Carol Channing

Larry Sloan dies at 89; co-founder of 'Mad Libs' publisher

2012-10-17 00:00:00

Nonsense was big business for Larry Sloan, who co-founded a Los Angeles publishing company in the 1960s to print books that were blueprints for silliness. The series of word-game books, "Mad Libs," became absurdly popular and marked its 50th...

Al Gordon dies at 89; Emmy-winning comedy writer for Jack Benny

2012-05-25 00:00:00

Al Gordon, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer who spent much of his more than 40-year career writing for Jack Benny's penny-pinching, vain and perennially 39-year-old persona, has died. He was 89. Gordon died Wednesday of age-related causes at Cedars-...

PASSINGS: Julia Sampson Hayward, James Rizzi, Bob O'Rourke

2011-12-30 00:00:00

Julia Sampson Hayward Champion tennis player in 1950s Julia Sampson Hayward, 77, a champion tennis player who won the women's doubles and mixed doubles titles at the 1953 Australian Open, died Tuesday at her home in Newport Beach of complications from a...

PASSINGS: Harry Kullijian, Joe Bodolai

2011-12-28 00:00:00

Harry Kullijian Husband of Carol Channing Harry Kullijian, a junior high school classmate of Carol Channing who married the entertainer 70 years later, died at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage after suffering an aneurysm Monday, the night...

Monster Mash: Hugh Jackman, 'Les Miz'; George Washington painting

2011-12-28 16:33:01

Ray Aghayan dies at 83; award-winning costume designer

2011-10-14 00:00:00

Ray Aghayan, an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated costume designer whose credits included more than a dozen Oscar shows and the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, has died. He was 83. Aghayan, the...

Gay Days celebration at Disneyland Resort to draw 30,000

2011-09-30 16:34:45

North Korea parties likes it's 1934

2010-10-11 04:34:55

Countdown to the last 'Oprah Winfrey Show': Oprah's circus of the stars

2011-05-23 21:36:14

Leading SoCal stage actors win a week in Wisconsin with Olympia Dukakis

2010-12-08 16:32:40

Larry King as you've never seen him -- suspenderless

2010-12-16 16:36:26

Joseph Stein dies at 98; adapted Yiddish short story into 'Fiddler on the Roof'

2010-10-27 00:00:00

Playwright Joseph Stein, who turned a Yiddish short story into the classic Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and later wrote the screenplay for its successful movie adaptation, has died. He was 98. His wife, Elisa Stein, said he died at Mount...

Carol Channing

2012-10-01 07:36:00

Mike Wallace with comedian Alan King, left, and actress Carol Channing, center, at the Theatre Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2002.

2012-04-08 09:19:00

Actress-singer Carol Channing, who was in the original Broadway production of "Hello, Dolly!" The musical's composer and lyricist, Jerry Herman, is a 2010 Kennedy Center honoree.

2010-12-05 18:25:02