Smokey and the Bandit star Burt Reynolds was one of the biggest box office earners of the 1970s and 1980s. Here are his 12 ...

The FIFA World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., divided a record 48 teams into 12 groups of four. Six ...

Enjoy magical music mixes, special guest takeovers, and engaging story-telling this Christmas on BBC Radio and BBC Sounds ...

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The best 25 stand-up comedians of the last 25 years as chosen as chosen by the bookers and heads of top comedy clubs, ...

Minimalism met rock in 1972 when Pete Townshend wrote “Baba O’Riley.” The song’s cyclic, arpeggiating riff was inspired by ...

A Spider-Man series in the 1970s radically changed the web-slinger's origin - and earned the ire of his co-creator Stan Lee.

Paul Williams is known for his ability to elicit both laughter and tears. This week, he and his decades of music will be ...

Why was a death conference so funny? An attendee told a USA TODAY editor: "Being around death makes you really appreciate ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car-chase movies such as "Smokey and the Bandit," has died of complications from emphysema at 71. His longtime booking agent, ...

Should another weather system develop into a tropical storm, the system would be named Jerry. There's something brewing in the tropics − what do the spaghetti models say? Weather experts from the ...

Former Duluthian Lorenzo Music, who portrays Carlton the Doorman on the "Rhoda" show on CBS-TV and is also listed as a producer of the show, is working on a series pilot for himself, according to a ...