Multi-talented performer Stiller dies
Comedy veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and re-emerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show “Seinfeld,” died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday. He died of natural causes, his son said in a tweet.
Jerry Stiller was a multi-talented performer who appeared in an assortment of movies, playing Walter Matthau’s police sidekick in the thriller “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” and Divine’s husband Wilbur Turnblad in John Waters’ twisted comedy “Hairspray.” He also wrote an autobiography, “Married to Laughter,” about his 50-plus year marriage to soul mate and comedic cohort Meara, who died in 2015.
Stiller earned an 1997 Emmy nomination for his indelible “Seinfeld” performance. It jump-started the septuagenarian’s career, landing him a spot playing Vince Lombardi in a Nike commercial and the role of another over-the-top dad on the long-running sitcom “King of Queens.” emerging talent for “Creation”; and Elise Gravel won Best Kids’ Book for “The Worst Book Ever.” Freddy Carrasco won Best Small or Micro-Press Book for “Gleem” and Walter Ball, creator of the comic strip “Rural Route,” was named to the Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame. The winning and nominated books can be purchased through comics shop the Beguiling’s new online bookstore (beguilingbooks.com), along with others that would have debuted at the cancelled festival on May 9 and 10. made sci-fi series about a transcontinental group of clones, many of them played by Maslany. She will portray clones Alison, Cosima, Sarah and Helena in the reading of episodes 6 and 7 from Season 1 on May 17, which is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Reading alongside her will be Irish actor Maria Doyle Kennedy, Canadian actors Jordan Gavaris, Kristian Bruun, Kevin Hanchard, Dylan Bruce, Evelyne Brochu, Michael Mando, cocreators Graeme Manson and John Fawcett and more.
“Kristian Bruun and I started talking about the idea of doing an ‘OB’ reunion back when everything had shut down,” said Maslany in a news release. “We wanted to show love to Clone Club (the show’s fans) and help raise some money for people who are disproportionately affected during this difficult time.”
The charities chosen are CenterLink, which supports LGBTQ community centres around the world, and Sistering Toronto, a resource for at-risk women and trans people.
The reading will take place at 8 p.m. Sunday on the “Orphan Black” Facebook page. Episodes of the five-season series, which ran from 2013 to 2017 on Space (now CTV Sci-Fi Channel), can be streamed at ctv.ca or on Crave.
“The Masked Singer,” an artificial-intelligence thriller and a prime-time soap opera starring Kim Cattrall will be part of Fox’s fall lineup, the network said Monday as it unveiled its schedule amid the pandemic’s disruption of the TV industry.
Cattrall’s “Filthy Rich,” about a Southern family’s inheritance fight, and the AI drama “neXt” starring John Slattery were to have bowed this spring and had each completed 10 episodes. Moving the shows to the 202021 season gives Fox fresh fare despite uncertainty about when or how the virus-forced Hollywood production shutdown will ease.
Fox’s fall schedule also will include “L.A.’s Finest,” the Gabrielle Union-Jessica Alba police drama that originated on cable, and the third instalment of “Cosmos” hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and made in partnership with National Geographic Channel, which aired it earlier this spring. “Bob’s Burgers” has been renewed for its 11th season and will be part of Fox’s Sunday night animated lineup set to include the 32nd season of “The Simpsons,” the network said.