The Love Boat

(Newser) - Jack Jones, a Grammy-winning crooner known for the Love Boat television show theme song , has died, the AP reports. He was 86. Jones died Wednesday night at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, California, after battling leukemia for more than two years, according to a statement from his manager, Milt Suchin....

(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 ...

(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,...

(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...