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John Rich (right), is pictured with Norman Lear in 1973 when they won an Emmy for outstanding series for "All in the Family." (Los Angeles Times)

John Rich, award-winner director of landmark sitcoms, dies at 86

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 12:44am

LOS ANGELES — As a top television comedy director who won an Emmy directing “The Dick Van Dyke Show” in the early 1960s, John Rich was faced with a tough choice in 1970.

On the same day he received a phone call from Mary Tyler Moore wanting to set up a meeting to discuss his directing the initial episode of her new TV series, he got a call from Norman Lear who wanted to send him a script for a pilot he was about to produce.

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Mary Tyler Moore will be honored tonight with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Dick Van Dyke will present Moore with the SAG award.

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That girl with the smile

Mary McNamara Los Angeles Times

Last updated Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 5:36pm

LOS ANGELES -- In recent months the name Mary Tyler Moore has been bandied about with unexpected regularity bordering on reckless abandon. This is not just because she recently made her first TV appearance in many moons on pal Betty White's show "Hot in Cleveland" or because she proved at last month's televised fete for White's 90th birthday that she can still rock a white pantsuit or even because she is receiving this year's Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award tonight.

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Iconic TV shows examined; 'Simpsons' Halloween special airs

Chuck Barney Contra Costa Times

Last updated Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 1:23pm

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"America In Primetime" -- Television lovers won't want to miss this exceptional four-part documentary series that explores some of the medium's most compelling shows -- past and present -- by focusing on key character archetypes. The opening episode, "Independent Woman," examines how females on television have evolved from demure and model housewives to complex, sometimes controversial, characters. Top producers and writers are interviewed, along with TV stars, including Roseanne Barr ("Roseanne"), Candice Bergen ("Murphy Brown"), Mary Tyler Moore ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show"), Julianna Margulies ("The Good Wife"), Sandra Oh ("Grey's Anatomy") and Felicity Huffman and Eva Longoria ("Desperate Housewives"). Other installments will focus on "The Man of the House," "The Crusader," and "The Misfit." 7 p.m. today, KUED Channel 7.

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Mary Tyler Moore to undergo brain tumor surgery

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 5:23pm

NEW YORK — A representative for Mary Tyler Moore said Thursday that the veteran sitcom star has gone in to a facility for surgery to remove a benign tumor on the lining of her brain.

Spokeswoman Alla Plotkin says Moore’s doctors recommended the elective procedure after monitoring the tumor “for years.” Plotkin would not specify if the surgery had already taken place, or how Moore was doing.

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