including those of The Three Stooges towards the end of their run in the late '50s. Soon he began to work in features, with supporting parts in 1960s classics including the Dick Van Dyke/Janet Leigh musical comedy "Bye Bye Birdie" and Jerry Lewis' screwball comedy"The Nutty Professor." ...
“Little Shop of Horrors” (Orin), “Head Over Heels” (Ensemble), “Bye Bye Birdie” (Albert), “Mary Poppins” (Policeman) and even “Heathers” (Ram’s Dad). Myles would like to thank his family, friends, cast and crew for supporting him throughout this amazing show.Instag...
Angela Lansbury, 96. The scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series “Murder, She Wrote.” Oct. 11. Robbie Coltrane, 72. The baby-faced com...
Electric music was something you made fun of in Bye Bye Birdie! It wasn’t legitimate somehow. And that’s totally changed. Now Broadway represents all of the richness of American music in all its different forms. In those days, all you could do was was, quote, “Broadway.” Well, ...
A pompadoured heartthrob of early rock ’n roll who was a star of radio, television and the movie musical “Bye Bye Birdie.” April 5. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 75. The Russian nationalist leader was a senior lawmaker whose sulphurous rhetoric and antics alarmed the West but appealed to Rus...
While her immense acting talent is clear in the likes of "Bye Bye Birdie" and "The Cheap Detective," many fans did not know she possessed a gift for academia as well, having graduated from Northwestern University before pursuing a career in entertainment. 1942: Barbra Streisand Harry Benson/...
Remember that song from "Bye Bye Birdie"? Well if you do not, let me fill you in about teenagers and their life-management skills. Do not expect too much too soon because at the ripe age of 17, life-management is not within their reach, nor should it be. Life experience creates ...
Well known for the CBS sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, which premiered in 1961, Van Dyke was cast in the 1963 film musical adaptation of Broadway’s Bye Bye Birdie. A year later, he starred opposite Julie Andrews in the Disney musical Mary Poppins. Van Dyke told CNN he thought he got...
“I deactivated my Twitter account today,” themodel wrote on her Instagram Storieson Nov. 7. “For a long time, but especially with its new leadership, it’s becoming more and more of a cesspool of hate & bigotry, and its not a place I want to be a part of.” ...
“I remember seeing ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ for the first time,” he said, his voice trailing off. “She entertained me.” To many stars, their enduring popularity and the popularity of shows like Courts’ are evidence of a kind of immortality, they say. ...