"We have about six weeks of rain a year but it usually comes in showers," is how our leader on the Alentejo trail ride apologised for the deluge in Portugal's "sunny" south-western corner. We were completely awash, our horses sploshing through rivulets and sinking...

EVONNE COUTROS, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-04-1997 BLAZE AT SADDLE RIVER MANSION IS RULED ACCIDENTAL By EVONNE COUTROS, Staff Writer Date: 09-04-1997, Thursday Section: NEWS Edition: 5 Star, Also in 3 Star, 1 Star SADDLE RIVER -- A fire...

Pryor had been suffering from multiple sclerosis before he died at Encino Hospital near Los Angeles at 7:58 a.m. PT on Saturday [December 10], according to CNN. "He enjoyed life right up until the end," his wife, Jennifer Lee Pryor, told The Associated Press....

Frankie Laine, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s, died Tuesday. He was 93.Laine died of heart failure at Mercy Hospital in San Diego, Jimmy Marino, Laine's producer of more than a dozen years,...

Mel Brooks has a truly baroque sense of humor, as his new film, Blazing Saddles, demonstrates. Such an eccentric wealth of material comes out of his imagination that this film is usually working full tilt on three different levels at once: social satire, straight, old-fashioned slapstick comedy, and parody of various other Hollywood genres, most notably, of course, the Western…. It is, as the saying goes, a sketch. Unhappily, that's often all it is: a sketch. It's not enough to make up ...