Blog Post PETA Celebrates Grand Opening of the Bob Barker Building Today was the grand opening of PETA's Bob Barker building, the new West Coast headquarters for the organization. The Sunset Boulevard building will house the youth outreach, media, marketing, and campaign departments. Barker, who for decades recommended to viewers at the end of each Price is Right...
Blog Post Phylicia Rashad Directs "A Raisin in the Sun" Phylicia Rashad is currently directing a production of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, CA. Rashad is quite familiar with the play, which centers on the Younger family in post World War II Harlem: she won a Tony Award for playing "Lena Younger"...
Blog Post Whitney Houston Turned Down "The Cosby Show" and Became a Superstar The world is mourning the passing of singer Whitney Houston, who died this past Saturday, February 11, 2012. Radio stations are playing medleys of her hit songs, and last night's Grammy Awards paid tribute to her with a moving performance by Jennifer Hudson. We're all aware of Whitney's amazing...
Blog Post Music's Big Night: The 54th Grammy Awards The 54th Grammy Awards air tonight at 8 p.m. PT/ET on CBS. Performers will include Adele, Jason Aldean, Kelly Clarkson, Foo Fighters, Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj, Bruce Springstein, and Taylor Swift. Diana Ross will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Over the years the Archive has interviewed...
Blog Post How to Direct, Via Master Director John Frankenheimer John Frankenheimer (1930-2002) directed some of television’s most acclaimed productions on Playhouse 90 , Climax! and Danger . In his interview from 2000, Frankenheimer speaks in detail about his craft, techniques, and some of his favorite people to direct. He shares tales of working with Edward R...
Blog Post Happy Birthday to "All in the Family's" Jean Stapleton! Wishing a very happy birthday to actress Jean Stapleton !! The New York City native is best known for playing "Edith Bunker" on the '70s sitcom All in the Family , but has also appeared on Broadway and guest-starred on many TV shows, from Dr. Kildare to The Defenders (on which she first met Carroll...
Blog Post "It's Always Sunny's" Frank Reynolds Shows Up at Our Interview with Danny DeVito The Archive recently had the pleasure of conducting an interview with Mr. Danny Devito . Interviewer Amy Harrington of the Pop Culture Passionistas shares a few thoughts about the experience: I knew that Danny DeVito was a great actor when I signed up to interview him for the Archive of American...
Blog Post No Heart Attacks, Please, but "Sanford and Son" is Turning 40! Based on the BBC's Steptoe and Son , Sanford and Son is the creation of producers Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear . Comedian Redd Foxx starred as widower and junk dealer, "Fred G. Sanford," an Archie Bunker-type curmudgeon, Demond Wilson played his grown son, "Lamont," and the two lived together and ran...
Blog Post This is "Today" at 60 "When The Today Show started in the morning, every station manager in the country objected to it because they said, 'who’s gonna get up that early to watch television?'” - Former NBC Executive Michael Dann It was certainly a revolutionary premise for its day. Back in 1952, networks did not...
Blog Post Life in Llanview Comes to an End: "One Life to Live" Goes Off the Air After 43 years on daytime, soap opera One Life to Live will broadcast its final episode today. The creation of Agnes Nixon (who also created All My Children ), One Life to Live made its debut on ABC on July 15, 1968. The program started out as a half-hour show, and over the years expanded to 45...
