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The Nero Wolfe series to Elmo and Patsy's "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer." And for something a little stranger, "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Amish Paradise" for the movie "Witness."

Maury Chaykin, a prolific and award-winning actor ... has died. The veteran actor died in Toronto early Tuesday, his 61st birthday... Other prominent appearances include ... Dances with Wolves ... He played the titular detective in a Nero Wolfe series...

To All NERO WOLFE Fans: A&E has been fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with such dedicated and talented professionals as actor/director Tim Hutton, and writer/executive producer Michael Jaffe, the team whose passion and creative vision for NERO WOLFE have made it such a truly distinctive drama series. Mr. Hutton and Mr. Jaffe, along with (Maury Chaykin, Bill Smitrovich, Colin Fox) and the rest of this hardworking and talented cast and crew, were responsible for bringing to life this classic mystery series, each week, to devoted viewers in the U.S. and in Canada. We at A&E remain extremely...

Intelligence Guided by Experience" A Brief Look at Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe by L. Neil Smith lneil@lneilsmith.com Special(*) to TLE           On March 5, the Arts & Entertainment Network presented Golden Spiders, a Nero Wolfe adventure adapted from a novel of the same name by Rex Stout. If I were to describe the 40-odd books Stout wrote about Wolfe and Archie Goodwin between the 1930s and the 1970s as "novels of manners", likely you'd yawn, make some polite excuse, get up and leave.            Ostensibly a long series of murder mysteries featuring an obese, agoraphobic deep thinker and his tall,...