US acting icon Linda Lavin, a star of stage and screen, has died aged 87. Lavin was best known for playing the titular role of a waitress at a roadside diner in CBS sitcom Alice for which she won two ...
A success on Broadway, Lavin tried her luck in Hollywood in the mid-1970s. She was chosen to star in a new CBS sitcom based on “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” the Martin Scorsese-directed film that ...