CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on March 21st, 2024, reviewing the new streaming series “Manhunt” – based on the bestseller by James L. Swanson – currently streaming on Apple TV+.
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Entertainment News: Ed Asner, Eternally Lou Grant, Dies at 91
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 30, 2021 - 8:39amCHICAGO – Meeting Ed Asner is like meeting the grumpy uncle that you still love, because you know despite his curmudgeon nature, his has passion, spunk and delivers all of it in many ways. He was Lou Grant in The Mary Tyler Moore Show most famously in the 1970s, but his other acting pursuits were just as significant.
Slideshow: 20 Portraits From The Hollywood Show in Chicagoland on March 17-18, 2018
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 15, 2018 - 2:17pm- Angie Dickinson
- Bambi
- Buck Rogers
- Dawn Wells
- Ed Asner
- Film News
- Gilligan’s Isle
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- HollywoodChicago.com Slideshow
- Hyatt Rosemont/Chicago
- Illinois
- Leave it to Beaver
- Patrick McDonald
- Richard Chamberlain
- Rosemont
- Seinfeld
- Soup Nazi
- Stefanie Powers
- The Hollywood Show
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- The Nelsons
CHICAGO – The TV, movie and entertainment world is coming back to Chicagoland with The Hollywood Show on March 17th and 18th, 2018, at the Hyatt Rosemont/Chicago O’Hare Hotel in Rosemont, Ill. The event gives fans and admirers an opportunity to meet and get pictures with celebrities and take advantage of vendors offering show business memorabilia.
Exclusive Portraits, Audio: Ed Asner, TV Icon & Character Actor
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 25, 2017 - 11:02amCHICAGO – When Mary Tyler Moore passed away in January, it was another reminder of her groundbreaking 1970s TV series “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” One of her co-stars – who portrayed bossman Lou Grant, and made his own mark in TV and movies thereafter – was Ed Asner. The actor appeared at “The Hollywood Show.”
Slideshow: The Hollywood Show in Chicagoland on Mar. 24-26, 2017
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 21, 2017 - 3:23pm- Angie Dickinson
- Charlene Tilton
- Chicago
- Dallas
- Dawn Wells
- Dr. Kildare
- Ed Asner
- Gilligan’s Island
- Hart to Hart
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- HollywoodChicago.com Slideshow
- Hyatt Rosemont/Chicago O'Hare Airport Hotel
- Illinois
- Joe Arce
- Patrick McDonald
- Richard Chamberlin
- Rosemont
- Stefanie Powers
- The Hollywood Show
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
CHICAGO – “The Hollywood Show” is an exciting gathering of celebrities and memorabilia for movies, TV and pop culture fans. The latest edition is coming up – March 24th-26th, 2017 – at the Hyatt Rosemont/Chicago O’Hare Airport Hotel in Rosemont, Ill.
Entertainment News: TV Icon Mary Tyler Moore Dies at 80
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 25, 2017 - 5:39pmGREENWICH, CONN. – She was the ideal woman for two generations of TV viewers, first in the 1960s as wife Laura to comedy writer Rob Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” and then in the 1970s as feminist breakthrough Mary Richards on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Ms. Moore died on January 25, 2016, near her home in Greenwich, Conn. She was 80.
Interview: Bruce Boxleitner at 2013 C2E2 Talks Career, New TV Series
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 27, 2013 - 4:50amCHICAGO – The Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) is happening in the Windy City over the weekend of April 26th-28th, with special guests, seminars, autograph booths and vendors covering the huge floors of the McCormick Place Convention Center. Among the special guests is Bruce Boxleitner, representing his former TV series Babylon 5, and several new science fiction projects.
Exclusive Portrait: Betty White’s New Book ‘If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won’t)’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 5, 2011 - 9:09pmCHICAGO – It stands to reason that Betty White’s latest sitcom is called “Hot in Cleveland.” The veteran “Golden Girl” has had a hot and unprecedented late career surge, augmented by the Facebook campaign that resulted in her hosting Saturday Night Live in 2010. She was in Chicago recently to promote her new book, “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won’t).”
