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Sherman Hemsley, who played the brash George Jefferson on "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons," died Tuesday at age 74, his booking agent said.

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'Golden Girls' star Rue McClanahan dies at 76updated: Thu Jun 03 2010 16:47:00

Emmy-winning "Golden Girls" actress Rue McClanahan died of a stroke in a New York hospital early Thursday, her manager said. She was 76.

Rue McClanahan on 'Golden' visionaryupdated: Thu Jun 03 2010 16:47:00

In an 1997 interview, Rue McClanahan reflects on "Golden Girls" creator Brandon Tartikoff.

What happened to Gary Coleman?updated: Wed Jun 02 2010 07:35:00

Gary Coleman's parents are demanding answers about the actor's death.

'Diff'rent Strokes' actor Gary Coleman dies at 42updated: Fri May 28 2010 21:05:00

Former child star Gary Coleman, who rose to fame as the wisecracking youngster Arnold Jackson on the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" but grew up to grapple with a troubled adulthood, has died. He was 42.

'Office' plotlines reflect recession anxietiesupdated: Fri Nov 20 2009 16:49:00

Dunder Mifflin, the fictional paper company at the center of NBC's prime-time comedy "The Office," is facing bankruptcy. Staffers in the Scranton branch are anxious about their fate.

Two-time Emmy Award winner Bea Arthur dead at 86updated: Mon Apr 27 2009 14:28:00

Bea Arthur, the actress best known for her roles as television's "Maude" and the sardonic Dorothy on "The Golden Girls," has died of cancer, a family spokesman said Saturday.

Long line of Jewish comedians ahead of Seinfeldupdated: Fri Dec 28 2007 09:30:00

Handed down since Moses was kvetching about having to cross the desert in his bare feet, Jewish humor emanated from Eastern Europe where the Hebrews overcame some seriously hellacious circumstances on the way to the Promised Land. "Laughter through tears," they called it.

Fortune: A new spin on classic recordsupdated: Mon Oct 08 2007 06:59:00

It should come as no surprise that a company backed by Norman Lear knows how to make creative use of television. Lear, the TV superproducer who created "All in the Family," "One Day at a Time," and other hit shows, is one of the owners of Concord Music Group.

People.com: Hayden Panettiere Jokes: Turning 18 Means Cigarettes & Pornupdated: Wed Aug 22 2007 14:03:00

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Fortune: LEADERSHIP: BEYOND THE OBVIOUS A best-selling USC professor picks some unusual role models to demonstrate what it takes to motivupdated: Mon Oct 09 1989 00:01:00

With all the books on the subject, most readers can cite by rote the basic traits that make a leader -- vision, integrity, willingness to accept risk. Warren Bennis has taken up the challenge of ge...

Fortune: Social responsibility in the retail furniture business, new hope for studious students, and other matters. WORRYING ABOUT WARRENupdated: Mon Jul 31 1989 00:01:00

We have two little cavils about the Business Enterprise Trust, launched late in May by a dozen and a half thinkers about business, many of them actual practitioners. The group includes Warren Buffe...

Fortune: A NEW MAGAZINE'S MERCURIAL MIDWIFE FRANCES LEAR b. JULY 14, 1923updated: Mon Jan 02 1989 00:01:00

IN 1985, Frances Lear walked away from her 28-year marriage to television producer Norman Lear. Norman ended up with a younger woman and Frances with a divorce settlement worth $112 million and a g...

Fortune: WINNING ONE FROM THE GIPPER TV producer Norman Lear brought you Archie Bunker, Maude, and the defeat of Robert Bork in the Senatupdated: Mon Nov 09 1987 00:01:00

FOR BETTER or for worse, the Senate Judiciary Committee's stunning rejection of Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nominee, Federal Judge Robert Bork, was partly a Norman Lear production. Conservatives ...

Fortune: FORTUNE Magazine contents page NOVEMBER 9, 1987 VOL. 116, NO. 11 updated: Mon Nov 09 1987 00:01:00

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Fortune: Leer campaignupdated: Mon Nov 09 1987 00:01:00

The February 1988 rollout of her new magazine, Lear's, is fast approaching, and Frances Lear, 64, the former wife of producer Norman Lear (see Politics & Policy), reckons that the first issue will ...

Fortune: Just Asking Jobs for Angola, In Defense of Vitamin A, The Future of Coed Basketball, and Otherupdated: Mon Nov 25 1985 00:01:00

Matters. In which the present writer yet again puts forward a number of slightly loaded questions unredeemed by any prospect of reasonable answers and additionally burdened by a spiraling word coun...

Fortune: Diff'rent Cokesupdated: Mon Jul 22 1985 00:01:00

Coca-Cola Co., in another modification of its business formula, strengthened its profile in the entertainment industry by agreeing to buy two TV and film production companies co-owned by Norman Lea...

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