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Brad Pitt 'Glory Days' costar Nicholas Kallsen Brad Pitt 'Glory Days' costar Nicholas Kallsen dead at 48 Nicholas Kallsen, who was featured opposite Brad Pitt in the short-lived television series Glory Days, has died at age 48 in Thailand according to online reports. Their source is one of Rupert Murdoch's rags, citing a Facebook posting by one of the actor's friends. The cause of death was purportedly – no specific source was provided – a drug overdose.* Aired on Fox in July 1990, Glory Days told the story of four high-school friends whose paths take different directions after graduation. Besides Nicholas Kallsen and Brad Pitt, the show also featured Spike Alexander and Evan Mirand. Glory Days lasted a mere six episodes – two of which directed by former Happy Days actor Anson Williams – before its cancellation. Roommates Nicholas Kallsen and Brad Pitt vying for same 'Thelma & Louise' role? The Murdoch tabloid also...

Longtime television actress and Broadway star Jayne Meadows Allen has passed away at 95. The widow of TV legend Steve Allen died at her home in Encino, Calif., Sunday evening due to natural causes. Meadows' career in the spotlight spanned nearly seven decades and ranged from plays to Emmy-nominated television shows and even films alongside the likes of Katharine Hepburn. She also toured the country in a one-woman show dubbed Powerful Women in History for seven years, as well as appeared as a longtime panelist on CBS' I've Got a Secret. The beloved actress was nominated for three Emmys: one for her 1977 episode of PBS' Meeting of Minds, the second in 1987 for NBC's St. Elsewhere...

Back in 1981, when Ann Druyan co-wrote "Cosmos" with her husband Carl Sagan, the revolutionary science series was nominated for five Emmys and won three – all in the tech races. Even though the program was one of the biggest TV blockbusters of the year -- one hailed by the New York Times as "a watershed moment for science-themed television programming" -- It lost the top Emmy, Best Informational Series, to "Meeting of Minds," which featured Steve Allen interviewing celebrities dressed up like Catherine the Great and Leonardo da Vinci. -Break- So now Druyan holds a giant Emmy I.O.U. as she returns to the race with the newly updated "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey," which is at least guaranteed of a nomination. It just finished airing to bravura reviews, solid ratings and its competition, at least numerically speaking, is slight. Only 13 other programs compete for Best Documentary or Nonfiction Series, including "The World Wars,...

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A Meeting Of Minds: The White House Correspondents' Dinner was a star-studded affair this weekend with names like George Clooney, Reese Witherspoon and numerous actors from "The Hunger Games," but former presidential hopeful Rick Santorum was left in awe of... Lindsay Lohan? According to TMZ, Rick asked the actress to take a photo of him with Greta Van Susteren - who invited LiLo to the event - and then Rick reportedly asked to take a photo of just Lindsay solo, using his camera. The actress reportedly smiled and agreed to have her photo ...

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