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| 'Donna Reed Show,' 'Coach' star Shelley Fabares dies at 82 | Actress Shelley Fabares, a prolific television actress whose credits include "Coach" and "One Day at A Time," died Saturday at 82 after a brief illness, her family said. Fabares, who was a series regular on "The Donna Reed Show" between 1958 and 1963, also had two Top 40 hits including "Johnny Angel." She starred in three movies with Elvis Presley in the 1960s. She later played the wife of dying Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo in the TV movie, "Brian's Song" in 1971. She was nominated twice for the Emmy for her role on "Coach," where she played the TV newscaster and love interest of fictional football coach Hayden Fox, played by Craig T. Nelson. |
| Jessica Frances Dukes: 'Westies' FBI agent is a master manipulator | Ozark and Jessica Jones alum Jessica Frances Dukes says she knew how to play her FBI agent Birdie Polk the second she read the script for Westies. "As soon as I saw, I'd say, the first three of her lines, I knew who she was. There was a sort of power and attack with her," Dukes told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. "It just unfolded in such a beautiful way over the episodes that I just knew I wanted to do this." Set in the early 1980s, the series follows several gangs and law-enforcement officers trying to bring them down against the backdrop of the construction of Manhattan's enormous Jacob Javits Convention Center. |
| 'Spider-Man' tops North American box office for 4th weekend | Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the No.1 movie in North America, earning $39 million in receipts in its fourth weekend, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday. Coming in at No. 2 is Insidious: Out of the Further with $25.3 million, followed by The Odyssey at No. 3 with $19.5 million, PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie at No. 4 with $9.1 million and The End of Oak Street at No. 5 with $9 million. Rounding out the top tier are Mutiny at No. 6 with $7.5 million, Tony at No. 7 with $5 million, The Fast and the Furious at No. 8 with $3.1 million, Spa Weekend at No. 9 with $3 million and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma at No. 10 with $1.9 million. |
| Big Bad Film Fest review: 'Ikatan Darah' introduces impressive fighters | Ikatan Darah, which screened at the Big Bad Film Festival Saturday, adds a host of impressive, brutal fighters to the martial arts movie world. Executive produced by The Raid's Iko Uwais, Ikatan Darah depicts another thrilling corner of Indonesian action. Mega (Livi Ciananta in her second movie) was a competitive martial artist until a dislocated shoulder made it impossible to compete. Don't worry, it won't prevent her from fighting bad guys who come for her and her brother, Bilal (Derby Romero). Bilal got into gambling debt to Henri (Dimas Anggara), then killed Henri in self-defense and stole all his money. That only brings more trouble for Bilal, and on Mega if she wants to protect him. |
| C. Thomas Howell: 'One Mile' heavy is trying to protect his people | The Outsiders and Red Dawn icon C. Thomas Howell says the villain and hero in his new film One Mile and its sequel One Mile: Chapter 2 have similar motivations. Helmed by La Brea, Deadwood and Lost director Adam Davidson, the two-part action-thriller was filmed on Vancouver Island and casts Ryan Phillippe as Danny, a former special forces operative trying to re-connect with his teenage daughter Alex (Amelie Hoeferle) during a college road trip where she is kidnapped by members of an off-the-grid community led by Stanley (Howell). |