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Category Archives: Television
‘Knots Landing’ star Joan Van Ark preferred voice-overs
By Ray Bennett LONDON – Joan Van Ark was among the most popular TV stars of the Eighties in the ‘Dallas’ spinoff ‘Knots Landing’ but she told me she made more money doing voice-overs for commercials and cartoons. ‘It’s as … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Dalaas', 'Knots Landing', Donna Mills, Joan Van Ark, Julie Harris, Larry Hagman, Michelle Lee
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How fame got the better of Treat Williams
By Ray Bennett LONDON – Treat Williams, who died aged 71 on June 12 in a motorcycle accident, became instantly famous in the movie version of ‘Hair’ in 1979. After shining brightly in Sidney Lumet’s fine 1981 cop picture ‘Prince … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Everwood', 'Flashpoint', 'Hair', 'Prince of the City', cocaine, fame, John Belushi, Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams
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Robert Lansing, intense and unhappy with television
By Ray Bennett LONDON – ‘Television is just awful,’ Robert Lansing told me. ‘I’ve done a lot of it but not from choice. I’ve done an awful lot of garbage; an awful lot of lousy things. I’m not saying I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Finishing Touches', 'The Grissom Gang', 'Twelve O'Clock High', 87th Precinct, Fisher Theater, Robert Lansing
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That time on the ‘Hill Street Blues’ set with Charles Haid
By Ray Bennett LONDON – ‘You don’t say Hill and you don’t say Renko. You say Hill and Renko’. Charles Haid (above right) stated the case for one of the most durable partnerships on television in the 1980s on the … Continue reading
Recalling … Lloyd Bridges, famous star with famous sons
By Ray Bennett LONDON – ‘Oh, you shouldn’t bother with Lloyd,’ said Dorothy Bridges, the actor’s wife of nearly forty years. ‘You need to talk to my boys, Jeff and Beau.’ It was 1976 and she had every reason to … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Airplane!', 'High Noon', 'Sea Hunt', Beau Bridges, Charlton Heston, Hiram Walker, Jeff Bridges, Lloyd Bridges, Rob Reiner
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Ted Danson’s epiphany in the African desert
By Ray Bennett LONDON – Ted Danson, who turns 75 today, has had an astonishingly successful career on television but there was a time when he wanted something else. After his sitcom ’Cheers’ became a massive hit in the early … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Cheers', 'We Are the Children'', Ted Danson
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Recalling … a great afternoon with Deidre Hall
By Ray Bennett LONDON – One of the true queens of the soaps, ‘Days of Our Lives’ star Deidre Hall, who turns 75 today, sent me a very nice note after I interviewed her in 1981 for a cover story … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Days of Our Lives', Canadian TV Guide, Deidre Hall, Dr. Marlena Evans, Salem Strangler, Wayne Northrop
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When Nancy Ames invited me to her show …
By Ray Bennett LONDON – American singer Nancy Ames, who turns 85 today, once said she was my biggest fan. It began when I went to interview her for The Windsor Star in Canada and fell in love.
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Tagged 'That Was the Week That Was', Nancy Ames, The Windsor Star, Tom Lehrer, Top Hat Supper Club
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There’s always a Ray in the movies
By Ray Bennett LONDON – From ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ to ‘Ghostbusters’ to ‘Field of Dreams’ and now ‘Raymond & Ray’, there’s always a Ray in the movies and television.