Larry Gelbart

Sheldon Keller, an Emmy-winning comedy writer whose work included "Caesar's Hour," one of the jewels of 1950s television, died on Monday at his home in Valencia, Calif. He was 85. The cause was complications from Alzheimer's disease, his son, Casey,...

Sheldon Keller, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer who was part of the celebrated writing team on Sid Caesar's 1950s comedy-variety TV show "Caesar's Hour," has died. He was 85. Keller, who also was a founding member of the Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz...

LIKE MANY around Hollywood, I've spent an embarrassing amount of time during the week trying to decide which actress would be best to play Sarah Palin in the story of her life. I know conventional wisdom says that Tina Fey is a lock for the part, but do...

Since Ingrid Betancourt's liberation from jungle captivity in a daring rescue operation early this month, Ingrid-mania has swept the globe. The saga of Betancourt, the former Colombian presidential candidate liberated after more than six years as a...

The star of "Maude," a creative force behind "MASH," a talk show host and the creator of "Gilligan's Island" were among those announced Thursday for induction into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. "Their respective careers have...

Click to jump to: Wesley Strick | Ken Levine | Linda Teverbaugh | Frank Pierson | Larry Gelbart | Jonathan Green and Gabe Miller | Chris Provenzano | Tim Long Wesley Strick Credits include "True Believer" and "Cape Fear" and the novel "Out There in the...

If you know and love the Chicago theater, you'll doubtless be expecting a lot of interesting new shows in the upcoming winter and spring seasons. Why should this year be any different? But peruse the following -- woefully incomplete -- list of 10 of the...

The West Coast board of the Writers Guild of America has reacted favorably to the outlines of a pending agreement reached between guild negotiators and Hollywood studios. But the board is holding off on giving its blessing until it sees the exact language...

And the winner is . . . not here? The Golden Globe Awards are a highly rated NBC event, an often irreverent ceremony brimming with A-list stars. If the Writers Guild of America strike against the TV networks and movie studios isn't resolved, the WGA...

With the Writers Guild and the producers in serious negotiations to come up with a new contract before Oct. 31, the gap between the two parties seems unsurmountable. The resulting TV and film writers strike could create a hole in the Southern California...

It's Day Four of the Writers Guild strike, and here's how to tell that the striking writers haven't so much as picked up a Bic: Their picket-line chants are crappy. Have you heard the lame call-and-response out there? "What do we want? CONTRACTS! When...

Funny people would rather be funny than talk about how to be funny. As a result, the promise by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that writers Judd Apatow, James L. Brooks and Larry Gelbart would “crack the code of contemporary screen...