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Ronna McDaniel Is Out at NBC News After Furor
A string of top stars had denounced the hiring of Ms. McDaniel, the former chairwoman of...
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NBC News Faces Rebellion Over Hiring of Ronna McDaniel, Ex-RNC Chair
In extraordinary on-air remarks, Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough and Nicolle Wallace questioned their own network’s decision...
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Chuck Todd and ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts Object to NBC’s Hiring of Former R.N.C. Chair
The extraordinary comments on “Meet the Press” revealed tensions in NBC’s news divisions over Ronna McDaniel,...
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Ronna McDaniel, Former R.N.C. Chair, Joins NBC News
Her new role as a commentator on NBC and MSNBC programs comes shortly after she stepped...
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Opinion | The Babe Paley in ‘Feud’ Is Not the Woman I Knew
In a popular TV show, my grandmother is fictionalized as one of Truman Capote’s swans. I...
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In Calling Out Tucker Carlson, Jon Stewart Reminds Us He Has (Old-Fashioned) Skills
The comedian has always had a sharp Borscht Belt approach, but only in his return to...
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Wendy Williams Has Frontotemporal Dementia and Aphasia, Representatives Say
Representatives for the former daytime talk show host announced her diagnoses two days before the release...
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At the Puppy Bowl, Extra Points for Being a Very Good Boy
The other big game on Super Bowl Sunday? The 20th outing of Animal Planet’s football game...
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40 Years Ago, This Ad Changed the Super Bowl Forever
An oral history of Apple’s groundbreaking “1984” spot, which helped to establish the Super Bowl as...
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Fox News to Taylor Swift: ‘Don’t Get Involved in Politics!’
The prospect of the pop megastar’s endorsing President Biden in the 2024 election has irked conservative...
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Chita Rivera Lived to Entertain. Here Are 9 Memorable Performances.
A quadruple threat, Rivera could make a lasting impression in minutes, whether onstage or onscreen. These...
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Jon Stewart Will Return to Host ‘The Daily Show’ on Mondays
Stewart, who hosted the Comedy Central show from 1999 to 2015, will also be an executive...
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Joyce Randolph, Last of the ‘Honeymooners,’ Is Dead at 99
She played Trixie Norton in the classic sitcom and was the last survivor of a cast...
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David Soul, a Star of the Hit Cop Show ‘Starsky & Hutch,’ Dies at 80
An actor and singer, he rose to fame in the 1970s as one half of the...
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Simpleton? Genius? Who was Tom Smothers?
He was close with John Lennon, and had a sophisticated understanding of wine, politics and literature....
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard Is Released From Prison in Missouri
In 2016, she was found guilty of helping to kill her mother in a murder that...
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Tom Smothers, Comic Half of the Smothers Brothers, Dies at 86
Though he played a naïve buffoon onstage, he was the driving force behind the folk-singing duo’s...
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Matthew Perry Died of ‘Acute Effects of Ketamine,’ Autopsy Says
The medical examiner said drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of an opioid also contributed...
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Andre Braugher, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ and ‘Homicide’ Actor, Dies at 61
He was best known for playing stoic police officers on two acclaimed but very different television...
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Andre Braugher Let You Hear Him Think
The resonant-voiced actor, skilled at cerebral roles, had a gift for conveying authority and for subverting...
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Ryan O’Neal, Who Became a Star With ‘Love Story,’ Dies at 82
He was a familiar face on TV before his breakout performance opposite Ali MacGraw in the...
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Remembering Norman Lear’s Most Controversial Episode
A two-part November 1972 episode of “Maude,” in which the title character decides to get an...
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Norman Lear, TV’s Greatest American
The “All in the Family” producer made sitcoms into a form of patriotic dissent.
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Rob Reiner Remembers Norman Lear: We’ve Lost ‘a Real Champion of America’
With “All in the Family,” Lear “tapped into something that nobody had ever done before or...