Month: January 2022

Stamos published his funeral speech in the Los Angeles Times today. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery Read the full text below: My Bob. I’m not ready to accept that he’s gone. I’m not going to say goodbye yet. I imagine him out there, still on the road, doing what he loves with all his heart and humor. He’s standing on stage, killing! Another two-hour set in front of a couple hundred of the luckiest people on the planet. They’re laughing so hard they weep. And just when they catch their breath, he grabs his guitar and slays them with one of his musical closers. There’s an encore, and another, and another. Everyone here wants an encore with Bob. He calls his one true love, Kelly [Rizzo], and tells her about his show. He says he feels 26 again, alive, ...

The second season of Star Trek: Picard premieres March 3, 2022 on Paramount+.It has been a long, pandemic-fueled wait, but the second season of Star Trek: Picard is almost here, and we now have an official trailer. In addition to seeing Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) encounter his mischievous former frenemy, Q (John de Lancie), fans' hearts will warm to see the retired Starfleet captain reunite with Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg), the El-Aurian bar hostess from Star Trek: The Next Generation. As I wrote in my review last year, the series is set 20 years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis. The first season opened with Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) having retired to the family vineyard. His bucolic existence was interrupted by the arrival of ...

John Stamos has shared the touching eulogy he delivered last week at the funeral of his “lifeline” and former “Full House” co-star Bob Saget. Stamos, 58, published the tribute in the Los Angeles Times (via People), where he shared that one of the great honors of his life was “being associated with [Saget] at this moment in time.” He reminisced about their time on the set of their sitcom, saying that they initially had very different styles of acting. “It didn’t take long for us to meet in the middle and to respect each other professionally and creatively as the years went by,” Stamos explained. He also said that Saget was there for him through the toughest of times. “When things came crashing down, the last person on Earth I ever imagined w...

Louie Anderson, the genial stand-up comedian, actor and television host who won an Emmy Award for his work on the series “Baskets” and two Daytime Emmys for his animated children’s show, “Life With Louie,” died on Friday in Las Vegas. He was 68. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his longtime publicist, Glenn Schwartz, who said the cause was complications of diffuse large B cell lymphoma, a form of blood cancer. In an entertainment career that spanned more than four decades, Mr. Anderson had a self-deprecating style that won him legions of fans, among them Henny Youngman and Johnny Carson, whose early support catapulted him to stardom. In 1981, Mr. Anderson was among the top finishers in a comedy competition hosted by Mr. Youngman, who subsequently hired him as a writer. ...

For about 24 hours, it was a New York City mystery: Who would pay more than $280,000 for a hulking, orange 57-year-old Staten Island Ferry boat whose engines don’t work? The answer turned out to be a group of investors that includes two of the most famous natives of the island, Pete Davidson and Colin Jost, cast members of “Saturday Night Live.” Mr. Davidson and Mr. Jost joined a consortium of New Yorkers who placed the winning bid in an auction that ended on Wednesday, according to Paul Italia, a comedy club owner who did the bidding for the group. A spokeswoman for NBC, the network that broadcasts “S.N.L.,” also confirmed the involvement of the two performers. “Yes, Pete Davidson and Colin Jost are involved,” said Mr. Italia, who founded The Stand, a comedy club in Manhattan. “Yes, we ...

Louie Anderson, whose more than four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series "Baskets," died Friday. He was 68. Anderson died in Las Vegas of complications from cancer, Glenn Schwartz, his longtime publicist, said in a statement to CBS News. Anderson had a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Schwartz said previously. Actor Louie Anderson attends the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.  Frazer Harrison, Getty Images Anderson won a 2016 Emmy for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Christine Baskets, mother to twins played...