The answered prayers of Christine Baranski
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Christine Baranski has specialized in playing a certain class of characters: sophisticated (such as Maryann Thorpe in the sitcom "Cybill"), very smart (her Diane Lockhart in "The Good Fight"), and sage (the moneyed Agnes Van Rhijn in "The Gilded Age").
Correspondent Mo Rocca asked Baranski, "Why do you think so often you've been cast as intellectual, sophisticated, high-status characters?"
"Because I'm sophisticated and intellectual!" she laughed. "I don't know! It makes me laugh, because when, you know, people really look up, you know, Buffalo and the Buffalo Bills, and where I come from?"
Veteran actor Tony Danza says his current role as a tough-talking character as mob boss Stefano in "Power Book III: Raising Kanan" has allowed him to showcase a side of him that differs from the family-friendly persona established in classic sitcoms like "Taxi" and "Who's the Boss?"
Carl Dean, the husband of Dolly Parton of over 60 years, has died in Nashville, Tennessee, the singer announced on her social media on Monday.
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David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego, Buster Poindexter, has died. He was 75.
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