birth date	December 06, 1945
birth place	Middletown, Connecticut, U.S.
occupation	Actor
yearsactive	1972–present }}

James Naughton (born December 6, 1945) is an American director, theater, film and television actor.

Early life[link]

Naughton was born in Middletown, Connecticut, the son of Rosemary (née Walsh) and Joseph Naughton, both of whom were teachers He is the brother of actor David Naughton.

Career[link]

Naughton graduated from Brown University and Yale Drama School. His acting career began when he appeared in a series of Broadway dramas and musicals. He has since become an accomplished actor in both starring and supporting film and television roles.

His largest fame and first love has been the legitimate theater. He won the Theatre World Award for his performance in ''Long Day's Journey Into Night'' in 1971. He went on to star with Geneviève Bujold in ''Antigone'' which was later made into a film in 1974. He starred in the musical ''I Love My Wife'' in 1977 and in the drama ''Whose Life is it Anyway?'' opposite Mary Tyler Moore in 1980. He won his first Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 1990 for ''City of Angels''. In 1997 he won a second Tony Award with his portrayal of lawyer Billy Flynn in the musical ''Chicago''. He created the lead role of Willy Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany, in the highly acclaimed drama ''Democracy'' in 2004.

His films include ''The Paper Chase'' and ''The First Wives Club''. In 2006, he appeared in the movie The Devil Wears Prada, opposite Meryl Streep. In 2006, he played the part of Edie Sedgwick's father, Fuzzy Sedgwick in ''Factory Girl''.

Television and commercials[link]

On television, he starred in ''Faraday & Company'' with Dan Daily and Sharon Gless (1973–1974). He also starred with Ron Harper in the 1974 television series cult-classic ''Planet of the Apes'', a spin-off of the original movie. He starred in ''Making the Grade'' and ''Trauma Center'' in the early 1980s. He starred in the short lived series ''Raising Miranda'' in 1988. He co-starred with Bill Cosby in ''The Cosby Mysteries'' in 1995. He has also done numerous guest-star roles on television, including several different villains on ''Law & Order'' produced by his Brown University classmate, Jeffrey L. Hayes.

He appeared with Sharon Gless twenty years later, this time as her husband in ''Cagney and Lacey: the Return'' (1993) and ''Cagney and Lacey:Together Again'' (1995). More recently, he appeared on ''Damages'' with Glenn Close. He has appeared in television commercials promoting the drugs Cialis, Nexium and Nasalcrom. Mr. Naughton has also been the official voice of Audi in the U.S. since 2007. His voice can be heard in their national TV and Radio spots. He is also a frequent narrator on PBS television's ''Nature'' series.

Director[link]

He has directed several plays in New York, including the 2002 revival of Thornton Wilder's ''Our Town'', starring his close personal friend Paul Newman, which was filmed for cable TV in 2003. He also appears in cabarets in New York City, including Manhattan Theater Club and Caroline's Comedy Club.

Personal life[link]

His family is Irish American. He and his wife, Pam, have two actor children: Keira Naughton and Greg Naughton. His son is married to Kelli O'Hara. He started singing during his years at Conard High School "with the high school band and at parties."

His brother David Naughton is also an actor.

Stage productions[link]

''Long Day's Journey into Night'' (1971)

''Antigone'' (1972)

''I Love My Wife'' (1979)

''Whose Life is it Anyway?'' (1980)

''City of Angels'' (1990) (Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical)

''Four Baboons Adoring the Sun'' (1992)

''Chicago'' (1996) (Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical)

''The Price'' (director) (1999)

''Our Town'' (2003)

''Prymate'' (2004)

''Democracy'' - 2004

Filmography[link]

''The Paper Chase'' (1973) - Kevin Brooks

''Second Wind'' (1976) - Roger

''Diary of the Dead'' (1980) - George

''A Stranger Is Watching'' (1982) - Steve Peterson

''My Body, My Child'' (1982) - Dr. Dan Berensen

''Cat's Eye'' (1985) - Hugh (segment "The General")

''The Glass Menagerie'' (1987) - Jim O'Connor, the Gentleman caller

''The Good Mother'' (1988) - Brian

''First Kid'' (1996) - President Davenport

''The First Wives Club'' (1996) - Gilbert Griffin

''The Proprietor'' (1996) - New York - Texans

''Oxygen'' (1999) - Clark Hannon

''Ally McBeal'' (1999–2000) - George McBeal

''Labor Pains'' (2000) - Actor

''Fascination'' (2004) - Patrick Doherty

''The Devil Wears Prada'' (2006) - Stephen

''Factory Girl'' (2006) - Fuzzy Sedgwick

''Gossip Girl'' (2009) - William Vanderbilt

References[link]

External links[link]

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name	Ruth Westheimer
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Ruth Westheimer (born June 4, 1928) is an German-American sex therapist, media personality, and author. Best known as Dr. Ruth, the ''New York Times'' described her as a "Sorbonne-trained psychologist who became a kind of cultural icon in the 1980s. She ushered in the new age of freer, franker talk about sex on radio and television—and was endlessly parodied for her limitless enthusiasm and for having an accent only a psychologist could have."

Background[link]

Westheimer was born Karola Ruth Siegel in Wiesenfeld (Karlstadt), Germany, the only child of Orthodox Jews, Julius Siegel and Irma Siegel née Hanauer. In January 1939 she was sent to Switzerland by her mother and grandmother after her father was taken by the Nazis. There she came of age in an orphanage, and stopped receiving her parents' letters in September 1941. In 1945, Westheimer learned that her parents had been murdered in the Holocaust, possibly at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Westheimer decided to emigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine. There, at 17, she "first had sexual intercourse on a starry night, in a haystack—without contraception." She later told the ''New York Times'' that "I am not happy about that, but I know much better now and so does everyone who listens to my radio program." Westheimer joined the Haganah in Jerusalem. Because of her diminutive height of , she was trained as a scout and sniper. Westheimer was seriously wounded in action by an exploding shell during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948, and it was several months before she was able to walk again.

In 1950, Westheimer moved to France, where she studied and then taught psychology at the University of Paris. In 1956, she immigrated to the United States, settling in Washington Heights, Manhattan. She still lives in the "cluttered three-bedroom apartment in Washington Heights where she raised her two children and became famous, in that order," because the two synagogues she belongs to, the YMHA she was president of for three years, and a "still sizable community of German Jewish World War II refugees," remain in the neighborhood. She speaks English, German, French, and Hebrew.

She earned a master's degree in sociology from The New School and an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University. She completed post-doctoral work in human sexuality at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, training with pioneer sex therapist Helen Singer Kaplan.

Westheimer has written several books on human sexuality, including ''Dr. Ruth's Encyclopedia of Sex'' and ''Sex for Dummies''. The full version of ''Dr. Ruth's Encyclopedia of Sex'' is currently available online.

Westheimer has given commencement speeches at the Hebrew Union College seminary, Lehman College of the City University of New York, and, in 2004, at Trinity College. She has also taught courses and seminars at Princeton and Yale.

Westheimer was the guest speaker at the Bronx High School of Science in New York in commemoration of Yom HaShoah 2008. She spoke about her life story and the audience of 500 sang "Happy Birthday" in honor of her 80th birthday. At the ceremony she received an honorary Bronx High School of Science diploma. In 2008 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Westfield State College.

In 2002, she received the Leo Baeck Medal for her humanitarian work promoting tolerance and social justice.

Westheimer has been married three times. Her third marriage, to Manfred Westheimer, lasted until his death in 1997. She has two children, Miriam and Joel, and several grandchildren.

Media career[link]

In 1980, WYNY-FM was NBC Radio's New York City owned-and-operated station. The struggling Adult Contemporary station had recently gone through a makeover in an attempt to build an audience. Part of this rebuild was adding specialized talk shows to the evening and weekend hours. Maurice Tunick was recruited from New York's leading talk station, WOR, where he was talk show producer. As WYNY's Program Coordinator he was responsible for developing new talk shows.

Betty Elam was WYNY's Community Affairs Manager. Her job was to work closely with community groups and the station's public affairs programming. After attending a New York Market Radio (NYMRAD) convention at which Westheimer was a speaker, she was taken with Westheimer's passion, information, sense of humor, and personality and suggested that WYNY do something with her. She made two appearances as a guest on a taped Sunday morning public affairs program. WYNY's General Manager, Dan Griffin, then suggested that Tunick find a way to develop a public affairs show for her.

The show was assigned 15 minutes beginning at midnight on Sunday nights. Being a novice in radio, Westheimer thought it would be a good idea to have guests covering urology, neurology, gynecology, etc. — all areas which could have an effect on sex. While that would be important, Tunick thought a better show would be to not have guests at all but to directly answer listeners' questions. NBC was reluctant to allow live phone calls for a sex advice show, which was considered very risqué in the early 1980s, but Tunick suggested soliciting questions via mail. Westheimer could then control the questions and read them on the air with her answers. Typically each question began with, "I have a letter from a listener who asks..."

The show, ''Sexually Speaking'', using the name "Dr. Ruth," was taped in an NBC Radio studio at 30 Rockefeller Center, NBC's radio and TV headquarters, on Thursday mornings at 11:00 a.m. for airing on Sunday nights at midnight. All NBC studios at "30 Rock" were accessible from other studios and many offices around the building. A couple of weeks into recording, it was reported that work was stopping in many places in the building on Thursdays at 11 as people were gathering to hear this "cross between Henry Kissinger and Minnie Mouse," as the ''Wall Street Journal'' would later describe her.

After two months the show was expanded to an hour and went live, with Westheimer taking phone calls with a delay. Within a year "Dr. Ruth" had a larger audience on Sunday night at midnight on this struggling station than many New York stations had in morning drive-time. She became known for being candid and funny, but respectful, and for her tag phrase, "Get some."

As "Dr. Ruth," Westheimer became nationally known after several appearances on ''Late Night with David Letterman'' in the early 1980s. In less than two years, Dr. Ruth became a household name and was being heard on radio stations across the country.

Her pioneering TV show, also called ''Sexually Speaking'', first aired in 1982 as a 15-minute taped show on Lifetime Cable. It has since increased in popularity and has been nationally syndicated, as has her radio show.

In recent years, Westheimer has made regular appearances on the PBS Television children's show ''Between the Lions'' as "Dr. Ruth Wordheimer" in a parody of her therapist role, in which she helps anxious readers and spellers overcome their fear of long words.

She also made a cameo on PBS's Dinosaur Train as an Archeopteryx.

She appeared as herself in episode 87 of Quantum Leap, the episode title being "Dr. Ruth".

Westheimer appeared on Tom Chapin's album This Pretty Planet, in the song "Two Kinds of Seagulls," in which she and Chapin sing of various animals that reproduce sexually. "It takes two to tingle," says the song.

As marketers took "sex sells" literally, Westheimer appeared in commercials for the Honda Prelude, circa 1993 ending with "My advice to you is, 'Get a Prelude.'"

Westheimer also worked as a spokeswoman for Clairol Herbal Essences shampoo and body wash, depicting a comical side to her work as a sex therapist. The commercials usually featured a woman imagining that she was using the shampoo on her hair, apparently receiving some sexual charge from it. When the woman snapped back to reality, Westheimer was standing next to her, stating that if the woman liked the shampoo, she should try the body wash as well.

In the January 2009 55th anniversary issue of ''Playboy'', Westheimer appears as #13 in the list of the 55 most important people in sex from the past 55 years.

References[link]

External links[link]

Dr. Ruth's website

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There are many people in history who are commonly appended with the phrase "''the Great''", or who were called that or an equivalent phrase in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes such as ''e Bozorg'' and ''e azam'' in Persian and Urdu respectively.

In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to be a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King". This title was first used by the conqueror Cyrus II of Persia.

The Persian title was inherited by Alexander III of Macedon (336–323 BC) when he conquered the Persian Empire, and the epithet "Great" eventually became personally associated with him. The first reference (in a comedy by Plautus) assumes that everyone knew who "Alexander the Great" was; however, there is no earlier evidence that Alexander III of Macedon was called "''the Great''".

The early Seleucid kings, who succeeded Alexander in Persia, used "Great King" in local documents, but the title was most notably used for Antiochus the Great (223–187 BC).

Later rulers and commanders began to use the epithet "the Great" as a personal name, like the Roman general Pompey. Others received the surname retrospectively, like the Carthaginian Hanno and the Indian emperor Ashoka the Great. Once the surname gained currency, it was also used as an honorific surname for people without political careers, like the philosopher Albert the Great.

As there are no objective criteria for "greatness", the persistence of later generations in using the designation greatly varies. For example, Louis XIV of France was often referred to as "The Great" in his lifetime but is rarely called such nowadays, while Frederick II of Prussia is still called "The Great". A later Hohenzollern - Wilhelm I - was often called "The Great" in the time of his grandson Wilhelm II, but rarely later.

Rulers[link]

Abbas I of Persia (1571–1629), Shah of Iran

Akbar (1542–1605), ruler of the Mughal Empire of South Asia, mainly India

Alain I of Albret (1440–1522), French aristocrat

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), King of Macedonia, Persia, Greece, Egypt, and all of Mesopotamia

Alexander I of Georgia (1386–1446), King of Georgia

Alfonso III of León (c. 848-910), King of León, Galicia and Asturias

Alfred the Great (848/849-899), King of Wessex

Antiochus III the Great (c. 241–187 BC), ruler of the Seleucid Empire

Ashoka the Great (c. 304–232 BC), Indian emperor of the Maurya dynasty

Ashot I of Iberia “the Great”(died 826/830), presiding prince of Iberia (modern Georgia),

Askia Mohammad I (c. 1442–1538), ruler of the Songhai Empire

Bhumibol Adulyadej (born 1927), King of Thailand

Bolesław I Chrobry (967-1025), sometimes called "the Great", first King of Poland

Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia (also listed in the following section)

Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (1736–1809), founder and ruler of the Rattanakosin Kingdom (in what is now Thailand)

Cnut the Great (c. 985 or 995-1035), King of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden

Casimir III the Great (1310–1370), King of Poland

Catherine the Great (1729–1796), Empress of Russia

Chandragupta II (reigned 375-413/415), also known as Vikramaditya, ruler of the Gupta empire in India

Charlemagne (died 814), King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans

Chulalongkorn (1853–1910), King of Siam (now Thailand)

Chlothar II (584-629), King of Neustria and King of the Franks

Conrad, Margrave of Meissen (c. 1097-1157), Margrave of Meissen

Constantine I (c. 272-337), Roman emperor

Cyaxares the Great (c. 625-585 BC), third king of Media

Cyrus the Great (c. 600 BC or 576 BC–530 BC), founder and ruler of the Persian or Achaemenid Empire

Darius the Great (550 – 486 BC), third ruler of the Persian Empire

Devapala (died 850), ruler of the Pala Empire in the Indian subcontinent

Dionysius I, Greek tyrant of Syracuse

Ferdinand I of León and Castile (c. 1015–1065), King of León and Count of Castile

Frederick the Great (1712–1786), King of Prussia

Genghis Khan (1162?-1227), founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire

Gero (c. 900–965), ruler of Marca Geronis, a very large march in Europe

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594–1632), King of Sweden, founder of the Swedish Empire, and noted military leader

Gwanggaeto the Great, King of Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea

Hanno the Great, the name of three leaders of Carthage, in the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd centuries BC

Henry I, Duke of Burgundy (946–1002)

Henry IV of France (1553–1610), King of France and King of Navarre

Herod the Great (73/74 BC-4 BC), King of Judea

Hugh the Great (898-956), Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris

Hugh Magnus of France (1007–1025), co-King of France

Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (1057–1101)

Humphrey I de Bohun (died c. 1123), Anglo-Norman aristocrat

Ivan III of Russia (1440–1505), Tsar of Russia

John I of Portugal (1358–1433), King of Portugal and the Algarve

John II of Aragon (1398–1479), King of Aragon and, through his wife, King of Navarre

Justinian I (483-565), Byzantine Emperor

Kamehameha I (c. 1758-1819), first King of Hawai'i

Kanishka (died c. 127), ruler of the Kushan Empire in Central Asia and parts of India

Kvirike III of Kakheti (1010–1029), King of Kakheti in eastern Georgia

Kublai Khan (1215–1294), Mongol ruler in the 13th century and Emperor of China; founder of the Yuan Dynasty

Llywelyn the Great (c. 1172–1240), Prince of Gwynedd and de facto ruler of most of Wales

Louis I of Hungary (1326–1382), King of Hungary, Croatia and Poland

Mangrai the Great (1238–1317), Lanna, northern Thailand

Emperor Meiji (1852–1912), Emperor of Japan

Mircea I of Wallachia (1355–1418)

Mithridates II of Parthia (died 88 BC), ruler of the Parthian Empire (in present day Iran)

Mithridates VI of Pontus (134 BC–63 BC), ruler of Pontus and the Bosporan Kingdom

Mstislav I of Kiev (1076–1132), Grand Prince of Kievan Rus

Naresuan (1555–1605), King of Ayutthaya

Narai (1633–1688), King of Ayutthaya (in what is now modern Thailand)

Odo the Great (died c. 735), Duke of Aquitaine

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912-973)

K'inich Janaab' Pakal (603-683), ruler of the Mayan city-state of Palenque

Parakramabahu I of Polonnaruwa (1123–1186), King of Sri Lanka

Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia (died 1075), King of Croatia

Peter the Great (1672–1725), Tsar of Russia

Peter III of Aragon (1239–1285), King of Aragon and King of Sicily

Pompey (106 BC-48 BC), military and political leader of the late Roman Republic, rival of Julius Caesar

Radama I (1793–1828), first king of greater Madagascar

Raja Raja Chola I (c. 947-1014), Indian emperor of the Cholas.

Rajendra Chola I (reigned 1014–1044), Tamil King of India

Ramesses II (reigned 1279 BC – 1213 BC), considered the greatest pharaoh of Ancient Egypt

Ram Khamhaeng (around 1237 to 1247-1298), King of Sukhothai (in present day Thailand)

Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (1082–1131), also Count of Provence and various other counties

Rhodri the Great (c. 820–878), King of Gwynedd (in present day Wales)

Roman the Great (after 1160-1205), Grand Prince of Kiev

Saladin (c. 1138-1193), Kurdish Sultan of Egypt and Syria, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, and victor over the Crusaders

Samudragupta (c. 335–375), ruler of the Gupta empire in the Indian subcontinent

Sancho III of Navarre (c. 992-1035), King of Kingdom of Navarre

Sargon of Akkad (died c. 2215 BC), ruler of the Akkadian Empire

Sejong the Great (1397–1450), Korean king

Shapur II (309-379), king of the Sassanid Empire, Persia

Simeon I of Bulgaria (864/865-927), ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire

Stephen III of Moldavia (1433–1504), Prince of Moldavia (Romania)

Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia (c. 1308-1355), King of Serbia and Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks

Taksin (1734–1782), King of the Thonburi Kingdom (Thailand)

Tamar (1160-1123), Queen of the Georgian Empire

Timur (1336–1405), better known as Tamerlane, founder of the Timurid Dynasty

Theobald II, Count of Champagne (1090–1151), Count of Blois and of Chartres as Theobald IV, Count of Champagne and of Brie

Theodoric the Great (454-526), King of the Ostrogoths, regent of the Visigoths and a viceroy of the Byzantine Empire

Theodosius I (347-395), Roman emperor

Tigranes the Great (140-55 BC), Emperor of Armenia

Tiridates III of Armenia (285-339), King of Armenia

Umar (c. 586 to 590–644), second caliph of the Muslim Empire

Valdemar I of Denmark (1131–1182), King of Denmark

Valentinian I (364-375), Roman Emperor

Vladimir I of Kiev (c. 958-1015), ruler of Kievan Rus

Vytautas (c. 1350-1430), archduke of the Lithuanian Grand Duchy

William I, Count of Burgundy (1020–1087), Count of Burgandy and Mâcon

William V, Duke of Aquitaine (969-1030), also Count of Poitou

Xerxes I (519-465 BC), King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire (Persia)

Yu the Great (c. 2200-2100 BC), legendary ruler in ancient China

Religious figures[link]

Abraham the Great of Kashkar (ca. 492-586), monk and saint of the Assyrian Church of the East

Abraham Kidunaia (died c. 366, hermit, priest, and Christian saint of Mesopotamia

Albertus Magnus (1193/1206–1280), medieval German philosopher and theologian

Anthony the Great (c. 251–356), early Christian saint of Egypt

Babai the Great (c. 551–628), Assyrian church leader

Basil of Caesarea (330-379), Greek bishop and theologian

Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia (also listed in the previous section)

Euthymius the Great (377-473), abbot and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint

Gertrude the Great (1256-c. 1302), German Benedictine, mystic, theologian and Roman Catholic saint

Pope Gregory I (c. 540-604)

Hiyya the Great, 3rd-century rabbi, Palestine

Pope John Paul II (1920–2005)

Pope Leo I (c. 391 or 400-461)

Macarius of Egypt (c. 300-391), Egyptian hermit

Pope Nicholas I (c. 800-867)

Photius I of Constantinople (c. 810–c. 893), Eastern Orthodox saint and Patriarch of Constantinople

William of Maleval (died 1157), founder of the Catholic congregation of Williamites

Other[link]

Beli Mawr, a figure in medieval Welsh literature and genealogies

Emmy the Great, folk singer

Matteo Rosso the Great, Roman politician and father of Pope Nicholas III

Prokop the Great, Hussite general in Bohemia

See also[link]

Epithet

List of monarchs by nickname

List of nicknames of European Royalty and Nobility: G-I

James, son of Zebedee, also known as James the Greater, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus

Ajax (mythology), called Ajax the Greater

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, whose common honorific "Mahatma" means "Great Soul"

Notes[link]

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name	Pam Dawber
birth date	October 18, 1951
birth place	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
occupation	Actress
yearsactive	1978–1999
spouse	Mark Harmon (1987–present) 2 sons }}

Pam Dawber (born October 18, 1951) is an American actress best known for her lead television sitcom roles as Mindy McConnell in ''Mork & Mindy'' (1978 – 1982) and Samantha Russell in ''My Sister Sam'' (1986 – 1988).

Life and career[link]

Dawber was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Thelma M. (née Fisher) and Eugene E. Dawber, a commercial artist. She attended North Farmington High School and Oakland Community College. She began her career as a fashion model with Wilhelmina Models and went on to a career as an actress. From 1978 to 1982, she played one of the title roles in the ABC sitcom ''Mork & Mindy'': Mindy McConnell, the comedic foil and eventual love interest for the extraterrestrial Mork from the planet "Ork", played by Robin Williams. The show was extremely popular in its debut season, when it averaged at #3 in the Nielsen ratings for the year.

Dawber sang in a 1980s Los Angeles Civic Light Opera production of Gilbert & Sullivan's ''The Pirates of Penzance'', based on the Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Festival production. Her role, as Mabel, had been played by Linda Ronstadt in the New York run of the show.

From 1986 to 1988, Dawber again had the title role in a TV series, playing Samantha Russell in the CBS sitcom ''My Sister Sam'', co-starring Rebecca Schaeffer. The series was a success in its first season, but suffered a massive ratings drop in its second after moving to Saturday night. ''My Sister Sam'' left the air in April 1988, with half of the second season's episodes never airing on CBS, but eventually airing (along with all previous episodes) on USA Network. In July 1989, over a year after the show's demise, Schaeffer was shot and killed by an obsessed fan in front of her apartment, which devastated Dawber. Dawber, and her ''My Sister Sam'' co-stars Joel Brooks, David Naughton and Jenny O'Hara reunited to film a public service announcement about violence prevention.

Dawber parodied her ''Mork & Mindy'' character in the 1992 movie ''Stay Tuned'', in which she co-starred with John Ritter, who parodied his ''Three's Company'' role.

Dawber is a national spokeswoman for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

Personal life[link]

She has been married to actor Mark Harmon since March 21, 1987. They have two sons: Sean Thomas Harmon (born April 25, 1988) and Ty Christian Harmon (born June 25, 1992). The couple appeared together in the film ''I'll Remember April''.

Films and TV movies[link]

''A Wedding'' (1978) - Tracy Farrell

''The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything'' (1980) - Bonny Lee Beaumont

''Remembrance of Love'' (1982) - Marcy Rabin

''Through Naked Eyes'' (1983) - Anne Walsh

''Last of the Great Survivors'' (1984) - Laura Matthews

Faerie Tale Theatre: ''The Little Mermaid''

''This Wife for Hire'' (1985) - Marsha Harper

''Wild Horses'' (1985) - Daryl Reese

''American Geisha'' (1986) - Gillian Burke

''Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story'' (1988) - Lucy Wedemeyer

''Do You Know the Muffin Man?'' (1989) - Kendra Dollison

''The Face of Fear'' (1990) - Connie Weaver

''Stay Tuned'' (1992) - Helen Knable

''The Man with Three Wives'' (1993) - Robyn

''Web of Deception'' (1994) - Ellen Benesch

''A Child's Cry for Help'' (1994) - Monica Shaw

''A Stranger to Love'' (1995) - Andie

''Trail of Tears'' (1999) - Cheryl Harris

''I'll Remember April'' (1999) - Barbara Cooper

''Don't Look Behind You'' (1999) - Liz Corrigan

''Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars'' documentary (2006)

Television series[link]

''Mork & Mindy'' (1978–82) - Mindy McConnell

''My Sister Sam'' (1986–88) - Samantha 'Sam' Russell

''Life... and Stuff'' (1997) - Ronnie Boswell

She also played the part of a secretary named Karen Billings in episode 13b of the first season of ''The New Twilight Zone'' called "But Can She Type?"

Voice[link]

''Swan Lake'' (1981) - Princess Odette

''The Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley with the Fonz Show'' (TV Series) (1982) - Mindy McConnell

''Nick and Noel'' (1993) (TV) - Leslie

''The Bears Who Saved Christmas'' (TV) (1994) - Mom

''101 Dalmatians: The Series'' (TV Series) (1997) - Perdy

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Laurie Puhn is an American writer, family and divorce lawyer-mediator and television personality. She hosted ''i on New York'', on WPXN-TV from 2006-2007.

A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, she initially practiced corporate law at a New York City law firm. Puhn was featured as the Communications Expert on an ABC ''20/20'' special about “Rudeness in America. ” She is a frequent commentator on Fox News Channel, Fox 5's ''Good Day NY'', WNBC's ''Weekend Today in NY'' and was featured on CNN's ''Tips from the Top''. Laurie was the cover story for Networking magazine's June 2006 issue. Her commentary has been featured in magazines including ''Entrepreneur, Maxim, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Woman's Day'' and ''Glamour'', as well as featured in newspapers such as ''Chicago Tribune, Newsday'' and ''The New York Times''.

She is the author of ''Instant Persuasion: How to Change Your Words to Change Your Life'' (Penguin, 2005), and President of Laurie Puhn Communications. Her second book ''Fight Less, Love More: 5-Minute Conversations to Change Your Relationship without Blowing Up or Giving In'' (Rodale, 2010), was released on October 12, 2010.

Laurie grew up in Great Neck, New York. She attended the Great Neck School District, and graduated from Great Neck North High School.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Recognition Award

Town of North Hempstead Women's Roll of Honor

Instant Persuasion, authored by Laurie Puhn, nominated for Best Motivational Book of 2005

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ViaCord, a part of PerkinElmer, partnered with Laurie to publish her advice blog for moms and dads-to-be. The blog address is www. expectingwords.com.

Recently Laurie wrote an article for CNN.com featuring ways to avoid an argument. The link for this article is listed below.

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Article about "i on New York"

Networking Magazine cover story

10 Things to Say to Keep the Peace

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Laurie Puhn's official website

Category:1977 births Category:Living people Category:Harvard Law School alumni Category:People from Great Neck, New York Category:Writers of blogs about home and family Category:American bloggers