The Love Boat

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Gavin MacLeod Jumped From Mary Tyler Moore to Love Boat

Actor said cruise show would make viewers 'forget their own problems'

(Newser) - Television actor Gavin MacLeod of the Love Boat and the Mary Tyler Moore Show has died. He was 90. MacLeod died Saturday, his nephew, Mark See, told Variety . No cause of death was given. MacLeod achieved stardom as Murray Slaughter, the sardonic TV news writer on the 1970s comedy the ...

Real 'Love Boat' Heads to Scrap Yard

Ship from TV show being recycled for parts

(Newser) - A bit of TV history is now in the scrap heap, literally. The cruise ship used in the Love Boat took its last voyage to a Turkish scrapyard to be dismantled for metal and parts, reports Reuters . The 42-year-old Pacific Princess was a star of sorts in the ABC show,...

Dear Conservatives, Stop Hating on Hollywood
 Dear Conservatives, 
 Stop Hating on Hollywood 
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Dear Conservatives, Stop Hating on Hollywood

At least the liberal actors don't have political aspirations

(Newser) - The Best Picture winner is unknown, but one thing is certain on Oscar weekend: “Talk radio hosts and conservative columnists will trot out their annual complaints about Hollywood,” and that whole shtick is getting old. First of all, writes Bill Maher in Variety , “You never see Hollywood...

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