Fran Drescher is best known for playing Fran Fine in the 1990s sitcom The Nanny. The famed actor developed the series and took inspiration from her own life while creating the Queens-born nanny who found herself serendipitously on the doorstep of a widowed Broadway producer needing a nanny for his three children. Over the years, Drescher has spoken at length about the process of creating Fran Fine and just how much of herself is in the character. While she took a lot of inspiration from her own life, Drescher insists there is one key difference between herself and the infamous Manhattan nanny.
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- 5/27/2023
- by Andrea Francese
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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“The Pellet With The Poison”
By Raymond Benson
Danny Kaye was not only a brilliant triple-threat (actor/singer/dancer), but he was a stand-up comic, an expert chef, a writer, a pilot, a baseball enthusiast, a notable philanthropist, a Unicef ambassador, and an honorary member of the American College of Surgeons and American Academy of Pediatrics (!). His decades-long career on stage, in film, and on television speaks for itself, but one of his most beloved screen vehicles was The Court Jester, a 1956 picture that was shockingly ignored at the Oscars that year.
Even more disturbing is the fact that it was allegedly the most expensive comedy film ever produced up to that time and was a box office failure (perhaps that’s the reason there was no Oscar love). Nevertheless, time has been extremely kind to the movie through revivals and television broadcasts.
“The Pellet With The Poison”
By Raymond Benson
Danny Kaye was not only a brilliant triple-threat (actor/singer/dancer), but he was a stand-up comic, an expert chef, a writer, a pilot, a baseball enthusiast, a notable philanthropist, a Unicef ambassador, and an honorary member of the American College of Surgeons and American Academy of Pediatrics (!). His decades-long career on stage, in film, and on television speaks for itself, but one of his most beloved screen vehicles was The Court Jester, a 1956 picture that was shockingly ignored at the Oscars that year.
Even more disturbing is the fact that it was allegedly the most expensive comedy film ever produced up to that time and was a box office failure (perhaps that’s the reason there was no Oscar love). Nevertheless, time has been extremely kind to the movie through revivals and television broadcasts.
- 1/24/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Here’s some news worth plotzing over: More than two decades after The Nanny ended its run on CBS, the cast has reunited for the greatest production since Yetta’s Letters. (Eat that, Andrew Lloyd Webber).
In an effort to making staying at home infinitely more fabulous, series star Fran Drescher assembled the sitcom’s original stars — including Charles Shaughnessy as Maxwell Sheffield, Daniel Davis as Niles, Lauren Lane as C. C. Babcock, Nicholle Tom as Maggie Sheffield, Benjamin Salisbury as Brighton Sheffield, Madeline Zima as Grace Sheffield and Renee Taylor as Sylvia Fine — for a virtual table read of The Nanny’s 1993 pilot episode,...
In an effort to making staying at home infinitely more fabulous, series star Fran Drescher assembled the sitcom’s original stars — including Charles Shaughnessy as Maxwell Sheffield, Daniel Davis as Niles, Lauren Lane as C. C. Babcock, Nicholle Tom as Maggie Sheffield, Benjamin Salisbury as Brighton Sheffield, Madeline Zima as Grace Sheffield and Renee Taylor as Sylvia Fine — for a virtual table read of The Nanny’s 1993 pilot episode,...
- 4/6/2020
- TVLine.com
Following an Emmy Award-worthy introduction from Stephen Colbert (“Okurrr?“), the remaining six queens on Thursday’s Drag Race buckled in for an evening of butts, bots and Boniva.
Mini Challenge: Pants Down, Bottoms Up
In a game very true to its name, this week’s mini challenge was basically Memory — only instead of matching words or pictures, the queens picked various shirtless gentlemen to drop their pants in the hopes of matching pairs of undies. It was basically just an excuse to check out some butts and yell stuff like “Do you you want fries with that shake?”
Winner: Aquaria...
Mini Challenge: Pants Down, Bottoms Up
In a game very true to its name, this week’s mini challenge was basically Memory — only instead of matching words or pictures, the queens picked various shirtless gentlemen to drop their pants in the hopes of matching pairs of undies. It was basically just an excuse to check out some butts and yell stuff like “Do you you want fries with that shake?”
Winner: Aquaria...
- 5/18/2018
- TVLine.com
Steve Ross C'mon and Hear: An Irving Berlin July 4th Celebration Birdland Jazz Club, NYC June 26, 2016
In a letter to Alexander Woollcott, Jerome Kern wrote that "Irving Berlin has no place in American Music… He is American Music." What better person to present the art of Irving Berlin than venerable singer and pianist Steve Ross, who presented this great American composer's work in a sterling evening entitled C'mon and Hear: An Irving Berlin July 4th Celebration, at the historical Birdland Jazz Club on Manhattan’s West 44th Street, where he shared the stage with seasoned bassist Jered Egan.
Steve deeply understands the art behind Berlin's voluminous body of work, in a manner unique to himself. His renderings of both well-known, lesser known, and even obscure Berlin songs are historically astute and performed in an exceedingly skillful manner which is at once serious and at the same time carefree. The word...
In a letter to Alexander Woollcott, Jerome Kern wrote that "Irving Berlin has no place in American Music… He is American Music." What better person to present the art of Irving Berlin than venerable singer and pianist Steve Ross, who presented this great American composer's work in a sterling evening entitled C'mon and Hear: An Irving Berlin July 4th Celebration, at the historical Birdland Jazz Club on Manhattan’s West 44th Street, where he shared the stage with seasoned bassist Jered Egan.
Steve deeply understands the art behind Berlin's voluminous body of work, in a manner unique to himself. His renderings of both well-known, lesser known, and even obscure Berlin songs are historically astute and performed in an exceedingly skillful manner which is at once serious and at the same time carefree. The word...
- 7/19/2017
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
It's the "flashy girl from Flushing!" Fran Drescher had a mini-reunion with some of her costars from "The Nanny" on Wednesday at the opening night of her Broadway production of "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella". The 57-year-old actress is playing the role of the wicked stepmother in the stage show, and her TV family came to show their support. Clad in a figure-flattering hunter green dress, the gorgeous star posed with her former leading man, Charles Shaughnessy, who played Maxwell Sheffield on the sitcom. The "Happily Divorced" star also reunited with Renee Taylor at the event, who played her on-screen mom Sylvia Fine. Don't the "mother-daughter duo" look just as fabulous as they did back then?! It's been over 20 years since audiences fell in love with Fran's hilarious New York accent and nasal tone -- we love seeing the cast together again! The show, which ran from 1993-1999, followed cosmetic saleswoman Fran Fine,...
- 3/20/2015
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
Iconic entertainer and humanitarian Danny Kaye was honored as his namesake sandwich joined the menu of the famed NYC staple in his Centennial year. On Monday, April 29th, Dena Kaye, Danny's only daughter with his wife and collaborator Sylvia Fine Kaye, joined the staff of the Carnegie Deli for a sandwich cutting ceremony, officially inducting the Danny Kaye Deli Club sandwich onto the menu for all to enjoy. Scroll down for photos...
- 4/30/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Filed under: TV Previews
To say we're nostalgic is an understatement, which is why when this 'Happily Divorced' photo made its way into our hands, well, we had to post.
In the Aug. 3 episode (10:30Pm on TV Land), Renee Taylor, known to many as Sylvia Fine on 'The Nanny,' reunites with her former TV daughter Fran Drescher on 'Happily Divorced.'
Taylor plays an old friend of Dori (Rita Moreno), Fran's current TV mom.
Check out the full version of the picture below. Don't be surprised if you get verklempt and your voice suddenly turns incredibly nasal -- it happens to the best of us.
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To say we're nostalgic is an understatement, which is why when this 'Happily Divorced' photo made its way into our hands, well, we had to post.
In the Aug. 3 episode (10:30Pm on TV Land), Renee Taylor, known to many as Sylvia Fine on 'The Nanny,' reunites with her former TV daughter Fran Drescher on 'Happily Divorced.'
Taylor plays an old friend of Dori (Rita Moreno), Fran's current TV mom.
Check out the full version of the picture below. Don't be surprised if you get verklempt and your voice suddenly turns incredibly nasal -- it happens to the best of us.
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- 7/29/2011
- by Chris Harnick
- Aol TV.
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