Dinah Shore

Polly Bergen grew up in Ohio and Indiana loving the musicals of Shirley Temple and Deanna Durbin. In one of Durbin's films, she sang in her kitchen, was overheard by a producer and became a star. "I would stand in my kitchen and sing my life out waiting...

Regard the hands of Ricky Jay. Watch them making cards do things cards never have done before, things cards didn't even know they could do. And for this master of manipulation, cards are just the beginning. Seeing is definitely not believing in the...

Renowned sleight-of-hand magician, actor, author and historian Ricky Jay learned his craft from the best in the field, including Al Fosso, Slydini, Cardini, Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller. These men never made a lot of money during their long careers,...

|TODAY| |HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ TENNIS| Aberdeen Central and Roncalli at Sioux Falls Quadrangular (Brandon Valley, S.F. O’Gorman, 11 a.m. |COLLEGE BASEBALL| Northern State vs. Minnesota-Crookston, 11 a.m. at Sioux Falls   |TV SPORTS|...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Cycling--Paris-Roubaix, 7 a.m. (NBCSN) NHL Hockey--St. Louis Blues at Detroit Red Wings, 11:30 a.m. (NBC); Minnesota Wild at Columbus Blue Jackets, 5 p.m. (FXSP); New Jersey Devils at Buffalo Sabres, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) Auto...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Southampton at Reading, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2); MLS, Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) High School Basketball--National Invitational girls’ championship, 10 a.m. (ESPN2), National...

|TV SPORTS| Tennis--WTA Family Circle Cup, Noon (ESPN2) High School Basketball--National Invitational boys’ semifinals, 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Major League Baseball--Minnesota Twins at Baltimore Orioles, 2 p.m. (FXSP) Boxing--Santa Ynez,...

Sure, you could go to the beach again. Or you could turn your back on the Pacific and head instead for a desert land of date shakes and camel races, jumbo windmills and creationist dinosaurs, native palms and gay parties, mountain views and midcentury...

Andy Williams' signature hit song from the early 1960s was no accident of timing. Audrey Hepburn sang it first in the 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's," and it was nominated for an Oscar. But when the producers of the Academy Awards show asked...

Dropped Names Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them Frank Langella Harper: 356 pp., $25.99 Frank Langella's "Dropped Names" is a different kind of memoir. Rather than recapping his life story, the veteran stage and screen actor offers a series of...

The evidence is in, and it's not just my license-free 18-year-old daughter. The percentage of young people with licenses is definitely going down. According to a University of Michigan survey, in '83 a third of all licensed drivers in the U.S. were under...

TV SPORTS Boys' High School Basketball--National Invitational, semifinals, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Tennis--ATP World Tour-WTA, Sony Ericsson Open, 2 and 6 p.m. (ESPN2) Soccer--MLS, Dallas at DC United, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) NBA Basketball--...