Laugh-In’s Dick Martin dead at 86
Dick Martin was the “Martin” in the comedy duo Rowan & Martin, who hosted the incredibly popular 1960s/early ’70s comedy sketch show on NBC, Laugh-In. Dan Rowan, who died in 1987, was the straight man (that’s Rowan on the left in the pic).
Martin also appeared in several other TV shows over the years, including Third Rock From The Sun, The Lucy Show, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Coach, Blossom, Dave’s World, Baywatch, The Nanny, Diagnosis: Murder, George & Leo, The John Larroquette Show, and Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place. He was also in the movies The Maltese Bibby, Carbon Copy, and The Glass Bottom Boat.
Besides acting, Martin was a director as well, helming such shows as The Bob Newhart Show, Family Ties, Archie Bunker’s Place, Mama’s Family, In The Heat of the Night, Newhart, and Sledge Hammer.
Martin died of respiratory complications in Santa Monica last night. He was 86.
Lauren Graham Biography
Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is an American actress. She is best known for her acting role in Gilmore Girls.
Lauren was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. When she was five, her parents divorced. Her mother, Donna Grant, moved to London to join a rock and roll band. Lauren and her father, Lawrence, moved to the D.C. area where he became a congressional staffer and single parent. She traveled extensively with her father while growing up. He is currently a lobbyist for the chocolate and confection industry.
Lauren discovered acting while in elementary school. Graham attended Langley High School, where she took part in the Drill Team which is a mix of Dance and Cheerleading. She began acting in community theatre and any other production she could find. She graduated from Barnard College/Columbia University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Lauren then moved to Texas where she earned a Master’s Degree in Acting from Southern Methodist University in 1992.
After completing her education, Lauren returned to New York where she worked as a cocktail waitress and aspiring actress. In 1995, she moved to Hollywood. In addition to her many guest starring and co-starring roles on prime time TV, she had three starring roles on failed sitcoms before landing the lead role of Lorelai Gilmore on the WB’s Gilmore Girls (2000-present), for which she is best known. In addition, she has had many roles in theatrical movies, including several NYU student films and several major studio releases. She has appeared in the movies Bad Santa, The Pacifier and Sweet November. She appeared on Third Rock from the Sun as a grad student who caught the eye of Dick (John Lithgow). In addition, she has appeared on the hit comedy Seinfeld (as one of Jerry’s dates), as well as on Newsradio and Law & Order. She would like to return to the stage and hopes she will never have to do a Porky’s movie or be asked to have plastic surgery.
She is currently set to appear in the movie Evan Almighty, playing the role of Evan’s wife.
Lauren Graham is not married and lives in West Hollywood. She dated actor Tate Donovan. As of February 2006, she is dating actor Marc Blucas.
When Graham appeared on Law & Order in 1997, actor Scott Cohen also guest starred. Three years later when Graham started Gilmore Girls, Cohen became a regular on the show as Lorelai Gilmore’s boyfriend and then fiancé, Max Medina.
She dated Robert Maschio during his senior year at Columbia University and helped persuade him to try out acting as a career.
Cindy Crawford Biography
Considered one of the world’s most beautiful women, supermodel Cindy Crawford has appeared just about everywhere that advertisements are allowed. Over her unprecedentedly long career, she has hawked everything from haute couture and perfume to soda pop and dairy products, and has made a fortune with her beauty and fitness videos and swimsuit calendars. Crawford also owns a piece of the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain. In 1995, Forbes magazine ranked her as the most highly paid model in the world. Crawford is the first supermodel to pose for Playboy and later risked her career by posing suggestively on the cover of Vanity Fair beside lesbian singer k.d. Lang.
In addition to appearing in television commercials, Crawford spent six years hosting the MTV cable network’s House of Style. She is an intelligent, witty woman and a popular talk show guest. As an actress, Crawford occasionally guest stars on television series, as she did in a special 1998 episode of the NBC sitcom Third Rock From the Sun. In 1995, Crawford made a rather inauspicious film debut in the action thriller Fair Game. Despite the film’s lack of box-office success, Crawford is still interested in pursuing an acting career.
Crawford is a native of De Kalb, IL, and was discovered as a teenager when a local news photographer took a picture of her while she was detasselling corn. Already an impressive beauty, she left her country job to become a model for the summer. She continued modelling for the next two summers, through the Chicago division of the Elite modelling agency and then decided to go to college. Helped by an academic scholarship (she’d been a straight-A student in high school), Crawford studied chemical engineering at Northwestern University, but shrewdly decided that she’d make more money as a model. For a while, Crawford worked in Chicago, but didn’t hit the big time until she moved to New York City in 1986.
- Also Credited As:
Cynthia Ann Crawford - Born:
on 02/20/66 in De Kalb, Illinois - Job Titles:
TV host, Model, Actor, Producer
Family
- Brother: younger; died of leukemia at age four
- Daughter: Kaia Jordan Gerber. born on September 3, 2001
- Father: John Crawford.
- Mother: Jennifer Crawford.
- Son: Presley Walker Gerber. born on July 2, 1999
Significant Others
- Husband: Rande Gerber. married in May 1998
- Husband: Richard Gere. married in December 1991; divorced in 1995
- Companion: Val Kilmer. reportedly dated in 1997
Education
- De Kalb High School, De Kalb, Illinois
- Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Milestones
- 1982 At age 16, began modeling career; signed by Elite Model Management in Chicago
- 1986 Moved to NYC
- 1987 Made uncredited screen appearance in the comedy “The Secret to My Success”
- 1988 Posed for Playboy
- 1989 Hosted the MTV series “House of Style”
- 1994 Executive produced and hosted “The Cindy Crawford Special” (MTV)
- 1995 Appeared in the documentaries “Unzipped” and “Catwalk”
- 1995 Feature acting debut in “Fair Game”
- 1998 Had two-episode guest role on the NBC sitcom “3rd Rock From the Sun”
- 1998 Hosted the ABC special “Sex with Cindy Crawford”
- 1998 Made cameo appearance in “54″
- 1999 Was a contributor to the ABC early show “Good Morning, America”
- 2000 Co-starred as a businesswoman struggling with her marriage in “The Simian Line”; released theatrically in the USA in 2001
- 2001 Hosted the special “Fashion Flashback” (WE: Women’s Entertainment)
- 2001 Served as host of “InStyle Celebrity Homes” (NBC)
- Raised in De Kalb, Illinois