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 The Hollywood Reporter.The raspy-voiced beauty famously appeared in M*A*S*H as well as the 1986 comedy “Back to School,” opposite Rodney Dangerfield. She appeared in TV shows including “The Outer Limits,” “12 O’Clock High,” “Ben Casey,” “That Girl” and “Mannix.”Of her iconic “M*A*S*H” role, she said she eventually welcomed always being remembered for it. “There were times in my life when I felt I had to go out and prove that I’m not just Hot Lips,” she told The Post in the 2010 interview. “But at this point, just call me anything you want!”“It was like summer camp,” she said of working with the late”M*A*S*H” filmmaker Robert Altman, who often advised her to “just giggle and give in.”Besides her extensive roster of film and television roles, Kellerman also delved into music, releasing an album in the 1970s and performing live, including at New York’s Metropolitan room in 2010.“I wanted to be the real deal,” Kellerman told The Post that year.

Top Gun actor died on February 6 in Burbank, California, his girlfriend Tammy Scher confirmed.‘I met Frank at a very low point in my life,’ Pesce’s girlfriend told Variety.‘He always said he saved me and he was right. I’d never met anyone like him.’She continued: ‘Frank was a force larger than life or any fictional character, always entertaining, intriguing and fascinating.

Adds the Chicago Sun-Times: It’s “a real mess, an incomprehensible, ugly, unstructured, pointless excursion into the murkier realms of one of the most confusing screenplays of all time.”Not quite the fantastic buzz you’ve been hearing about the new screen epic “Dune,” in theaters and on HBO Max Friday, starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac? That’s because these are just a few of the yummy pans of David Lynch’s notorious 1984 flop, also called “Dune.”And these cranky critics (Roger Ebert for the Sun-Times and Rex Reed for The Post) were spot-on.

Carmel Dagan Staff WriterMichael Constantine, who played Gus, the father of Nia Vardalos’ Toula Portokalos in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” by far the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time, died on Aug. 31.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorIn today’s podcast news roundup, Spotify is set to debut a new series from The Ringer about legendary film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert; Kelsey Grammer narrates scripted podcast “The Lower Bottoms” about tensions in a gentrifying neighborhood in West Oakland, Calif.; Automattic buys Pocket Casts; and more.Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, the famous film-critic duo, will be the focus of a Spotify original narrative documentary podcast series from The Ringer. Hosted by Brian Raftery, “Gene and Roger” will chronicle their rise and careers with a focus on the cultural footprint they’ve left behind since their deaths.

EXCLUSIVE: Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert are to be the subject of a narrative documentary podcast series for Spotify.

Spike Lee did not mince his words at the Cannes Film Festival jury press conference this afternoon, which raised the curtain on his history-making tenure as the event’s first black Competition jury president in its 74-year history.

Elvis Presley and former US President John F. Kennedy, has died aged 93.Ms Storm, who legally changed her name from Annie Blanche Banks in the mid-1950s, was born in the state of Georgia on February 29, 1928.She left her abusive childhood home in her early teens, marrying for the first time at just 14 and getting a job as a waitress.

By Twenty years ago this week, Bridget Jones’s Diary hit . And like the protagonist, people immediately began to expose themselves.“It's so aggressive,” Jonathan Rosenbaum of the movie for The Chicago Reader.

Among those nods was Tyson’s Oscar nomination, making her only the third black actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, along with Dorothy Dandridge (1922 – 1965) in 1955 and Tyson’s 1972 competition, Diana Ross. Tyson also received a Golden Globe nomination and won the National Society of Film Critics and National Board of Review awards for best actress.

Werner Herzog is one of Germany’s great filmmakers. French director Francois Truffaut called Herzog “the most important film director alive” and legendary film critic Roger Ebert was a huge fan of Herzog’s work.

By Mike Fleming Jr

John Prine wrote country-folk songs with an unpretentious, aw-heck demeanor that belied their astonishing gravity and power. “He sings rather quietly, and his guitar work is good, but he doesn’t show off,” Roger Ebert wrote of an early Prine show in 1970. “After a song or two, even the drunks in the room begin to listen to his lyrics. And then he has you.”

About 20 years ago, a collector found something quite rare at a flea market: a group of 55 photos taken on the set of the seminal 1920 German Expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert in screening room for photo shoot for People Weekly, June 13, 1984; Chicago