Flip Wilson

A variety show is the spice of only a very bland life. This hoary old genre, the MSG of television formats, is undergoing a surprising revival. There's a Rosie O'Donnell-led NBC prime-time special next week, and a CBS attempt starring nouveau...

'Rosie Live," a one-shot live variety show airing Wednesday on NBC, is Rosie O'Donnell's tribute to that venerable TV genre. That puts us in mind of the 1970s, the last Golden Age of variety shows. The decade had many variety hits ( Flip Wilson, Sonny and...

Talk about the wind getting sucked out of you: Bernie Mac has died. This news comes just about a day after the public relations firm PMK notified the press that he was responding well to treatment and would probably......

1 'Comanche Moon' 8 p.m., WBBM-Ch. 2 In the third and final episode of the miniseries, Texas Rangers search for two American Indian outlaws and a Mexican bandit. Starring Val Kilmer, Steve Zahn, Rachel Griffiths, Karl Urban and Linda Cardellini (right)....

It's all in the numbers now. "25 Days of Christmas." "24-hour Merrython." "20 Merriest Christmas Videos." "Studio 60" and "Adam-12." So those last two are titles of series whose holiday episodes air this week. You get the point. The tube hosts so...

April 24 Movies • "Night at the Museum" • "The Queen" • "Deja Vu" • "Thr3e" • "Code Name - The Cleaner" • "10 Items or Less" Television • "NCIS - The Complete Third Season" • "The Odd Couple - The First Season" • "WKRP in Cincinnati: The Complete...

From The Times: Feb. 9, 1971 The 28th Golden Globes Awards at the Beverly Hilton was the kind of evening and entertainment that leaves the audience hoping for an encore. It was more of a fun event than any big awards ceremony I recall in recent years,...

LOS ANGELES The deer's ears twitch as "detective" Jeff Foxworthy tries to interrogate the animal. "You've got 3 seconds to come clean or ..." Foxworthy tells the uncooperative creature. The door of the interview room flies open, and a woman in a dark...

WASHINGTON - Live from Washington, it was time to bestow one of the nation's top comedy honors on the creator of "Saturday Night Live." "For the last 30 years, I've had the coolest job in New York City," Lorne Michaels remarked after receiving the 2004...