Robert Urich

For what it's worth, the following are my thoughts on what transpired on Oscar night. The common enemy for everything that is included on Oscar night is time. In that inclusion are such items as any and all jokes, whether good or not, all singing and...

Fox 25th anniversary: While Fox celebrates 25 years on the air Sunday with reunions of the casts of some of its blockbuster hits, The Times looks back at some of the more dubious programming decisions over the years....

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The big headline out of this week's “Sound of Music” reunion on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”? Charmian Carr, who played Liesl,  had a crush on Christopher Plummer, who played her father. Nothing came of it, although Carr revealed...

Of all the reunions that Oprah Winfrey staged this fall, the most enjoyable was the one for the "Sound of Music" cast. That show repeats at 4 p.m. Monday on WFTV-Channel 9, and it's perfect viewing for the holidays....

Author Robert B. Parker, one of America's preeminent crime writers, has died. Born in 1932 in Springfield, Mass., Parker wrote his PhD thesis on detective fiction and left a career teaching college English after his own writing became successful. Parker.....

Milton Katselas, a prominent acting teacher and director whose students included George Clooney, Alec Baldwin, Michelle Pfeiffer and hundreds of other actors, has died. He was 75. Katselas, who founded the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school in 1978,...

There's no guarantee a writer will approve of screen versions of his books. Tom Selleck and the other makers of CBS' "Jesse Stone" movies are fortunate, then, since they've had veteran novelist Robert B. Parker's blessing from the start. In the third of...

Paul Gleason, best known for playing the grumpy high school principal who presides over detention in the 1985 film "The Breakfast Club," has died. He was 67. Gleason died Saturday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank of mesothelioma, a...