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Daily Mail
7 hours ago
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- Daily Mail
Kate Hudson cuts a stylish figure in a brown midi dress as she joins glamorous Mindy Kaling and Brenda Song on the Emmy FYC red carpet for Running Point in LA
Kate Hudson, Mindy Kaling and Brenda Song were dressed to impress as they attended the official Emmy FYC red carpet event for their series Running Point in El Segundo, California on Friday. American actress Kate, 46, who stars as the lead character Isla Gordon in the Netflix comedy series, looked stunning in a chocolate brown midi dress. The chic ensemble featured a high asymmetric neckline, a figure-hugging waist, and a flared skirt with a bow detail. She completed the look with open-toe tortoiseshell heels, a silver bangle, stacked silver rings, and statement drop earrings. Her wavy blonde locks were styled in a chic half-up, half-down hairstyle, and she wore a bronzed, glowy makeup look. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the Daily Mail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Meanwhile, her co-star Brenda Song, 37, turned heads in a sheer black crochet dress adorned with beaded embellishments. She layered the ensemble over a form-fitting black bodysuit that highlighted her figure. To complete her look, she styled her brunette tresses in a voluminous blowout and wore a natural makeup palette. While Mindy, 45, who co-created, co-wrote, and executive produced Running Point, looked stylish in a structured black top with flared sleeves. She teamed the ensemble with a pair of light-blue high-waisted denim jeans and added inches to her height with pointed black heels. The Office star completed her look with a flicky blowout and a glamorous makeup palette. The trio posed up a storm on the carpet, with Kate and Mindy sharing a sweet moment as they embraced and giggled in front of cameras. Also in attendance were Running Point stars Toby Sandeman, Scott MacArthur, Fabrizio Guido, Chet Hanks, Drew Tarver, and Max Greenfield. While Mindy, 45, who co-created, co-wrote, and executive produced Running Point, looked stylish in a structured black top with flared sleeves The sports comedy follows Isla Gordon (Hudson), the sister of the president of a pro basketball team in LA, who is unexpectedly thrust into the top job. Described as 'ambitious and often overlooked,' Isla must prove to her skeptical brothers and the wider sports world that she's the right woman for the role. It premiered on the streamer on February 27, less than a year after it was announced at the platform's 2024 Upfront presentation. The series premiered on Netflix on February 27, less than a year after being unveiled at the platform's 2024 Upfronts. It was created by Mindy Kaling, Ike Barinholtz, and David Stassen.
Dubai Eye
11 hours ago
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- Dubai Eye
'M*A*S*H' actress Loretta Swit dies at 87
Loretta Swit, the Emmy Award-winning actress who played no-nonsense U.S. Army combat nurse Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the hit TV series "M*A*S*H" for more than a decade, died on Friday at the age of 87. Swit, a mainstay of one of the most successful and acclaimed series in US television history, died at her home in New York City from what was suspected to be natural causes, her publicist, Harlan Boll, said. Swit earned two best supporting actress Emmys and 10 nominations for her role as Hot Lips, the lusty, tough but vulnerable, patriotic Army career nurse in the series that ran from 1972-1983. As the only regular female character in the ground-breaking show set in the fictional 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War of the 1950s, Hot Lips endured the insults, pranks and practical jokes of the fun-loving male surgeons. The show's cast also included Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Larry Linville, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Gary Burghoff, David Ogden Stiers and Jamie Farr. Swit defined her role by playing a strong, determined, independent woman, who had input into the development and storyline of her character, including her split from her married lover Major Frank Burns, hilariously played by Linville, and her own wedding and divorce. She appeared in nearly all of the more than 250 episodes and the series finale, which was the most watched episode of any TV series in history when the show ended in 1983. The TV series was based on the real-life experiences of an Army surgeon, who penned the 1968 book MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, and on director Robert Altman's 1970 black comedy film of the same name. "While we were shooting, even from the very beginning, we were aware of how very special it was," Swit said about the series in a 2017 interview with Fox News. "The symbiosis, the camaraderie, the love and respect we had for each other."
ARN News Center
11 hours ago
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- ARN News Center
'M*A*S*H' actress Loretta Swit dies at 87
Loretta Swit, the Emmy Award-winning actress who played no-nonsense U.S. Army combat nurse Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the hit TV series "M*A*S*H" for more than a decade, died on Friday at the age of 87. Swit, a mainstay of one of the most successful and acclaimed series in US television history, died at her home in New York City from what was suspected to be natural causes, her publicist, Harlan Boll, said. Swit earned two best supporting actress Emmys and 10 nominations for her role as Hot Lips, the lusty, tough but vulnerable, patriotic Army career nurse in the series that ran from 1972-1983. As the only regular female character in the ground-breaking show set in the fictional 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War of the 1950s, Hot Lips endured the insults, pranks and practical jokes of the fun-loving male surgeons. The show's cast also included Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Larry Linville, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Gary Burghoff, David Ogden Stiers and Jamie Farr. Swit defined her role by playing a strong, determined, independent woman, who had input into the development and storyline of her character, including her split from her married lover Major Frank Burns, hilariously played by Linville, and her own wedding and divorce. She appeared in nearly all of the more than 250 episodes and the series finale, which was the most watched episode of any TV series in history when the show ended in 1983. The TV series was based on the real-life experiences of an Army surgeon, who penned the 1968 book MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, and on director Robert Altman's 1970 black comedy film of the same name.
Time of India
16 hours ago
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- Time of India
Alf Clausen, Iconic 'Simpsons' Composer and Emmy Winner, Dies at 84
Alf Clausen , the iconic composer whose work shaped the soundtrack of " The Simpsons " for almost three decades, has passed away at 84 after a long fight against Parkinson's disease . Clausen died at his residence in Los Angeles , according to his daughter, Kaarin Clausen. His death signals the closing of a chapter in television music, especially animation. A Minneapolis native who grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota, Clausen graduated in 1966 from Berklee College of Music and started out in Los Angeles, first as a musical director for variety programs such as Donny & Marie and later as a television scorer. His first big break was with the ABC series "Moonlighting" and the TV sitcom ALF, but it was his time with "The Simpsons" that made him a legend. Clausen was added to The Simpsons staff in its second season, in 1990, and ended up writing nearly 600 original scores for the series—more than any other television show. Danny Elfman wrote the show's signature theme, while Clausen wrote the episode scores, leading a 35-piece orchestra every week to bring the cartoon world to life. He was nominated for 30 Emmys—21 for "The Simpsons"—and won twice, with five Annie Awards as well for his work. Play Video Pause Skip Backward Skip Forward Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:00 Loaded : 0% 0:00 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 1x Playback Rate Chapters Chapters Descriptions descriptions off , selected Captions captions settings , opens captions settings dialog captions off , selected Audio Track default , selected Picture-in-Picture Fullscreen This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Text Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Caption Area Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Drop shadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Click Here To Read More - micro segmentation software Expertinspector Click Here Undo Colleagues and fans alike credit Clausen's music as integral to the show's humor and emotional depth. Al Jean, a longtime writer and producer, stated, 'Clausen was an incredibly talented man who contributed immensely to The Simpsons. Clausen himself once described the role as a dream job, recalling creator Matt Groening's advice: 'We're not a cartoon. We're a drama with drawn characters. I want you to grade it as a drama." This mindset made Clausen emphasize the emotional subtext of each episode, accentuating the show's long-term appeal across generations. Clausen's 2017 firing on cost-cutting grounds was greeted by general dismay from fans and industry colleagues. Nonetheless, his legacy persists, with producers dedicating him "composer emeritus" for his enormous contribution. Live Events Alf Clausen leaves behind a legacy of musical achievement that raised the bar for animated television and inspired scores of composers to follow.
Yahoo
18 hours ago
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Loretta Swit, Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan on ‘M*A*S*H,' Dies at 87
Loretta Swit, the actress and animal activist forever known for her pioneering turn as the disciplined Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan on the acclaimed CBS sitcom M*A*S*H, has died. She was 87. According to a police report, Swit died just after midnight Friday of suspected natural causes at her home in New York City, her publicist, Harlan Boll, announced. More from The Hollywood Reporter Mike Sumler, Kool & the Gang Hype Man, Dies at 71 Ena Hartman, 'Dan August' and 'Terminal Island' Actress, Dies at 93 Brian Avnet, Longtime Artist Manager and Music Executive, Dies at 82 Swit won two Emmys for her portrayal of the Army nurse — she was nominated 10 times, every year the show was on the air except the first — and appeared on 240 of the series' 251 episodes during its sensational 11-season run. Adapting the character from Sally Kellerman's film portrayal of the lusty powerhouse, Swit was one of only two actors (along with Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce) to have a role in both the pilot and series finale of M*A*S*H. That finale, which aired Feb. 28, 1983, attracted a record of nearly 106 million viewers, and a 35-second kiss between Swit and Alda during that episode has been called the most expensive in television history, based on its length and the ad revenue per minute. As a tough, by-the-book major, Swit's Houlihan was a rare strong woman on television. 'She was [unique] at the time and in her time, which was the '50s, when [the Korean War] was happening,' Swit said in a 2004 discussion for the TV Academy Foundation website The Interviews: An Oral History of Television. 'And she became even more unique, I think, because we allowed her to continue to grow — we watched her evolve. I don't think that's ever been done in quite that way.' Bolstered by her M*A*S*H fame, Swit performed in a number of movies, including Freebie and the Bean (1974), Race With the Devil (1975) and BoardHeads (1998). She also was hilarious as Polly Reed, a Sue Mengers-type agent, in Blake Edwards' satire of Hollywood, S.O.B. (1981). Swit starred alongside Tyne Daly on the 1981 pilot for Cagney & Lacey, but because of contractual obligations to M*A*S*H, she could not continue when the cop series was picked up by CBS a year later. After Meg Foster played Cagney in the six-episode first season, Sharon Gless took over the role. Active in theater, Swit starred as one of the daffy Pigeon sisters during the L.A. run of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple that starred Don Rickles and Ernest Borgnine as the ill-matched roommates. In 1967, she starred in a national tour of Any Wednesday with Gardner McKay. Eight years later, she made her Broadway debut in Same Time, Next Year opposite Ted Bessell (That Girl). She also played on Broadway in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Loretta Jane Szwed was born on Nov. 4, 1937, in Passaic, New Jersey. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and performed in repertory. Swit moved to Los Angeles in 1970 and landed TV gigs on such series as Mission: Impossible, Mannix, Gunsmoke and Hawaii Five-O and in the women's lib film Stand Up and Be Counted (1972). Those parts led to Swit being considered for M*A*S*H, produced by Fox. 'I had done a guest-starring role [in the premiere episode in 1971] on Glenn Ford's CBS series, Cade's County, which was short-lived, but it was a wonderful role,' she said. 'The network people, as well as Fox, knew about me, and when the part came up, they thought of me.' Swit always pushed for Houlihan to grow in maturity and complexity. Her character cut off her affair with the 'lipless wonder' Frank Burns (Larry Linville) to marry a soldier she could be proud of (Lt. Col. Donald Penobscott, though they quickly divorced) and revealed her vulnerability to those under her command in the season-five episode 'The Nurses.' 'She was the head nurse, and her ambition was to be the best damn nurse in Korea, and I tried to help her achieve that,' Swit recalled. But in 'The Nurses,' Houlihan's conflicted relationship with authority comes into focus when, in a memorable monologue, she confronts her subordinates for not including her. 'That woman was so lonely, and she was trying to do such a good job. And nobody appreciated her,' Swit recalled in a THR oral history that marked the show's 35th anniversary. 'Gene [Reynolds, the show's executive producer] called me the next morning after shooting it and said they'd watched the dailies, and my scene was last. When the lights went up, everyone was sniffling,' she said. 'He asked the projectionist to run the scene again. The lights go out and they watched it again. The lights go up and everyone's still crying. He says to everyone, 'Is that the best thing you ever saw?'' Swit was able to carry those kinds of dramatic moments with her character throughout the series. 'I was allowed to continue to grow,' she said. 'I didn't bounce back to where I was before you saw this happen to her.' She noted that the cast was tight-knit from the very start, and things got emotional when they shot the finale. One especially touching moment comes when Swit and Harry Morgan (Col. Sherman Potter) say their goodbyes. 'We could hardly rehearse,' she told THR. 'I had to look at this man whom I adore and say, 'You dear, sweet man, I'll never forget you,' without getting emotional — and I couldn't. I can't now even. [Morgan died in 2011.] It wasn't words on a page. You knew what you were saying was truth.' Swit became the first M*A*S*H castmember to visit Korea when, in 1988, she hosted the syndicated documentary Korean War — The Untold Story. The doc combined interviews with American veterans and combat footage and was released in conjunction with the 35th anniversary of the truce that ended the fighting. Apart from her acting career, Swit was an active supporter of animal welfare, serving on the boards of Actors and Others for Animals and The Wildlife Waystation and as a spokesperson for the Humane Society. In 2016, she founded SwitHeart Animal Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to ending animal cruelty. She used proceeds from her original artwork to raise funds. Swit also was host of the cable documentary series Those Incredible Animals in 1992 and teamed with M*A*S*H co-star Mike Farrell (B.J. Hunnicut) to host the 1986 PBS special Saving the Wildlife, which highlighted efforts by Jane Goodall, Brigitte Bardot and Prince Philip to protect endangered species. Swit was named Woman of the Year by the Animal Protection Institute and the International Fund for Animal Welfare. She testified before Congress in 1999, speaking out for the prohibition of 'crush videos' — productions where insects and small animals are squashed onscreen. She was active in the Chicago theater community and performed the one-woman play Shirley Valentine more than 1,000 times. She received the Sarah Siddons Award in 1991 for her theatrical contributions and in 2003 joined the touring cast of The Vagina Monologues. That same year, she played the title role in a North Carolina production of Mame — she had starred as Agnes Gooch in 1968 in Las Vegas after serving as an understudy on the Broadway show headlined by Angela Lansbury. Swit said her career came full circle when, in 1994, she guest-starred on Murder, She Wrote alongside Lansbury. 'Angie is one of two fan letters I've ever written in my life. The other was to Robert Mitchum,' she recalled. 'She was just dazzling [in Mame]. Years later, when we met at a CBS function, I said, 'You probably won't remember this, but when I was in New York …' I don't think I got further than that and she stopped me and said, 'I still have that letter.'' A talented singer and dancer who had been enrolled in dance classes as a youngster, Swit also performed on The Muppet Show and in a number of musical TV specials. And she was a game-show regular on Match Game, The Hollywood Squares and The $10,000 Pyramid. In 2019, after a 21-year absence, she returned to the screen in the religious film Play the Flute, about a youth group. Swit was married to actor Dennis Holahan, whom she met on the set of M*A*S*H, from 1983 until their divorce in 1995. Donations in her memory can be to Actors & Others for Animals or the SwitHeart Animal Alliance, which she set up to protect, rescue, train and care for animals and preserve their habitat. She recently created a fragrance and a necklace, the sales of which supported her efforts. When asked about the continuing impact of the show that made her a household name, Swit brought up a telegram from a fan. 'It said, 'Dear M*A*S*H folk: You made me laugh. You made me cry. You made me feel. Thank you.' I've never forgotten that,' she said. 'That's one hell of a legacy.' Duane Byrge contributed to this report. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
