Category: people

“A fairly successful television actress when she joined the cast of Laugh-In in 1968, as the Sock It To Me girl Judy Carne became the most popular person on the show for her zany, daffy, mini-skirted comic persona, continually getting doused with a bucket of water, or subjected to some other humiliation, every time she uttered the words ‘Sock it to me!'”

“Fans have long suspected that Forsyth, 77, acclaimed for his highly realistic spy novels, may have been involved with British intelligence. He told the BBC it started when he was asked to send information from the Biafran War in Nigeria.”

The Yiddish fish balls had powerful associations for the late neurologist and writer, and he alternated years-long periods of eating it regularly and avoiding it completely. During his final illness, he found it was one of the very last foods he could eat. “Gefilte fish will usher me out of this life, as it ushered me into it, eighty-two years ago.”

“The writer who died aged 94 last November left the bulk of her net estate of £22,403,597 before inheritance tax to her two daughters. It is believed that her estate will have to pay more than £8m in tax.”

Artist Nick Rindo told CBS that his crop art portrait of Cosby was removed from the exhibit hall on the very first day of the fair, after the venue received multiple complaints. It joins the ranks of two other artworks in the competition’s entire history that have been removed — one made from marijuana seeds, another containing a sexual reference.

“I don’t regret or withdraw a single carping article or castigating review. The standards I had held to were not set by me but by the works and the art form first and then by the artists and performing institution themselves. They also are measured by what we have come to expect of them and what they claim and aim to be.”

He was, said one voter, “a gross man-child, wilfully and capriciously dangerous to everything around him including the country … [who] with little more policy than petulant self-gratification.” And who was voted the best monarch? His child.

“In the past decade, he has become the kind of writer whose column, in the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz, ‘people hang on their fridge,’ as a colleague put it. In 2007, a sitcom he wrote, titled Arab Labor (a Sabra idiom for second-rate work), had its début, introducing an Arab family to Israeli audiences for the first time. It made him a celebrity not just on the comfortable left,” but even among taxi drivers and soccer hooligans.

“No, no, I’m just a writer. I’m just a writer who looked to slip into radio as a way of supporting myself. … I’m at the end of a very long and pretty happy detour. … You invent a town with all these characters in it and story lines, and it’s been interesting, until you realize that you have created [wry laugh] an obligation to keep it going, for the listener. And it’s at that point that your inventiveness wanes. And you feel restless.”

“Precocious and multitalented as a youth, the boyishly handsome Mr. Jones began his career as a teenage radio host and performer in amateur musical revues. He became a stage actor, and he and Jane Fonda made their Broadway debuts together. But it was not until the mid-1960s that he found his niche, as the affable, hapless, clean-cut Everyman in a series of genial family comedies produced by the Walt Disney Company, beginning in 1965 with That Darn Cat!“