I had the pleasure of speaking with E! Online correspondent Joal Ryan for a piece she wrote on Sunday’s season premiere of The Simpsons. The episode launches the show’s 20th season on television, matching Gunsmoke as the longest running prime time series in American TV history. Click here to read the story.
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Oscar winner Paul Newman dies at 83
September 27, 2008http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_newman
Though best known for starring in such iconic movies as The Hustler, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, The Sting and Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, as well as his Oscar-winning performance in The Color of Money, Newman was also a steady presence on television, from his early roles in live TV adaptations of Bang The Drum Slowly and Hemingway’s The Battler, to his numerous appearances on daytime talk shows like The Mike Douglas Show, to his Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning performance in HBO’s Empire Falls.
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