Entertainment & Arts
Radio* Fred Allen, who wasn’t able to transfer his success to TV, nevertheless influenced the comic styles of many. Proof of his staying power: a sold-out Paley tribute.
March 4, 2002
California
Fred F.
March 19, 1986
Fans of the late Fred Allen will assuredly enjoy a chance to revisit the radio comic’s deadpan wit and quiet integrity in “Mr.
Nov. 19, 1999
Fred Allen: His Life and Wit by Robert Taylor (Little, Brown: $19.95, 340 pp., illustrated) Call it the Pagliacci effect: the process by which a comedian’s life becomes anything but comic.
Sept. 29, 1989
Sports
The Rams are scheduled to hold further negotiations Sunday night with Bruce Allen, the agent for holdout linebacker Fred Strickland.
Aug. 10, 1991
Well, it seems that Fred Hickman, if he were starting an NBA franchise, would make Allen Iverson his first pick.
May 13, 2000
Music
Were it not for the renegade work of club owner, Hollywood producer and self-described showman Fred Weintraub, the lives of Bruce Lee, Frankie Valli, Neil Diamond, Richard Pryor and Woody Allen, to say nothing of the mud-encrusted hippies Weintraub captured in the film “Woodstock,” might have taken other turns.
March 7, 2017
Books
When Apple introduced its new streaming music service at its annual developers conference this month in San Francisco, the tech company made sure to have the rapper Drake on hand to lend the announcement a bit of sizzle.
June 25, 2015
Amazing.
July 26, 1987
Television
What is Woody Allen’s mug doing on the front page of The Times (March 19)?
April 2, 1993