Herbert Lom, Pink Panther star, dies aged 95
Actor Herbert Lom, best known for playing Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films, has died aged 95. The Czech-born, London-based actor starred opposite Peter Sellers in several films as Inspector Clouseau’s irritable boss. Lom appeared in more than 100…
A Dull Night At The Emmys, But A Big One For ‘Homeland’ And ‘Modern Family’
by Linda Holmes, npr Let us say this first: As an actual determination of the utmost merit in television, the Emmy Awards are ridiculous and have been ridiculous for quite some time. Naming shows that the Emmys failed to take…
Treme returns to HBO
The third season of the drama series will premiere September 30th in the Caribbean HBO Latin America announced the September 30th third season premiere of Treme in the Caribbean. The drama series follows the people of New Orleans who continue…
HBO Premieres new season of Boardwalk Empire
HBO Latin America announced that the third season of the 12-time Emmy® nominated, highly acclaimed series, Boardwalk Empire, will premiere in the Caribbean on September 16th, day-and-date with the United States. Created by Terence Winter (Emmy® Award-winning writer of The…
Sarah Palin’s Fox News Contract May Not Be Renewed: NY Mag
Huffington Post Sarah Palin’s outburst at Fox News on Wednesday is part of a protracted set of contract negotiations that could see the former vice-presidential nominee end her association with the network, New York’s Gabriel Sherman reported Thursday. Palin set…
Which TV-News Personality Has the Most Movie Cameos?
By Adam K. Raymond of Vulture Jodie Foster’s 1997 alien hunter pic Contact lists 80 people in its cast on IMDB. Nearly a quarter of them were CNN employees. Warner Bros. cast them to help pimp the network, a fellow…
Hip-hop duo to sue FBI over fans’ gang label
Insane Clown Posse is petitioning for the removal of Juggalos from an official list of American gangs, saying the FBI is trying to ‘kill our band’. Insane Clown Posse have announced plans to sue the FBI, petitioning for the removal…
Major Networks Shut Out of Best Drama Category in Emmy Nominations
From Brian Stelter and Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times The winner of the Emmy Award for outstanding drama won’t be announced until September. But the category’s losers were all identified on Thursday: the big broadcast networks that televise the…
Charles Bronson retires to the Cayman Islands (complete with a mountain) in 1984 thriller “The Evil That Men Do”
Here’s how you know The Evil That Men Do is going to be another Charles Bronson bad-asser: The film’s first shot is a slowed-down grab from a much later scene, of him throwing a knife just to the left of…
