Tom Hanks was just beginning his ascent in Hollywood, which explains why he played second fiddle to Dan Aykroyd’s Joe Friday in the 1987 big-screen update of theDragnetTV series. While there were jokes made about Friday’s name in the movie, somehow people didn’t even flinch at the n...
Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day enjoyed an extraordinary nine weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. It has sold over 750,000 copies to date. Other best-selling titles include Tell Me Again About The Night I Was Born And When I Was Little: A Four-Year...
Dave Thomas, Eugene Levy and other young comics, some of whom would go on to form the seminal SCTV troupe. Soon, an entire generation of Canadian talents--among them Dan Aykroyd, John Candy and “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels--would set the tone for comedy...
The boy, London, has already survived multiple open heart surgeries due to his heart defect, which was diagnosed 15 hours after he was born,according to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Helping him to get through hishealthstruggles, he told Make-A-Wish, is his love of "Ghostbusters," ...
Clarence Hylan Beavers was born in Harlem on June 12, 1921, the 15th of 16 children. (His middle name was given in honor of John F. Hylan, who was New York’s mayor at the time and also his godfather.) His maternal grandparents had been escaped slaves, and his maternal grandfather se...
The rough-edged vulnerability ofGary Allan’s finest album was not simply born of his wife’s suicide one year earlier. Allan had been mixing genres, emotions and styles into a scarred version of Americana country-rock for nearly a decade before finding tragic inspiration. He leaned into it....