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Consuelo with children John and Ivor Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan (1877 – 1964) was an American socialite and member of the Vanderbilt family, great-granddaughter of railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt. She was one of the wealthiest…

Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, 89, renowned for his stage persona, Dame Edna, a condescending and imperfectly veiled snob, is in a Sydney hospital with complications following his hip surgery…

Melvin Jerome Blanc 1908 – 1989 was an American voice actor and radio personality referred to as "The Man of a Thousand Voices" and regarded as the greatest, most influential voice actor of…

(File this under,I have no idea where the idea for writing this came from.) I think the first time I saw Liberace must have been on Ed Sullivan, or maybe…

Who didn’t crush on Tony Dow?In college, we’d watch Leave it to Beaver, getting stoned after classes.As played by Dow, Wally was the "all-American" boy—an intelligent, polite teenager, trusted by…

Tom Jones 1966 Sir Thomas John Woodward—Sir Tom Jones—was born in 1940, in Treforest, Wales, son of a coal miner. At the age of 12, Tom was diagnosed with tuberculosis. During this…

Waylon Jennings was there, too. Duvall accepting Oscar for Tender Mercies, 1984 Los Angeles* Robert Duvall told the Academy Awards audience that he was especially honored that the giants of…

At the time, former Eagle, Glenn Frey, was producing American R&B band Jack Mack and the Heart Attack, named after drummer Jack Mack, aka Claude Pepper. They were conducting a…

A 'girl group' is a music act featuring female singers who harmonize together. Girl groups have been popular at least since the 1930s, but 'girl group' also denotes the wave of American female…