By: Katie Hennessey

BEAT POETS

By: Katie Hennessey

WOODEN FIGURINE

By: Katie Hennessey

For a guy with no sense of humor, he sure is funny.

By: Katie Hennessey

An underrated, under-appreciated, undercover overachiever.

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An almost aboriginal, somewhat psychedelic, particularly populist style.

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She has avoided media scandal like Harry avoids the dementors.

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He was alt-country before alt-country was cool.

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He emerged from the UK like a silly uncle.

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A high school dropout who learned his trade on the Borscht Belt summer circuit, DANNY KAYE’s (1913-87) first taste of Broadway fame came with the 1941 Gershwin-Weill tongue-twister “Tchaikovsky (and other Russians),” in which he […]

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Contrary to rumor, MAMA CASS ELLIOT (1941-74) did not choke to death on a sandwich. Officially, she died from “heart failure due to fatty myocardial degeneration due to obesity.” Mama Cass wasn’t merely obese, though: […]

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“I’m sittin’ on the dock of the bay/Watching the tide roll away/Oooh, I’m just sittin’ on the dock of the bay/Wastin’ time….” Time was one thing that OTIS REDDING (1941–67) didn’t have to waste. Posthumously […]

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Though often cast as a lovable father in middlebrow comedies like The Shaggy Dog and the long-running TV show My Three Sons, FRED MACMURRAY (1908-91) was more convincing in noir films. In Double Indemnity (1944), […]