Linda Lavin, who had a successful stage career before moving to television, starred in the popular sitcom, Alice (1976-1985), one of the first television shows centered on a working class woman. On the series, which was based on the 1975 film, Alice...

Linda Lavin (born October 15, 1937 in Portland, Maine) is an American singer and Tony Award and Golden Globe Award-winning stage, film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for playing the title character in the US sitcom Alice and for her...

Absent for seven years after a nine-year run as "Alice," Linda Lavin returns to series TV in the appealingly low-key vehicle "Room for Two," airing tonight on Channel 7 at 9:30. The half-hour sitcom's pilot takes the mother-and-daughter-pushing-each-other's-buttons thing and plants it in...

A writer sometimes compared with Chekhov, Mary Lavin will always be associated with the mid-lands of Ireland, for her fiction transformed that locale into something brimming with incipient universality, rich in nuance, at once harmonious and sharply intelligent. Her American background (she returned...

Today is Monday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2007. There are 77 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 15, 1917, Dutch dancer Mata Hari, convicted of spying for the Germans, was executed by a French firing squad outside Paris.On this date:In...