Whoa! Film director Sydney Pollack has died of cancer. He was a very young 73.Pollack won Oscars for directing and producing Out of Africa in 1985. And he made the comedy hit Tootsie (with Dustin Hoffman dressed as a woman) in 1982.
The Naked Cowboy is in Ohio this weekend, appearing at the Taste of Cincinnati festival.He seems to be a complex figure. We can report from personal observation that the Cowboy has tattoos on each shoulder: Jesus on the left and Satan on the right.
Dick Martin, co-host of the groundbreaking TV show Laugh-In, has died at age 86.The cause was respiratory failure, says The New York Times.
This clip has been around awhile, it seems, but we just spotted it for the first time: Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards dealing with a fan who charges onstage.
Is film director Steven Spielberg obsessed with “the repairing of the fractured family”? So says Chicago Tribune pop critic Mark Cano:
We’re not sure if that’s surprisingly old or surprisingly young. (He is hosting The Price is Right, after all.)Drew Carey was born in Cleveland in 1958. (As an aside: that was just a few days before Annette Bening was born in Topeka.)
Last month’s gapper was a famous painter. This month it’s a famous composer: George Gershwin.
Here are some details about the malignant brain tumor of Senator Edward Kennedy.
The new Frank Sinatra stamp is here.