Miscellany

CNBC: Squawk Box's Mark Haines Dies at 65

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CNBC just issued the sudden and sad news that Mark Haines, founding anchor of the channel’s signature program Squawk Box, died last night. The channel has launched a lot of business-news stars in its time, but Haines was as close as anyone to being its defining face and voice. Like a …

Elizabeth Taylor's Littlest Role

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Word has come out that legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor has died. I will leave it to my colleagues on the film side to properly eulogize her life and career, but I wanted to take a second to remember one of her appearances on TV. Her part consisted of just one word, but her …

Remembering Jane Russell: Brunette Bombshell

Back then they were called bosoms. Jane Russell had some, and Howard Hughes knew what to do with them. Russell’s breasts — not actors Walter Huston and Thomas Mitchell — were the stars of Hughes’s 1943 western The Outlaw. …

Remembering Creator of Moose and Squirrel

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Alexander Anderson, creator of Rocky and His Friends and the subsequent spinoffs involving the cold-war-era capers of the flying squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose, died Friday. TIME film critic Richard …

Tom Bosley, 1927-2010: American Dad

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Tom Bosley, a TV fixture as the Cunningham paterfamilias on Happy Days, died today at age 83.

There are two types of TV dads: those who play somebody’s dad, and those who make you feel as if they could be—almost, in some way, as if they are—your dad. Bosley was the latter. His …

Barbara Billingsley Dies At 94

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Barbara Billingsley, best known as Cleaver family matriarch June in Leave It to Beaver, has died at age 94. Through June Cleaver, Billngsley created one of that handful of TV characters who we’ve come to know not just as people but as symbols of the ideas and social threads of an …

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