Frasier is going back to where it all began. Paramount+ announced Wednesday that its revival of the Emmy-winning sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer as the snobby yet goodhearted psychiatrist Frasier Crane will move the action from Seattle back to Boston — the city where the character was first introduced on Cheers. The Frasier revival is set to begin production this week in Los Angeles, and promises "new challenges to face" for its title character, along with " Read More...
During his lifetime, Fred Astaire epitomized grace, elegance, and the sublimity of style. In death, however, he left behind a decidedly earthbound legacy of messy squabbles over the control of his image. The disparity was, in Astaire terms, night and day. Astaire died on June 22, 1987, at age 88, from pneumonia. He passed away while being held by his second wife, Robyn. ”That’s the way he wanted it,” she said. Read More...
Anouk Aimée, the French leading lady who worked with such auteurs as Federico Fellini, Sidney Lumet, Jacques Demy, and Bernardo Bertolucci has died. She was 92. Aimée’s daughter Manuela Papatakis announced the news Tuesday on social media. “With my daughter, Galaad, and my granddaughter, Mila, we are immensely saddened to announce the decease of my mother, Anouk Aimée,” Papatakis wrote on Instagram. “I was at her bedside when she passed away this morning at her home in Paris; With infinite love. Read More...
