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Joyce Randolph has passed away at the age of 99. The actress - who played Trixie Norton on the TV show The Honeymooners - died in her sleep in New York City on Saturday, her son told TMZ on Sunday. The star was in hospice as she was suffering the effects of old age, it was added. She played one of the main characters on the popular sitcom The Honeymooners, which aired from 1955 until 1956. The show was centered around Jackie Gleason's rough NYC bus driver character Ralph Kramden who was always yelling at his wife Alice, played by...

If you don't laugh at "Hello Ball", there may be something wrong with you.

So many golden ages, so much brilliance from which to choose. In culling from the "60 Greatest" lists we've compiled during our 60th-anniversary year, we shook things up, blending drama, comedy and other genres to salute the shows with the biggest cultural impact and most enduring influence.

She portrayed Rita Wedemeyer, the glamorous new wife of Ralph's co-worker. Freda Rosen, who as the blond bombshell Rita Wedemeyer is embarrassingly fawned over by Jackie Gleason and Art Carney on a classic episode of The Honeymooners, has died. She was 87. A resident of Beverly Hills for more than 50 years, Rosen died Sunday, her family announced. Her husband was TV writer Arnie Rosen, who won five Emmy Awards for his work on The Phil Silvers Show and The Carol Burnett Show. He died in 1980. In The Honeymooners episode "Alice and the Blonde," which first aired in June...

The Honeymooners, this is a hoot. Probably posted seeing how many hits it has but decided to try it again.

Frank Marth, a veteran character actor and member of Jackie Gleason's stock company on The Honeymooners, died Sunday of congestive heart failure and Alzheimer’s disease in Rancho Mirage, Calif., a family friend told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 91. *** The tall and slender Marth, though, is probably best remembered for his assortment of background roles on The Honeymooners, which starred Gleason and Audrey Meadows as Ralph and Alice Kramden, with Art Carney as their upstairs neighbor, Ed Norton. Marth played Harvey Wohlstetter, who hires Alice to babysit his son, Harvey Jr., as Ralph jumps to conclusions and thinks his...

Jane Kean, best known for her role as Trixie, the long-suffering wife of Ed Norton on the 1960s TV revival of "The Honeymooners" with Jackie Gleason and Art Carney, has died. She was 90. Kean, a resident of Toluca Lake, died Tuesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank of complications from a fall. Her niece, Deidre Wolpert, confirmed her death. Although she played diverse roles during a career spanning more than four decades, including performing at London's Palladium before moving to Broadway, Kean said her role in "The Honeymooners" was the character that most people remembered.

Ralph Kramden, bus driver and moon launch specialist, says that reaching the Muslim world is much more important than his plan to send his wife to the moon. "The President was very specific about this," Kramden said. "My first job, my first priority, is to reach out to the Muslim world and to stoke their interest in science." Kramden had planned that one of these days he would send his wife--zam, pow--right to the moon. Priorities have changed in the Obama's more expansive view of space travel. Long-time political ally, Ed Norton, said the move is unexpected.

Is Democratic San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom already putting together his team for that 2010 gubernatorial run? The newlywed mayor and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, were spotted in Malibu Saturday, honeymooning deep in lengthy conservation over frappucinos -- with Democratic uber-political consultant Garry South. We heard the whole story from blogger Zuma Dogg, who caught the scene on video and on camera, and posted it on his own LA Daily blog link at his website, zumatimes.com. Little problem for the environmentally-hip SF mayor at the usually star-laden Starbucks, the blogger reports. "His Yukon was parked in the fire lane,"...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Royal Caribbean Cruises has agreed to pay more than $1 million to the estate of a Connecticut man who vanished from his honeymoon cruise of the Mediterranean in 2005. The Florida-based company will pay $950,000 to the estate of George Allen Smith IV and reimburse his widow, Jennifer Hagel Smith, for legal costs up to $110,000. Hagel Smith will start a fund in memory of her husband with an initial donation of $25,000 that the cruise line will match, according to a copy of the settlement obtained by The Associated Press. The agreement was to be...

More Hollywood Remakes Cast Minorities By ERIN TEXEIRA, AP National Writer 1 hour, 14 minutes ago NEW YORK - When Jackie Gleason was growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in the 1930s, many of his neighbors resembled his family, Irish and working-class. Today, the residents remain mostly working-class, but almost all are black. Perhaps, then, it makes sense that a film remake of Gleason's classic TV comedy "The Honeymooners" would feature a mostly black cast, with Cedric the Entertainer as the new face of loudmouthed Ralph Kramden. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, reflects a growing trend...