Oscar- and Emmy-nominated producer Marc Merson died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 82. Merson is best known for producing the features Doc Hollywood, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter and Leadbelly. On the TV side he produced several series including Kaz and We’ll Get By and TV movies Riding High and Hickey. He received an Oscar nomination in 1970 for producing the short People Soup, starring Alan Arkin. In the 1960s, he produced a musical version of Shaw’s Androcles And The Lion with songs by Richard Rodgers for NBC and the Emmy-nominated The Love Song Of Barney Kempinski, scripted by Murray Shisgal and starring Arkin, for the ABC Stage 67 series.
- 10/3/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Dying and death are topics typically reserved for A Very Special Episode of a particular series.
But Showtime’s The Big C is a drama that, from the very start, has built its foundation on these frightening/sad/troubling subjects.
And it kicks off its final run tonight with the opener of The Big C: Hereafter, mini-series that is guaranteed to deliver laughter, tears and reflection for all viewers.
Will Laura Linney's Cathy Jamison get her life in order as her cancer continues to wreak havoc on her body? How will her family react to what she goes through? And will she triumph in the end? Here is are seven reasons why you should grab some Kleenex and tune in...
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Bow Down To Laura Linney Watching this amazing actress play the highs and lows of Cathy Jamison is a marvel. Gabriel Basso - who plays her teenage son,...
But Showtime’s The Big C is a drama that, from the very start, has built its foundation on these frightening/sad/troubling subjects.
And it kicks off its final run tonight with the opener of The Big C: Hereafter, mini-series that is guaranteed to deliver laughter, tears and reflection for all viewers.
Will Laura Linney's Cathy Jamison get her life in order as her cancer continues to wreak havoc on her body? How will her family react to what she goes through? And will she triumph in the end? Here is are seven reasons why you should grab some Kleenex and tune in...
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Bow Down To Laura Linney Watching this amazing actress play the highs and lows of Cathy Jamison is a marvel. Gabriel Basso - who plays her teenage son,...
- 4/29/2013
- by jimhalterman@gmail.com (Jim Halterman)
- TVfanatic
The Big C is bringing closure to cancer-stricken Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney) with a four-episode miniseries. Subtitled hereafter, even the opening credits have a nostalgic air, scrapbooking through Cathy’s journey through illness. Gone along with her tranquil opening swim in her home pool, the too-good-to-be-true serenity of season’s 3 Puerto Rican escape (when Cathy quite literally jumped ship to make a new life with a fisherman) is quickly overwritten. Like a rock plunking into the aforementioned pool and creating ripples, the sometimes jarring opener was fun to watch at times, though viewers’ pleasure is slightly diminished by the fact...
- 4/29/2013
- by Lanford Beard
- EW - Inside TV
If you’ve been keeping up with the extremely entertaining third season of Showtime’s comedy The Big C you know that Sean Tolke, the sometimes homeless, bi-polar brother to cancer patient Cathy (played by Laura Linney), has accidentally fallen into a new, lucrative occupation to help pay the bills – a phone sex operator. In lesser hands, the story could come off as a little dated (do people still have phone sex in this day of the internet?), but with Tony winner John Benjamin Hickey at the helm of Sean’s latest adventure, the story has been one of the show's strongest in the current season.
Hickey himself is at a high point in his acting career. After many accolades for stage work in productions like Love! Valour! Compassion! and Cabaret, last year the 48-year old actor won a Tony for his performance in Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart.
Hickey himself is at a high point in his acting career. After many accolades for stage work in productions like Love! Valour! Compassion! and Cabaret, last year the 48-year old actor won a Tony for his performance in Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart.
- 5/17/2012
- by nyjimmy67
- The Backlot
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