In 1949, the comedian Sid Caesar brought together a legendary group of comedy writers and created one of the biggest television hits of the 1950s, Your Show of Shows. Caesar’s team included Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Neil Simon. It may have been the gr

In 1949, the comedian Sid Caesar brought together a legendary group of comedy writers and created one of the biggest television hits of the 1950s, Your Show of Shows. Caesar’s team included Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Neil Simon. It may have been the gr

You want funny? Keegan Theatre has funny. rd Floor. They killed it, nailed it, knocked it out of the park. Neil Simon is easily the most prolific and highly awarded (Emmys, Tonys, Writer’s Guild of America, Golden Globes, Outer Critic’s Circle, Drama Des

I am a sucker for old-school show-biz—vaudeville, follies-style Broadway revues, radio drama, television variety series. Tomorrow evening (Tuesday, January 10), one of my favorite movies airs on TCM. Set in 1954, My Favorite Year is an unabashedly nostal

Actor Alan Feinstein is 70. Singer Sal Valentino of The Beau Brummels is 69. Actress Heather Thomas is 54. Singer Aimee Mann is 51. Bassist David Steele of Fine Young Cannibals is 51. Singer Marc Gordon of Lev

Life is full of turning points, some of which send you in a whole new direction. Such was the case for Mordechi “Modi” Rosenfeld, who was born in Israel and moved to Long Island, N.Y. , when he was 7. “He was on track to becoming a Jewish mother’s dream,”