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Now Read This!: A Patterson Disciple Steps from The Master’s Shadow

Posted on 05/23/2013 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Entertainment“I probably wouldn’t be writing fiction if James Patterson hadn’t approached me,” says 59-year-old novelist Peter de Jonge. “I was a copywriter at J. Walter Thompson [ad agency] when Jim was the creative director there. I had just started writing for magazines on the side, and he spotted some of my pieces. I became his first collaborator.” The pair wrote a trio of thrillers together, starting with Miracle on the 17th Green (1995). De Jonge got a co-author credit on …

Jeffrey Tambor and Jessica Walter, Reunited on ‘Arrested Development’

Posted on 05/22/2013 by | Television and Entertainment | Comments

EntertainmentWhen the new season of Arrested Development starts streaming on Netflix Sunday at midnight (PST), it won’t just mark the return of a beloved sitcom most fans thought was gone for good. It also brings back a couple of talented comic actors  — Jeffrey Tambor and Jessica Walter — in two of their best roles. They play George and Lucille Bluth, the oft-estranged oddball parents who spawned one of television’s most hilariously dysfunctional clans. TV’s recent past is littered with sitcoms …

‘Unique and Beloved’ Carol Burnett Snags Top Humor Prize

Posted on 05/21/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | Your LifeBy Brett Zongker, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Carol Burnett, who became famous for playing a variety of characters in sketch comedy routines on her namesake television show, was named the winner of the nation’s top humor prize on Tuesday. The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said Burnett will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Oct. 20 in Washington. A gala performance featuring top names in comedy will be taped and broadcast nationally Oct. 30 on …

Creator of ‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile’ Dies at 91

Posted on 05/21/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | LegacyNEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Waber, the author of such children’s favorites as “The House on East 88th Street” and “Lyle, Lyle Crocodile,” has died. Waber died May 16 at his Long Island home after a long illness, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Monday. He was 91. Waber’s “warmth, energy, artfulness, elegance, and abiding respect for children were epitomized in his books,” Houghton’s senior vice president and publisher of books for young readers, Betsy Groban, said in a statement. His …

Ray Manzarek: 5 Facts About the Doors’ Keyboardist

Posted on 05/21/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | LegacyOne day in August 1965, UCLA film graduate Ray Manzarek was walking along Venice Beach in Los Angeles when he had a chance meeting with an old college acquaintance named Jim Morrison. In a moment that would later be enshrined in the mythology of rock music, Manzarek asked Morrison what he’d been up to since he’d dropped out of school. Morrison told him that he’d been writing songs. Manzarek was intrigued. “Let’s hear ‘em,” he said. Morrison responded by kneeling, …

Christine White: Heroine From a Classic ‘Twilight Zone’ Episode

Posted on 05/20/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | LegacyActress Christine Lamson White, who died on April 14 at age 86 in Washington, D.C., racked up an impressive 53 appearances in TV series and made-for-TV movies during a career that stretched from 1952 to 1976, including roles on hit programs such as The Fugitive, Bonanza, The Untouchables and Perry Mason. She also had a small role in a 1973 Clint Eastwood action movie hit, Magnum Force. But White remains best known as the wife who sat next to a then-youthful William …

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