February 14th Co-creator Ron Leavitt Dead at 60!
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Ron Leavitt, a TV writer and producer who co-created the successful and lowbrow sitcom "Married With Children," has died {February 11th}. He was 60. Leavitt died Sunday of lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles, said his fiancee, the model and actress Jessica Hahn.
Leavitt was best known for teaming up with Michael G. Moye to create "Married With Children," a sitcom about the luckless shoe salesman Al Bundy and his dysfunctional family. "Married With Children" ran on the Fox network from 1987 to 1997 and became the network's second-longest running sitcom behind "The Simpsons." Leavitt served as the show's executive producer and helped write nearly 150 episodes. Leavitt broke into television in the 1970s writing episodes of "Busting Loose," "Happy Days," "Laverne & Shirley" and "The Bad News Bears." In the 1980s, Leavitt had a stint as a producer of "The Jeffersons." He is survived by his two children, Matt and Samantha.
January 13th, 2008: Katey Sagal in a new show, written by her husband:
Hunnam, Glenn and Sagal in FX's Anarchy Source: The Hollywood Reporter January 11, 2008
Charlie Hunnam, Scott Glenn and Katey Sagal are set to star in and Allen Coulter has signed on to direct the FX pilot "Sons of Anarchy." "Anarchy," previously known as "Forever Sam Crow," is a drama from "The Shield" writer/executive producer Kurt Sutter set in the world of motorcycle clubs. Fox 21 has come on board to co-produce the project with FX Productions.
"Anarchy," executive produced by Sutter, veteran feature producer Art Linson and his son and producing partner, John Linson, is a multigenerational family drama that centers on Jack (Hunnam), a man in his 20s who is faced with his own responsibilities as a new father and is unsure how he's going to balance that life with his involvement in the Sons of Anarchy motorcycle club founded by his late father. Glenn will play Jack's stepfather, the president and patriarch of the club. Sagal will play Jack's mother and the matriarch of the club. The role was written for Sagal, who is married to Sutter.
There is no air date as yet.
December 2nd: Partially updated the Cast Database (Bearse, Garrison, McGinley)
October 3rd: Added some more articles.
May: Bud with Bud!
David Faustino got busted for pot possession and possible attempt of abuse when seen arguing with his ex-wife. More details over at BUDDOM.
5th April: It was 20 years ago today... that Married with Children premiered on FOX. How time flies!
2nd April: Added two new articles, one about FOX's 10th birthday, and another about the "A Period Piece" mini-controversy.
March: Christina Applegate is returning to TV:
Christina Applegate is returning to series television as the star of ABC's comedy pilot "Sam I Am." Jean Smart also has joined the project. The series, from ABC TV Studio and Brillstein-Grey TV, centers on a woman (Applegate) with amnesia who has to
rediscover her life. Smart will play her self-absorbed mother.
Applegate had been heavily pursued to star in a series since the end of her previous show, NBC's "Jesse," but this is the first pilot
she has agreed to do. The "Married With Children" alumna won an Emmy for her guest-starring role on NBC's "Friends." Her feature credits include "The Sweetest Thing," "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" and "Employee of the Month."
She is repped by CAA, Management 360 and attorney Stephen Warren.
9th Feb: Added Katey in Tales From The Crypt and That 70s Show.
8th Feb: Added some more articles.
5th Feb: David Faustino has filed for divorce. See BUDDOM for more details.
1st Feb: Added Christina in Mad TV and Friends, and also added her biography.
31st Jan:Added caps of the MWC True Hollywood Story.
29th Jan: Added the 1987 photos. Memories!
23rd Jan: Created the spoofs page, updated the awards page and added some promo pics.
19th Jan: Added caps of the Bundys Tonight Show sketch.
16th Jan: Added a bunch of articles.
14th Jan: Katey Sagal and her husband welcome a baby girl to their family! Esme Louise Sutter was born via surrogate on January 10th.
Katey Sagal has a baby at 50! Katey Sagal, who played the silly housewife Peggy Bundy on Married...with Children, has a new baby! Her third child, Esmé Louise was born last week by surrogate.
"I'm too old to have my own baby, and I didn't wanna to hazard either my, or my new baby's health by bearing her. They implanted my inseminated oocyte into a surrogate mother", said Sagal. "I kept my eye on the whole pregnancy, and I was there when the baby was born. We often went to the medical examinations together, and in the last month the surrogate mom moved into our house."
Sagal's two other children, Sarah and Jackson found this whole thing a little bit strange; why is another woman bearing their sister? "I told them everything in so many words," said Sagal. "I told them that this is the only way for me to have a new baby."
Why was it so important to the actress, you ask? Because her 5-years-younger husband, Kurt Sutter wanted a common child so bad. After Sagal's gynocologist talked her out of an other pregnancy, the surrogate way was their only choice, though it cost a lot. "It'd have been worth much more at that moment, when my husband held our baby in his arms first." Said Sagal, "that's not impossible that we take on a new child soon enough!"
January 2007 Back online! Thanks to The Al Bundy Site.
5th Mar: Captures of a Bundy sketch for Comic Relief added.
1st March: Amanda Bearse in Fright Night.
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