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It was the first dramatic movie to ever win the Best Picture Oscar, and... wait, no. Wrong "Wings." For '90s TV viewers, the name conjures up not a silent war classic that serves as the template for all subsequent wartime buddy movies, but a sitcom mainstay that ran for eight seasons on NBC, and, like many NBC sitcoms with longevity, led to bigger and better things for many of its cast. At its peak, "Wings" felt like it was on TV nearly all the time, not just on NBC, but also in constant reruns on the network's cable sister-station, USA.

"Wings" was a workplace comedy set at a small, two-airline airport in Nantucket, focusing predominantly on the Hackett brothers, who run the fictional Sandpiper Airlines, which has all of one plane. The show was create by former "Cheers" writers David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee, with a similar...

Few actors have as extensive a filmography as Steven Weber, and his best movies and TV shows reveal an astounding level of variety that stands as a testament to the Wings and Chicago Med star's versatility. Born in 1961 with a career that started in 1984, Steven Weber has starred in dozens of movies and TV shows across the decades. He got his earliest experience as a child actor in TV commercials, but his big break came in the 1984 romantic comedy Flamingo Kid.

From this early appearance, Steven Weber went on to star in a variety of movies and TV shows throughout the 1980s, including the acclaimed Vietnam War movie Hamburger Hill. However, it was landing a leading role in the 1990-1997 sitcom Wings that truly kick-started Steven Weber's career, and decades later the actor is still enjoying an incredibly successful and active career. Picking out the best Steven Weber movies and...

Ernest Borgnine, an Academy Award winner and three-time Emmy nominee, died of kidney failure on Sunday. He was 95.

On television, Borgnine played the titular Lt. Commander Quinton McHale in the World War II-set sitcom McHale’s Navy, which ran from 1962 to 1966. His small-screen resume also includes runs on Airwolf and 1996′s short-lived comedy The Single Guy, voice work on shows such as All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series, The Simpsons (as himself) and SpongeBob SquarePants (voicing Mermaid Man as recently as September 2011), and guest-starring turns on myriad programs including two Season 15 episodes of ER, for which he earned one...

American actor Dom DeLuise has died at the age of 75.

The veteran comedian passed away in his sleep at a hospital in Los Angeles on Monday night, reports TMZ.com.

DeLuise rose to fame in the 1970s and '80s, appearing alongside pal Burt Reynolds in movies like The Cannonball Run, Smokey and the Bandit II, The End, and All Dogs Go to Heaven.

He became known on the small screen for his magic act as 'Dominick the Great' on the popular Dean Martin show between 1972 and 1973, and went on to further establish himself in Hollywood with appearances in Mel Brooks' films such as 1974's Blazing Saddles, 1976's Silent Movie, and 1993 comedy Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

The star was also nominated for a Golden Globe in 1974 for his work on TV comedy Lotsa Luck, while he received a nod at the Daytime Emmys in 1999 for his efforts on animation All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series.

DeLuise spent his latter years writing children's books and cookbooks.

He is survived by his actress wife Carol Arthur, who he married in 1965, and their three actor sons Peter, David and Michael DeLuise.