Andy Kaufman

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Barney Frank's latest on McCain: "He???s been irrelevant to the process. He remains to be. I was afraid that his dropping in here, like Andy Kaufman???s Mighty Mouse???'here I am to save the day'???I thought that would slow things down.......

The first section of William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" is such a notorious brain twister that any attempt at straightforward dramatization would be almost as foolhardy as trying to resurrect the Old South. Told from the point of view of Benjy,...

Amazingly, that whacked-out lounge lizard Tony Clifton escaped arrest on his August foray into Chicago. Guess no one important saw him throw that lighted cigarette into the audience at the Chopin Theatre, attack the paying customers in the front row of...

They crept forth from across the city last Friday evening -- in Hummers, vintage convertibles and plain old Toyotas -- to huddle together at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood for its first ever scary drive-in movie series. To kick off this 10-week...

Here's a unique tribute from "SNL," just announced: The classic, which BEGAN 33 years ago with a classic edition featuring George Carlin, will re-air that episode in its entirety this weekend. Carlin "SNL" clips have been all over the......

Here are the five things I learned from watching the very first episode of "Saturday Night Live," which NBC aired this weekend as a tribute to the show's host, George Carlin. 1. John Belushi played a character who lived......

Dick Van Dyke returns to TV Saturday in the Hallmark Channel movie "The Locked Room Mystery," the fourth in a series of "Murder 101" mysteries in which he plays crime-solving professor Jonathan Maxwell. The actor, 82, is, of course, best known for his...

Who knew Arthur Miller yearned to be Mickey Spillane? In his 1982 one-act, "Some Kind of Love Story," now at the Hayworth Theatre, the playwright serves up a dime novel plot complete with trench coats, bishop-tempting blonds and cops on the take....

It's both a very cool and a very sad thing that "Saturday Night Live" this week re-aired its first episode ever because it was hosted by George Carlin. The sad part, of course, is that Carlin died June 22 of heart failure. NBC is bringing out the 1975...

Their feud is still one of the most memorable in wrestling history: big, bad Jerry "The King" Lawler versus quirky comic Andy Kaufman. It really was no contest when the two finally wrestled each other in 1982, after Kaufman dubbed himself the...

The feud is the fuel that makes the world of professional wrestling go 'round. It's that simple. If one superstar doesn't like another, then the fans get to see that in the ring. Sometimes, it's legit. Sometimes, it's just story line. There have been...