Wilford Brimley News

Character actor Wilford Brimley has starred in films like "The China Syndrome" and "Cocoon," the TV series "Our House" and commercials for Liberty Medical and Quaker Oats.

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Last night we spoke with Cocoon star, Quaker Oats spokesman, and proud 75-year-old grumpypants Wilford Brimley as he promoted Did You Hear About the Morgans? . In it, he plays Earl , the cantankerous owner of the only restaurant in Ray, Wyoming, where Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker hide out after having witnessed a murder.

Owner of a 100-watt smile and all-around nice fella, Matt Damon , is in talks with the Coen Brothers to join an all-star cast for the remake of True Grit .

Jayne Meadows, Steve Allen's widow. She's 89. It was her sister Audrey Meadows that played Ralph Kramden's wife Alice on The Jackie Gleason Show.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 27-Oct. 3: Sept. 27: Director Arthur Penn is 87.

Grumpy guy: Noa Some serious business is going down on Endor. A bunch of Ewoks are threatened by anti-Ewokites who wanna erase the fuzzy guys from the planet.