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Looking back from a distance of 60 years, Hoagy Carmichael‘s 1961 appearance on The Flintstones was a strange affair. The result was the clip seen here. The episode is titled “The Hit Song Writers” ...

Running guru Jim Fixx died at age 52, and juice diet guru Paavo Airola died at 64. Longevity guru Nathan Pritikin didn’t make 70. But finally, an expert on healthy living has stepped up to the plate ...

Frank Sinatra died there. Kate Hudson was born there. Alex Trebek went there after his heart attack. And this week, Britney Spears was taken there after a mental meltdown. “There” is Cedars-Sinai ...

Director Richard Linklater has a new film at Cannes: Nouvelle Vague. It’s about the making of Breathless, the 1960 classic of the French New Wave. (Until just now, I didn’t know that nouvelle vague is ...

Women’s History Month is here! And if you liked our students’ guide to Black History Month, you’ll love our big guide to Women’s History Month biographies.

Actor Chad Everett has died at age 76. Lung cancer was the cause, according to The Los Angeles Times. Boy, the music in those old dramas. Any show that started running in 1969 had one foot in the Old ...

President Jimmy Carter has died at age 100, at his home in Plains, Georgia. If you didn’t like and admire this excellent public servant, have your heart examined. He did his best for America before, ...

The Little, Brown Book Group has announced the publication date of the next J.K. Rowling novel. The tale takes place in an English village called Pagford. The people who live there are called Paggles, ...

Hailee Steinfeld, age 14, will surely be nominated for an Oscar tomorrow for True Grit, because she deserves it and because the Academy loves to nominate plucky youngsters. Yes, the Academy loves ...

Here’s a wild story about General George Patton, hard-driving hero (and cancelled-in-his-own-time villain) of the U.S. Army during World War II. Hawaiian or not, it got the job done: Gordon killed ...

Tina Louise — who played movie star Ginger Grant — is the last surviving member of the cast of Gilligan’s Island. That became true when Dawn Wells (“Mary Ann”) died on December 30, 2020. All the ...