Brentwood’s Archer School for Girls had quite the headliner for its May 28 commencement program: Oprah Winfrey.
The mogul appeared on a program that also included Grammy winner Brandi Carlile (singing her hit “The Story”) and shout-outs to a pair of A-list Hollywood producers. How Archer landed Winfrey for its program is thanks to school co-founder Diana Meehan who happens to be Winfrey’s neighbor and had a relationship with her after consulting on the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.
Winfrey, who appeared virtually during the hybrid event, was generous with advice and personal ...
The mogul appeared on a program that also included Grammy winner Brandi Carlile (singing her hit “The Story”) and shout-outs to a pair of A-list Hollywood producers. How Archer landed Winfrey for its program is thanks to school co-founder Diana Meehan who happens to be Winfrey’s neighbor and had a relationship with her after consulting on the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.
Winfrey, who appeared virtually during the hybrid event, was generous with advice and personal ...
Brentwood’s Archer School for Girls had quite the headliner for its May 28 commencement program: Oprah Winfrey.
The mogul appeared on a program that also included Grammy winner Brandi Carlile (singing her hit “The Story”) and shout-outs to a pair of A-list Hollywood producers. How Archer landed Winfrey for its program is thanks to school co-founder Diana Meehan who happens to be Winfrey’s neighbor and had a relationship with her after consulting on the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.
Winfrey, who appeared virtually during the hybrid event, was generous with advice and personal ...
The mogul appeared on a program that also included Grammy winner Brandi Carlile (singing her hit “The Story”) and shout-outs to a pair of A-list Hollywood producers. How Archer landed Winfrey for its program is thanks to school co-founder Diana Meehan who happens to be Winfrey’s neighbor and had a relationship with her after consulting on the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.
Winfrey, who appeared virtually during the hybrid event, was generous with advice and personal ...
Gary David Goldberg, the Emmy-winning writer who created two long-running hit sitcoms in Family Ties and Spin City, died yesterday from brain cancer in Montecito, California. He was 68. He is survived by his wife and two daughters. As laid out in his enjoyable and agreeable memoir Sit, Ubu, Sit (from which this obituary will shamelessly crib), Goldberg stumbled his way into writing for television and film in his early 30s, a rather late start to a Hollywood career at the time. He’d already lived more than enough life to fill many TV shows, meeting his then-girlfriend, Diana Meehan ...
- 6/24/2013
- avclub.com
Gary David Goldberg, who created the 1980s sitcom hit Family Ties and expanded into feature films, has died.
Goldberg died of brain cancer in Montecito, Calif., on Saturday, days before his 69th birthday, The New York Times reported.
Goldberg's TV successes also included the ABC comedy Spin City, which in 1996 reunited him with Family Ties breakout star Michael J. Fox as the deputy mayor of New York City.
"With a full heart I say goodbye to my mentor, benefactor, partner, second father and beloved friend," Fox said in a statement on Monday. "He touched so many with his enormous talent and generous spirit.
Goldberg died of brain cancer in Montecito, Calif., on Saturday, days before his 69th birthday, The New York Times reported.
Goldberg's TV successes also included the ABC comedy Spin City, which in 1996 reunited him with Family Ties breakout star Michael J. Fox as the deputy mayor of New York City.
"With a full heart I say goodbye to my mentor, benefactor, partner, second father and beloved friend," Fox said in a statement on Monday. "He touched so many with his enormous talent and generous spirit.
- 6/24/2013
- by Associated Press
- People.com - TV Watch
Gary David Goldberg, who created the 1980s sitcom hit Family Ties and expanded into feature films, has died. Goldberg died of brain cancer in Montecito, Calif., on Saturday, days before his 69th birthday, The New York Times reported. Goldberg's TV successes also included the ABC comedy Spin City, which in 1996 reunited him with Family Ties breakout star Michael J. Fox as the deputy mayor of New York City. "With a full heart I say goodbye to my mentor, benefactor, partner, second father and beloved friend," Fox said in a statement on Monday. "He touched so many with his enormous talent and generous spirit.
- 6/24/2013
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Gary David Goldberg, the Emmy-winning creator of Family Ties and Spin City, died yesterday in Montecito, Calif. He was 68. Goldberg was an experienced TV writer of 1970s programs like Lou Grant, The Tony Randall Show, and The Bob Newhart Show when he built Family Ties in 1982 for NBC, basing the idealistic hippie parents played by Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter on himself and his wife, Dr. Diana Meehan. The show became an essential part of the network’s Thursday-night lineup — pairing with The Cosby Show for a time as TV’s two biggest shows — and made Michael J. Fox a huge star.
- 6/24/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside TV
Gary David Goldberg, the Emmy-winning creator of "Family Ties," died on June 23 of brain cancer, Variety reported. He was 68.
Born in Brooklyn, Goldberg was raised in a home with a close, extended family that was headed by a strong matriarch, his grandmother. He was a huge sports fan and a wanderer who had a bit of trouble figuring out what he wanted to be when he grew up.
Goldberg's collegiate career, which he described as "prolonged and checkered," involved attending numerous schools, including Brandeis University and San Diego State University. He only decided to become a scriptwriter at the urging of one of his professors.
Goldberg was working as a waiter at the Village Gate club in Greenwich Village in 1969 when he met his wife and the love his life, Dr. Diana Meehan. They were a couple of hippies -- a product of their time -- and spent the early...
Born in Brooklyn, Goldberg was raised in a home with a close, extended family that was headed by a strong matriarch, his grandmother. He was a huge sports fan and a wanderer who had a bit of trouble figuring out what he wanted to be when he grew up.
Goldberg's collegiate career, which he described as "prolonged and checkered," involved attending numerous schools, including Brandeis University and San Diego State University. He only decided to become a scriptwriter at the urging of one of his professors.
Goldberg was working as a waiter at the Village Gate club in Greenwich Village in 1969 when he met his wife and the love his life, Dr. Diana Meehan. They were a couple of hippies -- a product of their time -- and spent the early...
- 6/24/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Gary David Goldberg, an Emmy-winning TV writer and producer who created "Family Ties" and other series, has died.
Goldberg died Sunday (June 23) at his home in Montecito, Calif., near Santa Barbara, after fighting brain cancer. He would have turned 69 years old on Tuesday.
Goldberg began his TV writing career in the mid-1970s with scripts for "The Bob Newhart Show," "Alice" and "Phyllis." He won his first Emmy in 1979 as a producer of "Lou Grant," which took home the award for best drama series that year.
Three years later, "Family Ties" -- based in part on his own life and in part on those of friends -- premiered on NBC and made a star of Michael J. Fox. After moving behind "The Cosby Show" in 1984-85, it ranked in the Top 5 of the ratings for three straight seasons, peaking at better than 28 million viewers in Season 5. Goldberg won a writing...
Goldberg died Sunday (June 23) at his home in Montecito, Calif., near Santa Barbara, after fighting brain cancer. He would have turned 69 years old on Tuesday.
Goldberg began his TV writing career in the mid-1970s with scripts for "The Bob Newhart Show," "Alice" and "Phyllis." He won his first Emmy in 1979 as a producer of "Lou Grant," which took home the award for best drama series that year.
Three years later, "Family Ties" -- based in part on his own life and in part on those of friends -- premiered on NBC and made a star of Michael J. Fox. After moving behind "The Cosby Show" in 1984-85, it ranked in the Top 5 of the ratings for three straight seasons, peaking at better than 28 million viewers in Season 5. Goldberg won a writing...
- 6/24/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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