Recent movie releases include United 93, The Seven Samurai, Amarcord and Playtime.

...more details. - From staff, wire reports BIRTHDAYS TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Actor Bill Daily (I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show) is 78. Comedian Lewis Black (The Daily Show) is 58. Actor Michael Chiklis (The Shield, The Commish) is...

...photography-museum.com. - From Wire Reports BIRTHDAYS TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Actor Bill Daily (I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show) is 77. Actor-turned-politician Ben Jones (The Dukes of Hazzard) is 64. Comedian Lewis Black (The Daily...

...Mr. Almodovar provides audio commentary, and the DVD also comes with deleted scenes and a making-of feature. THE BOB NEWHART SHOW: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON (20TH CENTURY FOX, $26.98): Television's master of droll humor returns with...

LOS ANGELES - Despite his memorably cantankerous stints on the old "Mork & Mindy" and "Newhart" shows, Tom Poston had to audition for the role of a cranky old clown who lives in a closet on NBC's quirky new sitcom "Committed."

...charming but substance-abusing best friend, and Andy Comeau his brother, an institutionalized schizophrenic. "The Bob Newhart Show" from the '70s notwithstanding, there's always been a bias against developing TV shows about mental health...

...Paul's widow (series co-star Katey Sagal). Also guest-starring is Suzanne Pleshette, so wonderful on "The Bob Newhart Show" in the 1980s, as Cate's mother. And finally, media wonks will be watching closely: Can a sitcom navigate...

...the audience. 2. Have you ever heard of the "The Bob Newhart Show" drinking game, where everyone takes a drink of...shortened? Newhart: When I did the pilot for 'The Bob Newhart Show,' one of the producers said, 'The show's running...

NEW YORK - TV Guide loves Lucy - but it loves Mary just a little more. The best television show ever, the magazine has decided, was the 1975 episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" where the WJM-TV newsroom gang mourns the death of Chuckles the Clown. It came in just ahead of Lucille Ball's tipsy turn as the Vitameatavegamin Girl. Moore figures in four of TV Guide's picks as top 100 episodes, two as star of her eponymous 1970s series and two as Laura Petrie in "The Dick Van Dyke Show."

LOS ANGELES - Amidst the meandering aliens on the set of television's Babylon 5 is a familiar-looking humanoid yelling "Action!" Walk a little closer and the familiarity grows stronger. The short, wavy hair is now gray, the face creased by age and adorned with glasses. One phrase, though, could easily give him away: "Hey, Beav." It's none other than Wally Cleaver, Beaver's older brother, calling the shots from behind the camera.