Cavett, Dick (1936—)
"Sophisticated," "witty," "urbane," "intelligent," and "literate" are among the adjectives commonly used to describe Dick Cavett, the Nebraska-born talk show host who expe...
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Men of New York! Why are you no longer throwing your scarves carelessly, rakishly over your shoulders, ends trailing in the wind?
Why are you now pausing to double those scarves, holding the loope...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Joey Bishop, the
last surviving member of the super-hip team of entertainers
known as the Rat Pack and led by Frank Sinatra, has died at age
89, his longtime frien...
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What was I doing, helping Joan Collins flog copies of her sizzling new self-help mega-tome, The Art of Living Well: Looking Good, Feeling Great (Sourcebooks), on my 54th birthday last Monday at the...
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What was I doing, helping Joan Collins flog copies of her sizzling new self-help mega-tome, The Art of Living Well: Looking Good, Feeling Great (Sourcebooks), on my 54th birthday last Monday at the...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 18-24:Nov. 18: Actor Brad Sullivan ("Nothing Sacred") is 76. Actress Brenda Vaccaro is 68. Actress Linda Evans is 65. Country singer Jacky Ward is 61. Actor...
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It appears as though New York will get a new stadium after all. It won't be built on the West Side of Manhattan, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg wished. Instead, it will rise in the Flushing Meadows sec...
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World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in the Vietnam era.Vonnegut turned his ordeal as a ...
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Tucked away in a cul-de-sac on East 50th Street, One Beekman Place was built by the Rockefellers in 1930; previous residents include playboy Aly Khan; William J. Donovan, head of the O.S.S. under F...
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