Tag: Starsky & Hutch
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Celebrities Who Have Died in 2024
Movie, TV and music fans are already remembering notable figures who have died since the start of 2024. “Starsky and Hutch” star David Soul and “Honeymooners” star Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie, are among celebrities from the world of television who have died. In film, cinephiles are remembering “Moonstruck” director Norman Jewison and “Mary Poppins”…
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The X-Files Theme Song Combined A Spooky Vibe And The Smiths
Composer Mark Snow started his professional music writing career in 1976 with the release of the notorious TV movie “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,” starring a young John Travolta. Paul Williams wrote the theme song for the movie, but it was Snow who composed the incidental music. He was about 29 years old. Since then,…
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William Blinn, ‘Starsky & Hutch’ Creator and ‘Purple Rain’ Writer, Dies at 83
William Blinn, a longtime writer responsible for “Purple Rain” and “Starsky & Hutch,” died on Thursday. He was 83.Blinn passed away due to natural causes at an assisted living facility in Burbank, his daughter, Anneliese Johnson, told multiple media outlets.Blinn enjoyed a four-decade career where, along with penning the script for the Prince-starring film, he…
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Stuart Cornfeld, Producer of ‘Tropic Thunder’ and ‘Zoolander,’ Dies at 67
Stuart Cornfeld, who worked with Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films to produce movies including “Tropic Thunder,” “Dodgeball” and “Zoolander,” has died of cancer.Several of his friends posted about his death on social media.At Red Hour, which he founded with Stiller in 1999, he also produced “Duplex” starring Stiller and Drew Barrymore, “Starsky & Hutch,” “Blades…
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‘The Joker’ Movie: Alec Baldwin Cast As Batman’s Dead Dad
Given the sensibilities of “Road Trip,” “Old School,” the celebrated movie version of “Starsky & Hutch” and “The Hangover” trilogy, all roads have clearly been leading filmmaker Todd Phillips to direct, what else, Warner Bros.’ dark and gritty version of “The Joker” movie starring Joaquin Phoenix. As cameras are set to roll in a number…
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TV Bits: ‘The Conners’, ‘Yellowstone’, ‘The Man in the High Castle’, Shonda Rhimes, and More
In today’s edition of TV Bits: Roseanne spin-off The Conners gets a premiere date and a new theme song A whole new slate of Shonda Rhimes shows coming to Netflix James Gunn‘s Starsky & Hutch show has been abandoned J.J. Abrams‘ Bad Robot has a new TV series in the works Y: The Last Man…