Kirstie Alley, who won an Emmy for Cheers, starred in numerous movies including the Look Who’s Talking trilogy and went on to lead Veronica’s Closet and appear in numerous unscripted shows, died today of cancer, according to a post on her official Instagram account (read it below). She was 71.
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Alley earned five consecutive Lead Actress Emmy nominations from 1988-93 for playing Rebecca Howe on Cheers, having joined the NBC comedy in its sixth season after original star Shelley Long left. She won the Emmy in 1991. Alley also won an Emmy for her starring role in the 1994 telefilm David’s Mother and was nominated in 1998 for her lead turn in NBC’s Veronica Closet. She also had an Emmy nom for a supporting role in the 1997 miniseries The Last Don.
Born on January 12, 1951, in Wichita, Kansas, Alley began her screen career...
Related: Kirstie Alley’s TV & Film Career In Photos
Alley earned five consecutive Lead Actress Emmy nominations from 1988-93 for playing Rebecca Howe on Cheers, having joined the NBC comedy in its sixth season after original star Shelley Long left. She won the Emmy in 1991. Alley also won an Emmy for her starring role in the 1994 telefilm David’s Mother and was nominated in 1998 for her lead turn in NBC’s Veronica Closet. She also had an Emmy nom for a supporting role in the 1997 miniseries The Last Don.
Born on January 12, 1951, in Wichita, Kansas, Alley began her screen career...
- 12/6/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
On NCIS, no case ever stumps naval investigator Leroy "Jethro" Gibbs, but in real life, Mark Harmon, 66, has long been befuddled by one mystery: fame. "My parents kept things real — I had no idea they were famous," says the son of sportscaster Tom Harmon and actress Elyse Knox. "In fact, it didn’t hit me until one day when I was riding in the car with my father in Ann Arbor, Mi — I was maybe eight and could barely see above the dashboard — and we stopped at a crosswalk. Suddenly, we were surrounded by people who recognized my dad and were really thrilled to see him. I remember looking at this man I thought I knew so well and thinking, Who are you?" Millions of people ask the same question about Mark to this day. He’s the star of TV’s No. 1 drama yet he maintains an intense sense of privacy.
- 5/30/2018
- by Closer Staff
- Closer Weekly
Here comes the bride! Joseph Duggar and Kendra Caldwell walked down the aisle and said "I do" on tonight's season finale of Counting On — all thanks to Jana Duggar's Bff, Laura DeMasie. The wedding planner helped coordinate the couple's big day — and they got hitched, well, without a hitch! Keep scrolling to learn more about Laura below. (Photo Credit: TLC) She works for Embassy Media Laura has worked for Embassy Media since at least 2013. According to the company's website, they're the "online media library of Iblp with hundreds of powerful messages by Chris Hogan, Otto Koning, Jim Sammons, Tom Harmon, Larry Guthrie, and many others." Their "About" section states that they focus on "the relationships that matter the most" and "gain a new understanding of the five Life Roles and how your relationship with God as a Person will influence your effectiveness as a Partner, Parent, Provider, and Proclaimer.
- 3/27/2018
- by Megan Heintz
- In Touch Weekly
It would have been impossible for Mark Harmon to have been born anything less than gorgeous. His father was University of Michigan football All-American and Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon. His mother, Elyse Knox, was an actress and artist. With this combination of looks, beauty and brains, he couldn't miss. Thomas Mark Harmon was born September 2, 1951 in Burbank, California. He has two older sisters, actress and painter Kristin Nelson, formerly married to singer Ricky Nelson, and Kelly Harmon, actress-model who was once married to auto magnate John DeLorean. Mark attended Los Angeles Pierce College, then transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles where he became the starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins football team in 1972 and 1973. He received the National Football Foundation Award for All-Round Excellence in 1973. In his two years as quarterback in coach Pepper Rodger's wishbone offense, UCLA won 17 games and lost only 5. He graduated from UCLA with a B.
- 8/8/2012
- by jbonadona@corp.popstar.com (Julia Bonadona)
- PopStar
NCIS star Mark Harmon's mother, actress and fashion designer Elyse Knox Harmon, passed away on Wednesday at her Los Angeles home surrounded by family. She was 94.
A contract player who starred in close to 40 films for such studios and 20th Century Fox, Columbia and Universal, Knox played the lead opposite Lon Chaney Jr. in 1942's The Mummy's Tomb, worked with Abbott and Costello and in several Joe Palooka movies based on the famed comic strip. She was also a pin-up girl during World War II, appearing in Yank magazine.
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Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Knox studied fashion in Manhattan and pursued a career in fashion design, modeling some of her own creations in Vogue magazine before her good looks found Hollywood calling in the late '30s.
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Knox married football star Tom Harmon in 1944, and her wedding dress was made...
A contract player who starred in close to 40 films for such studios and 20th Century Fox, Columbia and Universal, Knox played the lead opposite Lon Chaney Jr. in 1942's The Mummy's Tomb, worked with Abbott and Costello and in several Joe Palooka movies based on the famed comic strip. She was also a pin-up girl during World War II, appearing in Yank magazine.
Mark Harmon's New Role as a Playboy Cop
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Knox studied fashion in Manhattan and pursued a career in fashion design, modeling some of her own creations in Vogue magazine before her good looks found Hollywood calling in the late '30s.
The 'NCIS' Team Reveals Fun Set Secrets
Knox married football star Tom Harmon in 1944, and her wedding dress was made...
- 2/17/2012
- Entertainment Tonight
Waiting Sucks, as the HBO marketing department has been drilling in our heads for the past few weeks. The wait is over and the real fun can now begin. True Blood fixes everything Twilight did to ruin the vampire genre, infusing (or transfusing?) it with the sexiness, intrigue and violence that we've been raised to expect with our vampires.
After the jump, I will give a quick plot summary of the main plot points, and will recap the Previously on True Blood in a broad strokes to get you up to speed.
So, if you are ready to feed, prepare to do bad things.
When we last saw the residents of Bon Temps, Sam Merlotte had killed the Maryann the Maenad, Godric was rescued from the Fellowship of the Sun and his immortality, and Bill, moments after proposing to Sookie, is attacked with a silver chain and abducted.
We are granted a strong return: Violence,...
After the jump, I will give a quick plot summary of the main plot points, and will recap the Previously on True Blood in a broad strokes to get you up to speed.
So, if you are ready to feed, prepare to do bad things.
When we last saw the residents of Bon Temps, Sam Merlotte had killed the Maryann the Maenad, Godric was rescued from the Fellowship of the Sun and his immortality, and Bill, moments after proposing to Sookie, is attacked with a silver chain and abducted.
We are granted a strong return: Violence,...
- 6/14/2010
- by Marbles
The Nelson twins are synonymous with many things, not the least of which is music. Lightening struck fast and furious when their debut album "After the Rain" went platinum in1990, and with a new CD in the works, they're primed for a second strike. It's not unlikely, afterall. Talent does have a way of repeating itself. Mathew Nelson and Gunnar Nelson surged onto the musical scene in 1990 with their long blond locks, boyish good looks, and a handful of catchy pop/rock songs and videos. Their so-called "overnight success" began with a platinum debut album that garnered a #1 hit with "(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection," followed by four top-ten hits, four #1 videos on MTV/VH1, and a world-wide tour. Their venture into music at a young age came as no surprise. Aside from inheriting good looks by "hitting the gene pool lottery" as Matthew describes it, the brothers...
- 5/4/2010
- by jmaurer@corp.popstar.com (Jennifer Maurer)
- PopStar
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