UPDATE, with reactions Anne Beatts, an original Saturday Night Live writer who created some of the show’s earliest breakthrough characters, among them the nerdy high schoolers Todd DiLaMuca and Lisa ...

Perusing the list of this year’s Emmy comedy nominees, it’s hard not to feel like Lisa Loopner, the “Saturday Night Live” nerd played by Gilda Radner: “That’s so funny I forgot to laugh.” The ...

The Castro’s majestic screen flickered Thursday night with passing images of rock star Candy Slice, variety show host — in her own bedroom — Judy Miller, cockeyed advice specialist Roseanne ...

In the early 1970s, ragtime jazz was considered about as cool as Mantovani. Marvin Hamlisch, whose interpretation of Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” reached number one on the Billboard charts, was ...