festival will debut a new series of Culinary Cinema Awards honoring achievements in storytelling devoted to food, wine, and spirits. Across both categories, the 2021 honorees include Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Harvey Keitel, Marlee Matlin, Odessa Young, David Gelb, Phil Rosenthal and Jon Taffer. Each honoree will be presented with a special bottle of wine from a festival sponsor.

“Our tributes highlight those that share an unabashed passion for cinema in many forms throughout their careers,” said Cinema Napa Valley chairman Rick Garber. “We recognize and acknowledge not only their personal accomplishments and critical thinking, but also their career achievements. We embrace their artistic vision,...

Last Year’s Winner: Thandie Newton, “Westworld”

Still Eligible: No.

Hot Streak: In the last 20 years, there have only been three repeat winners in this category: Anna Gunn for “Breaking Bad” (2013 – 2014), Blythe Danner for “Huff” (2005 – 2006), and Allison Janney for “The West Wing” (2000 – 2001). Nancy Marchand is the only actress to win Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in three consecutive years: between 1980 and 1982 for playing Margaret Pynchon in “Lou Grant.” She also won in 1978 for the same role, which is the most of any actor ever.

Fun Fact: 2018 wasn’t the only year the Emmys nominated seven actresses in the supporting actress category. In 1992, Valerie Mahaffey (“Northern Exposure”), Mary Alice (“I’ll Fly Away”), Barbara Barrie (“Law & Order”), Conchata Ferrell (“L.A. Law”), Cynthia Geary (“Northern Exposure”), Marg Helgenberger (“China Beach”), and Kay Lenz (“Reasonable Doubts”) were all up for the Emmy, and each performer represented a broadcast network. In 2018, none were.

When NBC’s cop drama Reasonable Doubts premiered in 1991, the world was introduced to deaf Assistant District Attorney Tess Kaufman (a young Marlee Matlin) and American Sign Language-fluent Det. Dicky Cobb (Mark Harmon, a few years after hanging up his stethoscope at St. Elsewhere and way before NCIS came along).

Tess and Dicky’s working relationship was full of the zingy back-and-forth and long looks that savvy TV viewers know signals a slow-burn attraction. Indeed, over the course of two seasons, the rough-around-the-edges cop and the idealistic Ada grew closer and closer… and then the show got cancelled.

Matlin, now starring in ABC’s Quantico,...

Here’s a top-secret piece of Quantico intel ahead of Season 3: Marlee Matlin (Switched at Birth) will be on hand to help Alex & Co. fight the bad guys, TVLine has learned.

The Academy Award winner, who is deaf, will play Jocelyn Turner, an ex-fbi agent who was one of the Bureau’s top undercover agents before she lost her hearing after being too close to a bomb blast. Though Jocelyn was forced into a do-nothing role after the accident, she’ll now be part of a special unit staffed by returning characters.

RelatedQuantico Season 2 Finale: Ep Talks Alternate Ending,...

NCIS executive producers and longtime writing partners George Schenck and Frank Cardea have been named the new co-showrunners of broadcast TV’s most-watched drama.

They succeed Gary Glasberg, who ran the series starting with Season 9 and abruptly passed away on Sept. 28, at the age of 50.

RelatedNCIS Boss Gary Glasberg Dead at 50, Remembered as ‘Gifted Creative Voice’

“The NCIS family suffered a tragic loss with the sudden passing of our showrunner, Gary Glasberg. It’s with heavy hearts that we assume his duties,” Schenck and Cardea said in a joint statement. “We are fortunate to be surrounded by an incredibly...

Instead of finishing A Song of Ice and Fire: The Winds of Winter, Game of Thrones' George R. R. Martin took to LiveJournal this weekend, to announce the Wild Cards TV series is in development at Universal Cable Productions (Ucp).Martin edits the multi-author sci-fi anthology book series with Melinda M. Snodgrass, who is attached as executive producer. Her TV series credits include: The Outer Limits, Profiler, Sliders, Reasonable Doubts, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.Read More…...

Game Of Thrones only has two short seasons left before it wraps up its series run, and thus will end one of the great pieces of television of the current generation of shows. It'll be a sad day when it happens, but at least we can all rest easy knowing that it went out on its own terms. But wipe those tears away, for fans of the Game Of Thrones author and series executive producer may be happy to learn that the writer isn't done with showbiz just yet.

While Martin has largely made his name as a novelist, one aspect of his career that can't be overlooked is his work as editor of various anthologies. Among these anthologies are Old Venus, Rogues Dangerous Women, Warriors, and of course, Wild Cards, which is the anthology we'll be talking about today.

Thanks to a reveal via George R.R. Martin's own LiveJournal page,...

Back in 2011, it was announced that George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards was headed for a film adaptation but the Game of Thrones author has revealed on his person blog that the superhero fantasy novel series from The Wild Cards Trust is now being developed for television. Said Martin--- “Universal Cable Productions (Ucp) has acquired the rights to adapt our long-running Wild Cards series of anthologies and mosaic novels for television. Development will begin immediately on what we hope will be the first of several interlocking series. Melinda M. Snodgrass, my assistant editor and right-hand man on Wild Cards since its inception, the creator of Dr. Tachyon, Double Helix, and Franny Black, and a seasoned television writer/ producer whose credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Measure of a Man"), Reasonable Doubts, The Profiler, and Star Command, is attached as an executive producer on the project, together with Gregory Noveck of Red,...

You may be familiar with George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series which led to HBO's Game of Thrones but for even longer he’s been involved with a science fiction and superhero fantasy anthology called Wild Cards. And he's just announced it's coming to a television near you. Back in 2011 Wild Cards was optioned for a movie by Syfy Films and Universal Pictures. That didn't quite pan out but Martin himself announced the latest news on his LiveJournal which still has Universal involved: Universal Cable Productions (Ucp) has acquired the rights to adapt our long-running Wild Cards series of anthologies and mosaic novels for television. Development will begin immediately on what we hope will be the first of several interlocking series. Melinda M. Snodgrass, my assistant editor and right-hand man on Wild Cards since its inception, the creator of Dr. Tachyon, Double Helix, and Franny Black,...

Last time on NCIS, we watched Gibbs bond with a wounded fellow sniper and also saw Gibbs back in action as a sniper himself. It was also the show's 300th episode and featured a performance from the real MusiCorps Band, which was very cool. 

This episode of NCIS, titled "Reasonable Doubts," sees the team investigating a rather confusing murder when the victim's wife and mistress each accuse the other of the dastardly deed. We also continue the countdown to Tony Dinozzo's exit. Sigh. Well, at least we can look forward to Tony doing some bonding with Anthony Dinizzo, Sr. (Robert Wagner) during this episode.

Recently, ABC released the new, official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Mistresses" episode 12 of season 3. The episode is entitled, "Reasonable Doubt," and it turns out that we're going to see some very interesting and high drama stuff take place as Josslyn wrestles with a plea deal. Marc and April get blindsided, and more! In the new, 12th episode press release: Reasonable Doubts Drive Each Of The Ladies To Question Their Choices. Press release number 12: Despondent over her situation, Josslyn is going to struggle with whether she should take a plea deal and what that would mean for a future with Harry. Karen will agree to help Vivian keep her secret from Alec so that he can accept a very important award. April and Marc are going to get blind-sided by a surprise visit from Marc's sister Miranda. After being shut out by Josslyn in prison, Calista is going to...

Back in May, I wrote that Gloria Reuben, who can be currently seen in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, and will soon start work, as Tambay reported a few days ago, on the Samuel L. Jackson/Dominic Cooper crime thriller Reasonable Doubts, would be co-starring with Tina Fey and Paul Rudd in their new comedy, Admission, for Focus Features.. As I said in my previous post, in the film Reuben plays "a cutthroat Princeton admissions officer who contends for the same adminstrations counselor job that Fey has". And now a trailer has been released for the picture, which opens on March 8 2013. Take a look:...

Mariam Brillantes Actress Marlee Matlin

Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin is back in the spotlight on ABC Family’s “Switched at Birth,” which will have its winter premiere on Tuesday.

The hour-long drama, about two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, finds Matlin, who is deaf, in good company with a new crop of young and talented deaf actors. Katie Leclerc plays Daphne, one of the teens, who is deaf. Leclerc, who is hard of hearing, can...

'Pilot Talk 1 and 2 are like the Reasonable Doubts of this time,' producer tells Mixtape Daily.

By Rob Markman

Ski Beatz

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Behind the Beats: Ski Beatz

Ski Beatz knows talent when he sees it. Early in his career, the platinum producer from North Carolina also doubled as an Mc in the 1990s group Original Flavor, but after meeting a young, fast-rapping Jay-z, he decided to put down the mic and pick up producing full time. He hasn't looked back, crafting fan-favorite tracks for the likes of Hov, Camp Lo, Talib Kweli, Lil Kim and Curren$y.

These days, it's the New Orleans spitta who has him most excited. "I feel like the albums I did with Curren$y — Pilot Talk 1 and 2 — are like the Reasonable Doubts of this time," Ski told Mixtape Daily.

Comparing Curren$y to Jay might seem like a stretch, but having produced four tracks on Jigga's classic debut,...

Celebrity Apprentice 2011! Who is Marlee Matlin and why is she famous? [Apr. 5] The youngest ever winner of an Oscar and the only deaf person ever to win an Oscar for her role in Children of a Lesser God, green celebrity Marlee Matlin never let her hearing loss get her down. Marlee Matlin regularly contributes to causes that assist those with hearing impairments, and she wrote a memoir, I’ll Scream Later, that details her experiences with sexual and domestic abuse and the drug abuse that followed. Matlin will be competing to support The Starkey Hearing Foundation. IMDb notes that Marlee also played in Walker (1987), set in Nicaragua, where she went off-set to visit the hearing impaired children in the area. Her next big role was as an assistant distract attorney in the television series, Reasonable Doubts (1991). Marlee Matlin has an interest in police and courtroom drama series and married police officer Kevin Grandalski,...

'It's really a punchline to the end of all wack tracks that's out there now,' Bronx Mc tells Mixtape Daily.

By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Rahman Dukes

Fred the Godson

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Main Pick

Street King: Fred the Godson

Holding It Down For: The Bx

Mixtape: Armegeddon

Real Spit: To hear Fred the Godson's doctor explain it, his talent is a blessing. In fact, that's how the Bronx bomber got his Mc name. The hefty rhyme-spitter suffers from a number of ailments, including high blood pressure, kidney failure, asthma and diabetes. So when he told his doc he would be performing at a talent show a few years back, she thought it wasn't such a good idea.

" 'Listen,' " he recalls telling his medical practitioner. " 'I been practicing, and for some reason when I'm practicing, the ailments don't really bother me.' She didn't believe me, so...

According to her calculations, Marlee Matlin was exactly 21 years and 218 days old the night in 1987 that she won the Best Leading Actress Academy Award for her role in Children of a Lesser God and had to convince Academy Award producers to let her interpreter on stage with her.

She took home a Golden Globe that year too, and she remains the youngest woman to ever win a leading lady Oscar.

But Matlin's rise to fame began much earlier: When she was seven-years-old, Matlin's teacher at the Center on Deafness and the Arts approached her about starring in their stage production of The Wizard of Oz. "Would you like to be Dorothy?" her teacher asked. Matlin's response: "I am Dorothy."

Not long after, she won a competition for her essay, "If I Was A Movie Star."

If I was a movie star, I would ride in a limousine.

When I go...