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TÊTE-À-TÊTE: JIMMY SMITS If it seems Jimmy Smits has been in our living rooms for the best part of 20 years, it’s because he has. With iconic roles on L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, The West Wing, Cane and a recent stint on Showtime’s Dexter, this actor has...

San Luis Obispo Nobody in the hotel business ever tried harder to make a splash than Alex Madonna. So what did he have against swimming pools? Over a span of 46 years, this builder-rancher-hotelier crafted his Madonna Inn, turning it into one of...

Ask John! Sun Sentinel restaurant writer John Tanasychuk answers YOUR questions about restaurants, eating out and more. To submit your question, e-mail here. Please include your name, city and state with each question. -------------------- Wednesday,...

OLD-TIME television is making a comeback. Not on television, though. Aided by the neutron star-like cultural gravity of Google's YouTube, an increasing number of vintage TV programs and early commercials are flying out of collectors' closets, ending half...

Red Buttons, the impish former burlesque comic who became an early TV sensation and an Academy Award-winning character actor during a career that spanned more than seven decades, has died. He was 87. Buttons died today at his Century City home after a...

It's the late '60s, and despite the British Invasion, Tony Bennett is on the radio. A mother and daughter dance around an apartment to his tunes. Thirty years later, that daughter would take her children to an outdoor Bennett concert and twirl them...

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......

Friday February 12, 1999      If you do something often enough, you're likely to get better at it. Even if it's playing the fool.      Brendan Fraser has done well by acting dumb. As the title character in the successful "George of the Jungle," he was...

Considerable festive energy bedecks "Plaid Tidings" in its limited engagement at the Pasadena Playhouse. Writer-director Stuart Ross' updated holiday edition of his phenomenally successful "Forever Plaid" revue is enormously entertaining feel-good fare....

Audrey Meadows, revered as the feisty Alice Kramden opposite Jackie Gleason's garrulous bus driver Ralph in television's comedy classic " The Honeymooners," has died. Meadows died of lung cancer at 8:50 p.m. Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,...

To a generation of Baltimore teen-agers, Buddy Deane was a pioneering rock 'n' roll disc jockey, host of a must-see television dance party in the '50s and '60s, and an undisputed arbiter of cool. Now at 72, he's a grandfather of four, great-grandfather...

In March, Janet Jackson signed an unprecedented $40-million record contract. Nine days later brother Michael got a deal that guaranteed $65 million-plus. Suddenly, the recording business is looking like baseball with its escalating contracts. Will there...