Fred Allen

Paul Landerman, a legendary Hartford bandleader, trombonist and top entertainment-booking agent for many decades, died Friday evening at the Hebrew Home and Hospital in West Hartford. He was 92. Landerman's reign as one of the region's most regal...

What did I think of "Nashville Star," now in the big house? I'm so glad you asked. What I saw of it was not bad, though one is reminded of the oldest Fred Allen phrase of them all, that......

As a presidential candidate, Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York was not a glad-hander, not a flesh-presser. He was stiff and tended toward pomposity. "The only man who could strut sitting down" was the crack that made the rounds. But on Nov. 2, Election Day,...

Kurt Vonnegut, an American cultural hero celebrated for his wry, loonily imaginative commentary on war, apocalypse, technology, materialism and other afflictions in "Slaughterhouse-Five" and other novels, has died. He was 84. One of the last of a...

The most popular songs in America these days -- the tunes that are on practically everyone's lips -- were not penned by rappers or rockers or heavy metal guitarists. Nor are they hawked in the record stores or downloaded eagerly off of the Internet....

To marvel at numbers that reveal radio to be a vigorous 75-year-old is to overlook the vast array of personalities and formats that have given life to the dial. Here is a purely subjective list of 15 of the medium's more influential figures and...

Art Carney, who won a best actor Oscar for "Harry and Tonto" and originated the role of fussy Felix Unger in "The Odd Couple" on Broadway, but who is best remembered as Jackie Gleason's lovable sewer worker pal Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners," has died....

Can a young man from a small town in West Virginia who hitchhiked to Chicago with 71 cents in his pocket find happiness and success in that big city? He can, he did, and now through April 15 in the Performing Arts Center of Truman College, in a show...

The freeway has been a favorite metaphor for writers trying to fathom Los Angeles for so long that opinions about this town can be virtually divided into day and night views. The night watchers tend to celebrate its long streams of pale yellow light,...