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• Cavanaugh: Nobody could reach the people of Stamford like Don Russell

  To many longtime Stamfordites, he is best remembered as a pioneer television newscaster, the announcer for shows starring Jackie Gleason, Art Carney and other stars of the 1950s and '60s, and later as a newscaster and co-host of the popular NBC... more »

  5 months ago

  music | television | radio

• Longtime Advocate Don Russell columnist dies at 89

  Longtime Advocate Don Russell columnist dies at 89 Don Russell, longtime Advocate columnist, radio personality and one of the first network television news anchors, has died at 89. Russell died Saturday at Stamford Hospital of pneumonia and a... more »

  By Angela Carella, Staff Writer 5 months ago

  television industry | celebrity | television | people

• Kooky woman kidnaps writer in romantic comedy

  What she needs, in addition to a lover, is a collaborator who can help her finish her "great" play.A veteran of a string of B-movies and a prolific but unsold writer, she is the kind of "artiste" that gives art a bad name.When she completely... more »

  News-Times, The (Danbury, CT) 3.7.09 1:00 AM

  cinema | television

• Connecticut screen legend loses battle with cancer

  Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money" -- followed by a second act as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario -- has died. The... more »

  News-Times, The (Danbury, CT) 9.28.08 1:00 AM

  cinema | entertainment award | celebrity | people | entertainment (general)

• Old movies inspire fervent collector

  NEW MILFORD - In Simon Melzer's basement foyer, there is a black-and-white framed photo of the late Jackie Gleason and Art Carney in a famous scene from The Honeymooners.'' [...] his career as a state vocational school educator - he spent 13... more »

  News-Times, The (Danbury, CT) 12.18.05 1:00 AM

  cinema | celebrity | television | family | children | entertainment (general)

• Friends mourn 'Trudy' cartoonist Marcus

  Jerry Marcus made up his mind to become a cartoonist after scratching his first drawings on the sidewalks of Brooklyn as a child. Marcus, who went on to syndicate a daily comic about a put-upon housewife named Trudy, died on July 22 in Waterbury... more »

  News-Times, The (Danbury, CT) 7.31.05 1:00 AM

  celebrity | children | parent and child | cinema

• Reynolds has had a good 'Run'

  [...] this column isn't appearing in its normal slot because I've spent the last few days in the pokey after slapping an intern who's never seen "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." [...] let's talk about Burt. Reynolds, whose stretched face... more »

  News-Times, The (Danbury, CT) 6.9.05 1:00 AM

  cinema | entertainment (general) | accomplishment | theft | entertainment award

• Kimberly Akimbo' misses mark with too-young heroine

  The casting of the too-young Debra Johnson in the leading role of Kimberly Levaco, a woman with the mind and spirit of a 16-year-old and the body of someone approaching 70, sadly ignores an important image of this quirky comedy.Kimberly is a... more »

  News-Times, The (Danbury, CT) 2.24.05 1:00 AM

• Mountain rolls into Ridgefield

  Leslie West's cousin was a writer for TV shows "Sergeant Bilko" and "McHale's Navy" and his uncle wrote for Broadway shows and for Jackie Gleason of "Honeymooners" fame. With a penchant for telling stories that span his more than 35-year career,... more »

  News-Times, The (Danbury, CT) 1.14.05 1:00 AM

  music | cinema | people | mountaineering | mountains | avalanche/landslide

• Mountain man has interesting background

  Leslie West's cousin was a writer for TV shows "Sergeant Bilko" and "McHale's Navy" and his uncle wrote for Broadway shows and for Jackie Gleason of "Honeymooners" fame. With a penchant for telling stories that span his more than 35-year career,... more »

  News-Times, The (Danbury, CT) 1.13.05 1:00 AM

  music | cinema | people | mountaineering | mountains | avalanche/landslide