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Veteran Hollywood actor Bob Hastings, best-remembered as a bootlicking lieutenant in the 1960s television World War Two comedy “McHale’s Navy,” has died at the age of 89. Hastings died at his home in Burbank, California, on Monday after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer, granddaughter Allison Knowles said. The Brooklyn-born Hastings first earned recurring roles on 1950s TV comedy “The Phil Silvers Show” and small parts on other programs before landing the role of yes-man Lieutenant Elroy Carpenter on “McHale’s Navy.” Hastings also appeared in several episodes of 1970s comedy “All in the Family” as well as performing voice work in dozens of episodes of 1990s program “Batman: The Animated Series.” Hastings, a World War Two veteran who voiced Archie Comics character Archie Andrews from 1945 to 1953 on NBC radio, was the older brother of Don Hastings, an actor best-known for his role as a physician on soap opera “As the World Turns.” Hastings is survived by his brother and four children, as well as by grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

By Eric Kelsey BEVERLY HILLS Calif. (Reuters) – Comedian Melissa McCarthy and her husband and writing partner Ben Falcone team up for the first time behind and in front of the camera in “Tammy,” a Midwestern road-trip comedy about a woman’s desire to start over. The Warner Bros. film, which opens in U.S. theaters on Wednesday, is Falcone’s directorial debut and stars McCarthy as an endearing buffoon character alongside Susan Sarandon as her boozing, man-chasing grandmother. …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — IAC/InterActiveCorp has suspended a co-founder of its popular dating app Tinder in the wake of a lawsuit accusing him of sexually harassing a female executive of the company.

By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Paul Mazursky, the writer and director behind such Oscar-nominated films as “An Unmarried Woman” and “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” has died in Los Angeles. Mazursky, who also co-created “The Monkees” television series, died on Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from pulmonary cardiac arrest, said family spokeswoman Nancy Willen. He first broke into Hollywood as an actor in Stanley Kubrick’s 1953 film “Fear and Desire” and appeared in episodes of the “Twilight Zone” and the 1955 drama “Blackboard Jungle.” But Mazursky was best known for his work behind the camera, particularly for his ability to tap into topics such as marriage and divorce during the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s. His first credit as a film writer was the 1968 Peter Sellers comedy “I Love You, Alice B. Toklas.” Mazursky directed his first feature, the comedy-drama “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” starring Natalie Wood, the following year and earned the first of his four career Academy Award nominations for screenwriting.

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Disney’s Hollywood Studios in central Florida will add to the “Frozen” frenzy by offering a daily character procession, sing-alongs and a nightly party based on the hit animated movie.

Leh, June 30 (IANS) It hosted the maiden Asia screening of “Ugly”, showed “Transformers: Age Of Extinction” and even welcomed heavyweights from Indian filmdom. When the curtains came down on the three-day fest Sunday night sans the festival director, Melwyn Williams’ presence, visitors pondered if LIFF would return for another edition or not at an after-party. Although, the event had some high scoring points – like the Asia premiere of Anurag Kashyap’s “Ugly” and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s “Bollywood – The Greatest Story Ever Told” as well as the screening of Hollywood’s latest actioner “Transformers: Age Of Extinction” – there were mismanagement issues at the fest held in the peaceful and serene surroundings of this Jammu and Kashmir region.