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Friday Dec 11 | OfficialWire

Valerie Harper Is Broadway Bound

Valerie Harper is set to play Hollywood screen icon Tallulah Bankhead in the Broadway production of "Looped," the comedy's producers said.

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Related Topix: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Valerie Harper, Tallulah Bankhead

Thu Dec 03, 2009

DVD Talk

The Mary Tyler Moore Show - The Complete Fifth Season

No more Rhoda. Sigh . Well, it's taken more than three years for the fifth season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to be released on DVD, and after looking at this insulting, bare-bones edition - not even an episode list is included, for chrissakes - one might assume that Fox has all but washed their hands of the public relations debacle they created ...

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Related Topix: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper

Tue Dec 01, 2009

Playbill

Valerie Harper Will Be Tallulah, Darling, on Broadway

Looped , starring Emmy Award winner Valerie Harper as aging actress Tallulah Bankhead, who spars with a movie sound editor, will have a Broadway life in spring 2010, according to a casting notice.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Valerie Harper, Emmy Awards, Tallulah Bankhead

Wed Oct 21, 2009

Messenger

Bash marks a The Simpsonsa 20th anniversary

The arrivals-line carpet leading into Barker Hangar was yellow - appropriate, given the night's honorees: Homer, Bart, Lisa, Marge and Maggie Simpson, all on hand to celebrate 20 years of "The Simpsons." Their series is the longest-running American sitcom, the longest-running American animated program, and it recently surpassed "Gunsmoke" as the ...

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Related Topix: Comedy, Animated TV, The Simpsons, Entertainment, Television, Julie Kavner, Star Trek, Science Fiction TV

Mon Oct 19, 2009

KCBY-TV Coos Bay

D'oh! Bash marks 'The Simpsons' 20th

Forget red. The arrivals-line carpet leading into Barker Hangar was yellow - appropriate, given the night's honorees: Homer, Bart, Lisa, Marge and Maggie Simpson, all on hand to celebrate 20 years of "The Simpsons." Their series is the longest-running American sitcom, the longest-running American animated program, and it recently surpassed ...

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Related Topix: Comedy, Animated TV, The Simpsons, Entertainment, Television, Julie Kavner, Star Trek, Science Fiction TV

Sat Sep 26, 2009

Associated Content

Top TV Characters Never Seen by Viewers

Many television series feature elusive characters that are never actually seen on camera.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Valerie Harper, Charlie's Angels, Drama

Wed Sep 16, 2009

San Jose Mercury News

Lauper taps into her psychic side on Fox's 'Bones'

In this publicity image released by Fox, Emily Deschanel, left, and Cyndi Lauper, guest starring as psychic Avalon Harmonia, are shown in a scene from, "Bones," airing Thursday, Sept.

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Related Topix: Bones, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Emily Deschanel, Comedy, Valerie Harper, Science / Technology

Sun Sep 13, 2009

PittsburghLIVE.com

A look at the Steelers' first Super Bowl

A weekly look at the 1974 season, the first time the Steelers went on to lift the Lombardi Trophy: Pardon me A month into his tenure as 38th President, Gerald Ford granted a full and unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon for any crimes committed in the Watergate scandal.

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Related Topix: Twin Falls, ID, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Mon Jul 13, 2009

The Age

TV highlights, Tuesday July 14

Tracey Ullman channels Heather Mills-McCartney in State of the Union . Photo: Supplied Tracey Ullman's State of the Union ABC1 9.25pm I REALLY want to like this show - after all, it has some solid TV provenance, spawned as it is from the sassy Tracey Ullman Show in the late 1980s, a weekly variety show starring the all-singing, all-dancing Ullman.

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Related Topix: Tracey Ullman's State of the Union, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Tracey Ullman, Animated TV, The Simpsons, Comedy, Julie Kavner

Thu Jul 09, 2009

Entertainment

Anwar starred in circus film

If it's Thursday, this must be the mailbag . . . Q: The woman star of ''Burn Notice,'' Gabrielle Anwar, made an earlier movie my kids loved.

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Related Topix: Gabrielle Anwar, House, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Suicide, Cleveland Metro, Akron, OH

Fri Jun 26, 2009

National Public Radio

'Looped': TV's Rhoda Tackles The Trials Of Tallulah

Tallulah and Lucy? There's a match made in comedy heaven. Via YouTube, two clips from Bankhead's 1957 appearance on The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour , playing her fearsome self: Morning Edition , June 26, 2009 A person has "made it" when they're known by their first name alone: Oprah, Ella, Angelina, Barack.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Drama, Valerie Harper

Wed Jun 10, 2009

Pride Guide at Metro Weekly (Newspape...

Here's Valerie!: Valerie Harper is thrilled to serve as this...

''I feel like there's momentum now, finally in the country, toward sanity,'' says Valerie Harper.

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Related Topix: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Valerie Harper, Gay/Lesbian, Mary Tyler Moore

Tue Jun 09, 2009

The Baltimore Sun

Harper is tantalized by Tallulah

Valerie Harper is on the phone, and she can't stop talking about Tallulah. The 68-year-old actress is known for her portrayals of strong-willed women.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Valerie Harper, Theater, Arts

Mon Jun 01, 2009

Associated Content

Tallulah Bankhead Brought Back to Life by Valerie Harper in 'Looped'

Actress Valerie Harper is starring in "Looped," a play in which she enthusiastically takes on the role of aging actress Tallulah Bankhead, reports the Washington Post.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Tallulah Bankhead, Valerie Harper, Emmy Awards, Mary Tyler Moore

Sat May 23, 2009

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

On This Day in History: May 21 A Familiar TV Face

David Groh was born in Brooklyn on May 21, 1941, the son of an architect. He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School and entered Brown University as an engineering major, but gradually gravitated to the Fine Arts department.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, General Hospital, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Soap Opera, Illegal in Blue, Drama, David Groh, Brown University

Thu May 21, 2009

Metro Weekly

Rhoda Returns: Valerie Harper channels Tallulah Bankhead at Arena Stage

''She was so much more outrageous than I would ever think of being,'' says Valerie Harper of legendary actress Tallulah Bankhead.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Drama, Valerie Harper, Tallulah Bankhead, Emmy Awards

Wed May 20, 2009

Washington Times

GREEN & GLOVER: On the hot list

By Stephanie Green Tuesday, May 19, 2009 Article On the hot list Since Michelle Obama became the first presidential spouse to land on the Maxim Hot 100 list, a litany of the world's sexiest women, we wondered if other first ladies would have made the cut in their heyday.

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Related Topix: Michelle Obama, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Valerie Harper, Emmy Awards

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