Buddy Hackett

Around Town: 'Mad, Mad World' and other comedy classics

2011-12-29 21:37:53

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'The Dead Celebrity Cookbook' and the history of fatty cooking

2012-02-10 10:54:40

<![CDATA['The Dead Celebrity Cookbook' and the history of fatty cooking]]>

Sunday's TV Highlights: 'Worst Cooks in America' debuts on Food Network

2010-01-03 04:34:37

<![CDATA[Sunday's TV Highlights: 'Worst Cooks in America' debuts on Food Network]]>

Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'Last Lion of Liuwa' on Animal Planet

2010-07-05 21:36:06

<![CDATA[Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'Last Lion of Liuwa' on Animal Planet]]>

Classic and rare films at Cinecon

2009-09-03 00:00:00

Movie buffs, prepare to feast upon a banquet of classic and rare films, celebrity guests and memorabilia marts at the 45th annual Cinecon film festival, which kicks off tonight and runs through Monday at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Among the...

Harvey Korman, 81; versatile Emmy-winning comedian

2008-05-30 00:00:00

Harvey Korman, an Emmy-winning comedic actor best known for playing the self-described "luminous second banana" for a decade on television's "The Carol Burnett Show" and for starring in such Mel Brooks films as "Blazing Saddles," has died. He was 81....

Jackie Robinson's unlikely friendship

2013-03-26 00:00:00

It was 1951, and Tania Grossinger was a 13-year-old kid living at Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel in New York. The hotel, owned by some of Tania's relatives, was legendary, with a staff of 1,200 catering to thousands of visitors a week. But one...

LOOKING BACK: From Our Files for June 17

2012-06-16 17:13:00

100 years ago — 1912 � A number of baseball enthusiasts are jubilant over the possibility of organizing a ball team to play during the summer here. It is the intension of the managers to get the best possible material, none of the players to...

Friday, December 30, 2011

2011-12-17 00:00:00

5:30 a.m. - 9 a.m. ��Bill Leff�in for��Jonathon Brandmeier� 6:39 a.m.� Dave Kaplan previews the Bears / Vikings game.� 7:09 a.m.� WGN-TV's Ana Beleval and Pat Tomasulo talk about their New Years Eve comedy show.� 8:08 a.m.� Sandy Hackett, son of...

Comedian Jeffrey Ross keeps 'Vacancy' sign out for his stand-up pals

2008-11-09 00:00:00

That eye patch was no costume gimmick when comedian Jeffrey Ross appeared on the most recent version of "Dancing with the Stars." Apparently ballroom dancing is dangerous. "I got a scratched cornea," he told me recently by phone from New York City,...

'Carol Burnett Show's' Harvey Korman Dies

2008-05-30 00:00:00

Harvey Korman, an Emmy-winning comedic actor best known for playing the self-described "luminous second banana" for a decade on "The Carol Burnett Show" and for starring in such Mel Brooks films as "Blazing Saddles," has died. He was 81. Korman, who...

'Superbad' Raunch Has a Moral Lining

2007-08-17 00:00:00

A new titan has joined the pantheon of adenoidal screen legends, up where Julius Kelp and Lina Lamont and Ratso Rizzo dwell. His name is Fogell, age 17 or thereabouts. He also goes by the one-named alias "McLovin," according to a fake ID that pegs McLovin...

It s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World : Who wasn t in this 1963 film about an every-man- for-himself-search for buried treasure?

2007-01-25 12:36:56

Buddy Hackett, pictured in 1995, appeared for more than 50 years as a top act in nightclubs, Broadway shows, on television and in such movies as ``The Music Man ``The Love Bug'' and ``It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World The squat, round, rubbery-faced funnyman died on June 30. He was 78.

2003-07-01 08:29:56

Comedienne Phyllis Diller gets a lift from emcee Buddy Hackett prior to the celebrity stag luncheon roast at the New York Friars Club Oct. 9, 1985.

2003-07-01 00:00:00