Phil Donohue News

The Bitch is Back is a hilarious, free-wheeling 70-minute solo comedy cabaret piece ostensibly on menopause, middle-age, and mothering.  The demographics are astounding.  Although women over 40 disappear from film and TV (until reappearing as Jane Fonda at 80+), more than 1 out of 2 American women are 45 and up; at 50 million, this is the largest swarm of menopausal women in history.  

On Monday, June 10 nearly 250 people gathered at the Tribeca Rooftop for the HB Studio Gala celebrating the centennial of its long-time master teacher, the two-time Tony Award winning actress Uta Hagen, whose 100th birthday is Wednesday, June 12.

TVS TV Networks.Com, the 57 TVS 'Micro Channel' service, has added a Joan Rivers talk show to establish the TVS Classic Talk Show TVS 'Micro Channel' on the service. TVS will cover the top TV talk shows and their hosts from the first forty years of commercial television 1948-1987. Johnny Carson, Larry King, and Merv Griffin also currently appear on the channel, with Phil Donohue, Mike Douglas, Joey Bishop, Les Crane, Mike Wallace, Dick Cavett, David Brenner, and others soon to be added. TVS Television Network, operator of the TVS TV Networks.Com service, is the fourth oldest commercial broadcast television network in the USA. TVS was founded in 1960 and has produced and/or distributed thousands of sports, music, public affairs, and entertainment television shows. TVS Classic Talk Show Channel will also feature the top talk show hosts in some of their other TV roles over their careers. TVS Ad Sales.Com, headed by Jerry Wolff, will organize CPM, PI, DR, barter goods for time, product placement, and signature program advertising opportunities for all 57 of the TVS 'Micro Channels' on TVS TV Networks.Com. TVS Television Network.Com is located in the Greater Los Angeles area. TVS Magazines.Com is located in Atlanta. TVS Ad Sales.Com is located in Miami and New York. TVS Radio Network.Com is located in Las Vegas.

The Gold Coast International Film Festival (GCIFF) returns this Fall with the 6th anniversary of its star-studded festival. From November 10 – 15, 2016 the Festival will once again celebrate the films and filmmakers who capture our imaginations on the big screen. At GCIFF “Everyone Is Invited” to enjoy the very best in major and independent releases, filmmaker conversations, parties, awards, and glamour.   

The Gold Coast International Film Festival (GCIFF) returns this Fall with the 6th anniversary of its star-studded festival. From November 10 - 15, 2016 the Festival will once again celebrate the films and filmmakers who capture our imaginations on the big screen.

The third annual M. Edgar Rosenblum Awards Gala will be given on November 13 to benefit the Irondale Ensemble Project at the Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford Street, in the BAM Cultural District of Fort Greene. Awards will be presented to Janis Russell, Director of the Lafayette Inspirational Ensemble and Jack Rainey, Senior Vice President of Government and Community Banking at TD Bank. The 2012 program will include performances by the Irondale Ensemble, the highly acclaimed Alexandra Beller Dances, Lafayette Inspirational Ensemble with Janis Russell and a few surprise guests.

In 1966 the Hallmark Hall of Fame presented a television adaptation of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's Off Broadway musical THE FANTASTICKS. Ricardo Montalban appeared as El Gallo and Bert Lahr and Stanley Holloway were the two fathers. The young lovers were played by Broadway's favorite ingenue, Susan Watson, and a clean-cut young man named John Davidson who had made a strong impression on Broadway audiences as Lahr's son in the musical FOXY.