Carlin Glynn, Tony-winning star of “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” and mother of Mary Stuart Masterson, died after a bout of dementia and cancer on July 13. She was 83.
Glynn’s daughter, Mary Stuart Masterson, confirmed the news in an Instagram post.
“My mother, Carlin Glynn Masterson, passed away. I was with her. I will always be grateful for those last moments, no matter how hard,” Masterson wrote. “Death is like birth in the oddest way. From my first breath to her last. This thread is as fragile as it is strong. She was the most graceful clumsy person you would ever meet. Strong, smart, silly, intuitive, kind, generous, passionate and a deep listener. She was devoted to my father and to the enormous circle of students and collaborators who were considered her chosen family.”
Glynn was an accomplished actor and singer, earning a Tony award in 1979 for her Broadway...
Glynn’s daughter, Mary Stuart Masterson, confirmed the news in an Instagram post.
“My mother, Carlin Glynn Masterson, passed away. I was with her. I will always be grateful for those last moments, no matter how hard,” Masterson wrote. “Death is like birth in the oddest way. From my first breath to her last. This thread is as fragile as it is strong. She was the most graceful clumsy person you would ever meet. Strong, smart, silly, intuitive, kind, generous, passionate and a deep listener. She was devoted to my father and to the enormous circle of students and collaborators who were considered her chosen family.”
Glynn was an accomplished actor and singer, earning a Tony award in 1979 for her Broadway...
- 7/20/2023
- by McKinley Franklin
- Variety Film + TV
Rick Aiello, actor and son of Oscar nominee Danny Aiello, died of pancreatic cancer on Monday at a hospital in Warwick, N.Y., his niece Sydney Fingerhut told Variety. He was 65.
Fingerhut remembers him as a great uncle who was close to all his nieces and nephews, and a “strong guy.”
With more than 60 acting credits, Aiello followed in his father’s footsteps, appearing alongside him in Spike Lee’s 1989 classic “Do the Right Thing.” His father earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Salvatore “Sal” Fragione and Aiello played Officer Long, a role he’d reprise a couple years later in Lee’s “Jungle Fever.”
Aiello also starred in films, including Christian Maelen’s “Remedy” and George Gallo’s “29th Street,” and toplined the TV series “Dellaventura” and the movie “A Brooklyn State of Mind” opposite his dad. As a character actor, Aiello had roles in shows such as “The Sopranos,...
Fingerhut remembers him as a great uncle who was close to all his nieces and nephews, and a “strong guy.”
With more than 60 acting credits, Aiello followed in his father’s footsteps, appearing alongside him in Spike Lee’s 1989 classic “Do the Right Thing.” His father earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Salvatore “Sal” Fragione and Aiello played Officer Long, a role he’d reprise a couple years later in Lee’s “Jungle Fever.”
Aiello also starred in films, including Christian Maelen’s “Remedy” and George Gallo’s “29th Street,” and toplined the TV series “Dellaventura” and the movie “A Brooklyn State of Mind” opposite his dad. As a character actor, Aiello had roles in shows such as “The Sopranos,...
- 7/27/2021
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: What is the best one-and-done show, a.k.a. a One-Season Wonder? (This refers to shows that only got one season and tragically did not get renewed, as opposed to limited series that never intended to continue.)
Allison Keene (@KeeneTV), Collider
There are so many! But for me the best will always be “Freaks and Geeks.” It’s a show that I watched at an age before I really understood the whole TV renewal/cancellation process, but even then I knew it was unjustly short. The show was such a great blend of smarts, snark, and genuine emotions, in a way that could actually be painful to watch.
This week’s question: What is the best one-and-done show, a.k.a. a One-Season Wonder? (This refers to shows that only got one season and tragically did not get renewed, as opposed to limited series that never intended to continue.)
Allison Keene (@KeeneTV), Collider
There are so many! But for me the best will always be “Freaks and Geeks.” It’s a show that I watched at an age before I really understood the whole TV renewal/cancellation process, but even then I knew it was unjustly short. The show was such a great blend of smarts, snark, and genuine emotions, in a way that could actually be painful to watch.
- 5/16/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
New Syfy show Z Nation begins three years after a zombie virus plagued America and started the collapse of human civilization. After finding the only known survivor of the virus, a ragtag team embark on a mission to transport him to a lab in hopes of creating a cure. with the show debuting tonight, we sat down with showrunner and Executive Producer Karl Schaefer (Eerie Indiana, Strange Luck) to talk about the show ans all things zombie…
Obviously it’s inevitable that Z Nation is going to be compared to other shows of similar subject. Can you kind of talk about how it’s different and how it stands out from what’s on television now?
Karl Schaefer: I mean, first off there is obviously a great zombie show in The Walking Dead already on, so our mission is sort of to go where they don’t, and I...
Obviously it’s inevitable that Z Nation is going to be compared to other shows of similar subject. Can you kind of talk about how it’s different and how it stands out from what’s on television now?
Karl Schaefer: I mean, first off there is obviously a great zombie show in The Walking Dead already on, so our mission is sort of to go where they don’t, and I...
- 9/12/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
PopWatchers, ain’t love grand? Last week, I wrote a post asking about the TV shows you love that everyone else hates. You bravely responded with a list of supposed travesties (Shasta McNasty), forgotten curiosities (Strange Luck), and much-insulted reality shows. (I’m so glad to discover that I’m not the only person who unabashedly enjoys the trash-tastic Real World/Road Rules Challenge series.) However, one thread on the comment boards turned the question upside down with a slightly more insidious question: What shows do you hate that everyone else loves?
Quite a few commenters turned their attention to one show in particular: Glee.
Quite a few commenters turned their attention to one show in particular: Glee.
- 11/30/2010
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
"If I was going to kill you, I'd be stepping over your body right now on my way out the door." -Brisco
Ah, a western with a sci-fi theme, a square jawed protagonist, witty dialogue, the timeslot from hell on Friday nights on Fox, canceled before its time and unable to tie up to any sort of conclusion. "Firefly," I'd like you to meet your goofy uncle: "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr."
It debuted in 1993 on Fridays at 8 p.m. in Fox's infamous Friday night death slot, just before "The X-Files," which also debuted that year. "The X-Files" went on to run for longer than any American sci-fi show in history at the time, while "Brisco County Jr." got put down after a single season. Fox put "M.A.N.T.I.S." in its timeslot the next season, then "Strange Luck," then "Sliders," then "The Visitor." It says...
Ah, a western with a sci-fi theme, a square jawed protagonist, witty dialogue, the timeslot from hell on Friday nights on Fox, canceled before its time and unable to tie up to any sort of conclusion. "Firefly," I'd like you to meet your goofy uncle: "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr."
It debuted in 1993 on Fridays at 8 p.m. in Fox's infamous Friday night death slot, just before "The X-Files," which also debuted that year. "The X-Files" went on to run for longer than any American sci-fi show in history at the time, while "Brisco County Jr." got put down after a single season. Fox put "M.A.N.T.I.S." in its timeslot the next season, then "Strange Luck," then "Sliders," then "The Visitor." It says...
- 12/2/2009
- by Steven Lloyd Wilson
Ok, so maybe that title's a stretch. But the thing is, these are all television writers with solid track records and who could easily and happily fill up those hours of television NBC's handing over to Leno. We're sticking with writer-producers who specialize in drama, that could fill that 10 p.m. slot, and are not currently attached to any series (there's one exception), and a quick glance at IMDb doesn't indicate they have anything in development. There's no reason to believe they couldn't produce a compelling 13 hours of television (remember, we're going with the cable paradigm here -- 13 episodes and you're out.)
1. Lee Goldberg. I'm an unabashed fan of Goldberg's, and it might just be how much he obviously loves television. His post about "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" isn't written by someone who just watches TV, but is passionate about it, about its power and its influence, and...
1. Lee Goldberg. I'm an unabashed fan of Goldberg's, and it might just be how much he obviously loves television. His post about "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" isn't written by someone who just watches TV, but is passionate about it, about its power and its influence, and...
- 12/17/2008
- by Chad
- Planetallstar.com
Fox announced a dramatically restructured midseason lineup, radically different than the schedule they outlined over the summer. They have revived the Friday night science fiction dumping ground, placing Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse on that evening, beginning February 13, the beginning of a three-day weekend when viewership tends to drop anyway.
Other shifts sees House slip to Mondays, allowing the return of the American Idol juggernaut on Tuesdays, which makes for a marvelous lead-in to Fringe. Bones shifts from Wednesdays to Thursday pitting the series against Ugly Betty and Smallville.
The Friday night curse began with the genre-related The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. in 1993 and was following in subsequent years by Mantis (1994), Strange Luck (1995), Vr.5 (1995), Sliders (1996), Millennium (1996), The Visitor (1997), Harsh Realm (1999), Freakylinks (2000), Dark Angel (2000), The Lone Gunmen (2001), John Doe (2003), and Firefly (2003).
Continue reading Fox Dumps 'Dollhouse' on Fridays ›...
Other shifts sees House slip to Mondays, allowing the return of the American Idol juggernaut on Tuesdays, which makes for a marvelous lead-in to Fringe. Bones shifts from Wednesdays to Thursday pitting the series against Ugly Betty and Smallville.
The Friday night curse began with the genre-related The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. in 1993 and was following in subsequent years by Mantis (1994), Strange Luck (1995), Vr.5 (1995), Sliders (1996), Millennium (1996), The Visitor (1997), Harsh Realm (1999), Freakylinks (2000), Dark Angel (2000), The Lone Gunmen (2001), John Doe (2003), and Firefly (2003).
Continue reading Fox Dumps 'Dollhouse' on Fridays ›...
- 11/7/2008
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
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