Obituaries
Tom Poston, a familiar comedic presence on television since the 1950s, when he was an Emmy Award-winning regular on “The Steve Allen Show” but who may be best remembered as the bumbling handyman on the popular situation comedy “Newhart,” has died.
May 2, 2007
Television
Tom Poston (“Newhart,” “Mork & Mindy”) guests on Get Smart (Sunday at 9 p.m. on Nickelodeon) in an episode in which a mad scientist puts Max and 99 into his Frankenstein monster machine.
May 12, 1991
Entertainment & Arts
Pay and Play: Theatergoers can pay any amount they choose for tickets to the Tuesday (Part 1) and Wednesday (Part 2) previews of “The Kentucky Cycle” at the Mark Taper Forum.
Jan. 24, 1992
Change Upon Change: It looks as if Robert Mandan will replace an ailing John Randolph as the old man in “Prelude to a Kiss,” opening at La Mirada Theatre later this month.
Feb. 4, 1992
Archives
Valley Presbyterian Hospital’s “Score Against Cancer” celebrity golf tournament is scheduled for Sunday at El Caballero Country Club in Tarzana.
July 22, 1992
The fourth and last installment in KLON’s “Jazz West Coast” series presented Sunday at the John Anson Ford Theater was subtitled “Central Avenue Revisited.”
May 30, 1989
Yarmy’s Army, a group of comedians including Shelley Berman, Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Harvey Korman and Gary Owens, will perform at Cahuenga Boulevard’s Theatre West tonight and Saturday in “An Evening of Laffs . . .,” a benefit for the theater and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
Aug. 26, 1994
Olympics
Comedian Harvey Korman and his Yarmy’s Army will headline the first Comic Connection, a benefit for the Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation, on June 14 at the Olympic Collection, 11301 W.
April 17, 1998
Sports
The Cal State Long Beach golf program, recently threatened by financial cutbacks, will get a helping hand from the Toshiba Beach Charities Golf Tournament to be held at Recreation Park on Tuesday.
April 7, 1991