Born February 1927

He was the first Black star to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

A Republican, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1979 to 2009.

He hosted ‘Name That Tune’ and ‘Split Second.’

Designed Audrey Hepburn’s little black dress in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”…

Emmanuelle Riva, the acclaimed French actress, who was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress in 2013, died Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, of cancer. She was 89.

Legendary Grammy-winning bluegrass musician…

If you loved “The Carol Burnett Show” – and lots of us did – then you probably loved Harvey Korman, too.

She played for the Muskegon Lassies, later the Kalamazoo Lassies.

When I was a kid, my mom loved Erma Bombeck, the humorist who made homemaking hilarious. By extension, that meant I did too. 

In jazz circles he was known as “The Sound”…