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1 week ago | 
closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile |Rick Egusquiza
In late March, country music superstar Reba McEntire celebrated a personal milestone with thousands of her closest friends. At a concert stop in Connecticut, her family rolled a cake out on stage to celebrate her 70th birthday and led the crowd in a spirited rendition of “Happy Birthday.”Life has rarely been better. “I think I am the happiest I’ve ever been,” Reba recently told Extra, adding that her partner and Happy’s Place costar, Rex Linn, has everything to do with it.
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2 weeks ago | 
closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile |Katie Bruno
After Bette Davis’ curtain call in Broadway’s The Night of the Iguana, she received an unexpected guest in her dressing room. “Joan Crawford went backstage with a copy of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and said to Bette, ‘I think we should do this,’” Robert Dance, author of Ferocious Ambition: Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom, exclusively tells Closer.
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3 weeks ago | 
closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile |William Keck
As a boy, Bruce Boxleitner couldn’t wait for the next John Wayne western or science fiction creature feature to come to his local drive-in. So it was perhaps destiny that two of his greatest successes took him back to the old west on How the West Was Won and into space on Babylon 5. Bruce, who turned 75 on May 12, is also contemplating a real-life journey to the stars.
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3 weeks ago | 
closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile
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3 weeks ago | 
closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile |Rick Egusquiza
On their 14th wedding anniversary, Prince William and Kate Middleton stayed overnight at a small remote cottage with stunning views on the Scottish Isle of Mull. “Wonderful to be back,” they posted on Instagram, along with a photo of themselves with their arms wrapped around each other. “Thank you everyone for such a warm welcome.”Their working vacation marked the first time the royal couple have done a joint official trip since Kate’s cancer went into remission.
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3 weeks ago | 
closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile
It’s hard to believe there was a time when Jason Bateman was a newcomer to show business, but the actor best known for his roles in Ozark, Juno and Arrested Development, got his start in television acting as a child. Was Jason Bateman in ‘Little House on the Prairie’? Yes, Jason was in Little House on the Prairie. He made his debut on the show at age 11, playing James Cooper Ingalls, the adopted son of Charles Ingalls. When Did Jason Bateman Make His ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Debut?
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3 weeks ago | 
closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile
On the beloved historical drama Little House on the Prairie, the pioneering Ingalls family survives many hardships and obstacles, but few were more heartrending than the death of Charles “Freddy” Ingalls Jr. in the first season. The infant son of Charles (played by Michael Landon) and Caroline (Karen Grassle), and brother of series narrator Laura (Melissa Gilbert) became ill and passed away in the 13th episode, “The Lord is My Shepherd,” which originally aired on December 18, 1974.
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4 weeks ago | 
closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile |Lindsay Hoffman
If Vanna White hadn’t become a star on Wheel of Fortune, she’d probably be working in real estate! “Before all those HGTV shows came out, I would buy a little condo, fix it up, and flip it,” she exclusively tells Closer. “I would be the OG!”Of course, Vanna has been a fixture on television for the past 40 years, and she admits that even as a little girl she wanted to be famous. The South Carolina-reared letter turner got her start in beauty pageants and modeling before heading out to California.
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1 month ago | 
closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile |Lindsay Hoffman
In writing about his late sister Karen, Emmy-winning actor Kelsey Grammer recalled details of his childhood he hadn’t thought about in decades. “Recall is just extraordinary,” Kelsey, 70, exclusively tells Closer. “I’m seeing the bedroom the way it was laid out. I’m remembering the way a little television was perched on a chair when we were both kids together.”The Frasier star was studying acting in New York City in 1975 when he received word that his younger sister Karen had died in Colorado.
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1 month ago | 
closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile |Lindsay Hoffman
Before Hogan’s Heroes was cancelled in 1971 after six seasons, Bob Crane, who played Col. Robert E. Hogan, was working on a live version of the TV series called Hogan’s Heroes’ Review. In addition to comedy skits and music, the show would have revealed what happened to each of Hogan’s main characters after the war ended. Sadly, it never materialized. Sixty years ago, television audiences were introduced to the charming residents of fictional Stalag 13 and their inept camp guardians.
