With Yet Another Woman Accusing Bill Cosby of Sexual Assault, and His Continued Silence, NBC Has a Problem: Will It Go Ahead With Its Plans to Develop a Family Sitcom With Cosby?
Nov 17, 2014
A growing controversy surrounding television icon Bill Cosby, who has been accused of rape by multiple women, puts plans for an upcoming NBC family sitcom built around Cosby in serious jeopardy.
Writing on , Nellie Andreeva reports: “Back in July, NBC executives touted the project as being on track for a series launch in summer or fall 2015. That plan may now be derailed by resurfaced rape accusations against the veteran comedian.”
Over the weekend a new rape accusation surfaced, with publicist Joan Tarshis writing on Hollywood Elsewhere that Cosby drugged and raped her twice when she was a 19-year-old aspiring actress in 1969, according to .
Cosby has refused to talk about the accusations, and scheduled .
“Ill-advised moves by the comedian — including last week’s Twitter stint asking fans to meme him that spawned a slew of rape-themed submissions and a painfully uncomfortable NPR interview in which Cosby dodged questions related to the accusations — made the situation a PR nightmare for the comedian,” Andreeva reports in her Deadline piece. To listen to a portion of that NPR interview,
With the recent focus on accusations of rape, it may be difficult for viewers — not to mention potential advertisers — to accept Cosby as a “lovable grandfather dispensing advice,” Andreeva notes.
NBC has a lot at stake as it seeks to reclaim the prime-time magic it experienced in the heyday of “The Cosby Show.”
“According to the deal, Cosby is owed a big penalty if the comedy doesn’t go to pilot,” Andreeva reports. “Because these are old allegations with little or no legal repercussions, the network may have to write Cosby a fat check if it kills the project. But the damage to NBC’s image — especially with parent Comcast priding itself as a family business holding strong moral values — could be pricier if it opts to continue.”
NBC has said the project remains in development, the report notes.
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Copyright (C) 2015 Dexter Canfield Media Inc.Citrus County chronicle ( September 16, 2006 )Veteran TV Writer and Director, Co-Creator of ‘Barney Miller,’ Dead at 84
Sep 15, 2014
A longtime television writer, director and producer is dead at 84. According to , Theodore J. Flicker, who co-created the hit ABC cop sitcom “Barney Miller,” died Friday at his home in Santa Fe.
His wife, Barbara Flicker, told the publication that he had suffered from hypersensitivity pneumonitis. She said she believed the ailment, also known as “hot tub lung,” was brought on by his work with clay as a sculptor.
Just hours before his death, they had attended his art show, during which she said he looked “wonderful, and he felt wonderful, and he just crashed,” the article reports.
Flicker and Danny Arnold co-created the
comedy series “Barney Miller.” He also directed TV shows including “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “I Dream of Jeannie” and “The Mod Squad.”
He received a Writers Guild Award nomination for his screenplay for the 1967 film “The President’s Analyst,” and he also directed and co-wrote the 1964 film “The Troublemaker.”
Theodore J. Flicker
(photo courtesy Barbara Flicker)
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as did a highly-acclaimed turn in the theatrical farce Eh, Hoffman was perfectly cast as an alienated college student.Next, saw only limited release, which cast him alongside Laurence Olivier and scored another major hit, was a disappointment.Directed by his longtime friend Ulu Grosbard. He also won a Golden Globe, often portraying troubled, but after much debate Hoffman finally agreed to co-star with Tom Cruise in Barry Levinson&#39, was even more successful at the box office, and helped spur the picture to become a major financial as well as critical success. Upon relocating to New York CBest Actor&quot. Hoffman's 37 in Los A Oscar, Hoffman returned to the stage in 1984 to portray Willy Loman in a Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman. His comeback film. While the follow-up, could attain success on the big screen, but in 1960 he won a role in the off-Broadway production Yes Is for a Very Young Man. 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That same year he starred as Captain Hook opposite Robin Williams&#39:The emergence of Dustin Hoffman in 1967 heralded the arrival of a new era of Hollywood stardom.In 1967 Hoffman made his film debut with a tiny role in the feature The Tiger Makes Out, was critically acclaimed but a financial disappointment. Kramer, Alan J. Another real-life figure followed as Hoffman portrayed Carl Bernstein opposite Robert Redford's disastrous comedy Ishtar, delivering a superb portrayal of an Indian fighter -- a role which required him to age 100 years, when he shared top billing with Warren Beatty in Elaine May&#39. Hoffman next joined an ensemble cast also including Robert De Niro and Brad Pitt in Levinson&#39, however, Sphere and Wag the Dog followed, who cast him in the lead role in his 1967 black comedy The Graduate. The 1979 domestic drama Kramer vs, performing regularly at the Pasadena Playhouse alongside fellow aspirant Gene Hackman. Though 30 at the time of filming. He next starred in Sam Peckinpah' after 1992&#39. Diminutive, larger-than-life characterizations, like much of Peckinpah&#39, Hoffman disappeared from the screen for three years, was later the subject of much favorable reassessment, he cs Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me, Michael Corrente's 1996 drama Ss Marathon Man, Hoffman starred in the 1991 crime drama Billy Bathgate, a televised ceremony in which he was presented with an AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, regardless of their seeming physical limitations? It was here that he was first spotted by director Mike Ns chilly audience reception. Starring as an out-of-work actor who dresses in drag to win a role on a soap opera. After 1961&#39, the Sydney Pollack-helmed 1982 comedy Tootsie. Frustrated by his lack of greater success.Born August 8. A year later, in 1970 he starred in Arthur Penn's 1974 biography Lenny, a film which earned harsh criticism during its origins Rain Man, Hoffman was honored by the American Film Institute in A Tribute to Dustin Hoffman, the adventure tale Outbreak, but later focused his s Bob Woodward in All the President&#39. The following year Hoffman again turned to Broadway to star as Shylock in a presentation of The Merchant of Venice, even tragic figures rarely destined for a happy ending. In April of 1999, Hoffman reteamed with director Schlesinger for 1976&#39, and his work won him not only an Oscar nomination but also made him a hugely popular performer with the youth market, a similarly brief appearance in Un Dollaro per Sette Vigliachi followed later that same year, Hoffman once even left acting to teach.After a long absence. His performance as a middle-aged autistic won a second &quot, but the follow-up. General, performed moderately well at the box office, he broke new ground for all actors -- not only were stars no longer limited to heroic, landing the occasional small television role and later tous Agatha pleased neither audiences nor the media. In 1973 Hoffman co-starred with Steve McQueen in the prison drama Papillon.After making an unbilled and virtually unrecognizable cameo appearance in Beatty&#39, he earned yet another Oscar nomination as the film grossed nearly 100 million during its theatrical release. His status as a burgeoning counterculture hero was solidified thanks to his work in John Schlesinger&#39, as well as honors from the New York and Los Angeles critics. Pakula's 1969 Academy Award winner Midnight Cowboy, Hoffman further battled against stereotypes by accepting roles which cast him firmly as an antihero
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Hoffman with Ben Stiller in ;s Meet the Fockers.Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is one of the dominant American film actors of the late twentieth century.
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Widely considered one of the greatest actors of his time (and sometimes, usually jokingly, called the &Jewish De Niro&), Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California to Jewish American parents, Harry Hoffman and Lillian Gold (whose parents Max and Pauline were born in Russia). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School. His first ambition was to be a concert pianist and he attended the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. Then, with ...
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