The history of American film comedy is written in the broad strokes of classic film comedians who built a career out of playing a certain type of character: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Abbott and Costello, Jerry Lewis, and Bob Hope. These actors essentially played the same guy over and over again and no ...
The 1970s was an interesting time for television. It is amazing to watch older television shows and see what people got away with and marvel at the fact that while we have come so far in those years, we really could never get away with that stuff today. Paul Lynde would never make it on ...
Virginia is the state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. The state was named Virginia, after Queen Elizabeth I of England, she was known as the “Virgin Queen” as she never married. The state of Virginia is also known as the “Old Dominion” and sometimes “Mother of Presidents”, since it is the ...
Theater is alive and well in Kansas City. Yes, I said Kansas City. A little known fact about Kansas City is that in nation wide rankings, they rank third in professional theaters per capita. Kansas City has the renowned Missouri Reparatory Theater, situated on the University of Missouri, Kansas City Campus (UMKC) in the Helen ...
Each year we lose a number of influential and wonderful people. Whether a death from natural causes after a life well lived, or a tragic and unexpected death, it is always sad to say good bye to those who had such an impact on society and in some cases, our lives. Coretta Scott King – ...
