Telly Savalas News

The Queen star is said to be in negotiations with 007 bosses to join Daniel Craig in the 23rd instalment in the superspy franchise, which is slated for release in 2011.

Our Monday return is full of followups, assorted items and stuff we haven't gotten to, yet... "THE CAT" FLIPS TO RTN...ER...RTV: As reported earlier and expected, Media-Com LPTV duo WAOH-LP 29 Akron/W35AX Cleveland did indeed go back...into its TV future.

When I looked at the 1972 TV Guide Fall Preview I described the 1972-73 season as being one of TV's golden years a ' the equivalent of a year like 1939 in the movie business a ' when a string of truly memorable series burst onto the scene.

Film director Ken Annakin has died at the age of 94. The British-born filmmaker is best known for directing the 1965 World War II epic "The Battle of the Bulge" with Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Robert Shaw and Telly Savalas.

The Hollywood Wax Museum, a rather unique landmark in Hollywood, California is selling off some of its wax figures.

Vin Diesel returns his smooth pate to center screen today in "Fast & Furious," the fourth edition of the chase-and-crash street-racing series.

AND now for our supporting feature... Old Mr Anorak has happy memories of Birmingham, where he lived for a while in the 1980s.

Roger Moore as a Nazi prison camp commandant, Elliott Gould as a Jewish vaudevillian on tour in Nazi-occupied Europe, Stefanie Powers as a stripper in the same troupe, Telly Savalas as a Greek resistance ...

Here's an item from Michael Klein's Inquirer column a couple days ago: Daddy's little girl In December's Philadelphia Magazine, which looks back at 100 Philly moments from the last 100 years, an item asks: ...