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Remembering Lee Edwards December 18, 2024
I have known Lee for more than 60 years, and here is the truth: He was the nicest person I have ever met. And at the same time, he was a prodigious author and exponent for our modern conservative movement — writing and editing 25 books plus uncountab...
How Josh Brolin Wrote A Memoir As Wild As His Life December 03, 2024
Josh Brolin’s From Under The Truck is not exactly a celebrity autobiography, or a now-sober guy’s literary remembrance of wild times past, or a son’s memoir about loving and losing a difficult parent, although at points, depending on where you open t...
Bob Newhart, Comic Icon and Sitcom Star, Dies at 94 July 19, 2024
Bob Newhart, everyman comedian and star of two beloved sitcoms that bore his name, died Thursday at the age of 94. The news was announced by Jerry Digney, Newhart’s longtime publicist.Beneath his mild-mannered appearance and stylized stammering deliv...
The Master of Oversharing March 01, 2024
One of the funniest long-running gags in comedy was Richard Lewis, who died on February 27 at age 76, insisting that he was the person who minted the expression “… from hell”: the lunch from hell, the father-in-law from hell, the colonoscopy from hel...
