Born in Seattle, WA, in late 1921, Carol Channing made her Broadway debut in 1941 in the show Let's Face It, and she's been...
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2012
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Joan Rivers launched her career as a standup comic in the early '60s, a time when female comedians were few and far between,...
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2010
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2010
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2010
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2009
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Acclaimed anime master Hayao Miyazaki returns for his ninth animated feature with Ponyo, which deals with a friendship...
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2008
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With The Walker, Paul Schrader unofficially updates themes and tropes first explored by his controversial erotic thriller...
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Abigail Delorean
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2007
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The self-proclaimed "Last Lesbian Comic Standing," Kate Clinton stands at the forefront of the lesbian movement thanks to...
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2007
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A kid who hates ants finds himself living among the six-legged critters in this computer-animated comedy-adventure. Lucas...
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2006
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Rhonda Johnson
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2006
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Five years after achieving commercial and critical success with his film Three Kings, director and screenwriter...
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Vivian Jaffe
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2004
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Narrator
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2004
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The comedienne who shot to stardom as "the world's worst housewife" offers an intimate look at her life and career on the...
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2004
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Organized by New York's Museum of Television and Radio, this impressively assembled tribute to the funny women boasts a...
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2003
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Some cast and crew from NBC's highly acclaimed, little-seen series Freaks and Geeks reunite for this teen comedy that also...
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2002
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If you could talk to the child that you used to be, what advice would you give him? That question forms the basis of this...
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Janet
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2000
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This is a documentary portrait of a Hollywood comedy writer cited by many of entertainment's biggest stars as their comedic...
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1999
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Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a...
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Georgie
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1999
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Like it or not, for 25 years, Saturday Night Live has graced our living rooms on Saturday nights. The show has gone through...
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1999
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1998
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The tenth and final season of Murphy Brown resolves the previous season's cliffhanger finale, as TV reporter Murphy Brown...
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Kay Carter-Shepley
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1997
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Kay Carter-Shepley
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1996
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While traveling to Harrisburg, PN, to extradite suspected murderer Rose Halligan (Lily Tomlin), Baltimore homicide detectives...
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1996
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Mary Schlicting
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1996
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Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Paul Auster had enough storylines and characters left over from their charming comedy...
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1995
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Based on Vito Russo's groundbreaking 1981 work of film history, The Celluloid Closet gathers clips from dozens of mainstream...
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Co-producer, Narrator
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1995
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A well-meaning man discovers the downside of taking the law into your own hands in this black comedy. Jack Lambert...
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Inga
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1995
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1994
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Writer/director Gus Van Sant's early bid for big-time commercial success -- a success he didn't manage to achieve until...
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1994
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In this episode, Ms. Frizzle has her hands full when one of her students, Wanda, decides to create the "perfect" home for her...
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1994
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Based on the popular books by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, this television series combines fantasy with science education....
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Ms. Frizzle
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1994
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Another crisis looms at the Crane household when Eddie the dog sires a litter of puppies. Solemnly, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer)...
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1994
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Ms. Frizzle takes a humid, sticky day in the summer and turns it into a lesson on how to become weather-wise. This time, the...
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1994
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This 30-minute video features Ms. Frizzle and the curious kids in her classroom studying ant colonies for their science...
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1994
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Energetic schoolteacher Ms. Frizzle returns for another episode of the series that finds creative ways to fully involve...
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1994
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The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by...
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Dr. Selma Dritz
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1993
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Penelope Spheeris directed this compulsively faithful film adaptation of the popular 1960s television series. The familiar...
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1993
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Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a...
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Doreen Piggot
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1993
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Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted...
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1992
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Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to...
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Prostitute
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1992
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Ernestine
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1992
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This filmed version of Lily Tomlin's successful one-woman performance piece is sometimes classified as a "documentary."...
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Producer
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1991
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Thanks to a mix-up at birth, two sets of twins are separated and grow up in radically different social circles. The four baby...
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Rose Shelton
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1988
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Making its first appearance on November 14, 1988, the long-running, Emmy-winning CBS sitcom Murphy Brown starred...
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1988
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Lily Tomlin is more than a filmed record of the comedienne's stage show...
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Lily Tomlin
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1986
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On her deathbed, mean-spirited millionairess Lily Tomlin has her will amended so that her soul will pass into the body of...
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Edwina Cutwater
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1984
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Host
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1983
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman, directed by Joel Schumacher, is an attempted social satire focusing on the position of women...
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Judith Beasley,Pat Kramer
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1981
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Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda), a housewife whose husband has left her for his secretary, begins her own secretarial career at a...
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Violet Newstead
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1980
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John Travolta played his first romantic lead in this drama about an ill-fated May-September romance. Trisha (Lily Tomlin) is...
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Trisha
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1978
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Even though he barely makes enough money to cover his expenses and finds divorce cases (his bread and butter) unsavory, aging...
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Margo
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1977
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1977
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Host
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1976
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Host
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1975
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Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured...
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Linnea Reese
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1975
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This award-winning special from comedienne Lily Tomlin features her characters Edith Ann and Ernestine, as well as guest...
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1973
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1970
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After years of performing some of the most intelligent and perceptive comedy in America, Lily Tomlin decides to start aiming...
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