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Night Court has already lost multiple main cast members after only two seasons, which mirrors the original Night Court's rotating cast. In the early days of Night Court, it was common for at least one series regular to leave after just one season. The original Night Court's nine-season run suggests the reboot can survive despite continuous character departures.

By losing another main cast member ahead of season 3, Night Court is repeating a trend from the original NBC sitcom of the same name. Created by Reinhold Weege, Night Court originally aired from 1984-1992 and followed Judge Harry Stone (Harry Anderson) and the rest of the night shift crew at Manhattan Criminal Court. In 2023, a revival was developed by Dan Rubin and Melissa Rauch about Harry Stone's daughter, Abby (Rauch), following in her late father's footsteps. John Larroquette, who played Ada Dan Fielding in the original series, returned as a public defender at Abby's court.

Every breakout independent hit seems like a miracle. This delightful ‘little’ picture was fated to be ghetto-ized into ethnic theaters before its producers opted to distribute it themselves. Capturing a vibrant part of the immigrant experience, Joan Micklin Silver’s micro-production often has a big-picture look; it charmed audiences and became a sleeper success. Star Carol Kane was nominated for an acting Oscar as ‘Gitl,’ a woman with Old-Country values plus the grit and determination to win a better life. Also with fine performances from Steven Keats, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh and Doris Roberts.

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Cohen Media Group / Kino Lorber

1975 / B&w / 1:85 anamorphic 16:9 / 90 min. / Street Date March 8, 2022 / Available from Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Carol Kane, Steven Keats, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Doris Roberts, Stephen Strimpell, Lauren Frost, Paul Freedman, Martin Garner.

Cinematography: Kenneth Van Sickle

Production Designer: Stuart Wurtzel

Film Editor: Katherine Wenning

Original Music: Herbert L. Clarke...

The shocking killing of four Memphis children, allegedly at the hands of their mother, has generated speculation over whether possible mental health problems caused Shanynthia Gardner to snap. The 29-year-old mother of five was arrested on July 1 and charged with slitting the throats of four of her youngest children with a butcher knife at the modest apartment complex where they lived, according to an affidavit of complaint filed in court on July 1 by a Shelby County Sheriff's Office detective. Her oldest child, 7, fled the house and ran to a neighbor, yelling that his mother had just stabbed his sister, according to the affidavit.

Less than 48 hours after Shanynthia Gardner allegedly stabbed her four young children to death, the grandmother of the sole surviving child says she still "wholeheartedly" loves her former daughter-in-law. "I forgive her," Sonya Clayton told the Memphis Commercial Appeal. "I know this was not her. I know this was the work of the devil. I love Shanynthia wholeheartedly still." Gardner, 29, is accused of slitting the throats of her four youngest children: 4-year-old Tallen Gardner; 3-year-old Sya Gardner; 2 year-old Sahvi Gardner; and 6-month old Yahzi Gardner, reports the Associated Press. Her eldest child, 7-year-old Dallen Clayton, fled the Memphis, Tennessee, apartment...

From new voices like NoViolet Bulawayo to rediscovered old voices like James Salter, from Dave Eggers's satire to David Thomson's history of film, writers, Observer critics and others pick their favourite reads of 2013. And they tell us what they hope to find under the tree …

Curtis Sittenfeld

Novelist

My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...

Sgt. Martin Gardner feels Kim Kardashian was his only choice to bring as his date to the Marine Corps Ball on Thursday in Greenville, North Carolina, Celebuzz is reporting. Gardner told Celebuzz that he loves her E! reality show, ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians.’ “She always turns a negative into a positive, and I respect all that she’s done,” he added. Gardner came up with the idea to bring Kardashian as his date to the ball earlier this year, and contacted her publicist. “I needed to somehow prove to myself that anything is possible. I left on deployment in June for a humanitarian mission in Guatemala, and in September I [ Read More ]

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Kanye, watch out? Kim Kardashian pulled a Justin Timberlake, Kristin Cavallari and Mila Kunis when she made one lucky marine's night and accompanied him to the 10th annual Marine Corps. Ball in North Carolina Thursday. The 32-year-old reality star, who went as the date of Sgt. Martin Gardner, donned a red floor-length dress by Roland Mouret.

"Just left the Marine Corps Ball. Thanks to all the marines I had the opportunity to meet tonight! Thank you for all that you do!" Kardashian tweeted Thursday night.

Kim Kardashian was on active duty last night, as she stepped out in Greenville Nc with Sgt Martin Gardner for the Marine Corps Ball. But apparently she got the one Marine who flunked the whole “eyes forward” thing, because the dude had a hard time keeping his eyes off his date. But then again if we had Kim on our arm we’d probably do the same thing. Let’s hope Kanye doesn’t get jealous! Although to be fair, there’s probably a ton of people out there who would like to see Yeezy get stomped by a Marine.

“Just left the Marine Corps Ball,” she tweeted at the end of the night. “Thanks to all of the marines I had the opportunity to meet tonight! Thank you for all that you do!” Yes, they’re all real-life heroes who deserve the very best, but we do things for you too,...

Kim Kardashian made one lucky soldier very proud tonight at the Marine Corps Ball in Greenville, N.C. The E! star attended with Sgt. Martin Gardner, who was on the event planning committee and actually extended the invitation months ago. In fact, Gardner's identity was only revealed tonight once the covert op had been successfully completed. While the soldier looked strapping in his dress uniform, his date stole the spotlight in her slinky red Roland Mouret gown. "Just left the Marine Corps Ball," Kim tweeted after dinner. "Thanks to all of the marines I had the opportunity to meet tonight ! Thank you for all that you do!" Kardashian, who's been shooting Kourtney & Kim...

“Deep Vote,” an Oscar winning screenwriter and a member of the Academy, will write this column — exclusively for ScottFeinberg.com — every week until the Academy Awards in order to help to peel back the curtain on the Oscar voting process. (His identity must be protected in order to spare him from repercussions for disclosing the aforementioned information.)

Thus far, he has shared his thoughts in column 1 about his general preferences; column 2 about “Solitary Man” (Anchor Bay Films, 5/21, R, trailer) and “Winter’s Bone” (Roadside Attractions, 6/11, R, trailer); column 3 about “Alice in Wonderland” (Disney, 3/5, PG, trailer), “Mother and Child” (Sony Pictures Classics, 5/7, R, trailer), and “Toy Story 3” (Disney, 6/18, G, trailer); column 4 about “Get Low” (Sony Pictures Classics, 7/30, PG-13, trailer), “The Kids Are All Right” (Focus Features, 7/9, R, trailer), and “The Social Network” (Columbia, 10/1, PG-13, trailer); column 5 about “127 Hours” (Fox Searchlight, 11/5, R, trailer), “Biutiful” (Roadside Attractions, 12/17, R, trailer), and “Shutter Island” (Paramount,...

“Deep Vote,” an Oscar winning screenwriter and a member of the Academy, will write this column — exclusively for ScottFeinberg.com — every week until the Academy Awards. He will help to peel back the curtain on the Oscar voting process by sharing his thoughts about the films he sees and, ultimately, his nomination and final ballots, as well. His identity must be protected in order to spare him from repercussions for disclosing the aforementioned information.

Last week, he assessed “Winter’s Bone” (Roadside Attractions, 6/11, R, trailer) and “Solitary Man” (Anchor Bay Films, 5/21, R, trailer). This week, he tackles “Alice in Wonderland” (Disney, 3/5, PG, trailer), “Toy Story 3” (Disney, 6/18, G, trailer), and “Mother and Child” (Sony Pictures Classics, 5/7, R, trailer)…

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Here are three movies designed to play off the unconscious feelings of childhood, and only the most grown-up of them even obliquely succeeds in doing so.

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I don’t mind “Alice in Wonderland...

Tim Burton tampers with the children's classic to his cost in this lifeless reimagining of Lewis Carroll's book

Tim Burton is in love with the Victorian age. His childhood idol was Vincent Price, who started out playing Prince Albert on stage, specialised in Victorian morbidity and made one of his final screen appearances in Burton's Edward Scissorhands. Burton's last film, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, was a bracing excursion into Victorian melodrama, and it was inevitable that his interest in mythology and the adolescent imagination would eventually attract him to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Appropriately his London office was once the home of Arthur Rackham, who succeeded Sir John Tenniel as Alice's illustrator.

The characters, language, puzzles and predicaments of Carroll's 1865 novel and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, became and remain part of the texture of our lives, as embedded as ancient mythology and more endearing.