Perry Como

In today's Newsday, you'll find a really great article taste-tasting hot dogs, which I read avidly even though I am a vegetarian. And reading about all those Hebrew National and Nathan's franks, inspired me to track down one of the......

The email from a reader in Westwood was short, to the point and disturbing. "My life has been very full," wrote Polly Berger. "But now it is getting very bad, and I want to go to that other world." Berger also said she wished there were more Dr. Jack...

Some of you may find this to be the dumbest complaint you have ever not cared about.  It’s one of those very personal things. For example, when Hines Ward won “DWTS,” by pretending to be “in the band,” he helped to make up...

In the Beyonce thread I linked to this list of the Top 10 songs of every year from 1947 -- when "Managua, Nicaragua" by Freddy Martin and "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba" by Perry Como were charting -- to 2012. If you're like......

Hal David, the renowned pop music lyricist whose prolific collaboration with composer Burt Bacharach produced a wealth of memorable hits in the 1960s and early ’70s, including “Walk on By,” “What the World Needs Now Is Love”...

Arts TV programming this week...

Nothing gets you more in the mood to say “Erin Go Braugh” than the perfect Irish song — and perhaps a swig of green beer. …...

On PBS' "Great Performances: Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park,” the Italian tenor performs classical favorites and his popular signature songs....

“Home for the Holidays” was written in 1954 by a Jewish, middle-aged former newspaper reporter and a 20-something pianist and arranger who were employed at the time by Perry Como. Como was looking for a new Christmas song and asked Al Stillman...

Being a Celebrity Weighs So Heavily Since everyone else is hesitant to say it, I'll say it myself. I'm a celebrity. It's been a long, hard, often discouraging fight to reach the top. But, really, I've been a brick through the whole thing. I bore no grudge...

Some stories are harder to write than others. Obituaries are among the hardest, as the represent an obligation to do justice to the folks who have passed and hopefully to bring solace to their loved ones. Some of Laguna's best and brightest died in...

Lakers reserve guard Sasha Vujacic has purchased a unit at the W Hollywood Residences. The condominium, in the $350-million development at the landmark intersection of Hollywood and Vine, has two bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms in about 2,100 square feet....