Ron Palillo, whose nasally delivery made him one of the most memorable Sweathogs on the 1970s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, died last night in Palm Beach, Fla., suffering a heart attack in his sleep. He was 63. Beginning in 1975, Palillo was one of the oddball students who tested Mr. Kotter for four seasons […]
Monday marks the one year anniversary of one of the state’s most tragic accidents. Seven people died and more than 50 were injured when the stage rigging collapsed at the State Fairgrounds just before the country music duo “Sugarland” was set to perform. The official remembrance will take place at 8:46 Monday night. That is […]
Albert Freeman Jr., the veteran actor who played Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee’s epic film, “Malcolm X,” has died. He was 78. Howard University in Washington, D.C., confirmed his death Friday night but details weren’t immediately available. Freeman taught acting there for years and served as chairman and artistic director of its theater arts department. […]
If athletes are the only kind of celebrities that matter at the 2012 London Olympics, they sure know how to make the most of it. Iconic images of Gabby Douglas, Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte have burned through our minds for the past week and a half, making us wonder — who would play these […]
Not what you want to see on plane’s wing… While aboard an Alaska Airlines flight leaving Burbank, Calif. bound for Seattle, Wash., a passenger looked out a window to see a handwritten message scrawled on what appeared to be a damaged area of the plane’s wing. “We know about this,” the note said. Below the […]
Oh… It’s looking like there’s not a lot of love lost between celebrated virgin track & field runner Lolo Jones and her medal-winning teammates Dawn Harper and Kellie Wells. In an NBC post-race interview with Michelle Beadle silver medalist Dawn Harper complained that despite her compelling story of overcoming surgery to capture second place in […]
What do you get when you pair one of the most compelling documentarians in the film business with perhaps the greatest entertainer of the last century? You get film-making magic. That’s what’s in store with Spike Lee’s documentary on Michael Jackson and the making of the “Bad” album, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. […]