Comedy Genius Sid Caesar, 1922-2014
One of the last public appearances for Sid Caesar, the great TV clown who died Wednesday at 91, came at one of the stranger sessions of the TV Critics Association…
One of the last public appearances for Sid Caesar, the great TV clown who died Wednesday at 91, came at one of the stranger sessions of the TV Critics Association…
It was just a few days ago that I saw, on rail of some internet site fraught with clickbait, the familiar picture in pincurls, young Shirley Temple, accompanying a headline…
Among the many things dangled before our eyes at the TV Critics winter press tour last month, one of the easy standouts was for Showtime's planned "Happyish." It starred Philip…
The death of Pete Seeger Monday at 1994 brings to an end of one of the great names in American music, a personification of folk music and the folk spirit,…
Elmore Leonard, who died today at 87, was not only one of the great crime writers of the day, whose work was the basis of TV and movie scripts from…
I'm used to writing of contestants losing on "The Bachelor," but not of suicide deaths. Sadly, that's what happened to Gia Allemand, 29, the cheery and exotic standout from Jake…
The sad death of Cory Monteith this weekend at just 31 became more shocking when contrasted with what we saw of his life. On a show called "Glee," for heaven's…
Shocking, of course, to hear of the death of James Gandolfini today in Italy at only the age of 51. A great actor with serious gravitas, he played a big…
It may have been the assertive way she said her name: "Annette!" Or that she was the tallest of the first batch of Mickey Mouse Club Mouskateers (certainly she was…
They spent the day eulogizing the former prime minister, who likely put a stamp on British politics, for better or for worse, for more than a decade But few political…