news from me (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
This is mainly for folks who live in Los Angeles. The L.A. Times has configured an easy link to the database of restaurant inspections performed by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. You may or may not want...
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
Tom Cruise as Claus von Stauffenberg in Valkyrie adds yet another name to the long list of characters—real and fictional—sporting eye patches throughout the ages. New York magazine examines notable wearers of the ocular ornament: James Joyce: Perhaps an homage to “The Cyclops” episode of his fabled Ulysses , Joyce had two functional eyes but claimed the patch aided his flagging eyesight.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
SOME PERFORMERS may take umbrage in being called a "throwback." Tony Pace revels in it. Pace, who will have the distinction of being Atlantic City's first casino headliner of 2009 when he opens a five-night run Sunday at the Atlantic City Hilton, is a classic variety artist. His one-man, semi-autobiographical show, dubbed "Up On the Roo
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
Businessman Horace Sudduth, born in 1888 in Covington, was the son of Charles Sudduth and Mattie Lee Howard Sudduth.
New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
Tom Cruise is the latest in a long line of ocular accessorizers.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 12/27/2008
Even as a pre-adolescent growing up in subarctic Rochester, N.Y., watching Eartha Kitt's Catwoman taunt Adam West's Batman, I always felt a little, um, hot. Julie Newmar, Diana Rigg and the rest of the leather-jump-suited superwomen/femmes fatales of the 1960s were fine too. But for my inchoate tastes in all things feminine, Kitt was the insouciant queen.
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 12/24/2008
Walt Wagner and Jerry Zimmerman are not young men. One used to play piano with Bob Hope, George Burns, and Sammy Davis Jr., while the other opened for Jesus at the Last Supper. The restaurant, Canlis, where Wagner and Zimmerman share key-tickling duties is no spring chicken eithe...
games (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
Wrestling Pablo Picasso’s Disc Brakes Bridge The Beastie Boys BC Chitlins The head Gymnastics
SitcomsOnline.com News Blog (Free subscription) | 12/20/2008
It is Saturday, so that must mean it is time for our weekly Blog DVD Review! Today we take a look at BCI Eclipse's The Best of Password: The CBS Years. Password was of course the classic word playing game show that still lives on today in the form of Million Dollar Password hosted by Regis Philbin. But before Reege hosted, there were many other incarnations! On this set, we see the early years of
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 12/19/2008
Golly Zonk! (It’s Scatman) “Listen - Scatman Crothers - Golly Zonk! (It’s Scatman)- MP3″ Greetings all. I wasn’t originally planning on posting something to end the week, but I was suddenly overcome with the need to offer up something thunderous and slightly ragged in an attempt to offset the black cloud that’s been following me around. The little [...]
breath of life (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
We kick the week of with fusion masters Norman Connors and Hugh Masekela, and we end with an investigation of Porgy and Bess featuring Sammy Davis Jr, Rene Marie, Gerardo Gandini & Ernesto Jodos, Chaka Khan, Mederic Collignon, Ernestine Anderson, Miles Davis, Ray Charles & Cleo Laine, Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Henderson, and [...]
breath of life (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
I cobbled a wide variety of takes into a seamless mini-opera with some selections featuring multiple takes both vocal and instrumental.
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
Perhaps the most talented and celebrated vocalist of the 20th century, Frank Sinatra, would have turned 93 today. Born in Hoboken, NJ when the 20th century was but 15 years young, Frank became the idol of the “bobbysoxers” of the 1940’s after joining the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Sinatra lived, loved and fought hard all the [...]
chris (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
A queer...okay pretty much African American bull dyke... pal and former schoolmate of mine, embittered over the bobbled opportunity and loss in Cali's Prop. 8 told me: "Ellen Degeneres our Sammy Davis Jr. So eager to fit in as an entertainer that she's become an irrelevancy to a larger movement and a response to a lack of civil rights, like Sammy in the 50s and 60s." Unfair to Sammy, based on the...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
A stalker emailed just a few minutes ago with this sighting: "Tracy Morgan at the AMC theater in Times Square. Standing behind him on the escalator as he bitches about Obama not caring about black...
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shugaray | 10/14/2008
Brady Bunch’s Maureen McCormick Sexed Jacko
