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TCM Classic Film Festival to pay tribute to Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida

Edit The Examiner 27 Apr 2016
This year at the 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival, Gina Lollobrigida will be making a rare public appearance at the festival's opening night gala on Thursday (April 28) ... Campbell (1986) and Trapeze (1956). Ms ... He also surrounded her with top talent including Phil Silvers, Telly Savalas and Peter Lawford as the grown-up soldiers, and Shelley Winters and Lee Grant as two of their wives ... She told PARADE in April 2000 ... I am very spoiled....

Racing world mourns Sid Hill, a flamboyant old-school bookie

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 22 Apr 2016
Racing lost a direct link with one of Australia's most famous racing families when former rails bookmaker Sid Hill died on April 14 ... After 44 years he retired in 1997 and took to the other side of the fence as a punter. Advertisement ... Bryan Martin replayed a radio interview Sid gave the week he retired ... After Sid arrived at the prestigious bar and gambling den he was soon drinking with American actor Telly Savalas ...  . ....

We Hope The Big Short Wins... and Other Oscar Thoughts

Edit Huffington Post 26 Feb 2016
We've had a jaundiced view of the Academy Awards since The Sting beat out Killdozer for Best Picture of 1974 ... However, the movies and gala ceremonies are very different things ... And don't get us wrong we love Bob Ross, but anyone who can watch Idris Elba in Beasts of No Nation and claim there were five better performances should be forced to spend eternity watching Telly Savalas, Pat Morita and Dom Deluise do this ... DAK ... MIMSY ... DAK ... C ... ....

13 TV Reboots That Should Never Have Been Rebooted

Edit The Wrap 24 Feb 2016
"Charlie's Angels". "Charlie's Angels" perfectly captured the goofiness of the '70s, but it felt painfully out of date in 2011. Critics and audiences agreed. It was canceled after three episodes. "Ironside". Blair Underwood has done some memorable TV work, starting with his career-making role on "L.A. Law." ... "Gracepoint" ... Another police procedural bound to be rebooted, Telly Savalas starred as the chrome-domed detective in the 1970's series ... ....

Why you knew Abe Vigoda

Edit CNN 27 Jan 2016
(CNN)Abe Vigoda wasn't born to play Hamlet. He was born to play Phil Fish and Sal Tessio. Those aren't consolation prizes ... David Hinckley. As legacies go, that's a winner. Read More ... It isn't ... 12 photos ... Hide Caption ... Among the many notable series were "Columbo" (1971-78), "Kojak" (starring Telly Savalas, pictured, from 1973-78), "The Rockford Files" (1974-80), "Police Woman" (1974-78), "Baretta" (1975-78) and "Starsky and Hutch" (1975-79) ... ....

C.K. Nayudu award for Kirmani

Edit The Hindu 26 Jan 2016
Former India stumper Syed Kirmani was chosen for the prestigious Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award for 2015 here on Thursday ... He was perhaps the only candidate discussed before being chosen for the award by the BCCI’s special committee comprising Shashank Manohar, president, Anurag Thakur, secretary, and N ... Popularly known as ‘Kojak’ for his Telly Savalas-look, Kirmani will be the 23rd recipient of the award....

She loves him, but ends up being a No.1 song for another artist

Edit The Examiner 21 Jan 2016
In 1966, George Harrison married Patti Boyd at Leatherhead Register Office in Surrey with Paul McCartney as his best man. George had first met Patti on the set of The Beatles movie “A Hard Day’s Night” ... album charts ... The song peaked at No ... Telly Savalas – born in 1925, Telly is an American film and television actor and singer whose career spanned four decades. Telly is best known for his tough, lollypop sucking 1970s crime drama Kojak ... ....

Golden Globes recap, the results are in, the winners are...

Edit The Examiner 11 Jan 2016
The Golden Globe Awards results are in. Actually, they have been "in" for 50 years. On the day after the latest Golden Globe Awards held in 2016 recognizing achievements for 2015, we look back a half century at the 23rd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1965 films and TV, held on the 28th of February 1966 ...and the winners, and the nominees, are (were)... Cat Ballou ... Telly Savalas - Battle of the Bulge ... ....

Thank you, Golden Globes, for embarrassment, insincerity – and Mel

Edit The Guardian 09 Jan 2016
The ‘edgy host’, the fashion disasters, the fact they serve alcohol – Sunday’s ceremony has a lot of things other shows lack. Including, this year, Mel Gibson. @dave_schilling ... Related. Golden Globes 2016. who will win, and who should win the TV categories ... Related ... She might turn out to be a huge success like former winners Dakota Johnson and Laura Dern – or she could end up like Candace Savalas, daughter of Telly Savalas, aka TV’s Kojack....

Is this draining your life of meaning?

Edit CNN 04 Jan 2016
(CNN)Step away from the TV screen. Slowly. That's it. Now, put the remote down. You don't need that for a whi ... Hey! Do I stutter? I said ... Keep walking back. You're fine. You're breathing ... Gene Seymour ... Read More ... 400 ... Among the many notable series were "Columbo" (1971-78), "Kojak" (starring Telly Savalas, pictured, from 1973-78), "The Rockford Files" (1974-80), "Police Woman" (1974-78), "Baretta" (1975-78) and "Starsky and Hutch" (1975-79) ... ....

Christoph Waltz Will Do Another Bond Movie On One Condition

Edit Cinema Blend 03 Jan 2016
Warning. Spectre spoilers below.  . Look, we aren’t going to beat around the bush on this one. Spectre was a massive letdown of a Bond movie ...   ...  . It makes some degree of sense to make this sort of request ...   ...   ... Over the course of decades many actors ranging from Donald Pleasance in You Only Live Twice to Telly Savalas of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service played the character ...   ... ....

‘Twin Peaks,’ ‘The Wire,’ ‘Freaks and Geeks’ and 5 other TV shows worth a second look

Edit Zap2it 02 Jan 2016
NBC ... What was it about? Perhaps this grab bag of ’70s and ’80s TV personalities, including Telly Savalas, Jimmie Walker and Lynda Carter, was just too ambitious for audiences used to seeing their favorite stars in a more conventional game show and/or wacky sitcom setting ... What turned America off? It lacked athletic prowess of “Baywatch.” Savalas gave interviews to host Howard Cosell between puffs on a cigarette....

Wayne Rogers, and why we needed 'M*A*S*H'

Edit CNN 01 Jan 2016
(CNN)The outpouring of sadness at the death of Wayne Rogers on Thursday at age 82 is inseparable from TV viewers' feelings for the character he played and the show on which he played it ... David Bianculli ... 1 of 10 ... Among the many notable series were "Columbo" (1971-78), "Kojak" (starring Telly Savalas, pictured, from 1973-78), "The Rockford Files" (1974-80), "Police Woman" (1974-78), "Baretta" (1975-78) and "Starsky and Hutch" (1975-79) ... ....
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