The Bob Newhart Show premiered on CBS on September 16, 1972, starring Newhart as psychologist Dr. Robert Hartley, with Suzanne Pleshette playing his wife, Emily Hartley. It ran for six seasons, and ended on April 1, 1978, with its 142nd episode. Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, and Marcia Wallace also starred. The CBS sitcom also featured a large recurring cast, including Jack Riley, Tom Poston, and Howard Hesseman. To commemorate The Bob Newhart Show's 45th anniversary, the Television Academy threw a celebration Tuesday night, at the Wolf Theatre in North Hollywood, hosted by Conan O'Brien and featuring Newhart, himself. Check out the photos at the end of this...
- 8/10/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! If you see something you like, click on the title to buy it from Amazon. Death Spa The hottest health spa in in town uses a state-of-the-art computer to help its clientele get the most out of their workouts, but the business is threatened when people start dying on the premises in wonderfully gory ways. Well, it would be threatened if the customers cared more about their safety than they do their bodies. It seems the owner’s wife, a woman who burned to death under mysterious circumstances, has returned for some supernatural vengeance. I won’t pretend that this late ’80s horror flick is a “good” movie per se, but there’s definitely a lot to enjoy here from the bloody gore effects to the decade-glorifying production design to its unabashed love of nudity to dialogue that delivers unintentional laughs. It’s a fun little movie that also earns...
- 5/27/2014
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Today, we celebrate a quintessential diva, a Hollywood staple from The Dark Knight, a seasoned television actor, a regular cast member from the television series Medium, and an unsung talent responsible for some of your favorite soundtracks. Can you guess who we're talking about from the following clues? Daughter of Judy Garland. At only seventeen years old, she appeared on stage at the London Paladium. At nineteen, she won her first Tony ward, and at the ripe age of twenty-three she won her first Academy Award. Oscars would follow and a long career that has made her a household name. Played Two-Face in The Dark Knight. (If you need more clues than that, you've been living under a rock!) Got his first big break playing a minor role in Hamburger Hill and later Sean Connery's The Hunt for Red October. He would go on to guest star in a...
- 3/13/2009
- by rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
- PopStar
Today, we celebrate a quintessential diva, a Hollywood staple from The Dark Knight, a seasoned television actor, a regular cast member from the television series Medium, and an unsung talent responsible for some of your favorite soundtracks. Can you guess who we're talking about from the following clues? Daughter of Judy Garland. At only seventeen years old, she appeared on stage at the London Paladium. At nineteen, she won her first Tony ward, and at the ripe age of twenty-three she won her first Academy Award. Oscars would follow and a long career that has made her a household name. Played Two-Face in The Dark Knight. (If you need more clues than that, you've been living under a rock!) Got his first big break playing a minor role in Hamburger Hill and later Sean Connery's The Hunt for Red October. He would go on to guest star in a...
- 3/13/2009
- by rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
- PopStar
Today, we celebrate a quintessential diva, a Hollywood staple from The Dark Knight, a seasoned television actor, a regular cast member from the television series Medium, and an unsung talent responsible for some of your favorite soundtracks. Can you guess who we're talking about from the following clues? Daughter of Judy Garland. At only seventeen years old, she appeared on stage at the London Paladium. At nineteen, she won her first Tony ward, and at the ripe age of twenty-three she won her first Academy Award. Oscars would follow and a long career that has made her a household name. Played Two-Face in The Dark Knight. (If you need more clues than that, you've been living under a rock!) Got his first big break playing a minor role in Hamburger Hill and later Sean Connery's The Hunt for Red October. He would go on to guest star in a...
- 3/13/2009
- by rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
- PopStar
Between Dr. Drew Pinsky on VH1's reality hit "Celebrity Rehab" and the fictional Dr. Paul Weston on Hbo's highly addictive "In Treatment," we're awash in TV therapists .
"These shows are a way of people getting back in touch with the soul, and the audience wants that," Baylor College psychiatry professor Glen Gabbard, author of “Psychiatry and the Cinema,” told Broadcasting & Cable.
But TV’s fascination with the therapist’s couch is nothing new. Here’s a highly subjective look at a few of the fictional tube shrinks — past and present — who have captured my imagination.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine Bracco) of HBO’s “The Sopranos” (1999-2007)
Nobody knew more about New Jersey’s top mobster, Tony Soprano (except perhaps the FBI agents who kept tabs on him). But toward the end of the series, she began to wonder how much she’d helped the mobster, who first visited after suffering a panic attack.
"These shows are a way of people getting back in touch with the soul, and the audience wants that," Baylor College psychiatry professor Glen Gabbard, author of “Psychiatry and the Cinema,” told Broadcasting & Cable.
But TV’s fascination with the therapist’s couch is nothing new. Here’s a highly subjective look at a few of the fictional tube shrinks — past and present — who have captured my imagination.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine Bracco) of HBO’s “The Sopranos” (1999-2007)
Nobody knew more about New Jersey’s top mobster, Tony Soprano (except perhaps the FBI agents who kept tabs on him). But toward the end of the series, she began to wonder how much she’d helped the mobster, who first visited after suffering a panic attack.
- 3/7/2008
- by Tempo
- The Watcher
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