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Screenplay News and Reviews Some of the entertainers, innovators, news makers and people of note we lost in 2020 Now that the year is finally over and done with, we at Village Media would like to take pause and remember those the world lost in 2020. Here are just some of the entertainers, innovators, news makers, and people of note that left us this year (in no particular order): Alex Trebek – Jeopardy! host from 1984 through 2020. The Northern Ontario native also made appearances in numerous television series, usually as himself. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy in 2011 ...

William Link in 2003 Credit:  Matthew Peyton/Getty Images William Link, who has died aged 87, was the co-creator of the popular series Columbo and Murder, She Wrote, both of which defied most of the norms of television detective drama. Throughout the seven-year run of Columbo, starring Peter Falk as the eponymous cigar-smoking detective, Falk came to share many of his alter ego’s traits. Bill Link and his co-creator and writer Dick Levinson originally wanted Bing Crosby for the part but later admitted that they based most of the shambling character on Falk himself. “Let’s face it,” ...

Joe Louis Clark, an uncompromising educator who made national headlines by roaming the halls of Paterson's Eastside High School wielding a baseball bat, has died at 82. Clark died Tuesday at his home in Florida, surrounded by family, after a long illness, his family said. Before meeting with the Reagan administration, appearing on the cover of Time magazine and inspiring the 1989 biopic "Lean on Me" (with Morgan Freeman as Clark), he arrived at the troubled high school in 1982 and quickly cracked down on students and faculty. Over a six-year tenure as Eastside's principal, Clark was b...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Link, who co-created the hit series “Columbo” and...

LOS ANGELES - William Link, who co-created the hit series “Columbo” and “Murder, She Wrote” and made 1970s and ’80s TV movies about social issues then large