If Laraine Newman had made more interesting plans for the summer she was 23, the history of Saturday Night Live and its original cast, The Not Ready for Prime Time Players, would have been different. Luckily for fans of Connie Conehead or Sherry, the ditzy Valley Girl, which are among the characters Laraine, 69, made famous, she flew east to New York City in 1975.
“A lot of people were offered the show but they turned it down,” this native Los Angeleno exclusively tells Closer. Read More...
In the mid-1970s, ABC introduced a pair of unique comedies that tried to shake things up a little bit. One was the Hal Linden cop sitcom Barney Miller while the other was stand-up comedian Gabe Kaplan’s high school-set Welcome Back, Kotter.
The premise of the latter — which introduced John Travolta to the world — had Gabe playing Gabe Kotter, a teacher with a sense of humor who takes a job at his alma mater, James Buchanan High School, located in Brooklyn, New York. Read More...
Brett Young is in his comfort zone as a balladeer. Whether it's a romantic ode to current love (like in 2017's "In Case You Didn't Know"), a heartbreak song about love that's in the past ("Like I Loved You") or something in between ("Mercy"), Young's pen is sharpest and vocals are most confident when he's working on music that's on the slower side.
Still, despite the fact that there are plenty of ballads already in his catalogue, Young manages to find new ground to cover with " Read More...
